Tine Colen

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Tine Colen

scenography for Katrien Oosterlinck

2019

Katrien Oosterlinck designs social choreographies in the form of performances or installations. Jan Van Goethem and Tine Colen collaborated on the scenography for the projects Imagine Moving Rocks (2017) and Treffen (2019).

 

The project Standing still / Still standing, took place in the summer of 2019. They were invited by Katrien Oosterlinck to collaborate with Centrum West, a youth work organization in Molenbeek. Together with fourteen young people, they spent a week in Destelheide, where they collected and altered objects from the surroundings. The goal was to explore a conversation without words, using objects and body language as the main tools. This process ran parallel to the principles of the Circles from We Have the Choice.

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After her training in the medium of painting, Tine Colen (1985) felt the need not to simply represent or imitate the world, but to be in the midst of things. Gradually, the following elements became characteristic of her work: The blurring of boundaries between art and functional objects by creating items that carry meaning and can sometimes be used / working with natural materials in a cyclical process, often defined by their temporary, seasonal nature, as well as human-made materials considered waste / seeking specific knowledge about plant usage through the study of ethnobotany and anthropology / a slow and labor-intensive making process, rooted in collective creation / generating value through the way objects are used, gifted, and passed on / using public space as a workshop, where the physical work sparks conversation, encounters, and change.

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