What are my duties? A story to be confirmed
Between 2008 and 2011, Workspace nadine carried out the residency project TBC (to be confirmed) in a house at 86 Rue Gallait in Schaerbeek (BXL). 5 artists or art collectives each occupy the house for a period of 6 months:: Hotelbich (2008), The Ever Mass Land (2009), The Public School (2009), dominokingdom (2010) en Barak Okup (2010-2011). Rebecca was asked to make a publication.
With a mountain of documentation material and a lot of immaterial output from these residences I set up the work. What do the different puzzle pieces tell all together? Interviews with the artists reveal similarities: How do I work as an artist? How do I organize myself? The search for freedom versus the need for frameworks. What is the task of an art workspace within the artistic sector? What does ‘artistic research’ mean and what is the place of the artist within an urban context?
Since 2022 Workspace Nadine relocated, the website doesn’t exist anymore. Inshallah.
“What are my duties?A story to be confirmed. is an associative and fragmentary online story in image, sound and text in which five different artistic trajectories merge into a collective story. A song of praise to the imagination and a call for more connection in the city.”
CREDITS: Concept and creation: Rebecca Lenaerts
Interviews: Rebecca Lenaerts
Website: Überknackig
Special thanks to: Loes Jacobs, An Govaerts, Pacôme Beru, Marthe Van Dessel, David Helbich, Sonia Dermience, Heidi Ballet, Adva Zakai, Miriam Rohde, Ivana Cerovic, Daniela Jovic, Marie Szersnovicz, Constance Barrère Dangleterre, Bitsy Knox, Travis Robertson, Félicia Atkinson, Pauline Squelbut and Christina Stadlbauer.
With the support of workspace nadine and the Flemish Commission. (2012)
