Magazines

Risorgimento for Hell

For the magazine HELL, the creators, writers and image editors have applied themselves to making a strong connection between dance and the visual arts. With Dante’s Inferno as a starting point, the magazine shows specifically assigned work as well as existing work by artists from multiple disciplines. HELL, the magazine, has the appearance of a visual essay and aims at creating an aesthetic visual and textual world; a completely personal hell, which can exist alongside that of the dancers.

Textual components are provided by Stephen Greco (US), Jan Fabre (B), Laurent Goumarre (F), Christian Néri (F) and Irène Filiberti (F), who is also responsible for the text editing. Never before did a fiction writer/pop star interviewer, theatre maker/artist, journalist, genetic biologist and writer/art critic stand side by side. The attractive mix of styles and subjects, the textual extremes combined with the chosen images, provide a Dantesque choreography, where improbable subjects merge into a plausible whole.

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7 : risorgimento for purgatorio

Pretext. Image. Scent. Text. And context. A synergy of various artistic energies clustered around the theme of purgatory. That is what the [purgatorio] magazine, closely linked with the EG | PC creations [purgatorio] POPOPERA and [purgatorio] IN VISIONE that premiered at the Holland Festival in June 2008, has to offer. The work of the choreographers and the artistic team feeds the essence of the magazine. In its turn, the magazine perfumes the creation process as an interactive forum. A purifying reciprocity.

 Art director: Isabelle Vigier

With contributions by: Arnon Grunberg, Levi van Veluw, Maki Ueda, Gérard Mayen, Johan Reyniers, Bart Boone, Pasquale Martini and René van Peer.

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The magazine you PARA | DISO breaks away from well-established expectations about paradise. For instance, the presumed multi-coloured aspect of it is traded in for black and white. Work by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu takes up a prominent position. Takamatsu creates a black-and-white world of comic-book-like characters, which seem to move in a different dimension. These rarefied, innocent, almost paradisiacal figures move us with their poetic appearances. Only upon closer inspection does it become apparent that the context in which the figures operate is not without violence and pornographic undertones.

Besides, in order to throw light on as many facets of paradise as possible, guest authors from different disciplines were approached with the question: what is you(r) paradiso? The visions of astronomer Govert Schilling, composer Louis Andriessen, film maker Gus Van Sant and designer Marcel Wanders, among others, were incorporated into the ten-part structure. The result is a magazine that may be described as “a guide to paradise in ten parts”.

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