The Still House Group - Project space III

The Still House Group has been invited to occupy Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens for nearly four months, exhibiting both their work and a program of nine rotating projects.

Room A: Audio Listenings

For the third instalment of room A, The Still House Group has commissioned 5 peer musicians to generate exhibition-specific audio works. Each participant was sent images from previous iterations of Service Entrance and was then asked to create a soundtrack to accompany the project. The result is a compilation of varied sonic experiences, ranging from those that function similarly to traditional movie scores, to more experimental, looped noises and sounds. These works ultimately operate as an audio supplement to the primary visual experience in the adjacent galleries.

Room B: Alex Ito, Haley Mellin and Brad Troemel

A presentation of recent work by artists Alex Ito, Haley Mellin and Brad Troemel.

Room C: How are You Never You?

This room has been allocated to three consecutive exhibitions designed by Belgian inmates within the Prison of Andenne, comprising their project This World of Cut Thorns.

In partnership with Art Without Bars, artist Zachary Susskind led a series of workshops within the prison during 2014. Introducing the notion of the exhibition as an art form in itself, he hoped to promote the inmates’ collaboration toward aesthetic and conceptual statement-making.

How are You Never You? presents a fundamental question posed as a play on words. Invariably, the answer is “in prison”. Examining this dilemma as a group, the inmates testify that their exposure and reactions to historically significant art, made possible by Art Without Bars’ resource Artpad, provide a rare respite from their challenging circumstances. These men are physically manifesting the interaction of their artwork with that of others for the first time at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens.