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It's Like a Finger Pointing a Way to the Moon (Sculpturance)

Moya Michael, Simon Thierée, Victoire Karera Kampire, Joachim Ben Yakoub / KVS & WIELS
Fri 22.11.2024 19:30 - 21:30
Wiels
Past event
22.11.2024
19:30 - 21:30
Past event

From 19.30 till 20.30

Following the first iteration of It is Like A Finger Pointing a Way to the Moon at KVS in Brussels, Moya Michael will present the work at WIELS during the Proximamente festival week, exploring the hybridity and liminality between the theatre stage and the gallery space as overlapping contexts.  

Drawing inspiration from Bruce Lee’s famous line in Enter the Dragon—“Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!”—Moya Michael sets out to explore the worlds of words, movements, and rhythms she encountered in South Africa and Namibia. After spending time with !Amace, Be, and their Ju/'Hoansi family, she joins forces with artists Victoire Karera Kampire, Simon Thierrée, and Joachim Ben Yakoub, using image, movement, and sound to allow for ongoing transformation.

Part of

From 20.40 till 21.30
Resilient Rhythms: Ancestral Voices in Motion

Following the presentation of It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon (sculpturance), we invite you to join Moya and her team in a conversation with Brazilian curator Olivia Ardui and other artists from the Próximamente Festival, aligned with Futuro Ancestral, this year’s festival focus. 

 

Olivia Ardui Bio


Olivia Ardui is a storyteller working at the intersection of visual and performing arts. Her narratives unfold across diverse formats, from critical essays and love letters to formal courses and tarot readings, exhibitions, and speculative performances. In her recent projects, she explores exhibition-making and art history through the lens of fiction and dramaturgy, treating them as potential theatrical scripts that challenge notions of objectivity and neutrality. Reception, mediation, and the interplay between form and content are central to her practice.


Olivia holds a master’s degree in Art History from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium. In São Paulo, Brazil, she gained extensive institutional experience at the Tomie Ohtake Institute's Research and Curatorial Department (2013–2016), contributed to the curatorial team of the 12th International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (2013–2014), and served as curator at MASP – Museum of Art of São Paulo (2017–2020). At MASP, she worked closely with the collections and their presentation in Lina Bo Bardi’s glass easels and co-curated the major collective exhibition Histories of Dance, along with its related publications and public programs.


Additionally, she has been involved in various initiatives as a co-organizer of seminars at Centro Cultural Contraponto (2016), researcher for the Lastro Centroamerica itinerant residency in Mexico (2015), and visiting curator at Fonte Artists Residency (2014–2016), among others. Now based in Belgium, she currently teaches in the Art History department at UCLouvain while pursuing independent artistic projects.

 

Credits

CREATIE / CRÉATION / CREATION Moya Michael IN SAMENWERKING MET / EN COLLABORATION AVEC / IN COLLABORATION WITH Victoire Karera Kampire, Simon Thierrée, Joachim Ben Yakoub TECHNISCHE ASSISTENTIE EN REGIE / ASSISTANCE TECHNIQUE ET DIRECTION / TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND DIRECTION Jair Montes PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION KVS COPRODUCTIE / COPRODUCTION WIELS