An attempt to balance human-sized boulders in Switzerland. For every new performance, Steur uses locally sourced stone that he has never balanced before. The performance is ongoing for six hours a day. Sometimes it takes just a few hours, sometimes two days to succeed in balancing just one stone. By disrupting the balance again not long after, Steur emphasizes the process rather than the result. Watch the MAKING OF.
As a child, Nick Steur used to play balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.
As a child, Nick Steur used to play balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.
“First I was interested in just experiencing what it means physically to move a boulder without electricity. We’re used to making things as easy as possible for ourselves, inventing and buying stuff that safe time and effort. But I am interested in effort. I like things that are difficult, so it meant stripping as much ‘hidden’ technique as possible. Minimum help/maximum effort. Performing this piece connects me again with my body that in turn connects with the elements around it. Now it’s a continuous game trying to find that flow between myself, stone, steel, people… So for me it’s not about moving big boulders, making the impossible possible or about the balance, if such a thing exists. It’s about how to get there.” Watch the MAKING OF.
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Orbit involves two marble stones of 15KG orbiting around each other. This ongoing version will be shown during our group exhibition Ephemeral Focus in Hasselt begijnhof, together with: Evelien Cammaert, Lola Daels, Joris Perdieus, Nick Steur, Kevin Trappeniers, Karl Van Welden. Due to the Covid measures we will open one week longer but please email to make your appointment.
During Art Brussels, Kanal Pompidou presents FREEZE (installation). As the former Citroën site is being renovated to become a contemporary museum, Steur creates an installation with delicately balanced debris from the building itself. The installation can be visited during opening hours.
Inspired by a meteoroid sighting in the desert Steur started investigating the impact of an impact. An apple that suddenly falls out of a tree and lands at your feet, a pandemic, the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs; there are events that are unforeseeable. With the (literal) release of an enormous weight, attention is focused on this inevitable, unexpected moment, which leaves us with an impression. The question is which one. Both the preparation of the impact, the falling of the stone, and the stone that remains permanently as an art piece, are part of the work. IMPACT is the (free) opening performance of OORtreders Festival 2020.
FAB (Festival international des arts de Bordeaux) presents FREEZE. As a child, Nick Steur used to play balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.
IN SITU ACT Days organized by the IN SITU network, together with CIFAS Brussels present FREEZE.
With laborious precision, he plays with gravity and orchestrates an intimate relationship between natural forces, infusing the flow of the city with poetry through his slow gestures. His meticulous attention for raw materials invites the audience to slow down and join him in a world of stone and metal.
During this FMF edition our moon reaches a distance to the earths surface of almost 364.000 km. It will be so close to us that we call it a ‘super moon’. She looks much bigger than normal, although her size doesn’t change. Are the things or people closer to us also more important? The gravitational pull of the earth and its moon, the mass and importance of both heavenly bodies make me wonder… When do we collide? During this evening we take a closer look (at the surface) with installations and performances.
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