A decade is worth celebrating! From 4 to 7 November 2021, after months of privation, Le Pavillon join in the celebrations of the anniversary of the KIKK Festival, a unique event in Namur with international influence! On the occasion of Belgium’s most high-tech event (the KIKK in Town), Le Pavillon opens its doors to welcome installations that echo the questions of our world and solicit the imagination of visitors. Among the artists exhibited are ECAL (CH), Ugo Dehaes (BE), Louis Philippe Rondeau (QC), Hovertone (BE) and Floris Van Hoof (BE).

Fantastic Smartphones

Fantastic Smartphones is a series of installations conceived by the students of the Bachelor Media and Interaction Design programme at ECAL, the University of Art and Design in Lausanne (Switzerland). Behind a title full of derision, the creations present design accessories and interactive installations that highlight the excesses of the misuse of our famous smartphones. By imagining alternative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by highlighting our repetitive gestures, the installations presented take a critical look at a society that has become addicted to this object.

Arena

In his creation Arena, the first project in the Forced Labour cycle, the Belgian artist and choreographer Ugo Dehaes presents a process in which the action of the public will help machines to perfect their movements so that they will one day be able to replace human dancers. Inspired by the Freak Show, the artist plunges the visitor into an ambiguous relationship between amusement and defiance in the face of the capacities of artificial intelligence.

Simple Machines

Simple Machines is the second project in the cycle Forced Labor by Belgian choreographer Ugo Dehaes. This performance (50′) tells the story of a dancer who tries to be replaced by machines. Throughout the performance, the audience is invited to participate in the training of the robots and thus contribute to a reflection on a future where human artists are no longer necessary.

With the support of the Service Jeunesse de la Ville de Namur.

Liminal

LIMINAL is an interactive installation that brings to life the inexorable passage of time. It seeks to connect the border between the present and the past. In a dark space, a luminous arch. It is a temporal portal: when the visitor crosses this demarcation, his reflection projected on the adjacent wall is deployed in time thanks to the slit-scan technique. As a visual metaphor - the past constantly taking over the present - the work emphasises that all light is past - the flicker we see in the night sky is only a past snapshot of the firmament: light is the manifestation of events that have already taken place.

Traces

Who would have thought that being together in the same room could become rare and precious? The COVID-19 crisis has deeply disturbed our relationship with each other. The Traces project by the Belgian creative studio Hovertone is the result of this questioning. Immersed in an imaginary world, visitors can leave a diffuse imprint of their physical passage. This digital trace is their only key to meeting other visitors. This wordless dialogue between the present and the absent is constructed through an algorithm that analyses bodies and their movements.

Chords Tunnel #2

Rubén D’Hers plays with physical spaces and changes their perception through sound installations. The Venezuelan-born artist explores a wide variety of instruments and materials to create sound objects and music. For Chords Tunnel, Ruben presents no less than 40 guitars suspended on either side of a vast corridor. Tuned differently in groups of ten, the instruments play continuously thanks to small motors that activate the strings. As they walk along, visitors experience a harmonic transition inscribed in a modified physical space.

Piano Antenna

In an age where everything is connected and wireless, Floris Vanhoof likes to stand still, to see and hear the reaction of an object that is not of this time. How can a visible object relate to the invisible? In his installation Piano Antenna, the Belgian artist explores the omnipresent waves around us. They are picked up by an antenna and transmitted to the strings of a grand piano. The antenna receives both distant electromagnetic waves (spheres, storms, etc.) and nearby waves (mobile phone, passing car engine, etc.). The notes played by the instrument become the music of the invisible technological boom that surrounds us.