http://www.poeziezomerswatou.be/PZ-2007/pages/Poetry-Summers-2007_A_leak_in_the_silence.pdf

For the 27th time there’s a Poetry Summers festival in a little village near the French border called Watou. Just saw on television that the bottles that were at the M3 gallery in Antwerp are exposed in a farm.

« A LEAK IN THE SILENCE: NOISE- «
Poetry Summer 2007 - 27th edition
- International exhibition of contemporary visual art, poetry and architecture at five non-museological sites inside and outside the town centre of Watou -
Concept
The line of poetry “A leak in the silence: noise -” by the Dutch poet Hans Faverey (1933-1990) provides the conceptual framework for the Poetry Summer 2007. The exhibition uses this phrase as a metaphor for that which in our existential and social context cannot be spoken, yet becomes audible as silence, noise, an inner rustle… In some of the installations, voice and sound will keep pace with the word and linguistic meaning; in others they will sever themselves from the meaning as they choose to follow a self-willed path. Edition 2007 of the Poetry Summer attempts to find out how the contemporary visual arts and above all poetry interact verbally and through images with the
auditive dimension to result in novel articulations.
Lara Favaretto “E una risata vi seppellirà”
(And a chuckle will bury you) (2005)
© Courtesy Galleria Franco Noero, Torino
Poëziezomers - Kunstzomers Watou vzw
Kapelaanstraat 2, 8978 Watou (B)
Tel/fax: +32 (0)57 388093 ; +32 (0)499 233242
E-mail: info@poeziezomerswatou.be Website : http://www.poeziezomerswatou.be
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Structureel gesubsidieerd door het Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Departement Cultuur de Provincie West-Vlaanderen (kunstenambassadeur Multidisciplinaire Kunsten)

Poetry
Apart from a wide variety of Flemish and Dutch poets, this year also a choice of poets from Romance regions will be presented. The selection of Flemish and Dutch poetry will not be narrowed down to a well-defined movement. The poetry selected meanders freely between classical modernists, postmodernists and poets who write philosophically inspired verse.
Spain, France, Italy and Portugal are truly goldmines when it comes to contemporary and classical poetry. The poetry from the south of Europe is often characterized by an explicit musicality.
Have been selected: Hugo Claus, Saskia de Jong, Luuk Gruwez, Rozalie Hirs, Erik Lindner, Joke van Leeuwen, Camillo Sbarbaro (Italy), Eugenio Montale (Italy), André du Bouchet (France), Fernando Pessoa (Portugal), Juan Manuel Roca (Colombia), and others, including an anonymous Latin poet who, too, creates “a leak in the silence”.
The renowned actor Dirk Roofthooft will be in charge of the aspect sound. All non-Dutch
poetry is orally presented. Roofthooft will have a chance to add extra value to the poetry
through a personal interpretation that results from his wide experience with the medium of the word.
Retables -conceived by Koen Van Synghel, designed and manufactured by the company Top- Mouton- ensure that the public is actively involved in the event. The public can open Van Synghel’s diptychs and triptychs, quietly read the poetry and then hide it again within the intimacy of the book of poetry. Twenty-eight retables are scattered over the different sites.
They have been carefully integrated in order to create visual pauses within a world that asserts itself mainly through an auditive creativity..
Visual arts
The visual works of art have been selected by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, director of the
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bergamo and professor of visual arts at the Art
Academy of Milan. Once more, he is assisted by Lieven Declerck.
We have chosen to present visual art works by artists of international repute, including Diego
Perrone (Italy), Mungo Thomson (US), John Cage (US), Adrian Paci (Albania), John M.
Armleder (Switzerland), Job Koelewijn (The Netherlands), and others. The selection focuses
on visual works of art that in some authentic manner integrate sound in the world of the
public—though some art works explicitly ignore sound.
Artists from various continents have been invited to create a work on site, while the curator
attempts to integrate works from major collections and museums at the Poetry Summer 2007.
The relation image-sound is developed as exhaustively as possible.
Liesbeth Abbenes (1970, Nederland)
John Armleder (1948, Zwitserland)
Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986, Duitsland)
Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976, België)
Nathalie Bruys (1975, Nederland)
John Cage (1912-1992, V.S.)
Mircea Cantor (1977, Roemenië)
Giuseppi Chiari (1926, Italië)
Leo Copers (1947, België)
Anno Dijkstra (1970, Nederland)
Jimmie Durham (1940, V.S.)
Jan Fabre (1958, België)
Lara Favaretto (1973, Italië)
Carsten Höller (1961, Duitsland)
William Kentridge (1955, Zuid Afrika)
Job Koelewijn (1962, Nederland)
Kris Martin (1972, België)
Shirin Neshat (1957, Iran)
Melik Ohanian (1969, Frankrijk)
Yoko Ono (1933, Japan)
Adrian Paci (1969, Albanië)
Diego Perrone (1970, Italië)
Kelly Schacht (1983, België)
Eric Schmidt (1068, Duitsland)
Ettore Spalletti (1940, Italië)
Pietro Roccasalva (1970, Italië)
Mungo Thomson (1969, V.S.)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876, Italië)
Bill Viola (1951, V.S.)
Jordan Wolfson (1980, V.S.)
La Monte Young (1935, V.S.)
William Kentridge “Tide Table” (2003) © Courtesy Galleria Lia
Rumma, Napoli.
Melik Ohanian “The Hand” (2002) ©Courtesy Galerie Chantal
Crousel, Paris.
Practical information
Exhibition circuit: six non-museum locations both within and outside the village centre
(coach provided)
Opening times: From Sunday, 1st July - Sunday, 9th September inclusive
Monday - Saturday from 2 - 7 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
(Dogs are not allowed in the indoor locations)
Admission charges: Standard tariff: € 9.00
Students: € 5.00
CJP (Youngsters’ Cultural Pass) € 4.00
Taught creativity and poetry studio projects (youngsters) €
3/afternoon.
Groups from 10 people.: € 6.50 p.p. (reservation required)
Groups/classes: Class visits: € 3.50 per pupil. Teacher free.
Guided tour: € 65.00 (reserve in advance; interactive 3 hr. circuitrom 3 hrs.
Catalogue: € 22,00
Informations:
Reservations:
Courriel: info@poeziezomerswatou.be
Information booth in the former Town Hall, Watouplein
All who make a reservation will receive an e-mail
confirmation.
Organization, artistic Directors
and Coordination:
Poëziezomers-Kunstzomers Watou VZW
Kapelaanstraat 2, B 8978 Watou
Tel/ fax : +32 (0) 57 38 80 93 +32 (0) 499 233242
Access
By car: Anvers/Bruxelles>Gand>Courtrai>Ypres>Poperingue>Watou
Bruges>Courtrai>Ypres>Poperingue> Watou
La Panne>Furnes>Ypres>Poperingee>Watou
Train (NMBS):
There is a connection every hour to Poperinge station from
Brussels, Ghent, Kortrijk.
De Lijn shuttle bus: Poperinge station - Watou (links with train arrival and
departure)