Exquisite Rotation
Nida Sinnokrot
Film maker and installation artist Nida Sinnokrot (1971, USA) presents a series of sculptural and cinematic installations in the KIOSK rooms. Some of the works on display are new, others were reinterpreted for this particular context, but all of them speak of the history, representation or political potential of ‘machines’, like photographic or cinematographic devices. Brought together in a single exhibition space under the title ‘Exquisite Rotation’, they will combine into a new, synchronized gesture.
The works in the show shed light on a different way of looking in which the linear time and fixed perspective that we associate with the traditional big screen, the photographic lens or the projection screen are disrupted. Sinnokrot aims to transcend the mechanisms of mass media such as photography and film, countering them with an array of new, critical narrative strategies. His camera functions as a tool to speak about his native country, displacement and the relation between technology and colonialism. In this sense, his desire to liberate the cinematic machine as we know it, is also an expression of his own hybrid identity. Sinnokrot is currently based in Jerusalem but, as the son of Palestinian parents, he spent his childhood in Algeria and moved to the United States as a teenager.
Exhibition
17.02-8.04.2018
KIOSK
Free
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Ghent

About the festival
<p>Connexion vzw (Brussels) and A.M.Qattan Foundation are proposing a focus on flemish-palestinian co-operation in arts and culture, inspired by the Government of Flanders and the Mission of Palestine in Europe, Belgium and Luxembourg who decided on a Flemish-Palestinian cultural project. Unlike the logic of events like Europalia, or even the Venice biennale which are a projection of the imagination of a country, Under Construction is based on reciprocity and aims to promote cultural cooperation, dialogue and exchange.</p>
<p>Instead of focusing on difference and alterity, the two organising partners focus on co-operation and solidarity, and give more visibility and value to forms of 'togetherness' that are already existing between Flanders and Palestine.</p>

Partners
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Practical details
The Minard theatre is the festival centre.
The reception and the bar are open one hour before the start of the first show.
Access to all of the shows is Pay what you want : no fixed price, you determine yourself what you can/are willing to pay.
It is not possible to reserve beforehand. You can get your ticket starting from 1 hour before the first show. So: first come, first served.
This is also the case for Parcours, the guided walks that start from Minard.
You will find a shop of Disarming Design from Palestine in the entrance hall.
MINARD
Romain Deconinckplein
(GPS Walpoortstraat 15)
9000 Gent
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Festivalsites in Ghent
VOORUIT
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
9000 Gent
+ 32 (0)9 267 28 28
info@vooruit.be
www.vooruit.be
LOD muziektheater
Bijlokesite, Bijlokekaai 3
9000 Gent
contact via Vooruit
BIJLOKE muziekcentrum
Godhuizenlaan 2
9000 Gent
+32 (0)9 323 61 00
tickets@debijloke.be
Reservations: Tu - Fr: 1 to 5 PM and 1 hour before the event
DESIGNMUSEUM
Jan Breydelstraat 5
9000 Gent
+32 (0)9 267 99 99
museum.design@gent.be
Mo, Tu, Thu, Fr: 9:30 – 17:30
Sa, Su : 10:00 – 18:00
Holidays and school vacations: 10:00 – 18:00
Closed on Wednesday
Free entrance for the exhibition Disarming Design from Palestine.
KIOSK / KASK
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
www.kask.be
Tu-Fr: 14:00-18:00
Sa-Su: 11:00-18:00
FRANK OSTYN
Twaalfkameren 51
9000 Gent
Sa, Su : 11:00 – 18:00
Les ballets C de la B STUDIO S3
Bijlokesite, Bijlokekaai 7
9000 Gent
Mo-Su: 11:00 – 18:00
Cirque anatomisch auditorium / KASK
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
DE EXPEDITIE vzw
Dok Noord 4F, 9000 Gent
Tel. +32 (9)324 36 63 (via MiramirO)
www.deexpeditie.be
info@de-expeditie.be
Sites out of Ghent
Monty Kultuurfaktorij
Montignystraat 3
2018 Antwerpen
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NONA kunstencentrum
Begijnenstraat 19/21
2800 Mechelen
+32 (0)15 20 37 80
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www.nona.be
Mo till Fr from 10 AM to 5 PM
C-MINE
Evence Coppéelaan 91
3600 Genk
+32 (0)89 65 44 90
www.c-mine.be
Mo: 1 - 5 PM
Tu till Sun : 10 AM - 5PM
KAAITHEATER
Sainctelettesquare 20
1000 Brussel
+ 32 (0)2 201 59 59
tickets@kaaitheater.be
Tu till Fr 11 AM till 6 PM, Sa from 6 PM (only by phone).
