BEELDTANKEN
What is it?
In Beeldtanken she examines his own images. We usually do this in relation to visual arts. The question is not so much:' What do you think of art?' The key question (for vegetarians: the lentil question or the chickpea question) is: 'What does art do to you?'
Beeldtanken is a fast way of thinking and feeling in large wholes, complex and nuanced. Collecting information (refueling, input) and processing (output) information when looking at an object or a situation.
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Beeldtanken is making the images you see understandable to yourself (inner and outer images). It is therefore not so much about communication with the outside world, but with yourself. Sometimes you just register what is going on and do nothing; sometimes you take action, you undertake something.
Stained glass. 16th century. What is this graceful grotesque up to? collection MAS, Antwerp
VENI, VIDI, VICI
When Caesar was asked how he became emperor, he replied: I came, I saw, I conquered.
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First there was being present (veni), and then in seeing (vidi) victory was hidden. That seeing has to do with consciousness. In that vision were all the accumulated expertise of the general and the ambition of a warlord aspiring to become emperor. Veni is therefore the past, vidi is the future and vici the present, the favorable circumstances seized by Caesar in which the past and the future come together.
Preparation workshop image refueling: 'what do rituals do?'
Beeldtanken uses a series of methodologies to map your viewing and thinking processes. After all, your thinking is strongly influenced by your observations. What images do you believe to be true? What standards do you use for this? Do feelings confuse you or do they provide clarity?
Beeldtanken and thinking are for me two inseparable terms. Once I was given an assignment in a castle garden with a labyrinth, to find my way there. It was a discovery to find a passage in a complicated network of paths. I experienced so literally how you can get lost in the labyrinth of your own thoughts that the physical presence in a labyrinth really meant a way out, not least because I could tell what was going through my mind.
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Image refueling is really gaining energy as a result of the confrontation with images.
Marie Louise Janssen