{"id":6227,"title":"Softer Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1999-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"De Vleeshal Collection, Middelburg (The Netherlands)","cached_tag_list":"video-installation","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"VH0284","stream_count_app":30,"permalink":"softer-catwalk-in-collapsing-rooms","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Aernout Mik","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/607/large/Mik__Arnout__Softer_Catwalk_in_Colapsing_Rooms__1999_photo_clinckx.jpg?1355304152","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between image and architecture is central to \u003cem\u003eSofter Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms\u003c/em\u003e. For this work, for the first time, Mik made use of a transparent screen, that has been incorporated into a curved wall. The projection literally becomes part of the architecture. Conversely, architecture plays a leading role in the video. A building collapses little by little and is transformed into ruins. Among the rubble, people search imperturbably from room to room. They don\u0026rsquo;t seem to notice their surroundings, nor each other. The figures in Mik\u0026rsquo;s work are quasi-mechanical and absent. They wander aimlessly without any form of communication. The alienating and surreal worlds Mik directs serve as a mirror for the absurdity of everyday reality, questioning what is considered normal and abnormal human behaviour.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSofter Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms\u003c/em\u003e staat de relatie tussen beeld en architectuur centraal. Voor dit werk maakt Mik voor het eerst gebruik van een transparant scherm, dat in een gebogen muur is ingewerkt. De projectie wordt letterlijk deel van de architectuur. Omgekeerd speelt architectuur een hoofdrol in de video. Een gebouw stort stukje bij beetje ineen en wordt tot ru\u0026iuml;ne herschapen. Tussen het puin zoeken mensen onverstoorbaar hun weg van kamer naar kamer. Ze lijken hun omgeving en elkaar niet op te merken. De figuren in het werk van Mik zijn quasi-mechanisch en afwezig. Ze dwalen doelloos rond zonder enige vorm van communicatie. De bevreemdende en surrealistische werelden die Mik regisseert, gelden als een spiegel voor de absurditeit van de alledaagse werkelijkheid, en bevragen wat als normaal en abnormaal menselijk gedrag wordt beschouwd.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe rapport qui unit l\u0026rsquo;image et l\u0026rsquo;architecture est au centre de l\u0026#39;oeuvre \u003cem\u003eSofter Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms\u003c/em\u003e. Pour cette pi\u0026egrave;ce, Mik fait pour la premi\u0026egrave;re fois usage d\u0026rsquo;un \u0026eacute;cran transparent, int\u0026eacute;gr\u0026eacute; dans un mur incurv\u0026eacute;. Ainsi, la projection devient litt\u0026eacute;ralement partie int\u0026eacute;grante de l\u0026rsquo;architecture et inversement, l\u0026rsquo;architecture joue un r\u0026ocirc;le de premier plan dans la vid\u0026eacute;o. Un b\u0026acirc;timent s\u0026rsquo;effondre progressivement pour se transformer en ruines urbaines. Parmi les d\u0026eacute;combres, des individu\u0026middot;e\u0026middot;s fouillent chaque pi\u0026egrave;ce inlassablement et semblent ignorer leur contexte ainsi que les autres personnes qui les entourent. Les personnages dans cette oeuvre de Mik sont quasiment m\u0026eacute;caniques et impitoyablement distant\u0026middot;e\u0026middot;s, errant sans aucun but, sans la moindre forme de communication. Les mondes ali\u0026eacute;nants et surr\u0026eacute;alistes que Mik met en sc\u0026egrave;ne constituent un miroir de l\u0026rsquo;absurdit\u0026eacute; du quotidien, brouillant les fronti\u0026egrave;res de ce qui est consid\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute; comme un comportement humain normal ou anormal.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":783,"name":"Aernout Mik","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}