When we act or undergo, we must always be worthy of what happens to us
The militant cinema and image, taken in a more strict sense, have historically tended to push toward the real and toward the truth and toward the overcoming of capitalism, colonialism, and sometimes patriarchy among other things. They have worked to uncover, to lay bare, to expose, to clarify and at times to destroy existing regimes of order and/or truth.
In the context of The Fire Next Time, a programme of KASK/HoGent in the framework of the research project ‘Figures of Dissent’ and the EU project ‘The Uses of Art – The Legacy of 1848 and 1989’ (confederation L’internationale), in conjunction with L'œil se noie, an exhibition of KIOSK with work by Eric Baudelaire & Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (KIOSK, 05/04 – 15/06/2014).
Supported by onderzoeksgroepen S:PAM & PEPPER (UGent), Kunstencentrum Vooruit, BAM instituut voor beeldende audiovisuele en mediakunst, Eye on Palestine, the embassies of Mexico and France.