Simple as ABC #6:
The Museum of
Human-Hunting /
ANTWERP
AUDIO INSTALLATION
2021 / KUNSTHAL EXTRA CITy (Antwerp) & ROBIN (Brussels)
Part of the group exhibition ‘Radically Naive / Naively Radical’
What if we were to build a Museum of Human Hunting? What would it look like and who would we encounter there? For this installation, set up in the pews of A former Dominican Church, Thomas Bellinck focuses on the hunting toolbox of the ‘European mobility management machine’, which promotes international freedom of movement for some, while making it illegal for others. Since 2015, Bellinck has held conversations on this topic with so-called ‘border managers’, people who work at various EU institutes and agencies. The original audio recordings of these conversations are not permitted to be released. As a visitor you become an eavesdropping (and complicit) witness to re-enactments of three of these discussions.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION Thomas Bellinck
DRAMATURGICAL ADVICE Said Reza Adib, Esther Severi
PRODUCTION Kaat Balfoort, Sandra Raes Oklobdzija
RECORDING STUDIO De Kiem
SOUND ENGINEERING Pierre-Alexandre Lampert, Lars Morren
TECHNICAL DIRECTION Arthur De Vuyst
TRANSLATION Jodie Hruby
VOICES Thomas Bellinck, Edoardo Ripani, Yaël Steinmann, Jeroen Van der Ven
PRODUCED BY ROBIN vzw & Kunsthal Extra City
WITH THE SUPPORT OF The Flemish Government, KASK / School of Arts Gent, VGC
CONCEPT INSPIRED BY Grégoire Chamayou’s ‘Manhunts: A Philosophical History’
INDEBTED TO THE WORK OF Simone Browne, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Joseph Pugliese, Tyler Parry, Charlton Yingling
THANKS TO Kristien Borgers, An Breugelmans, Andrea Kränzlin, Celine van der Poel