Library - De Krook Gent
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Director: Tim Ro & HS Han
Producer: Dina Iakoubova
DOP: Robbert van Weelderen
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From the Train Station to the Center in Ghent - Belgium 4K Travel Channel
On a Sunday, we use the opportunity to take the tram to Gent-Sint-Pieters station. It is the first Sunday of the month, the shops are open for business, and the public transport in Ghent is free! An exemplary service!
The tram stop is under the modern buildings which are also part of the station. Only a few steps away is the historic train station, built for the world exhibition in 1913. The entrance hall impresses by its pretty mosaics.
In front of the station is a small park around a monument. The square was named Queen Maria Hendrikaplein after the queen of the same name. The square houses as well a bicycle parking, many German cities could be proud of something like this. An organic market is currently taking place at the square.
We return to Bagattenstraat and pass the cultural center Vooruit. It is the heart of cultural life in Ghent and houses a theater too.
Just around the corner in the Lammerstraat, we arrive at a modern dark building, called De Krook. We are in the middle of the cultural life of the city. The architecturally notable building is a library and a meeting place for those interested in culture and innovation.
The Woodrow Wilsonplein, a mighty square, is lined with shopping centers and various cultural buildings. We lose orientation a bit and land at the Sint-Annakerk and turn into the Brabantdam.
On the way, we suddenly come across a small covered pedestrian passage, the Glass Alley. In the first moment, we consider it to be a shopping mall, but it quickly turns out to be a red-light district.
From Lieven Bauwensplein, we have a beautiful view of the castle complex of Kasteel Geeraard de Duivelsteen. Due to his dark skin, the original owner Count Geeraad Vilain had the name Geeraard the Devil.
But we turn back and go to the flower market at the Kouter. Since it is Sunday and thus market day, there are also a lot of beautiful plants to admire and buy.
Opposite the opera of Gent, we stop briefly at the Tea-Room Rigoletto and have a snack.
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Wir nutzen die Gelegenheit am Sonntag und nehmen die Straßenbahn zum Bahnhof Gent-Sint-Pieters. Gelegenheit deshalb, da am ersten Sonntag im Monat die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel in Gent kostenlos sind! Es ist verkaufsoffener Sonntag. Ein wirklich vorbildlicher Service!
Die Haltestelle der Straßenbahn liegt unter modernen Gebäuden, die ebenfalls Teil des Bahnhofs sind. Nur wenige Schritte entfernt befindet sich aber der historische Bahnhof. Er wurde zur Weltausstellung 1913 erbaut. Die Eingangshalle ist mit wunderschönen Mosaiken geschmückt.
Vor dem Bahnhof befindet sich ein kleiner Park rund um ein Denkmal. Der Platz ist nach Königin Maria Hendrikaplein benannt. Er dient auch als Fahrradparkplatz, auf den viele deutsche Städte stolz sein könnten. Auf dem Platz findet gerade ein Bio-Markt statt.
Wir kehren zurück bis zur Bagattenstraat und stoßen direkt auf das Kulturzentrum Vooruit. Es ist das Herz des Kulturlebens in Gent. Es beinhaltet auch ein Theater.
Direkt um die Ecke in der Lammerstraat stoßen wir auf den modernen dunklen Bau De Krook. Wir befinden uns im Herzen des Kulturzentrums der Stadt. Das architektonisch herausragende Bauwerk ist eine Bibliothek und ein Treffpunkt für Kultur- und Innovations- Interessierte.
Der Woodrow Wilsonplein, ein mächtiger Platz, ist eingesäumt von Einkaufszentren und diversen Kulturgebäuden. Wir verlieren etwas die Orientierung und landen bei der Sint-Annakerk und biegen in den Brabantdam ein.
Unterwegs stoßen wir unvermittelt auf eine kleine überdachte Fußgängerpassage, die Glass Alley. Im ersten Moment halten wir sie für eine Einkaufspassage, die sich jedoch rasch als Rotlichtbezirk entpuppt.
Vom Lieven Bauwensplein haben wir einen schönen Blick auf die Burganlage
Kasteel Geraard de Duivelsteen. Der ursprüngliche Besitzer, Graf Geeraad Vilain wurde wegen seiner dunklen Hautfarbe Geeraard der Teufel genannt.
Wir kehren aber wieder um und gehen zum Blumenmarkt am Kouter. Da Sonntag ist und damit Markttag, sind auch jede Menge wunderschöner Pflanzen zu bewundern und zu erwerben.
Gegenüber der Oper von Gent machen wir im Cafe Rigoletto kurz halt und nehmen einen kleinen Imbiss zu uns.
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De Krook Gent
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The Man Behind The Ghent Altarpiece Mystery | Arsène Goedertier
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Welkom Genkenaren! Gent vs Genk
walk/Count/Follow/Lost for 2People Ghent 2017
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A SITE SPECIFIC PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY P/ROPS GHENT FOR NEST GHENT BELGIUM
Live performances, contingent installations and public participatory events.
December 2017
A collaborative project by Artist Greig Burgoyne with Sabine Oosterlynck, commissioned by P/rops for NEST Ghent Belgium
Funded by Stadt Gent
Commissioned to co-incide with Gent matinees art wk/ends this was an immersive speculative 4 day residency based in NEST- the former library for the City of Ghent Belgium. NEST is an experimental and unfolding situation, whereby while the libary is re-located, for one year this 5 storey block is a temporary haven or 'nest' for start -up companies, the homeless, stateless, artists projects, a make shift houseplant hospital not to mention cafes and bars.
The project comprised a series of responses using materials acquired on or near the site to respond to an 70's looking ex- librarians office and its immediate surroundings both inside and out. The first outcome entitled 'Stripes' -A series of repetition gestures using brown parcel tape, reiterates the linear brown wood panelling within the space. A drawing performance that both covers yet reiterates in some kind of workout of gestural strokes of a daily grind of architectural space.
This was followed by a post-it note dance ' in collaboration with Oosterlynck & audience to cover themselves in post-it notes and then shake/ jump/ leap until all the post-it notes are shed. The residual installation indicated both the activity, while also evoked the other responses /performances and actions made in/ around the space.
Prior to this a series of live performative works entitled 'Islands' using locally sourced floorcloths evolved in and around the surrounding interior spaces/ corridors.
This was concluded with two performances of 'Yellow Brick Roads'1 & 2, that begin through repetitive gestures indicative of floor cleaning within the office space using bright yellow floorcloths bought/sourced nearby. These part speculative / rule based performances resulted in a 'yellow brick road' of sorts that was then directed as a walk across the roads and through the streets of Ghent. The walks continued until the cloths disintegrated or parted company with each other and Burgoyne was left stranded, so to speak.
In his text 'Desert islands and other texts' Deleuze spoke of the deserted as less the island, but the sea around it. In these times of strife, forced diaspora and rapid migration though conflict and economic uncertainty, NEST seems a poignant site for this series of actions somewhere deserted by logic but compelled by it, re-orientating new spaces or configurations that embrace periphery and inclusivity, albeit seemingly in the midst of the very opposite.
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Established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands, Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. After the Belgian revolution of 1830, the newly-formed Belgian state began to administer the university. In 1930, it became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium—French having been the academic language up to that point. In 1991, the university was granted major autonomy and changed its name from State University of Ghent to its current designation. It is one of the larger Flemish universities, consisting of 41,000 students and 9,000 staff members. The current rector is Anne De Paepe.
Ghent consistently rates among the top universities not only in Belgium but also throughout the world. As of 2014, Ghent University ranks 90th globally according to Times Higher Education, 129th according to QS World University Rankings, and 70th according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
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EUA-CDE (Council for Doctoral Education) - Nele Bracke, Ghent University
Nele Bracke, professor at the Ghent University, shares her experiences as a member of the Council for Doctoral Education, a community of academic leaders and professionals created by the European University Association.
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Google aims to create largest digital library
(4 Sep 2009)
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Ghent, Belgium , 28 August 2009
1. Wide of church and cathedral towers
2. Tilt down exterior of art deco Ghent University Library Tower
3. Various of a librarian taking book from library shelf
4. Mid Google sign, shelf of public domain books dating from before 1869 behind
5. Close of old book spines, one is dated '1547'
6. Mid of Google website
7. Close of pointer clicks on Google Books link
8. Mid of book covers displayed on Google Books website
9. Close of 'Search Books' link
10. Mid of old text of 'Romeo and Juliet' scrolling up the screen
11. Screenshot of Google Books website
12. Set up of Philippe Colombet
13. Mid of cameraman filming
14. SOUNDBITE(English) Philippe Colombet, Google's Strategic Partnership Development Manager:
We believe that by putting the books in the search results we make a better Google experience and so we are able to attract more users, and as you know we have an advertising, contextual advertising business and by having more happy Google users we believe it's cool for the Google Search.
15. Mid of librarian looking at card index
16. Close-up librarian's fingers leafing through index
17. Wide of Google Books project cataloguer checking Google Book database entries on computer
18. Close of index pages
19. Mid of cataloguer inspecting a book to be sent for scanning by Google
20. Close up barcode sticker being added to book to be sent to Google
21. Mid shot trolley of books being wheeled away to be sent for scanning by Google at secret location in Germany
22. SOUNDBITE(English) Philippe Colombet, Google:
We are scanning out of copyright books and of course we work with publishers and rights holders for more recent books. But here in Europe with libraries our first and foremost effort is to work on the cultural heritage and work with books and digitise books that are clearly in the public domain.
23. Various of students in Library reading room
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Sylvia Van Peteghem, Chief Librarian, University Library of Ghent:
By digitising this wonderful collection in fact that was gathered in the 19th Century especially, we make it open to the world and searchable and now we have an extra library or an extra reading room all over the world 24 hours a day and seven days in the week, so its great.
Brussels, Belgium, 1 September 2009
25. Various of shoppers in bookstore
26. Close-up of change being given to customer
27. Mid of customer looking at book shelf
28. SOUNDBITE(English) Anne Bergman-Tahon, Director, Federation of European Publishers:
In order to work with someone you need to have a trust-based relationship and in order to build that we think that you have to ask to the publishers or to the authors, if the rights are back to the authors, whether they want their books to be digitised or not. There may be very good reasons for them not to want that the books are digitised by Google and therefore they should respect that.
29. Wide of Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission
30. Close up of flags
Wide set up shot of Commissioner Viviane Reding
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media:
There are those books which have an author, which have a publisher, but then there are the orphan books or there are the books which are out of access. What do we do with those? There we need to have very clear legislation and possibility to have those books digitised and to bring them to the public because today European legislation does not permit to digitise those books. The result, the citizen cannot have access to those books and this I believe that, from the cultural point of view, is not the right way to proceed.
Ghent, Belgium, 28 August 2009
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Waalse Krook * 3D simulatie by IBBT * updated version.mp4
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Get acquainted with the Library of the Future and the Center for New Media. The new building on the Waalse Krook opens the doors in the autumn of 2015.
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'Islands 1' Greig Burgoyne at NEST Ghent 2017
STITCH UP
A SITE SPECIFIC PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY P/ROPS GHENT FOR NEST GHENT BELGIUM
Live performances, contingent installations and public participatory events.
December 2017
A collaborative project by Artist Greig Burgoyne with Sabine Oosterlynck, commissioned by P/rops for NEST Ghent Belgium
Funded by Stadt Gent
Commissioned to co-incide with Gent matinees art wk/ends this was an immersive speculative 4 day residency based in NEST- the former library for the City of Ghent Belgium. NEST is an experimental and unfolding situation, whereby while the libary is re-located, for one year this 5 storey block is a temporary haven or 'nest' for start -up companies, the homeless, stateless, artists projects, a make shift houseplant hospital not to mention cafes and bars.
The project comprised a series of responses using materials acquired on or near the site to respond to an 70's looking ex- librarians office and its immediate surroundings both inside and out. The first outcome entitled 'Stripes' -A series of repetition gestures using brown parcel tape, reiterates the linear brown wood panelling within the space. A drawing performance that both covers yet reiterates in some kind of workout of gestural strokes of a daily grind of architectural space.
This was followed by a post-it note dance ' in collaboration with Oosterlynck & audience to cover themselves in post-it notes and then shake/ jump/ leap until all the post-it notes are shed. The residual installation indicated both the activity, while also evoked the other responses /performances and actions made in/ around the space.
Prior to this a series of live performative works entitled 'Islands' using locally sourced floorcloths evolved in and around the surrounding interior spaces/ corridors.
This was concluded with two performances of 'Yellow Brick Roads'1 & 2, that begin through repetitive gestures indicative of floor cleaning within the office space using bright yellow floorcloths bought/sourced nearby. These part speculative / rule based performances resulted in a 'yellow brick road' of sorts that was then directed as a walk across the roads and through the streets of Ghent. The walks continued until the cloths disintegrated or parted company with each other and Burgoyne was left stranded, so to speak.
In his text 'Desert islands and other texts' Deleuze spoke of the deserted as less the island, but the sea around it. In these times of strife, forced diaspora and rapid migration though conflict and economic uncertainty, NEST seems a poignant site for this series of actions somewhere deserted by logic but compelled by it, re-orientating new spaces or configurations that embrace periphery and inclusivity, albeit seemingly in the midst of the very opposite.