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DEV IS OPEN!
from 2pm to 6pm.


























photograph by éloïse clément

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GRAND OPENING (-29)







































"All directions contained in this book are specifically meant for self-application to ones own body."

ladestructiondesespacesvides proudly presents its new
ETABLISSEMENT RECEVANT DU PUBLIC.
Opening on Friday, April 4, 2013 6pm.

DEV will be open every Saturday (2-6pm) through April 26.
By appointment only.

Please note that due to safety matters attendance is limited to a maximum of 30 guests.
Registration by private message or by email at
info(at)ladestructiondesespacesvides.com


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"Before closing this work, putting it on the shelf, or allowing it to fall into the hands of irresponsible people, think back to the hundreds of your colleagues who, during the last few years, have been attacked without knowing how to defend themselves."

ladestructiondesespacesvides est heureuse de vous convier à l'inauguration de son nouvel
ETABLISSEMENT RECEVANT DU PUBLIC.
Vernissage le vendredi 4 avril 2013 dès 18h.

Ouverture hebdomadaire, les samedi 5, 12, 19, 26 avril.
De 14 à 18h, sur rendez-vous.

Pour des raisons de sécurité, le nombre de participants est limité à 30.
Il est fortement conseillé de réserver, par le biais d'un message privé ou par email à info(at)ladestructiondesespacesvides.com

20140316

DEV GOT ITS GUM

We are thrilled to announce that next month will see the unveiling of our very own ESTABLISHMENT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
And one hell of an Establishment too, my dear friends. In fear of divulging too much, I will just cryptically say that, on April 4, DEV will be able to claim to run the smallest and most boisterous non-profit exhibition space in Brussels.
To go along with this new space, several side-projects -although side-experimentations would be a more fitting term- are currently under development. Those experimentations might entail the jamming of your Ki energy or might be really about the way you behave on a couch.
They might even try to reach for your jaws.

Let me introduce you to DEV's new brand of Organic Bubble Gums.
Or should I say: Organic Bubble Gums in Progress (emphasis on progress).
This essentially means we are cooking homemade chewing-gum in our tiny kitchen with the help of five stars recipes found on the internet. Hopefully, those bubble gums will be tasty and chewy. And you will find them wrapped up in an edgy packaging printed with bright and hilarious jokes.
Our ambition is to serve them at every future exhibition opening. Why? We didn't really think that far. But, hey, you know what? Everyone in the Artworld has a Relational Aesthetics Trauma to deal with, and making and sharing bubble gums could be as good as ways as any to do so.

We want to stick with you.
We want to get stuck,
between you aforementioned jaws,
under your shoes,
under your favorite chair.




DEV GOT ITS GUM, Chapter 1: NOT THERE YET.

About three weeks ago, we decide it was time to roll up our sleeves, chase some oddly comestible ingredients and mix them in a giant bowl. In fact, the sleazy alien figures you can see right below on the pictures are not props form some gory science-fiction movie franchise (as suggested by a very very nasty person) but, evidently, our first attempt at cooking bubble gums.
To be completely honest, this attempt yielded… mixed results. You should be aware that one of the components required for the gum preparation is also useful if you are looking for a stain-remover, a natural laxative or a quick way to build a bomb. Futhermore, using industrial cupcake topping to coat the gum is possibly the worst idea to come up with. It melts when it's hot. It melts when it's cold. Basically, it melts in any situation - and always in an utterly disgusting fashion - before remaining permanently glued to your dish, your pocket or your cat.
And last but not least, never - mark my words - NEVER use red colorant in a gum recipe made from gluten powder. Unless you want your chewing-gums to look precisely like your gums. Or any other mucous membrane for that matter.

As for the taste… well, as it was nicely put by one of our valiant tester:

"It is truly enjoyable the five first seconds."

(and I guess we can call it a mot de la fin)








20140302

Les Appartements Chauffés_5 TIAGO SOUSA







































Une soirée en appartement chauffé_5 TIAGO SOUSA

09/03/14
18h30
4 euros

Compositeur et pianiste silencieux, TIAGO SOUSA explore depuis une dizaine d'années les touches d'un clavier qui ne le laissent pas tranquille et l'appellent sans cesse à renouveler ses attentions musicales. Mais le langage qu'utilise alors le portugais n'est pas le martèlement énervé. Au contraire, il y a dans sa musique instinctive, minimaliste et ambitieuse, toujours cette conviction que les formes les plus dénudées offrent au final la plus exaltante liberté, et qu'elles permettent, comme le permettent les objets les plus effilés, d'atteindre le cœur des choses. C'est d'ailleurs à l'intérieur même de la résonance des notes que TIAGO SOUSA ouvre toutes sortes d'interstices depuis lesquels sont convoqués l'esprit des grands espaces, l'espace hallucinatoire des grands esprits ou encore l'expérience mystique et immobile de la nature. Et tout cela en interrogeant sa propre liberté, nudité et créativité d'artiste.
Sa discographie étoffée et farouchement solitaire, serpentant notamment entre deux œuvres de William S. Burrough et d'Henry David Thoreau, n'a pas empêché pour autant le compositeur d'explorer d'autres domaines d'inventivité musicale, plus collaboratifs cette-fois : création du label MERZBAU, improvisation noise et free jazz avec le trio PÂO, musique commissionnée par le Teatro Maria Matos de Lisbonne, B.O. de films, etc.

Du son par ici :

https://soundcloud.com/tiagosousa/sentados-nas-pernas
https://soundcloud.com/tiagosousa/antigona
https://soundcloud.com/tiagosousa/tema-ost-bibliografia

Des images mouvantes (et encore du son) par là :

http://vimeo.com/23909080
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T8N-UCh4-s
http://vimeo.com/87016500

Et toujours, l'odieux SPEKTATORR pour accompagner ce concert.
Plus d'informations ICI.



Mini-bar sur place
(toutes les recettes sont reversées à l'artiste)

Pour réserver (et connaître l'adresse du concert, ce qui peut servir), envoyer un email à halffasleep(at)yahoo.fr

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