geert wachtelaer Filmperformances, video, cinemage wachtelaer.geert@telenet.be Summary Geert Wachtelaer is trained as a kind of filmmaker not as an artist. His work concentrates on universal human experiences, birth, death and the secrets of the human consciousness, and found its roots in the psychoanalytical foundation. 'Suffering' in a broad aspect is the major key in my work. The work are crossovers between bodymouvements, landscapes and cinema. There is also a multiple level linguistic research: visual, linguistic and musical. As long if it is lived out and not invented. I dislike actual art, it's already outdated as so many things in the contemporay artscene. Video art is no longer an innocent play-thing of conceptual art. The awareness of the fact that videoart as medium has a history of forty years. So it's important to research the historical developments of videoart. The relationship between concept and intuition -between theory and practice is like going through an airlock. You can only open the door before you when the door behind you closes. The time spend in the airlock is reflection. The artist may not forget to make a dialogue with society. Looking beyond borders, reseach and investigation in collaborations, positioning oneself in society. The work offers transgressive possibilities for re-imagining the past, the present and also the future. Specialties filmmaking, multimedia projects, videoart, teacher Experience student at Hogeschool Gent September 2009 -Present (1 year 5 months) student PO./ PK Director at Sweet Intoxication Films January 2006 -Present (5 years 1 month) Consulting multimedia projects, projectsowner. Audiovisual artist at selfemployed 1987 -Present (24 years) 2 recommendations available upon request Page 1 Teacher film, audio, editing at Digital arts, film and entertainement September 2008 -June 2009 (10 months) Education Erasmushogeschool Brussel Filmmaking, 1986 -1990 Activities and Societies: Rijksinstituut voor Toneel en Cultuurspreidingstechnieken Before 2000 worked as an underground creator (mostly collaborations wihin video/performance art/Internet Art) Exhibitions 2000 Argos Arts, Information days, 13 rue du Chantier B-1000 Brussels 2000 Impakt festival, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands Norapolis 2004,Internalional festival of multimedia METZ France 2004 Festival International cinema nouvelles générations à Lyon, France 2004 The Drake Hotel : notes from the underground with Steve Reinke, 1150 Queen West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2004 Heaven Gallery Chicago, USA 2004 PLAY III - International Video Art Festival -Museo de Arte "Ángel M. De Rosa" - Junìn, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2004 Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara , Castello Estense - Ferrara , Italy . 2004 Festival « Musiques Volantes » Metz , France 2004 Les inattendus, contempory art evenement , Paris , France 2005 Detroit International Film and Video Festival , Museum of Modern Art , USA 2005 Art in your Face, Malmoe , Sweden 2005 Cortodrome, short filmfestival, Bari , Italy 2005 Optica2005, Video-art and Contemporary Photography, GIJÓN (ASTURIAS, ESPAÑA) 2005 bac!05 - international festival of contemporary art in barcelona sixth edition 2005 "Nuit Blanche" Paris Face au 12 rue Neuve ou au 19 rue des Frigos, 75013 - M°Bibliothèque, projection in open sky 4X3, France 2005 Videohm, OHM Lounge Syracuse , NY 13217 USA2005 Semantikon,2006, ARCANA an asynchornous exposition of multimedia works of Geert Wachtelaer ASSOCIATION DES INSTANTS VIDEO NUMÉRIQUES ET POÉTIQUES l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence , France 2006 2006,pink tv, Each night, PinkTV transforms his antenna in « art Tv » and offers to contemporary video a unique space in Paradise. Major expression of our era, the video grew outside the broadcasting industry and to counter-current of the circuits traditional distributions. Conceived as a night laboratory, Paradise explores unpublished broadcasting containers. All the artists, vidioartists and film directors, rejoin in Paradise to celebrate the visual art. All the aesthetic and ecstatic kinds are allowed: video art, experimental movie, organizations, performances, « video dance », short movies... 2006 Vlaams Radio Koor,Marrige of Heaven and Hell, Johan Duijck conduct Geert Wachtelaer video artist. A full programme, in which music, image and word melt together into a tribute to the visionary William Blake. 2006 Sint-Niklaas - stadhuis, Belgium 2006 Antwerpen - Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Belgium 2006 Deurle - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium 2006 Brugge - OLV-ter-Potterie, Belgium 2006 Brussel - Flagey, the former National Institute for Radio Broadcasting Belgium 2006 Metu Video Festival ,Turkey , Ankara Single channel videos from Turkey and all over the world will be in on 2, 3,4th of March 2006 Synch Festival ,Greece , Athens International eclectic collection of notable contemporary artists' films, Goethe Institute (theatre), Lavrio Technological & Science Park:“Patio” (outdoors)“Pharmacy” (indoors) 2006 Videominuto ,Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts of Prato, Italy 2006 Europian film festival “For the first five”, locate in Neubrandenburg / Germany . 2006 “PI performance & intermedia” festival National Museum in Szczecin SZCZECIN-SWINOUJSCIE / POLAND 2006 Les instants video l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence ,Text and Texture ,France 2006 2006 CITYPULSE 4, santiago media art festival, Chile. The citypulse collection was exhibited at the Entel Tower in Santiago, in a giant 145 square ft hi-def screen installed at 330 ft of height. 2006 Biennale 3000 Saopaulo, Brazil 2006 Art in Antwerp solo exhibition, (ANINA), Internationaal Pershuis, Antwerpen, Belgium 2007 CITYPULSE Lowell, at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, USA, 2007 Patagonia Electrónica Festival, in Punta Arenas, Chile 2007 "Beyond" Moka Gallery, Chicago, USA 2007 Danscamdanse festival, Film-plateau - Ghent, Belgium 2007 'Facing the river' at East Art Center, Chicago , USA 2007 Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain. 2007 ART Santa Fe, El Museo de Cultural, New Mexico, USA 2007 Videominuto PopTV 2007,Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy 2007 Art Now Fair Miami – Art Basel – USA Dec 2007 (Moka Gallery) 2007 Diva" video art fair in Paris, France (Moka Gallery) 2007 If I Can't Dance - Mukha Antwerp (collaboration with Emilie de Vlam's Ma. solo. production MA VZW ) 2008 Salon 08 Aalst, Belgium 2008 Nieuw Amsterdam NYC USA 2008 Kunstevenement De drempel Wevelgem Belgium (steun van de Vlaamse Overheid) 2010 Genesis Magdelien Roobroeck “mediage” Aalst, Belgium 2010 Por Chile is an effort by the artists linked with CITYPULSE to help rebuild part of the loss. The images, texts, music and video that make up this work represent a message to Chile from each of the 70 artists around the world who has collaborated with this initiative. The available formats includes a book, CD, DVD, web, mobile app. and a limited 5 print series of each photograph. All the profits will go to help the victims. Chile 2010 O ART TELEVISION CHANNEL O Art is a new form of artwork, an innovative concept in visual arts, a new approach to the communication media. O Art Association is a society of artists, the public, institutions and others in various fields of contemporary art. 2010 Projections for play 'Dance of Memories' by Lies Serdons 2010, Productiesteun: Kunstencentrum BELGIE, Dommelhof Neerpelt, ’t Werkhuys Antwerpen , Belgium Page 2 Selected works Sweet intoxication video, Beta cam, sound, non spoken, 8 min, 2000, prod Geert Wachtelaer (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique) Flowering wound video, Beta cam, dolby sound, non spoken, 32 min 15 sec, 2000, prod Geert Wachtelaer. (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique) Psychosexual video DV, sound, non spoken, 7 min, 2001, prod Geert Wachtelaer Purification a projection, DV, sound, non spoken, 32 min, 2001, prod Geert Wachtelaer Fish on Friday , video, DV, stereo sound, non spoken, 05 min, 2002, prod Geert Wachtelaer I am afraid of a blue sky , video, DV, stereosound, spoken, 2003 prod Geert Wachtelaer Cycli , video, svcd, stereo sound, 2003, prod Geert Wachtelaer The experiment, Projection, stereosound, non spoken, 2003 prod Geert Wachtelaer Repetition video, stereosound, non spoken, 2003 prod Geert Wachtelaer The Cracking video, stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer Ungehörige Handlung, stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer Alpha Phaze video stereosound, non spoken,2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer The Quiet Man , stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer Selfhelp , stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer A last impression , stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer Fragile , stereosound, German spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer Remains of a Disturbed Illusion , non spoken, 2005,prod Geert Wachtelaer Marrige of Heaven and Hell, Johan Duijck conduct Geert Wachtelaer video artist , 2006, prod Vlaams Radio Koor Met steun van de Vlaamse Overheid. This concert was recorded by VRT-klara Forgotten Film 1 , 2006, prod.Geert Wachtelaer Private City (Cityscapes and soundscapes) exclusive for MOKA Gallery, chicago, 2006 Cast : Emilie de Vlam,dance and choreography Voice : Lisa Gilbert MA solo 2007, Production : MA vzw. with thanks to Croxhapox Gallery. Ghent, Belgium. Met steun van de Vlaamse overheid. The Chesnut Tree 2007,. Met steun van de Vlaamse overheid en stad Aalst. Finding Beauty 2007 prod. Geert Wachtelaer. Summoning Stones 2008 videoinstallation with French performer Cia Barbett and Wing Yan Man Black Noise/White noise 2008 videoinstallation in collaboration with Stefaan Loncke and Ine Pieter , 2008 Met Steun van de Vlaamse overheid. Faces 2008 videoprojection in collaboration with Frédérique Galliot and Stefaan Loncke More then common sense dictates 2008 Short movie in collaboration with Hildegarde Follon (still going on in post-production) Ce(n)suur 2008 a production of Stefaan Loncke, Nicoletta Branchini, Geert Wachtelaer Forgotten film # 2, 2010, Geert wachtelaer Ladinsky project, 2010-2011, Geert wachtelaer in collaboration with Alison Mackie Por Chile, 2010, collaboration. In February 2010 a devastating earthquake followed by tsunami destroyed part of the territory of Chile, dragging villages, livelihoods and -most painful- lives. POR CHILE is an effort by the artists linked with CITYPULSE to help rebuild part of the loss. The images, texts, music and video that make up this work represent a message to Chile from each of the 70 artists around the world who has collaborated with this initiative. The available formats includes a book, CD, DVD, web, mobile app. and a limited 5 print series of each photograph. All the profits will go to help the victims. O ART TELEVISION CHANNEL O Art is a new form of artwork, an innovative concept in visual arts, a new approach to the communication media. O Art Association is a society of artists, the public, institutions and others in various fields of contemporary art. 2010 Projections for play 'Dance of Memories' by Lies Serdons 2010 geert wachtelaer Filmperformances, video, cinemage wachtelaer.geert@telenet.be 2 people have recommended geert "Geert Wachtelaer is fine to work with, we believe that due to his hard work he is the future of Belgian Audio Visual art." — Sztuka Fabryka, was geert's client "Geert is an exquisite filmmaker with an eye for great light and movement, his work is outstanding, expressive and magical. We are proud of showing and representing his work at our gallery space, He is an artist with a talent for making video art in a way I have never experience before, with a strong conceptual tone but easy to reach and to touch because of its basic human nature. Its easier to shoot a film than to create Video Art and Mr. Wachtelaer is a genius in this matter." — Jhonmar Castillo, Art Director, Moka Gallery, was with another company when working with geert at selfemployed Contact geert on LinkedIn Page 3