31.01, 12:00 ➤ 20:00
01.02, 12:00 ➤ 16:00
Corps Sonores pays tribute to Philippe Franck, art historian, professor, lecturer, musician, and founder and director of Transcultures ASBL, who passed away in January 2025.
In this new work, artists Isa*belle Vrammout, Gauthier Keyaerts, and Stéphane Kozik choose to highlight Philippe’s energy, creativity, and innovative vision.
The starting point is a collection of T-shirts that Philippe Franck was particularly fond of—“fabric objects” full of memories—transformed into instruments of resonance. Sound silhouettes that move to the rhythm of an original composition, reconstructed and reinterpreted from his audio archive and published works.
The T-shirts come to life as if by magic—ghosts taking shape, swelling and undulating in a visual and aural ballet—hovering between the tangible and the evanescent. They leave behind both a material and immaterial trace of his presence: a sustained breath, a sound.
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Isa*Belle has practiced holistic and sound massage for around twenty years, integrating these experiences into her artistic approach centered on the body and the senses in all their dimensions. She has taken part in various short films and performances, collaborating with several visual and sound artists. Since 2005, she has worked closely with Paradise Now (electronic processing, sound design, texts, and co-conception) on a number of installations and performances calling upon all the senses, inviting the spectator to engage in unprecedented sensory experiences within the world of contemporary art.
Stéphane Kozik, audiovisual artist, sound artist and musician for twenty years, creates AV performances, sound installations and short films. His multidisciplinary, sensory, poetic approach places sound at the heart of the narrative, reversing the classic relationship between image and music. Inspired by cinema, where sound is often secondary, he invents a ‘cinema for the ears’, where images and narration serve the sound. By constantly developing new sound devices, he explores new ways of composing, offering unique sound and visual imaginaries that question and reinvent our perception of reality.
Gauthier Keyaerts approaches music as a physical, organic and living material. His universe revolves around real-time sound sculpture and spatialisation, rooted in listening, intuition and the relationship to the body. His creations take various forms: concerts, performances, radio plays, installations, interactive devices, records and in situ interventions. His passion for images and literature feeds his approach, revealing itself in his materialist videos and at the heart of his collaborations with poets and artists such as Jean-Marc Desgent and Vincent Tholomé. His work has been presented in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Taiwan, Quebec, and elsewhere.
