How do we shape a trauma- and PTSD-free social and spatial architecture for bodies unequivocally and arbitrarily categorised with a social, physical and/or psychological disability? Human entities embodying the opulent shame, revulsion and guilt of betraying, sabotaging and rebelling against the perfectly codified and normalized human body.

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Can organic architecture, Trans-Architecture, be the home to a communal human habitat entrenched/rooted in a social and biochemical infrastructure created to support and heal bodies with disabilities and afflicted by trauma and PTSD? Should we in this process first dismember and dismantle the disability category before curing trauma and PTSD or the way around?

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MORE ABOUT THE THEORETICAL MODEL SOON​...

 

MORE INFO ON STUDIO CREATION PROCESS: LA PEAU DU CÔLON #5

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John K Cobra will take part in the CUESTA-Actuele Kunst (group show) in Tielt (Belgium). A project of the Gildhof Cultuurhuis and the city of Tielt, curated by Frederik Van Laere. Two new large installations and one new performance (a live audiovisual & olfactive performance/conversation) will be presented at the church of the Minderbroedersklooster in Tielt. It is the home of the spiritual community Huis-Tabor and its social integration project for underprivileged social groups seeking temporary guidance and support. It will be a reflection on the link between the work of Cobra and the work of Huis-Tabor as spaces for social/spiritual activists. ​​

 

LOCATION ART WORKS JOHN K COBRA

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OPEN FROM SEPT 18 TO OCT 27

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List of works

 

1. CHORÉGRAPHIE_#1 (2024)

Installation: sculpture Côlon #5, 2 digitally edited images and a steel-construction 

Material: Silicone, aluminium and images on dibond

Dimensions_200 x 200 x 200 cm

 

2. MOUVEMENT COMMUN_#1 (2024)

Installation

Material:_Latex and wood 

Dimensions: 250 x 220 x 200 cm

 

3. THE PRINCIPLES OF TRANS-MECHANICS (2024)

A Trans-Architecture (Performance / Conversation) with the Huis Tabor-community and the audience in a space designed around aromatic therapy by ritual artist Ester Cattoir, a soundscape improvisation on piano by John K Cobra / Roland Gunst and moderated by dramaturg Esther Severi. 

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