Swamp Sacrifice 2
The images of this year ‘s edition of ‘Swamp Sacrifices’ aim to create a tension between the digital and the natural, chaotic and ordered. A car driving through the mud, city pigeons, quickly recorded video clips capturing two worlds are randomised by a digital process called dithering. This is a compression technique designed to make a digital image as small as possible by reducing its information to 1 and 0. Optimising the loading time and thereby reducing its ecological impact to as close to zero as possible, while trying to maintain a recognisable image. A mostly forgotten ecological ethos in a cyber world. Trapped in this mesh we find the image of ‘Cernunnos’ a Celtic god related to nature and the afterlife. Reminding us of the Celtic history of Brussels and its swampy march land.
An immersion in the cracks, the non-productivity, and transcendence of the geological base of Brussels; a gathering on water, eroticism and the (un)controlled. For this second edition, Swamp Sacrifices takes place both in and outdoors, at the canal and at K1 (KANAL Centre-Pompidou), and in the swamp of Neder-over-Heembeek, and is composed of performances, presentations, workshops and films.
