© Funk Staden Dias & Riedweg videoinstallation 2007
Vernissage Saturday 2/05 > 18:00 – 21:00
Expo 5/05 – 27/06 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday > 12:00 – 19:00
€ 3 (free admission on presentation of a festivalpass)
The work of Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg thematises issues of otherness and exclusion. Their video installations, which have been shown in the world’s most important museums, explore the political and emotional in sets that often show traces of experiments developed at the centre and on the margins of urban society. At the invitation of Kunstenfestivaldesarts 09, and for the first time in Belgium, Dias & Riedweg will be presenting a collection of recent works at Argos. The exhibition evolves around Funk Staden. Created for Documenta 12 in Kassel, this intoxicating work ties the musical scene of funk carioca (funk originating in the favelas of Rio) to the story of a journey to the New World. It shows how representations of the Other in the 16th century differ little from the methods used by today’s media to marginalise certain social groups in the age of a globalised economy. In a new project, co-produced by the festival, a removal van will move through different neighbourhoods of Brussels, in a journey which questions the boundaries inscribed on the fabric of the city.
