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The artists live and work in Brussels / Video
BIOGRAPHY RONNY HEIREMANS - BIOGRAPHY KATLEEN VERMEIR
A.I.R. - about the concept
In 2006 Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans, two Belgian artists living and working in Brussels, started working on A.I.R. The project redefines their private habitat as a public space, in the act questioning the intimacy that is usually associated with it. The resulting hybrid space, which they consider the central piece of the project, will not have a public display. Instead the artists choose to present A.I.R as an ongoing series of mediated extensions, allowing audiences to experience this private/public environment only through translations to magazines, television, film, websites, lectures, renderings, exhibitions…
Vermeir and Heiremans favor a communal mode of production, using A.I.R as a platform for different collaborations with people from various backgrounds and occupations. A collaborative project, A.I.R deals with issues concerning the interrelatedness of private and public spheres, art and economy.
They have shown A.I.R # 'extensions' in Brussels (2006), Geneva (2007), Istanbul (2007), and most recently in Bristol (2009), where they presented The Good Life (a guided tour) (2009), a meditation on the inextricable relationship between institutions of contemporary art and the wider structure of the economy, harnessed today by the ‘creative class’. The video takes the form of a guided tour around an unspecified contemporary art institution, in a future scenario where it is selling off its building to be transformed into luxury apartments. The depicted institution - itself an uncanny ‘collage’ of four existing major European institutions -, is utilizing its assets, promising major regeneration to its host city. Take a guided tour at The Good Life
At the moment the artists are working in China on a new video project, THE RESIDENCE (working title). In this new experimental film Vermeir/Heiremans will focus on the porous relation between art, architecture and value, and the mediatization of these hybrid geographies. Their film scrutinizes specific global processes, which they intend to situate in a narrative framework that takes inspiration from Goethes Faust.rking in China on a new video project, THE RESIDENCE (working title). In this new experimental film Vermeir/Heiremans will focus on the porous relation between art, architecture and value, and the mediatization of these hybrid geographies. Their film scrutinizes specific global processes, which they intend to situate in a narrative framework that takes inspiration from Goethes Faust.
A.I.R. Projects
Art Brussels
Geneva
Istanbul Biennial
Bristol Arnolfini
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he Good Life
THE RESIDENCE
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