{"id":20805,"title":"The Black Lamb","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"digital file (colour, sound)","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the Artist","cached_tag_list":"Els Dietvorst film","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eTRAILER;\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfnHdel7YGo\"\u003ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfnHdel7YGo\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"2014-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":46,"permalink":"the-black-lamb","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/043/374/medium_500/20190123135633279_0001.jpg?1548754664","cached_actor_names":"Els Dietvorst","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/043/374/large/20190123135633279_0001.jpg?1548754664","poster_credits":"(c)Els Dietvorst Archief, scan: M HKA, 2019","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e is an online film project started in 2011 by artist and filmmaker Els Dietvorst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEls Dietvorst watches her neighbours in Duncormick (Ireland) struggling to make ends meet. This sketch of the daily fight for survival, far from the city, offers a unique perspective on the myth of idyllic living conditions in the countryside. \u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e explores anti-utopian themes such as social conflict and survival on the margins. The web documentaries form the research part and the stories form the basis for \u003cem\u003eThe Rabbit and the Teasel\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e final unfolds over a three-year period with seasonal updates. In \u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e, Dietvorst tracks the lives of four local characters focusing on their work and their relationships with their animals. She captures mementos from her own reality, a sheepfarm in Southeast Ireland, with fleeting glimpses into the worlds of local characters. She is drawn to unconventional individuals determined to live as far from the mainstream grid as possible. Dietvorst performs the dual role of sheepfarmer-come-artist-documentarian in this film.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.theblacklamb.org\"\u003ewww.theblacklamb.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026lsquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of the more subtle, but profound, offerings of this edition(Burning Ice) is The Black Lamb, a project by documentary filmmaker and artist Els Dietvorst. Her work is sometimes compared to Joseph Beuys and his social democracy concept. Dietvorst recently moved from Brussels to a sheep farm in Duncormick, Ireland from where she watches her neighbours struggling to make ends meet. This sketch of the daily fight for survival, far away from the city, offers a wholly different perspective of the idyllic human condition in the countryside.\u0026rsquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.8333px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;(Peeters, 2013)\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e is an online film project started in 2011 by artist and filmmaker Els Dietvorst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEls Dietvorst watches her neighbours in Duncormick (Ireland) struggling to make ends meet. This sketch of the daily fight for survival, far from the city, offers a unique perspective on the myth of idyllic living conditions in the countryside. \u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e explores anti-utopian themes such as social conflict and survival on the margins. The web documentaries form the research part and the stories form the basis for \u003cem\u003eThe Rabbit and the Teasel\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e final unfolds over a three-year period with seasonal updates. In \u003cem\u003eThe Black Lamb\u003c/em\u003e, Dietvorst tracks the lives of four local characters focusing on their work and their relationships with their animals. She captures mementos from her own reality, a sheepfarm in Southeast Ireland, with fleeting glimpses into the worlds of local characters. She is drawn to unconventional individuals determined to live as far from the mainstream grid as possible. Dietvorst performs the dual role of sheepfarmer-come-artist-documentarian in this film.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.theblacklamb.org\"\u003ewww.theblacklamb.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMeer dan een subjectieve en artistieke representatie van de werkelijkheid, waarbij de kunstenaar op zoek gaat naar zowel dagelijksheid als transcendentie in min of meer extreme situaties (of toch situaties en leefomstandigheden die voor de gemiddelde ge\u0026iuml;nteresseerde in hedendaagse kunst als extreem overkomen), fungeert The Black Lamb als een metafoor voor een condition humaine die verder reikt dan de narratieven en individuele verhalen van het project. Dat werkt als een tegenstem: de kunstenaar registreert en toont een microrealiteit die haaks staat op het beeld van de ideale samenleving die we dagelijks via media, berichtgeving en reclame ingelepeld krijgen en die we maar al te vaak liever negeren dan omarmen. Maar de veelheid van individuele verhalen en beelden die Dietvorst ons presenteert overstijgt elk clich\u0026eacute;beeld over die marginale werkelijkheid. Ze werken verruimend en vormen eerder een soort aanvulling dan een correctie op het heersende maatschappijbeeld.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMaar Dietvorst gaat verder. Ze presenteert geen alternatief en toont de dingen zoals ze zijn. Dingen die integraal deel uitmaken van de wereld waarin we leven. Ze produceert geen utopisch wereldbeeld, noch een complete dystopie. Met de kracht van de verbeelding en de focus op de menselijke verhalen, het leven en het overleven schept ze een wereld die de onze zou kunnen zijn, waarin we ons herkennen en waarmee we ons tot op zekere hoogte kunnen identificeren. Ze houdt ons een spiegel voor waarin we gemeenschappelijke verlangens, strategie\u0026euml;n en verhalen gereflecteerd zien.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e(Bron: Mu.ZEE, auteur Rolf Quaghebeur)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1504,"name":"Els Dietvorst","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}