Performance, 2005
60 minutes, videoclip 4’23”
at Zoersel, Seppenshuis, 23 September 2005, 7-8 p.m.,
thanks to Wivina and Paul Demeester
organisation VZW Kunst in Zoersel
photographs Ronald Stoops, Lambdaprint, 120x160
video Jim Bollansee and Kristof Van De Langhenberg
assistance Joelle Meerbergen & Peter Willaeys
AVENS are remnants from pre-historic times (3000 b.C.). They are natural
holes in limy soil which have been washed out by water. The early inhabitants
used these holes as pits for the clay with which they made their pottery. When
the clay ran out or had become too difficult to reach these caverns were used
as depositories for food. Usually an AVEN was connected to an underground vein
of water. I saw AVENS like this is Cambous, Languedoc. They date from 3000
b.C.
“I think they’re wonderful. Time and time again it surprises me that as soon
as I perform a work existing in my head, it begins to lead a life of its own.
During the try-out I discovered that an AVEN could also be the crater of a
blue meteor fallen from Sirius into our garden or just as likely a hole in the
ground caused by the impact of a poisonous gas bomb.
Read more: introduction by Roland
Patteeuw