{"id":13633,"title":"De 4 seizoenen / The 4 Seasons","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1977-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":128,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":37,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Estate Hugo Roelandt","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":168,"permalink":"de-vier-seizoenen-r-h-o-k-brussel","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/030/790/medium_500/1977_De_4_Seizoenen_RHOK_Brussels_%283%29.JPG?1455573615","cached_actor_names":"Hugo Roelandt","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Performance","nl":"Performance","fr":"Performance"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/030/790/large/1977_De_4_Seizoenen_RHOK_Brussels_%283%29.JPG?1455573615","poster_credits":"(c) Estate Hugo Roelandt","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn collaboration with Narcisse Tordoir, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Jan Janssen\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, New Reform, Aalst\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, R.O.H.K., Brussels\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, University Institute,\u0026nbsp;Antwerp\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugo Roelandt organised the performance ‘The 4 Seasons’ together with\u0026nbsp;Narcisse Tordoir, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Jan Janssen. It is based\u0026nbsp;on the influencing of natural elements by artificial and scientific means. The\u0026nbsp;artist imposes his own reality with the help of artificial means resulting from\u0026nbsp;scientific evolutions. ‘Autumn’\u0026nbsp;is created by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven,\u0026nbsp;‘summer’ by Narcisse Tordoir, ‘spring’ by Jan Janssen and ‘winter’ is a\u0026nbsp;collaboration between all three. Hugo\u0026nbsp;Roelandt is responsible for the general\u0026nbsp;concept.\u0026nbsp;Under the title ‘Ontwerpen voor uitvoering’ (Projects to be Executed)\u0026nbsp;the performance is presented (along with\u0026nbsp;work from several other artists,\u0026nbsp;including Reindeer Werk) by Roger D’Hondt in the courtyard of the RHOK\u0026nbsp;evening academy in Etterbeek-Brussels. A footnote on\u0026nbsp;the poster explains:\u0026nbsp;“these are projects for performances which will be executed in July of this\u0026nbsp;year (1977 – mh) in the city archive of Kassel, W. Germany, in the\u0026nbsp;margin of\u0026nbsp;Documenta 6”.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoelandt declares later on: \u003cspan style=\"color:hsl(119,57%,31%);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt\u0026nbsp;that moment I profoundly disliked anything\u0026nbsp;related to nature. (…) I wanted to replace nature. I tried to make it rain, to\u0026nbsp;produce mist and that was o.k. But replacing the sun didn’t work. That was\u0026nbsp;too expensive.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Pol Moyaert, Vooruit, 3 October 1978\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarcisse Tordoir remembers in 2002: “\u003ci\u003eThe meeting with Hugo Roelandt\u0026nbsp;was very important because I knew little of ‘performance’ and he was the\u0026nbsp;only artist in\u0026nbsp;Flanders who was doing them. His performances ware rather\u0026nbsp;‘theatrical’, he focused on the performing a number of actions. In contrast to\u0026nbsp;for example the work of\u0026nbsp;Ulay and Marina Abramovic which was more bodyoriented,\u0026nbsp;so called ‘body art’, Roelandt thought it necessary to work around a\u0026nbsp;theme and to invite people for that.\u0026nbsp;They could express the theme according\u0026nbsp;to their own view on it. Like with ‘The 4 Seasons’, a theme which didn’t really\u0026nbsp;interest me, but I could do my thing and\u0026nbsp;that was OK for Hugo\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Narcisse Tordoir by Guy Van Deuren, 19 June 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoelandt: “\u003ci\u003eI was thinking as a real band leader and thought my people\u0026nbsp;didn’t have enough ‘live experience’, so I decided to organize a small ‘tour’.\u0026nbsp;At RHOK the cause of the split found its origin. Tordoir and Janssen saw\u0026nbsp;the work of Reindeer Werk and told me that was what they wanted to do\u0026nbsp;themselves. We had already worked for\u0026nbsp;four months on ‘The 4 Seasons’… but\u0026nbsp;those stubborn asses refused to go to Kassel with it\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Hugo Roelandt by Guy Van Deuren, 21 July 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTordoir: “\u003ci\u003eWe performed at RHOK in Brussels during a festival in which I\u0026nbsp;saw Reindeer Werk, and in Aalst in the evening in front of the New Reform.\u0026nbsp;Normally we would go to Kassel with it, but that never happened because we\u0026nbsp;had already quarrelled. The ‘theatrical’ aspect didn’t suit me and neither did\u0026nbsp;the theme of ‘The 4 Seasons’.\u0026nbsp;We had to make rain, that was Hugo’s speciality.\u0026nbsp;He had made a system with plastic tubes, with small holes in it and water\u0026nbsp;was pumped in it so that it\u0026nbsp;sprayed in all directions. And in that rain we did\u0026nbsp;all kind of actions. I painted a black chair white and the rain always ashed of\u0026nbsp;the paint again… There were people\u0026nbsp;lying on the ground, and I painted their\u0026nbsp;silhouette, but they also faded because of the rain. Afterwards we made an\u0026nbsp;installation with the props of the performance\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Narcisse Tordoir by Guy Van Deuren, 19 June 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Abstracts from\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eHugo Roelandt: Let's Expand The Sky\u003c/i\u003e, red. Mark Holthof, Occasional Papers, London, 2016)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn samenwerking met Narcisse Tordoir, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven en Jan Janssen\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, New Reform, Aalst\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, R.O.H.K., Brussel\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, Universitaire Instelling, Antwerpen\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugo Roelandt bedenkt samen met Narcisse Tordoir, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven\u0026nbsp;en Jan Janssen zijn project ‘De 4 seizoenen’. Deze actie steunt op kunstmatige en\u0026nbsp;wetenschappelijke beïnvloeden van de jaargetijden en wil de vraag beantwoorden\u0026nbsp;in welke mate een kunstenaar de natuurelementen kan dirigeren. De werkelijkheid\u0026nbsp;wordt door de kunstenaar de wet opgelegd met kunstmatige middelen eigen aan\u0026nbsp;de wetenschappelijke evoluties: de herfst wordt gecreëerd door Anne-Mie Van\u0026nbsp;Kerckhoven, de zomer door Narcisse Tordoir, de lente door Jan Janssen en de winter is een samenwerking van deze drie. Hugo Roelandt neemt het\u0026nbsp;algemeen\u0026nbsp;concept voor zijn rekening.\u0026nbsp;Onder de titel ‘Ontwerpen voor uitvoering’ wordt het project gepresenteerd\u0026nbsp;(samen met verschillende andere, waaronder\u0026nbsp;Reindeer Werk) op het binnenplein\u0026nbsp;van de Brusselse avond-academie RHOK in Etterbeek. Een voetnoot bij de titel\u0026nbsp;stelt: “Het betreft hier plannen voor\u0026nbsp;projecten die zullen worden uitgevoerd in juli\u0026nbsp;van dit jaar (1977 – mh) in het stedelijk archief van de stad Kassel, W.Duitsland,\u0026nbsp;in de marge van Documenta 6.”\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAchteraf verklaart Roelandt: \u003cspan style=\"color:hsl(119,57%,31%);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Ik had op dat ogenblik een enorme hekel aan alles\u0026nbsp;wat natuur was. (…) Ik wou dus die natuur vervangen. Ik heb geprobeerd om het\u0026nbsp;zelf te laten regenen, te laten misten… en dat ging wel. Maar die zon hé dat lukte\u0026nbsp;niet. Dat was te duur.”\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– interview met Pol Moyaert, Vooruit, 3 oktober 1978\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarcisse Tordoir herinnert zich in 2002: “\u003ci\u003eDe ontmoeting met Hugo Roelandt is\u0026nbsp;heel belangrijk geweest want ik kende eigenlijk niet veel van ‘performance’ en hij\u0026nbsp;was de\u0026nbsp;enige in Vlaanderen die daar vooral mee bezig was. Zijn performances\u0026nbsp;waren vrij ‘theatraal’, hij focuste vooral op het uitvoeren van een reeks\u0026nbsp;handelingen. In\u0026nbsp;tegenstelling tot bv. het werk van Ulay en Marina Abramovic\u0026nbsp;dat ‘fysieker’ was, meer op het lichaam betrokken, de zogenaamde ‘body art’.\u0026nbsp;Roelandt vond het\u0026nbsp;belangrijk om rond een bepaald thema te werken en daarvoor\u0026nbsp;mensen uit te nodigen. Die\u0026nbsp;konden dan mee dat thema uitbeelden volgens\u0026nbsp;hun visie. Zoals met ‘De\u0026nbsp;vier seizoenen’, een onderwerp dat me eigenlijk niet\u0026nbsp;interesseerde, maar ik kon mijn ding doen en dat was o.k. voor Hugo.\u003c/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview met Narcisse Tordoir, Guy Van Deuren, 19 juni 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoelandt: “\u003ci\u003eIk dacht toen als een echte groepsleider en vond dat mijn mensen te\u0026nbsp;weinig ‘live-ervaring’ hadden, dus besloot ik een kleine ‘tour’ te organiseren. In\u0026nbsp;het RHOK is de reden van de breuk ontstaan. Tordoir en Jansen zagen er het\u0026nbsp;werk van Reindeer Werk en zegden me dat dat was wat ze zelf wilden doen. We\u0026nbsp;hadden\u0026nbsp;toen al vier maanden aan ‘De vier Seizoenen’ gewerkt… maar die koppige\u0026nbsp;ezels weigerden om ermee naar Kassel te gaan.\u003c/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview met Hugo Roelandt, Guy Van Deuren, 21 juni 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTordoir: “\u003ci\u003eWe hebben dat in het RHOK in Brussel op een festival gedaan, waar\u0026nbsp;ik Reindeer Werk leerde kennen en in Aalst, ‘s avonds op straat voor de New Reform.\u0026nbsp;Normaal gingen we er ook nog mee naar Kassel maar dat is niet\u0026nbsp;doorgegaan omdat er toen al ruzie was. Dat ‘theatrale’ dat lag me niet en ook\u0026nbsp;dat thema…’de vier seizoenen’… tja. Er moest regen gemaakt worden, dat was\u0026nbsp;vooral ‘den dada’ van Hugo. Hij had een systeem gemaakt met plastic buizen, met\u0026nbsp;allemaal gaatjes in en daar werd dan water door gepompt dat naar alle kanten\u0026nbsp;spoot. En onder die ‘regen’ deden wij dan van alles. Ik heb een zwarte stoel wit\u0026nbsp;geschilderd en met die\u0026nbsp;regen liep de verf er altijd terug af… Er lagen ook mensen\u0026nbsp;op de grond en daar schilderde ik silhouetten rond, maar ook die vervaagden\u0026nbsp;door het water. Achteraf\u0026nbsp;maakten we met de attributen van de performance, een\u0026nbsp;installatie\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview met Narcisse Tordoir, Guy Van Deuren, 19 juni 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Uittreksels uit\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eHugo Roelandt: Let's Expand The Sky\u003c/i\u003e, red. Marc Holthof, Occasional Papers, Londen, 2016)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eEn collaboration avec Narcisse Tordoir, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven et Jan Janssen\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, New Reform, Aalst\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, R.O.H.K., Brussels\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• 1977, University Institute,\u0026nbsp;Antwerp\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugo Roelandt organised the performance ‘The 4 Seasons’ together with\u0026nbsp;Narcisse Tordoir, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Jan Janssen. It is based\u0026nbsp;on the influencing of natural elements by artificial and scientific means. The\u0026nbsp;artist imposes his own reality with the help of artificial means resulting from\u0026nbsp;scientific evolutions. ‘Autumn’\u0026nbsp;is created by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven,\u0026nbsp;‘summer’ by Narcisse Tordoir, ‘spring’ by Jan Janssen and ‘winter’ is a\u0026nbsp;collaboration between all three. Hugo\u0026nbsp;Roelandt is responsible for the general\u0026nbsp;concept.\u0026nbsp;Under the title ‘Ontwerpen voor uitvoering’ (Projects to be Executed)\u0026nbsp;the performance is presented (along with\u0026nbsp;work from several other artists,\u0026nbsp;including Reindeer Werk) by Roger D’Hondt in the courtyard of the RHOK\u0026nbsp;evening academy in Etterbeek-Brussels. A footnote on\u0026nbsp;the poster explains:\u0026nbsp;“these are projects for performances which will be executed in July of this\u0026nbsp;year (1977 – mh) in the city archive of Kassel, W. Germany, in the\u0026nbsp;margin of\u0026nbsp;Documenta 6”.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoelandt declares later on: \u003cspan style=\"color:hsl(119,57%,31%);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt\u0026nbsp;that moment I profoundly disliked anything\u0026nbsp;related to nature. (…) I wanted to replace nature. I tried to make it rain, to\u0026nbsp;produce mist and that was o.k. But replacing the sun didn’t work. That was\u0026nbsp;too expensive.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Pol Moyaert, Vooruit, 3 October 1978\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarcisse Tordoir remembers in 2002: “\u003ci\u003eThe meeting with Hugo Roelandt\u0026nbsp;was very important because I knew little of ‘performance’ and he was the\u0026nbsp;only artist in\u0026nbsp;Flanders who was doing them. His performances ware rather\u0026nbsp;‘theatrical’, he focused on the performing a number of actions. In contrast to\u0026nbsp;for example the work of\u0026nbsp;Ulay and Marina Abramovic which was more bodyoriented,\u0026nbsp;so called ‘body art’, Roelandt thought it necessary to work around a\u0026nbsp;theme and to invite people for that.\u0026nbsp;They could express the theme according\u0026nbsp;to their own view on it. Like with ‘The 4 Seasons’, a theme which didn’t really\u0026nbsp;interest me, but I could do my thing and\u0026nbsp;that was OK for Hugo\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Narcisse Tordoir by Guy Van Deuren, 19 June 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoelandt: “\u003ci\u003eI was thinking as a real band leader and thought my people\u0026nbsp;didn’t have enough ‘live experience’, so I decided to organize a small ‘tour’.\u0026nbsp;At RHOK the cause of the split found its origin. Tordoir and Janssen saw\u0026nbsp;the work of Reindeer Werk and told me that was what they wanted to do\u0026nbsp;themselves. We had already worked for\u0026nbsp;four months on ‘The 4 Seasons’… but\u0026nbsp;those stubborn asses refused to go to Kassel with it\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Hugo Roelandt by Guy Van Deuren, 21 July 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTordoir: “\u003ci\u003eWe performed at RHOK in Brussels during a festival in which I\u0026nbsp;saw Reindeer Werk, and in Aalst in the evening in front of the New Reform.\u0026nbsp;Normally we would go to Kassel with it, but that never happened because we\u0026nbsp;had already quarrelled. The ‘theatrical’ aspect didn’t suit me and neither did\u0026nbsp;the theme of ‘The 4 Seasons’.\u0026nbsp;We had to make rain, that was Hugo’s speciality.\u0026nbsp;He had made a system with plastic tubes, with small holes in it and water\u0026nbsp;was pumped in it so that it\u0026nbsp;sprayed in all directions. And in that rain we did\u0026nbsp;all kind of actions. I painted a black chair white and the rain always ashed of\u0026nbsp;the paint again… There were people\u0026nbsp;lying on the ground, and I painted their\u0026nbsp;silhouette, but they also faded because of the rain. Afterwards we made an\u0026nbsp;installation with the props of the performance\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e– Interview with Narcisse Tordoir by Guy Van Deuren, 19 June 2002\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Abstracts from\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eHugo Roelandt: Let's Expand The Sky\u003c/i\u003e, red. Mark Holthof, Occasional Papers, London, 2016)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1660,"name":"Hugo Roelandt","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}