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Can You Make a Hurricane? at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2026, presented at the Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels. @kunstenfestivaldesarts @halles.be"In recent years, artist Emmanuel Van der Auwera has investigated active shooter drills in the United States. Law enforcement reconstructs full-scale sets, and companies sell training programmes designed to teach people how to survive mass casualty events. Every element flirts with the codes of theatre—the “reality-based” sets and scripts, the make-up of participants playing the wounded. For years, Van der Auwera conducted interviews with drill participants, trainers, and conspiracy theorists, many of whom claim that mass shootings never happened but were staged as part of an attempt to increase gun control.Through a skilfully minimalist composition, Can You Make a Hurricane? ventures into the construction of the conspiracist narrative, weaving real dialogues with live cinema and found footage. A character smirks and remarks: “In a way, we were visionary, we saw the first ripple in the water a decade before the storm.”A surgical portrait of a dystopia closer than one might think, and a sharp reflection on the role of theatre in a post-truth era."Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Les Halles de Schaerbeek @kunstenfestivaldesartsConcept and direction: Emmanuel Van der Auwera Assistant dramaturg and editing: Pedro Gossler @pedrogossler Performance: Davis Freeman @davis_a_freeman , Malak Atif @__malak__atifMake-up and performance: Dominique BinderMake-up studio: Bloody Marys (Florence Thonet, Anne Van Nyen)Creative consultant: Sophie Sherman @shermansophie_Light designer: Gregory RivouxAV operator: Morgan SourenLivestream and camera operator: Julien Stroïnovsky Production and administration: Entropie Production (Pierre-Laurent Boudet, Stephanie Bouteille, Lucille Belland) @pierloboudetCoproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, CIGO (Studio Van der Auwera)Residencies: Bodeek Brussels, Les Halles de SchaerbeekThanks to Harlan Levey Projects, courtesy Harlan Levey Projects and the artist. @harlan_levey_projectsPhotos by Sebastien Lacroix & Emmanuel VDA by @evanderauwera

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Tomorrow, Thursday May 14th, will be the final performance of Can You Make a Hurricane? at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2026, presented at the Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels. @kunstenfestivaldesarts@halles.beI feel immensely grateful to everyone who helped make this piece a reality.Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Les Halles de SchaerbeekConcept and direction: Emmanuel Van der Auwera Assistant dramaturg and editing: Pedro Gossler Performance: Davis Freeman, Malak Atif Make-up and performance: Dominique BinderMake-up studio: Bloody Marys (Florence Thonet, Anne Van Nyen)Creative consultant: Sophie ShermanLight designer: Gregory RivouxAV operator: Morgan SourenLivestream and camera operator: Julien Stroïnovsky Production and administration: Entropie Production (Pierre-Laurent Boudet, Stephanie Bouteille, Lucille Belland) Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, CIGO (Studio Van der Auwera)Residencies: Bodeek Brussels, Les Halles de SchaerbeekThanks to Harlan Levey Projects, courtesy Harlan Levey Projects and the artist.Photo by Sebastien Lacroix. by @evanderauwera

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// Invitation !Vernissage de l'exposition Transparences liquides avec Anne-Camille Allueva, Matan Mittwoch, Laure Tiberghien et Emmanuel Van der Auwera L’exposition collective Transparences liquides évoque la manière dont différents filtres - culturels, sociaux ou technologiques - façonnent notre manière de voir et de comprendre le monde. Les œuvres présentées invitent à porter attention à l’acte même de regarder, en tant que geste inscrit dans un corps et son vécu. À leur manière, chacune propose une expérience sensible qui met en jeu notre relation ambivalente aux flux incessants d’images médiatiques.Commissariat de Francesco Biasi et Nathalie Giraudeau____Exposition du 25 janvier au 22 mai 2026📅 Vernissage le samedi 24 janvier à 15h🚌 Navette gratuite depuis Paris sur réservation (contact@cpif.net / 01 70 05 49 80)Plus d'informations sur le lien dans la biographie____@annecamilleallueva @annecamilleallueva.works @matan_mittwoch @lauretiberghien @evanderauwera@francescoobiasi@pontaultcombault @departement77 @iledefrance @culture_gouv @dca_reseau @reseau_tram @blamediation @reseaudiagonal Remerciements :La galerie Bigaignon (Paris) @bigaignon_ la galerie Dvir (Tel Aviv, Bruxelles et Paris) @dvir_gallery la galerie Harlan Levey Projects (Bruxelles) @harlan_levey_projects et Artglass (Ét. Dumas) @artglass_by_groglass____Visuel : détail du carton d’invitation (graphisme Atelier Wunderbar @atelier_wunderbar), photographie : Emmanuel Van der Auwera, détail de Memento 59 (Capitol Black), 2025, courtesy de l’artiste et de la galerie Harlan Levey Projects (Bruxelles) by @evanderauwera

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Exhibition views – Saturn – at CAP, Centre for Contemporary Art of Saint-Fons (Lyon), France @lecapcentredart SOLO EXHIBITION From 20 September to 29 November 2025 "In Saturn, Emmanuel Van der Auwera presents a set of recent works and new productions. Through his sculptures and filmic devices, he explores the mechanisms of fabrication and circulation of images and information, as well as the way media events are represented in the era of post-truth and artificial intelligence. The double installation presented at the Centre d’Art fits into the continuity of his research on the visual language of the media, on disinformation and conspiratorial narratives. His raw material comes from mass media, from fake news, from the visual and informational manipulation. Emmanuel Van der Auwera appropriates this language, deconstructs it and recomposes it in order to reveal its hidden mechanisms. Inspired by a tragic event whose mediation took on an intense amplitude, the artist makes it a universal example, the revealer of the upheavals at work in our way of receiving and interpreting information. Van der Auwera highlights the manipulations that shape our vision of reality; he questions the potential of generative tools, pushing them to the limit, and plunges the viewer into an experience of doubt and questioning."Curated by Alessandra Prandin.@harlan_levey_projects With the support from the Fondation des Artistes. by @evanderauwera

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→ 12.11.2025Visite + conférecence | Emmanuel Van der Auwera, 'Saturn'Visite de l'exposition en présence d'Emmanuel Van der Auwera→ Mercredi 12 novembre 2025à partir de 10h00[gratuit, sur réservation]•Conférence d'Emmanuel Van der Auwera à l'@ensba_lyon Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon→ Mercredi 12 novembre 2025 à 17h[Entrée libre, sur inscription : https://www.ensba-lyon.fr/actualite_conference---emmanuel-van-der-auwera]•Emmanuel Van der AuweraSaturn (20.09 – 29.11)[Exposition personnelle]•Commissariat : Alessandra Prandin avec Emmanuel Van der Auwera.L'artiste est réprésenté par la galerie Harlan Levey Projects à Bruxelles.Il a reçu le soutien de la Fondation des Artistes.•(1) Emmanuel Van der Auwera, 'Your voice is always there, cutting through the darkness', 2025. •@blamediation@dca_reseau@reseau_adele by @evanderauwera

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"The Gospel" — An exhibition featuring Omer Fast, Max Pinckers, and Emmanuel Van der Auwera12 April - 31 May 2025 @harlan_levey_projects@maxpinckers #omerfast"The Gospel" gathers works by Omer Fast, Max Pinckers, and Emmanuel Van der Auwera, exploring the increasingly blurred boundaries between fact and fiction. Each approach this theme from their own perspective: Fast reflects on the act of storytelling, from the strange impact of trauma on memory to techniques of media manipulation; Pinckers reveals the subjective side of documentary photography, capturing staged, cinematic images and researching almost-true stories; Van der Auwera evokes “kill chain” technology, rare earth mining, and virtual companionship, addressing the real impact of AI through layers of formal distortion. Together, the three artists offer complementary lines of questioning on a topic which is evasive, and encroaching further every day on all aspects of life. Emmanuel Van der Auwera's new series, X (A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words), uses found content and commercial printing techniques to explore an unfolding relationship between image, narrative, and disinformation. The selected images are screenshots from X (Twitter), capturing early incursions of AI-generated images into mainstream online spaces. Hung in the exhibition like a feed on one’s phone, scrolling through this collection provides a “greatest hits” of fake news that recently shaped social conversation. (...)In the case of this exhibition, “The Gospel” is not a sermon but a provocation—an exploration of how narratives are manufactured, manipulated, and internalized; how artists are depicting and unraveling relevant and complex conversations about media literacy, aesthetics and communication in today’s world.📷 @adha.img VideoSculpture XXX (The Gospel) — made possible with the support of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement @centredartcontemporaingeneve and @federation_wallonie_bruxelles, and the brilliant skills of @noro_khachatryan_ and @lahaagEditing assistance by @shermansophie_ and sound mix by @pierredozin #emmanuelvanderauwera #maxpinckers #omerfast #harlanleveyprojects by @evanderauwera

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Glad to be showing new work at Art Brussels. @harlan_levey_projects @artbrussels Booth 5C-41 In conjunction with the gallery exhibition, Harlan Levey Projects will showcase a solo booth featuring Emmanuel Van der Auwera’s latest works at Art Brussels. Highlights include the new VideoSculpture Medusa 12.14.12 and the final pieces from his Memento series. These works are part of an ongoing project reflecting on the misinformation surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Van der Auwera investigates the aftermath of this tragedy, dissecting the conspiracies it sparked as early indicators of the shift into our post-truth era.VideoSculpture, “Medusa 12.14.12”, takes its title from the date of the shooting but focuses on the aftermath: how images, grief, and reality itself became weaponized. “Medusa 12.14.12” engages directly with the visual tactics of online conspiracy theorists, analyzing the construction of these narratives, and offering a visual metaphor for how images are picked apart, shared, and warped into new—and often dangerous—versions of truth.Emmanuel Van der Auwera’s film White Cloud (2024) will be screened at 'The Screen' on Saturday, April 26, at 12:30. Curated by Eliel Jones (Curator of Performance and Time-based Media at KANAL-Centre Pompidou) and Brussels-based filmmaker Alex Reynolds, this selection highlights key works of contemporary video art. Other works by Van der Auwera will be featured in "Back to the Future", a project of the Belgian Art Prize curated by Emmanuel Lambion in conversation with Charlotte Crevits.Art Brussels will take place from 24 to 27 April 2025 at Brussels Expo.With heartfelt thanks to Pedro Gossler for his invaluable assistance in the editing of "Medusa 12.14.12" @pedrogossler and always to @lahaag @thwrkshp for his expert technical support on the piece.#emmanuelvanderauwera #artbrussels #harlanleveyprojects @evanderauwera @artbrussels by @evanderauwera

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White Cloud will be screened at Jeu de Paume, Paris @jeudepaumeparis Saturday, April 12.The Dark Rooms of AI ♯1Extractive Industries and Capital LogisticsEcogeopolitics of AISaturday, April 12, 2025 • 2:30 PMCurated by Alice Leroy.Program:Harun Farocki, Industry and Photography (1979), 44’Daphné Le Sergent, Silicon Islands and War (2024), 40’Emmanuel Van der Auwera, White Cloud (2024), 19’ with Alice Leroy, Daphné Le Sergent, and Barnabé SauvageInfos : https://jeudepaume.org/evenement/les-chambres-obscures-de-lia-%E2%99%AF1/ by @evanderauwera

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Fragments of a tragedy 📹Recently joining the #KADISTcollection, ‘The Death of K9 Cigo’ by Emmanuel van der Auwera pieces together a raw, unsettling portrait of societal violence in the U.S.Using self-deleting live streams from Periscope, the film explores how digital spaces preserve trauma long after news cycles move on.Following a devastating event in 2018, van der Auwera documented public reactions, revealing stark contrasts in collective mourning—where the loss of a police dog received a spectacular ceremony toward the end of the year that started with the shooting at the School. Through found footage and digital surveillance, the artist questions how mass media constructs narratives, restoring a human perspective to events often reduced to statistics. More about this film on our website.🖥️ Emmanuel van der Auwera, The Death of K9 Cigo (2019), installation view and video stills | Courtesy the artist, KADIST collection#contemporaryart #mediaart #video #artcollection by @evanderauwera

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"Your voice is always there cutting through the darkness" (2025) is part of the group exhibition 'Each Place Its Own Mind' at Edel Assanti Gallery (London), open until 15 March 2025. @edelassantiWith Mirtha Dermisache | Noémie Goudal | Sky Hopinka | Anna Hulačová | Marguerite Humeau | Bronwyn Katz | Kat Lyons | Yukultji Napangati | Emmanuel Van der Auwera"Emmanuel Van der Auwera’s "VideoSculpture - Your voice is always there cutting through the darkness" returns to the theme of the unknowable trajectory of emergent technologies. Through a series of filters, we observe a semi-holographic film divided into two interconnected segments: a glitchy, AI-generated video of flocks of birds flying over a lake is interspersed with highly realistic avatars reciting authentic testimonies of people who fell in love with AI chatbots. This imagery is overlaid with the voice of Caryn AI, a digital girlfriend bot, narrating conversations that touch on the complexities of parasocial relationships and digital loneliness." Excerpt from 'Edel Assanti towards new states of collective consciousness' by Gilda Bruno in @ilgiornaledellarte @_gilbrunoPhotos : Tom CarterWalkthrough of the exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW-qEPGbjZ8Thanks for the help and expertise of Gert Aersten @thwrkshp Sophie Sherman @shermansophie_ and the sound mixing by @pierredozinMany thanks for the support @edelassanti and @harlan_levey_projects and @winnie_kwok_wing_lam by @evanderauwera

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Very glad that my film “White Cloud / 白云” (2024) just won the Best Documentary Award at Cyprus International Short Film Festival.The film has been screened this month at Valladolid International Film Week in Spain @seminci_oficial and at the World Film Festival of Bangkok, in a program curated by Pathompong Manakitsomboon. @worldfilmbangkokNext screening in Brussels, Novembre 23 @soundimageculture during Focus Numérique, curated by Nicolas Gourault."White Cloud / 白云" is also selected for the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, where I will present the film on November 23 at 8 pm at Cinéma Pathé Les Fauvettes, Paris, 75013. @ripbmWhite Cloud (2024, 19')In a remote industrial site in Inner Mongolia, miners extract a strategic resource essential to our way of life under dramatic human and environmental conditions. This region, the Bayan Obo mining district, produces 80% of the world's rare earth supply.White Cloud is a film developed with generative AI that offers a unique perspective on the Bayan Obo mining district. A miner working on the site shares his thoughts on his life and working conditions.Thanks to @shermansophie_ for her help in editing the film and @pierredozin for his work on the sound.@harlan_levey_projects@winnie_kwok_wing_lam #harlanleveyprojects1080 #filmfestival #emmanuelvanderauwera#pierredozin #sophiesherman by @evanderauwera

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Glad that VideoSculpture XXV (Archons) is travelling to @kunsthalcharlottenborg in Denmark.Poetics of Encryption28 sep – 12 jan 2025Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents this year’s major group exhibition in close collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.@kwinstitutefcontemporaryartPoetics of Encryption explores the dark side of tech, bringing together 38 international artists. Installed in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s grand south wing, the exhibition spans analogue and digital media featuring historic and newly commissioned works.Though we rely on digital tools for many things, we rarely understand how they work. Moreover, due to the proprietary nature of much corporate tech, even the most curious among us cannot gain deeper insight. Today, we are forced to come to terms with our relative lack of power in the face of inscrutable systems. What symptoms of this personal and political drama register in the cultural field? What moods, symbols, or narrative frames capture the aesthetics and politics of exclusion, occlusion, secrecy, and speculation concerning technology’s inside?The exhibition is curated by Nadim Samman, @nadim.samman the author of the recent book titled Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene. It surveys an imaginative landscape marked by ‘Black Sites’, ‘Black Boxes’, and ‘Black Holes’ — terms that indicate how technical systems capture users, how they work in stealth, and how they distort cultural space-time. These three themes form the basis for the exhibition Poetics of Encryption that play out across more than 1000 m2 in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s south wing.Images: David StjernholmThanks to @harlan_levey_projects @federation_wallonie_bruxelles, @hek_basel and @startseu for their support. #emmanuelvanderauwera #harlanleveyprojects by @evanderauwera

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