Sunday post 09/28/2008

1. Sunday Entry:

Highlight an artist of interest that relates to your work. Provide the following information:

- Artist Biography and brief explanation of work (can use quotes from critics or galleries)
Stefaan Loncke

**Education:



1990 - 1994 : Master of Visual Arts at the High Institute of Fine Arts St. Lucas, Ghent, Belgium
2006 - 2008 : diverse courses and workshops contemporary dance and movement techniques



** Projects:



* 2008

-- De Drempel, art event Wevelgem- Kortrijk (Belgium)

-- Faces, filmproject. concept: Stefaan Loncke, Video: Geert Wachtelaer, performance & story by Frederique Gaillot (Fr) & Stefaan Loncke

-- Performance on Bach organ music with Nicoletta Branchini (It), organ: Ludo Geloen

-- ce(n)uur, filmproject. concept: Stefaan Loncke, Video: Geert Wachtelaer, dance: Nicoletta Branchini (Iit), Stefaan Loncke

-- black noise.white noise, Installation/bodyworks, concept: Stefaan Loncke, Video: Geert Wachtelaer, Bodyworks: Ine Pieters, Stefaan Loncke, project with support of the Flemish Community

-- ARTisSTARTplus, participation in artibook archive of Ko de Jong (NL)



* 2007

-- “Foreign Bodies”, 5 objects for the Ozark Micro Sculpture Gardens, Lyon College, Arkansas, USA

-- sound- and bodyworks performance, collaboration with Ana M.Marañon(Spain) project: 'A través de las diferencias... '

-- CO-ART, participation with project 'WAAR' (where), Drongenhoeve Knesselare (Belgium) Confrontation between "outsider art" and "regular art"

-- "an artist is a virus" bodyworks project in collaboration with Nana (Ivana Quiternos) for the mailart expo of Irina Logvinova

-- IN-FORMATION, Media art project, participation with video of contactimpro, Cultural Center Dnepr, Smolensk (Russia)

-- Concupiscencia, bodyworks/performance Concupiscencia held at Ghent (Belgium). Perf.: Benedicte De Vos, Stefaan Loncke. Concept: Stefaan Loncke. Camera: Filip. Project of Ivana Aquinteros

-- Participation with artibook in the mailart exhibition for Frida Kahlo's 100th anniversary (Spain)

-- video "IX (ik's)" for the mailart project "What about Croxhapox?", Croxhapox, Ghent (Belgium) collaboration with Huayong Feng



* 2006

-- Z/W 1, groupexhibition, Den Haag (Netherlands), curators Jowel de Bruijn & Paul de Mol

-- IN-FORMATION2006, contactimpro performace for the mailart project of Dmitri Zimin. Concept: Stefaan Loncke. Dance: Benedikte De Vos, Christie Di Perna, Jo-An Lauwaert, Stefaan Loncke, Geert Vercruysse. Recorded at: Gallery Link te Gent (B)

-- 'Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art', Visual Arts Center, Washington Pavillion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls - South Dakota (USA)

-- Oog'n'BlikArt, Oppuurs (Belgium).

-- 'the psychedelic mailart call', groupsexpo, Cultural Centre Elassona, (Greece)

-- installation 'the ill child', mailart exhibition concerning Sigmund Freuds 150th birthday. Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen, Berlijn (Germany)

-- 'Dream City' mailart call, participation with documentation photographs of performances sIght and Medusa
Elassona Art Cafe '1936' & Hatjiyiannio Cultural Center of Larisa(Greece)



* 2005

-- Ce(n)suur (solo), Hof Lanchals, Brugge (Belgium)

-- OdeGand 2005, Festival of Flanders, Gent (Belgium)

-- tRAUMgeBILDe 2005,AMO, mailart exhibition at Cultural Center in Magdeburg (Germany)

-- ARTfriday collective, 'Happenings' mailart expo, Imprint Gallery, New York (usa)

-- Centro Cultural Recoleta (Argentinie) National MailArt Day.



* 2004

-- Group exhibition Salon Internationale de l'Art, Libr'Art te Libramont (Belgium)



* 2002
-- Maison du Westhoek, Esquelbec (France) , group exhibition



* 2001
-- Groupexhibition Salon Internationale de l'Art, Libr'Art, Libramont (Belgium)



* 1999
-- Monasterium Mariakluizen, Brakel (Belgium) Solo



* 1997-2001
-- collaboration projects with Sonja Ulrick: concerning the alchemistic theme Solificatio.



* 1996
-- Aleph (solo) - Linisi Art Gallery, Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)
-- Aleph (solo), M.Rooze, Lokeren (Belgium)


* 1995
-- Persoonstralie (solo) - Linisi Art Gallery, Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)
-- Poem and Mailart Myth, Gent
-- Wintersalon, Group exhibition at Linisi Art Gallery, Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)

- 4 images and / or video/sound clips of artwork

- a link to an interview with the artist or a review
My main concepts are the questioning of identity, and the Gap in cultures.

I use art as a medium to explore the concepts of Identity and non-Identity, position and non-position, the tension between nature and culture. I'm fascinated by what creates and escapes a culture, by what lies beyond the Gap in human norms and the multiplicity of phenomena within Culture, which envelop this Gap (this mouth of the primordial abbys which dissolves all identity).

I question, I examine.

To me, the question is of more importance then the answer. When the question results in an answer, I like to tear the answer open, creating new questions. I have difficulty to accept definite constructions (such as theories, criteria, images, etc...) and mistrust strivings who have this as a goal, for they lead towards the gaze of the Medusa.

I'm intrigued by the Gap behind identities, the Gap which no construction seems to escape. I'm intrigued by the human strivings trying to get even with this Gap... and concepts like 'love' and 'domination' which waver around the Gap.
These human strivings include the attempt to stipulate/identify the workings of raw nature, and endeavours to control/dominate raw nature by tearing her down into comprehensible parts. To this aim, one calls forth on units of measurement, which function as points of reference. Simultaneously to the diversity of the nature of these units of measurement, rise a diversity of cultures.
To make the unknown known, is a process which is subject to the restrictions of human perception and thinking. This implies that this process is formed through the fact of censorship. What cannot be perceived by the mind (or, what a subject does not want to perceive) is naturally censored. This censure reveals man’s cesure with nature and reality… the breaking point where reference and words fail him. It’s around this point that man’s mental and physical strivings provide him with fantasies and assumptions which fill in the gaps of the cesure. They make him blind for the existence of the gap, driven by some sort of horror vacui, for man wants all questions answered, he wants to comprehend, rule and dominate nature and reality. It's a domination which tries to bind the factor of uncertainity, of chaos.
Yet, this does not change how nature and reality is, or the way it behaves or acts. She escapes these human strivings and cultural workings, and forces men to make new theories, change perceptions, change their way of thinking… endlessly. Finally she always wins from these cultural workings by elements as decay and death.

I experiment with different disciplines such as drawing, painting, performance and and bodyworks. For my performance pieces, I often work together with other artists.

- link to gallery representing artist

- artist website