STAM activities http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/events STAM activities http://www.stamgent.be/modules/core/layout/images/rss2.gif http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/events Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:02:42 +0200 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:02:42 +0200 en ghent light festival http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/ghent-light-festival A warm blanket over the wintery soul of Ghent.

During the past years, the City of Ghent has invested a lot of money in the atmospheric lighting of the city centre. The Gent Light Plan has been internationally awarded. The Light Festival wants to bring the Light Plan in the spotlights and reveal a glimpse of the unique and hidden charm of the city.

Depart for an exploratory voyage along the wintery track in the Ghent city centre and plunge in the most exciting light experiences. A subtle game of beams that reflect on the water surface, unexpected projections on buildings, poetic shadows that play in the semidarkness between the hidden treasures of the city. About fifteen internationally renowned artists and light designers lead you during the darkest days of the year along a 6 km track. On several unique locations, both inside and outside, you can admire the work of the light artists.

when

From January 27th till January 30th 2011, every evening from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

where

In the historic city centre of Ghent the track guides you along the water courses that meander along many historic places and monuments. Along the track you can find a lot of places where you can warm up and where you can have a drink or a snack.

A shuttle service (bus, boat, bicycle) will be organised between STAM, Ghent City Museum, and the track of the Light Festival, enabling a combined visit to the exhibition 'Enlightened City' and the Light Festival.

price

You can visit the track for free. Guided tours will be charged for. 

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]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:36:00 +0200 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/ghent-light-festival STAM opening http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/stam-opening STAM will be opening in October... and Ghent will know about it! Visitors and locals will flock to STAM and the Bijloke and the streets and squares will be awash with music and festivity. STAM will give you a warm welcome so make sure you do the same for STAM!

 

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]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:01:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/stam-opening edmond sacré http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/edmond-sacre The Ghent photographer Edmond Sacré (1851-1921) left behind a very diverse oeuvre of portraits (individuals and groups), landscapes, streetscapes and shots of buildings and events.

His photographs show how Ghent was transformed around the turn of the century. In the city centre whole rows of houses were demolished to make way for new streets and squares and to free up historic monuments. Encroaching urbanization destroyed the rural character of the outskirts.

In this project the relationship between images of the city and change is examined by means of Sacré's photographs.

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]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:46:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/edmond-sacre liber floridus. cartography around 1100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/liber-floridus-cartography-around-1100 900 years ago the world was different... Or is that just what we are led to believe? How did an eleventh-century man of learning view the world? We find answers to that question in the Liber Floridus, a world-famous encyclopaedia preserved in Ghent's university library.

In it Lambert of St Omer describes the cosmos. Four centuries before cartography came into its own, he was drawing maps. Pictures of the world - which was round, of course...

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]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:36:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/liber-floridus-cartography-around-1100 enlightened city http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/enlightened-city A city is a permanent ‘chiaroscuro show’: squares bathe in sunlight, tower blocks cast their shifting shadows, town houses reach for the light, a cheerful cacophony of light banishes the night, artificial light attacks our biorhythm, dark sides of the city spurn the bright lights… Life in the city is conditioned by light and darkness. The new STAM takes this usually underexposed theme as the starting-point for the first in a fascinating series of temporary exhibitions about urbanity.

 

 

light and life

How does a blind person experience the city? That question, so intriguing for sighted people, opens the first STAM exhibition. We set about examining how light and the lack of light affect a city’s development and life in the city. Take the pre-industrial age, when the rhythm of life followed the natural day-night pattern. Did it really? How did light and darkness determine what people did? The introduction of artificial light in the nineteenth century triggered a revolution: night became day, as people said at the time. It had a dramatic effect on all aspects of life: on economic and working life, but also on social life and on the hours we slept.

The exhibition uses documents and diaries, models, paintings, photographs and installations to tell this story. And it does so in an extraordinary location: the old Bijloke Abbey. We also link Ghent with the world: for a twenty-four-hour period a video installation connects the contemporary city with the world through the ‘City One Minutes’ project: one-minute films of cities in different time-zones.  

 

 

twin models and stained-glass windows

Are we seeing an evolution towards more light in urban development and in the architecture of our homes? Did modernism invent ‘light living’? The exhibition sheds light on several carefully chosen places and buildings.
Using twin models and a sun simulator we examine the incidence of light in the life of striking buildings at two different times in their history.

We end in the old abbey church, the perfect place to take a look at how light is deployed symbolically: STAM’s magnificent collection of stained-glass windows will glint and gleam, we will show how light and propaganda, and faith and light coexist harmoniously, how a light-filled city makes itself the leading light and sets about celebrating light…

 

 

Can you see those lights, said a to b.
It’s the big city. There’s everything there.
I can live there if I choose.
Yes, said b. Yes. Me too, a.
(Esther Jansma)

 

 

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