{"id":251,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"sven-augustijnen","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.augusteorts.be/about/profiles/3","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Sven","lastname":"Augustijnen","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Sven Augustijnen","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Augustijnen, Sven","stream_count_app":25,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/487/large/sven-a.jpg?1369754857","poster_credits":"(c)image: Pierre Stoop","media_count":1,"items_count":2,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSven Augustijnen\u003c/strong\u003e makes videos and films where he takes a critical look at reality. A reality that we all experience as matter-of-fact but, in his work, comes over as complex and cloudy. In his early work, language and its use is a recurrent motif. He exposes the conventions and arbitrariness in our use of language. In his recent work he concentrates on portrait series. Sven Augustijnen unravels reality, with a focus on Brussels, home-base of the artist and setting for most of his films. He intentionally seeds confusion between formats like the docusoap, human-interest, pseudo-documentaries and home-movies. He plays with the conventions and frontiers of the documentary tradition on the one side, and the fictive possibilities of film on the other. The stories that Sven Augustijnen tells are entertaining. As a viewer we\u0026rsquo;re easily swept along. But the artist misleads us; we voyeuristically observe various events where fact and fiction are not easy to tell apart. As a viewer, we are taken to that strange \u0026lsquo;in-between\u0026rsquo; that the artist creates for us.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSven Augustijnen\u003c/strong\u003e maakt video\u0026rsquo;s en films waarin hij kritisch reflecteert over de werkelijkheid. Een realiteit die we allemaal als te vanzelfsprekend ervaren maar die in zijn werk als complex en troebel naar voor komt. In zijn vroege werk is taal en het gebruik van taal een terugkerend motief. Hij ontmaskert de conventies en de willekeurigheid in ons taalgebruik. In zijn recente werk legt hij zich toe op portretreeksen. Sven Augustijnen ontrafelt de werkelijkheid, met een focus op Brussel, thuishaven van de kunstenaar en setting van de meeste van zijn films. Hij sticht doelbewust verwarring tussen formats als de docu-soap, human-interest, nepdocumentaires en home-movies. Hij speelt met de conventies en de grenzen van de documentaire traditie aan de ene kant en de fictieve mogelijkheden van de film aan de andere kant. De verhalen die Sven Augustijnen vertelt zijn onderhoudend. Als toeschouwer laat je je met plezier meenemen. De kunstenaar misleidt de toeschouwer, die als een voyeur verschillende gebeurtenissen waarneemt waarin feit en fictie niet gemakkelijk van elkaar te onderscheiden zijn. Als kijker wordt je meegenomen naar het tussengebied dat de kunstenaar cre\u0026euml;ert.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"","place":"Mechelen","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"","place":"Brussels","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}}]}