Joris Perdieus is a visual artist, scenographer, sounddesigner and independant PhD researcher at LUCA School Of Arts Brussels and KULeuven University.
He is a member of the INTERMEDIA and MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS research groups.
His research is loacated in the field of Sensorial Scenographics and looks into matters concerning the impotance of ALONENESS IN SPECTATORSHIP, in relation to immersive spatial art and performance.
ALONENESS ? The state of being alone, solitude, ISOLATION
Notice the term ISOLATION re-apaering, as I used it in earlier texts to
identify a certain sensory experience: the Isolated Moment
I would like to argue that there are sufficient indications that aloneness in spectatorship is imperative, and that it holds healing qualities, cognitive transformation and stimulants for personal growth, that do not appear in group-spectatorship.
Also, and maybe most importantly, solitary spectatorship offers openings into multi-sensory and micro-sensory experiences that are impossible to percieve in the presence of other people.
It is my believe that not only does the experience of such moments of hypersensoria cause unexpected synaptic connections, it is also a quality present in every human, not a commodity arranged or facilitated by the artist/architect/scenographer/designer. It is therefore something to be searched for, and possibly found in everyday life, in nature, in architecture and in objects, materials or particles of water alike.
Joris lives & Works in Brussels, his studio is located in BAC-Art Lab, Leuven.
Joris is a founding member and Coordinator of TINY THINGS vzw, a platform for artistic research and production, mainly fascilitating the work of Evelien Cammaert and Joris Perdieus. TINY THINGS vzw also hosts the temporary and dynamic artistic Collective/Thinktank Ephemeral Focus. A group of likeminded artists in a changeable costellation. Members are Karl Van Welden, Nick Steur, Lola Daels, Evelien Cammaert and Kevin Trappeniers.
Joris Perdieus is associated with C-Takt, Workspace Brussels, A Two Dogs Company, KULeuven Cultuur and VONK Studios.
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Joris Perdieus is multidisciplinair kunstenaar en onderzoeker (LUCA/KULeuven), hij bevraagt ruimtelijkheid en de manier waarop mensen via allerlei strategieën met ruimte in dialoog treden. Zijn werken zijn vaak tijdelijke ruimtelijke installaties, ingrepen op binnen- of buitenruimtes vanuit een doorgedreven intuïtieve, akoestische en architecturale analyse.
Joris zoekt en bestudeert raakpunten tussen installatiekunst, theater en scenografie. Gaandeweg ontdekte hij de performatieve aspecten in zijn manier van werken, die vormen steeds vaker het centrale onderwerp van zijn methode die uitgesproken discipline-overschrijdend is. Joris woont en werkt in Brussel en Leuven.
ONDERZOEK
De basistegenstelling die Joris’ praktijk drijft bevindt zich op het spanningsveld tussen de fysische werkelijkheid en de waarneming: hoe de dingen echt zijn tegenover hoe we de dingen waarnemen.
Het onderzoek verenigt artistieke ambacht en technologie met performatieve en psychologische strategieën. Joris creëert en ontwerpt ervaringsgerichte performances en ruimtes die de toeschouwer begeleiden naar een zintuiglijke beleving via verschillende media, al dan niet technologisch van aard: een stem die uit een vaas in je handen komt, je bent omringd door abstracte geluiden, clicks en akoestische trillingen… ook de ruimte transformeert technisch, lichtomstandigheden veranderen, soms wordt het geheel donker, er zijn verborgen prikkels of prikkels die niet meteen opvallen zoals bodembedekking, luchtverplaatsingen en andere atmosferische elementen, temperatuursverschillen.
Het werk wilt de bezoeker bewust confronteren met de samenwerking van zijn zintuigen en de onopgemerkte tussenposities in diens werkelijkheidsbeleving, om zo meer te ontdekken over het eigen lichaam en de verhouding ervan tot de ruimte en de context.
Joris hanteert een less-is more principe, hij zal in eerste instantie het spektakel ontleden en ontmantelen, de overgebleven onderdelen analyseren, het overtollige materiaal verwijderen en wat overblijft op een andere manier opnieuw samenstellen.
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BIO
Joris Perdieus is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher (LUCA/KULeuven). He questions spatiality and the way people dialogue with space, through all kinds of artistic strategies.
His works are often temporary spatial installations, interventions on interior- or exterior spaces based on a thorough intuitive, acoustic and architectural analysis. Joris looks for, and investigates, points of contact between installation art, theater and scenography. Gradually he discovered the performative aspects in his way of working, they increasingly become the central subject of his method, which is distinctively cross-disciplinary. Joris lives and works in Brussels and Leuven.
RESEARCH
The basic contradiction that drives Joris’ practice is found in the tension between physical reality and perception: how things are real versus how we perceive things.
The research unites artistic craft and technology with performative and psychological strategies. Joris develops experiential performances and spaces that guide the viewer to a sensory experience through different media, technological or otherwise: a voice coming from a vase in your hands, alternated by abstract sounds, clicks and acoustic vibrations… The space itself also transforms technologically: light conditions change, sometimes the whole becomes dark, there are hidden stimuli or stimuli that are not immediately noticeable such as ground cover, air displacements and other atmospheric elements, temperature differences.
The work wants to consciously confront the visitor with the cooperation of the senses, the unnoticed intermediate positions in his perception of reality, in order to discover more about his own body and its relationship to space and context.
Joris applies a less-is-more principle, he will initially dissect and dismantle the spectacle, analyze the remaining parts, remove the excess material and reassemble what remains in a different way.
Joris Perdieus is supported by C-TAKT and KULeuvenCultuur.
Education
- 2019-2023 PhD in the Arts – LUCA/KULeuven
- 2009. M.A. Advanced Master in Audio-Visual Arts Transmedia/Arts+Design+Media
LUCA (Sint-Lukas University College of Arts), Brussels - 2006. MF.A. Master in Fine Arts/Painting
LUCA (Sint-Lukas University College of Arts), Brussels
Honors, Awards, Scholarships and Residencies.
2022 Associated Artist C_TAKT
2022 Artist In Residence Workspace Brussels / A Two Dogs Company & Kris Verdonk
2021 Artist in Residence Workspace Brussels / A Two Dogs Company & Kris Verdonk
2021 Artist in Residence VONK Studios
2021 Artist in Residence C_TAKT
2021 Artist in Residence at BAC Art Lab, KULeuven Cultuur
2020 Artist in Residence Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, Berlin, DE / Flanders State of the Art
2020 Artist in Residence C_TAKT
2020 Artist in Residence WPZimmer, Antwerp
2020-2024 Artist in Residence BAC-Art Lab, Leuven
2019 Artist in Residence C_TAKT
2018 Artist In Residence STUK Leuven
2018 Artist In Residence Dommelhof, Neerpelt
2017 Development Scholarship, Flanders State of the Art
2017 Artist in Residence Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2016 Laureat Award “Centrum Jan Van Rijswijck Prijs”
2015 Artist in Residence, Greylight Projects
2014 Development Scholarship, (KB) Flanders State of the Art
2014 Finalist “ARTCONTEST”, Brussels
2013 Finalist “Input-Output” Art Contest, Brughes
2013 Finalist “Smart-Cabine” Design Contest, Ghent
2013 Selection Bnp Paribas fortis Young Artistic Talent Award 2013, Brussels
2012 Artist in Residence Greylight Projects, Heerlen
2011 Selected Artist B-Gallery, Brussels
2006 Artist in Residence – FLACC, Genk
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES/SCENOGRAPHIES & SCREENINGS
2022
- Playground Performance Festival
Scenography & performance “Glowachrome Garden” for Evelien Cammaert
November 2022, Museum M-Leuven, Leuven Be - Performa Performance Festival
Into The Woods – A Sonic Psychogeography
June 2022, C-Mine, Genk, Be - Kiosk Radio
Outsiders Programme, with Souvenirs From Imaginary Cities
May 2022, Brussels, Be - Beyond The Blackbox Performance Festival
Scenography & performance “Absorbing Exposure” for Evelien Cammaert
May 2022, Antwerpen, Be - Open Studios BAC Art Lab
March 2022, Leuven, Be
2021
- KANAL/Centre Pompidou
“Grammatica”, performative installation (with Evelien Cammaert)
11, 12, 13 & 14/03/2021, Brussels, Be - Winternights Performance Festival, Maastricht NL
Research presentation
10-13/12/2020 - Radioshow, Freie Radios Berlin Brandenburg, DE –
Sonic Psychogeography (reprise)
Aired on 16/02/2021 - KANAL/Centre Pompidou
“Grammatica”, performative installation with Evelien Cammaert
06&07/03/2021, Brussels, Be - Vonk Studios & Z33
Groupshow with Karl Van Welden, Nick Steur, Lola Prima Donna Daels, Evelien Cammaert, Kevin Trappeniers & Joris Perdieus.
10/04/2021 - Madonna’s Web – Groupshow
Warp Art, Sint-Niklaas, Be
Begijnhofsite Hasselt, Be - M-Leuven – Playground Festival 2021 – Glowachrome Garden by Evelien Cammaert – Scenographic installation
Dates to be confirmed.
2020
- Kanal-Centre Pompidou – CANCELLED due to Corona
“Grammatica” performance/installation with Evelien Cammaert
08 & 09/10/2020, Brussels, BE - M-Leuven – Playground Festival 2020 – Glowachrome Garden by Evelien Cammaert – Scenography – CANCELLED due to Corona
19/11 – 22/11/2020 - Groupshow with Karl Van Welden, Nick Steur, Lola Daels, Evelien Cammaert, Kevin Trappeniers & Joris Perdieus, Begijnhofsite Hasselt/VONK – CANCELLED due to Corona
- Working Title Festival, Kaaitheater-Studios – CANCELLED due to Corona
Scenography for “Slide” (working title) by Evelien Cammaert - Radioshow, Freie Radios Berlin Brandenburg, DE – Sonic Psychogeography – Aired on 18/08/2020
- UQBAR & Kronenboden, Berlin, DE – “The Healing Room”- Soloshow + Talk by Alice De Mont + Talk By Joris Perdieus
19/09/2020 - ABA Berlin, DE – Screening “Under The Tongue”, Haus Der Statistik
11/08/2020 - UQBAR, Berlin, DE – Talk Joris Perdieus – 09/08/2020
2019
- Winternights 2019 Performance Festival, scenography for Evelien Cammaert
- C5 Brussels, Duo-show with Arnaud Eubelen
Brussels Gallery Weekend / September 2019, Brussels, BE - BEYOND THE BLACK BOX Performance Festival, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
04-10/02/2019, Amsterdam, NL - Scenography “Komt Op, Gaat Af” /Nico Boon
Premiere on 24/01/2019 CC Berchem, Antwerp, BE - Scenography “Slide” (working title) by Evelien Cammaert
Winternights performance festival, Maastricht, NL - Scenography NFAQ, Liesbet Hermans
2018
- Playground Performance Festival, M-Leuven
15-18/11/2018, Leuven, BE - C-Takt Festival, C-Mine Genk
17-24/09/2018, Genk, BE - Playtime 2, De Bond, Brughes, BE – Trioshow, curated by Michel Dewilde
Joris perdieus, Wim Wauman, Craig Havens.
13/04/2018 – 06/06/2018 - Scenography “The Missing” / Lies Serdons
Premiere on 08/12/2018, De Nieuwe Zaal, Hasselt, BE - Open Studios, KISPAS Artist Studios Brussels
01/05/2018, Brussels, BE
2017
- “Grammatica” at Winternights Performance Festival, Maastricht, NL
- Vitrine #… Luca School Of Arts, Brussels, Be. Solo Presentation Curated by Michel Kolenberg
- Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AU – Groupshow, curated by Stef Van Bellingen
- Beursschouwburg, Brussels,BE – Art And The Future City, Groupshow/Symposium
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2017/01/11/symposium-art-the-future-city-at-beursschouwburg-brussels/
- Jardin Maritime II, Brussels, BE. Groupshow with a.o. Daan Gielis, Eleanor Duffin, Garry Loughlin, Juan Pablo Plazas, Lola Daels and Niels Vaes.
- Live Video Performance Pukkelpop, Hasselt, BE
- Live Video Performance Ancienne Belgique,Brussels, BE
- Live Video Performance Beursschouwbrug, Brussels, Be
2016
- Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Be – Scenographic commission
- WARP, Sint-Niklaas, Be – Groupshow “Coup De Ville 2016” Curated by Stef Van Bellingen
http://warp-art.be/coupdeville-2016/
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2016/09/13/defining-lines-again-crossing-borders-on-view-at-coup-de-ville-2016-warp_art/
- B32, Maastricht, NL – Soloshow “Playfield”, Curated by Joep Vossebeld
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2016/05/04/soloshow-at-b32-maastricht-nl-performance-with-meteor-musik/
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2016/05/15/acoustic-sculptureinstallation-b32-artspace-maastrichtnl/
- VONK – Groupshow “VONK, Yearly Expo” at “De Hoge Ruimte” Z33, Hasselt, Be. Curated by Stijn Maes
- Live Video Performance Pukkelpop, Hasselt, BE
- Live Video Performance Ancienne Belgique, Brussels,BE
2015
- CIAP Art Centre, Hasselt, Be (Kabinet) – Soloshow “The Garden”
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2015/12/05/the-garden-exercising-calmness-series-2015/
http://www.ciap.be/nl/exhibition/het-kabinet-joris-perdieus
- Moira, Utrecht, NL – Soloshow “Absence by appointment”
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2015/07/09/soloshow-moira-utrecht-absence-by-appointment/
- Kc België, Hasselt, be – Soloshow “Exercising Calmness”
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2015/12/05/colorstudy-03-exercising-calmness-series-2015/
http://www.kunstencentrumbelgie.com/programma/expo/jorisperdieus.html
- Greylight Projects, Heerlen, NL – Soloshow “Colourstudy.02”
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2015/08/24/greylight-projects-display/
http://www.jorisperdieus.be/2015/07/31/soloshow-greylight-projects-display01-opening-september-2015/
http://greylightprojects.org/display-2/
- Museum D’Hondt Daenens (Villa Van Wassenhoven) – Groupshow + Auction, selected by Sarah Indeherberghe
2014
- Centrale For Contemporary Art – “Art Contest”, Brussels, Be – Groupshow
- 13B Creative Platform (Now: Raam 103), Ghent, Be – Groupshow
- KuS, Heerlen, NL – Groupshow “Landslide” Curated by Wouter Huis
2013
- De Bond, Brugge,Be – Groupshow “Input-Output” curated by Michel Dewilde
- Donkervonk, Hasselt, Be – Groupshow (Self- organised)
- De Unie Hasselt-Genk, Be – Groupshow (Self- organised)
- Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels, Be – Commission “Lights on/off”
- Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels, Be – Soloshow@ Centralbox
- B-Gallery, Brussels, Be – Soloshow “Debout Poête!”
- Greylight Projects, Heerlen, NL – Groupshow “Reality Tracks”
2012
- Reconverse#01 – Manifesta 9 Parallel Event, Beringen, Be – Groupshow
- WeltEcho Gallery, Chemnitz, DE – Groupshow “4 Die Auszogen”
- Nucleo, Ghent, Be – Groupshow “10 Years Nucleo” Curated by Alan Quireyns
2011
- Modo Brussels, Brussels, Be – Solo Presentation “ Friedrich would have loved this”
- Public Space, Eisden, Be – Groupshow “In Locus Communis”
- IPS Gallery, Ghent, Be – Soloshow “Lenscloud”
2010
- Monumental Art Contest (laureat) – CC Zwanenberg, H.O.D.Berg, Be – Groupshow
- For Real – 28 Utopian Projections in public space, Z33, Hasselt&Maastricht – Groupshow, curated by Bart Vandenboom (Viewmaster)
- Nucleo, Ghent, Be – Groupshow “Open Studios”
- Sint-Lukas Gallerie, Brussels, Be – Groupshow “Display” Curated by Boris Debaeckere
2009
- Pluto Festival For Contemporary Art & Music, Opwijk, Be – Groupshow, curated by Pieter Coussement
- Transmission, Brussels, Be – Transmedia Groupshow
PERFORMANCE & SCENOGRAPHY
2019
- C-Takt Performance Festival, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
04-10/02/2019, Amsterdam, NL
2018
- Playground Performance Festival, M-Leuven
15-18/11/2018, Leuven, BE - C-Takt Festival, C-Mine Genk
17-24/09/2018, Genk, BE - Scenography “New Skin”, Hannah De Meyer/Toneelhuis
Première 22/09/2018, Troublyen, Antwerpen, BE - Scenography “The Missing”, Lies Serdons/De Nieuwe Zaal/C-Mine
Première december 2018, De Nieuwe Zaal, Hasselt, BE
2017
- “No Large Predators Are Around” An Installation/Performance (in progress)
- Scenography for Pippin (musician), a musical performance. Pippin is an electronic musician , he commissioned me to design a scenography for his live set.
2016
- Beursschouwburg End Event, Scenography commission for the whole building for the end-event of the cultural season,Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Be
- Performance with Meteor Musik, B32, Maastricht, NL
- Solo Performance “Defining Lines, Again” as a part of Coup De Ville 2016, WARP, Sint-Niklaas, Be
- Solo Performance “In Lijn/Defining Lines”, Z33 (Vonk Yearly Show), Hasselt, Be
- “A Colourfull Sketch in Black And White Space”, Scenography , Casino, Genk, Be
2015
- EAT WOOD (retake) with Evelien Cammaert, Campo, Ghent, Be.
- Performance with Meteor Musik, Kc België, Hasselt, Be
- Performance with MASDA, Ciap, Hasselt, Be
2014
- EAT WOOD, 45min. performance with Evelien Cammaert, Toneelacademie Maastricht, NL
- The Woods, by Lies Serdons (scenography commission), Theater op de Markt, Hasselt, Be
VISUALS, ANIMATION & VIDEOCLIPS
2017
- Live Video Performance at Pukkelpop, Hasselt, Be
- “Mystic Garden” , an animated film. Mystic Garden is a non-narrative stop-motion sequence movie (duration 20min) in which a mystical world of symbols and geometric drawings triggers the imagination.
LINK
Password: CryptobismoJorisPerdieus2017
2016
- Live Video Performance, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Be
- Live Video Performance, Recyclart, Brussels, Be
- Live Video Performance, Pukkelpop, Be
- Live Video Performance, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Be
2015
- Live Video Performance, KC België, Hasselt, Be
2014
- MASDA – Videoclip “Shots For Fun” (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGPJHqzqMKY
- Ivory Gates – Videoclip “The Blank Page” (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OwdzY-Y9-w
2013
- MASDA – Videoclip “All Things Grow In Springtime” (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6jbY6i3q3k
2010
- “Toy Theatre” – Animated film (Stop Motion) 45min. 2010.
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