{"id":4564,"date":"2016-08-26T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:06:52","slug":"els-fiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/els-fiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Els Fiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_845\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4564-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/elsfiers.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/elsfiers.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/elsfiers.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_4576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4576\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4576 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Foto-op-19-10-2011-om-10.05-4-1.jpg?resize=238%2C342&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Foto op 19-10-2011 om 10.05 #4 (1)\" width=\"238\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Foto-op-19-10-2011-om-10.05-4-1.jpg?w=238&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Foto-op-19-10-2011-om-10.05-4-1.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Els Fiers (\u00b0 1972, Ghent, Belgium, lives in Ghent), critic, writer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">As an art critic I am writing reviews, essays and interviews for several magazines and books. I\u2019ve been doing that since 1998, weekly in a Belgian magazine named Knack, and apart from that in all kinds of art publications in Belgium and abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But I always wanted to write fiction novels too, so I started upon that journey years ago and finally finished my manuscript by now. The story is about the rise and fall of a young artist. Telling his story\u00a0gives me the opportunity to write about how things work in the (Belgian) art world. Underneath the story lies the conflict between the ones who want to create and those who want to be in control, who want power. I guess I\u2019m looking at that with irony, and sarcasm too, I must admit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Secondly I\u2019m putting together an group show named Living in Dreams, on the tension between dreams, imagination and reality. I\u2019m doing that together with Frank Koolen, an artist from Amsterdam. The show includes some 25 artists from everywhere and will go on in January, in the city of Bruges (BE). In fact our choices are very personal, and significant for Frank as an artist and for me as a writer. The show that he\u2019s more into absurdism and I\u2019m always looking for drama. The outcome is a bit weird, yet quite funny. \u00a0Living in Dreams is a line out of Sputnik Sweetheart bij Haruki Murakami. In his text he says that living is dreams is what we all should do, as much as we can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The book I was reading was Ancient Sorceries and other chilling tales, short stories by the British novellist Algernon Blackwood. It made quite an impression as it is filled with dangerous yet beautiful ideas, like a village of cat people where you cannot escape, or haunting forest spirits, or a wendigo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Read more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elsfiers.wordpress.com\">essays on art, some in English<\/a>, more <a href=\"https:\/\/sailawaystories.wordpress.com\">writings, in Dutch<\/a>, and writing on the exhibit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flyawayartworks.wordpress.com\/\">Living in Dreams<\/a>, in Dutch &amp; English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_4577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4577\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4577 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2806264013.jpeg?resize=696%2C555&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2806264013\" width=\"696\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2806264013.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2806264013.jpeg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2806264013.jpeg?resize=768%2C612&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2806264013.jpeg?resize=624%2C497&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, the key painting in my manuscript, because of the merger of dreamworld and reality\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4578\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4578 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?resize=625%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o\" width=\"625\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C731&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?resize=768%2C548&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?resize=624%2C445&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10903835_4871214915749_3896866584501364580_o.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurent Jourquin, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Memento Mori, 2012, will be on view @ Living in Dreams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4579\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4579 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pipo-na-Fondo2.jpg?resize=696%2C522&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pipo-na-Fondo2\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pipo-na-Fondo2.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pipo-na-Fondo2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pipo-na-Fondo2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pipo-na-Fondo2.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Koolen, Pipo na Fondo, 2014, will be on view @ Living in 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