Journey to Brussels to visit ATELIER Joelle Tuerlinckx

I caught the train to Brussels on Tuesday using my ten journey Go-Pass, which cost 51euro. It gives you ten train journeys anywhere in Belgium. The rail network here is great and very good value for money. I traveled to Bruxelles Midi from Antwerp Central.

I went to meet Joelle Tuerlinckx at her studio for coffee and a to talk with her about her current projects and any future plans that I could assist her with, as part of my work experience. It was interesting to see a professional practicing artists studio space and how Joelle herself articulates and produces artwork in the space. She had various sorts of diagrams and maquettes for recent projects, along with archival cabinets, and a room for her tools and materials. I ended up staying till the end of the day helping construct a prototype screen on a 1:1 scale, working with her other assistant, Alice, to install the prototype of her piece for a performance at Tate Modern on the 5 and 6th of April.

Joelle invited me back to Brussels to document a public artwork event of hers in Molenbeek town square, so I traveled to Brussels Wednesday as well, this time to Brussels Nord. The piece was called INGRAVEN VAN HET MONUMENT TOT HET NULPUNT MOMENT (bury monument to zero moment) and was a gesture or idea for an anti monument, considering it as a ceremony for a sculpture, it felt like a funeral. The scale of the project was very impressive and the public interest and atmosphere was positive. It was great to see the materialising of a permanent contemporary public artwork, and the level on which it would have been funded and negotiated.

(footage coming soon)

BMW Tate Live: Joelle Tuerlinckx