La Chambre de Tania

La Chambre de Tania is a meeting between two artworks. It carefully interweaves collages by Mira Sanders with a science fiction story by Cédric Noël. Both artists share similar interests: architecture, psychology, engineering, painting and drawing. Sanders draws new lines of flight along and around the surface of photographic images taken from do-it-yourself magazines from the sixties. Figures and hands of makers assemble and disassemble things. Are they professional or hobbyists?

This work using the machinery of the imagination reveals gestures and their potential. Noël writes about the 'imago' and creates a tension between the concept of a perfect form and an ideal representation. The story consists of a series of clashes in a world which is managed by the Arantèle - a place where people dress in the suits of symbiotic plants or insects.

The edition is the fifth by Posture Editions – a series of artists' publications. For each issue a different artist is invited to organise his/her work as a sort of printed exhibition.
64 pages, 21 x 30cm, French | Dutch, 2014, ISBN 978 94 9126 205 0

Substance Data - Insertion into a collection database

Can the archive support intruders, subjectivity and paradoxes?
Substance Data (insertion into a collection database) is a project designed by The Mental Masonry Lab. It responds to the invitation by Hôtel Charleroi to 're-enact or re-interpret' Games of Stones that took place in 2014 in Charleroi, a work that wondered about the stone in a construction site of the city. As The Mental Masonry Lab wonders about urban situations and mechanisms, the Lab focuses its attention for this project rather on the institutional mechanisms of the M HKA (the host) and its archiving modalities.

After the dematerialisation of an artwork, where goes art?
During a three days’ workshop (28, 29 and 30th of April 2017) we unwrap, observe, record, describe, construct and rewrap the art work The Possessed Can Witness in the Court (2015) by the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan. The workshop invites specific profiles to collaborate with such as an architect, a drawer, a photographer, a writer and so on to help us to record and encode the work in the collection ensembles.org of the M HKA.
At the start of the workshop a scientific member of the collection staff introduces proceedings and modalities of archiving a new piece of art. On that basis, the workshop can start wondering about archive methodologies seen from an artistic point of view.
Art after art. The workshop has a goal and would like to fulfil the assignment of the recording of the art work The Possessed Can Witness in the Court (2015). At the same time the workshop is a free platform to discuss archive methodologies, ways of imaging/recording a piece of art and wherein the public of the museum is the witness of the action.

Participants:
Jan(us) Boudewijns, Achiel Buyse, Ruben Castro, Riet Eeckhout, Matilde Everaert, Bert Joostens, Ephraïm Joris, Miyeon Lee, Eva Maréchal, Jeanne Noël, Anne-Marie Sampaio.

204 pages, 22 x 16,5 cm, English | French, 2017 – Publisher: TMMED The Mental Masonry Lab.

A Voyage into the Moon - Overture_chpt 2

This vinyl record is the second chapter of A Voyage into the Moon, a collaboration between the artists Cédric Noël and Mira Sanders. Since their journey in Japan in summer 2017, Sanders and Noël developed a science fiction inspired by their observations and historical/actual underworld situations. Literally referencing to the in classical music often used notion of the overture, Noël’s and Sanders’ A Voyage into the Moon – chapter 2: Overture consists largely of field recordings they made in summer 2017 in Japan. Instead of just juxtaposing sound fields, they composed "a sound(scape) travelling". This is mixed with a Japanese narrated science-fiction story. One side of the record scores a soundscape that traces the navigation of the protagonist from her home to the launch of her space shuttle. It is followed by a second part whereby we hear the protagonist telling about her travelling. The cover of the vinyl record suggests a (moon)landscape. The inner sleeve gives the English translation of the Japanese text and the colophon.  

Credits vinyl record:  Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël, A Voyage into the Moon – Overture_Chpt 2, 2019
Format: 12” Duration: 00:18:11 
Voice: Miyao Mari 
Sound mixing: Maxime Coton 
Translations: Yannick Cadiou, Miyao Mari, Bureau Doove 
Publisher: Sound By Visual  SBV004LP - 2019
Thanks to Stephan Balleux, ARGOS and Flanders State of the Arts

A Voyage in the Moon exhibition

A Voyage into the Moon

A Voyage into the Moon
by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël

Essay by Ive Stevenheydens

Hiroshima, 6 August 1945: a sudden flash, a violent explosion, the atomic bomb. Somewhere on the Moon, a creature feels under threat. Shortly after that, the Japanese army receives a signal from a mysterious astronaut. Are we no longer alone in the universe?

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition:
A Voyage into the Moon - Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté française, Brussels (BE)
09.12.2021 – 06.02.2022

Curator Ive Stevenheydens
Head of exhibitions Grégory Thirion
Exhibitions assistant Mathilde Manche
Essay by Ive Stevenheydens
Graphic design Johanne Boca, Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Translation Helen Simpson
Copy editing Ann Michiels
Cover Skin_chpt 7
Photographs by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
pp. 4 - 29, 40 - 41, 48 - 51, 56 - 57, 60 - 62
Exhibition photographer Luk Vander Plaetse
pp. cover, 34 - 39, 42 - 47, 52 - 55, 58 - 61
Fonts: Comic Neue by C. Rozynski with H. Papazian, Kosugi Maru by Motoya
Printing and binding Graphius Brussels nv
200 ex.

This publication was made possible thanks to the support of Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté française, represented by Paul-Henri Wauters, General Manager, Flanders State of the Art and the SOFAM.

Les aiguilles

Les aiguilles
by Cédric Noël

Composition: thirty-two black ink drawings on squared paper 10,5x14,8cm, a digital photograph, a text

Excerpt : (...) Je me rappelais les maisons en bois de Šnipiškės. L’image la plus insistante, qui me revenait par bribes, était celle de cagettes retournées sur lesquelles étaient soigneusement disposées des petites choses de couture. Du fil, des boutons, des épingles et des aiguilles que des dames espéraient vendre en bordure de route. (...)

35 copies, 12 pages, 22,5 x 32 cm, French, 2022 – Publisher: TMMED The Mental Masonry Lab