Toine Horvers & Myriam Van Imschoot

Walking, singing, talking the landscape

Both artists share an invested interest in language, sound and voice at the intersection point where people and places meet. For the Nodar Artist Residency program they would like to engage in an experimental mapping of the network of “Aldeias de Magaio”, focusing on the interconnected ness of the villages in the region and their surroundings. Rural villages are often thought of as being isolated, yet, they functionin a complex web of movements, passages, traffic of desires and knowledge, involving both humans, animals, fauna and flora.Toine and Myriam will experience the movement and connections of the roads and alternate smaller routes, embracing the accidental encounters on their way. This will lead to a sound-based and verbal work, which may involve drawing and sound recordings, dealing with the elasticity of distance and time, the alternation of arrivals, departures, transitions, destination and getting lost, etc. in a landscape in perpetual motion as we cross it.

Toine Horvers, a visual artist works with language and text, in both visual andaural/performative ways. He wants to give language a ritual form, to create a temporary sculpture out of language, a gesture in space and time. He presents the descriptions of his observations of situations and processes from his surrounding world, in different media: performance (solo or group) hand written books, sound installations or electronic text displays. The voice plays an essential role in his performances, solo it is the instrument that determines his place in space. In more expanded projects and performances the voice is the medium by which people and places can be connected, sometimes in one space, sometimes over long distances.

Myriam Van Imschoot (1969) started her performance and art practice with performance lectures. Originally a writer, she has been influenced by artists like Vito Acconci, who as a poet traded the page for other media. In that vein she looks for the slippery passages where she can slide into other fields of expression, often unknown to her. The artistic work that she developed over the past years in the series ‘Expanded Publications’ engages different media and their sensorial potential, such as video, performance and sound installation. Myriam Van Imschoot has been the artistic leader of Sarma (with Jeroen Peeters) since 2003. Amongst other things in 2010-2011 she is developing with vzw Constant internet software specific to publication of audio-documentation and sound poetry.