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Item: HISTOIRE D'EAU

Hugo Roelandt

1990

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Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Donated by Estate Hugo Roelandt, Antwerp..

Histoire d'eau is the name for the performance-installation presented by Hugo Roelandt at the festival 't Lichte, Tilburg (from 1 to 3 June 1990). Theme of the festival 1990 was Movement. With Histoire d'eau "water will be moved an displayed in an original form. The act, this is the movement, is as important as the final result". The whole of the performance, on the 2nd of June, was captured on video and shown the next day at the festival.

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