Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne & Michiel Vandevelde

Walk with audio guide

The 21^st century is increasingly characterised by far-reaching crises. Not only is climate change destabilising the world, but the cultural, social and financial fields are also experiencing turbulent times. How can we reflect on architecture within an unstable world? How can all this change our approach to the world?
That is the starting point for this installation, curated by artistic jack-of-all-trades Michiel Vandevelde. He is a dancer, choreographer, curator, writer and editor. ‘Atlas Unlimited (Act IV)’ is one of the four pavilions that he's having built in 2019, each by a different artist in four different cities (Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven) and spread across the four seasons. The first thing you come across is an image tagged with a QR code. The linked audio description then leads to a discrete, nomadically-structured location where you hear stories about migration past and present. You are included in real and imaginary stories that take place both in Antwerp and far beyond.
In front of the pavilion in Antwerp, visual artist Karthik Pandian and choreographer Andros Zins-Browne knit a continuation of their trajectory from sculpture and storytelling in the public space. For the audio description, they collaborate with the Syrian artist Zakaria Almoutlak. A walk that begins in the old port and ends in a global imagining.

curator Michiel Vandevelde
production Disagree. vzw
collaboration audio guide Zakaria Almoutlak
co-production deSingel, Extra City Kunsthal (Antwerp), Het Bos (Antwerp), Netwerk Aalst, The Great Indoors vzw
with the support of the Flemish government, VGC and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Red Star Line Museum
Montevideostraat 3, 2000 Antwerp
from Tuesday to Sunday 10 am > 4 pm
closed on 25 Dec 2018 and 1 Jan 2019
duration of individual walk 30 to 40 minutes

audio guide is available in Dutch, English and Arabic