Black Board - White Cube

Wim Janssen, 2016

Concept and realization: Wim Janssen / Electronics and programming: Tim Knapen / Production: Werktank / In collaboration with: KIKK / With the support of the Flemish authorities and the Cultural Collaboration Agreement of the Flemish and French Communities

Previously
2018 - Out of Sight, Antwerp (Belgium)
2016 - KIKK festival, Namur (Belgium)

‘Black Board-White Cube’ is the first in a series of films made for a blackboard. Or so it seems. This, not so, typical school blackboard is comprised of a screen that is capable of playing around with the transparency of pigments. Throughout the course of the exhibition all possibilities of drawing a cube are investigated, and this in one continuous action without lifting the chalk and without retracing an already existing line. A mathematical impossibility.

This odd catalogue of incomplete cubes plays on the tension between the two- and three-dimensional. The movement is so minimal that the viewer wonders if he’s dreaming or if the components of the board have actually changed. ‘Black Board-White Cube’ questions our perception as well as our expectations with regards to audiovisual media.