Deltaworkers

Thursday May 26 at 8PM, lecture-performance by Toon Fibbe, at Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center, 2200 Lafitte Street.

Toon Fibbe will present his research on the way New Orleans was implicated in the development of our capitalist system. New Orleans was the investment subject of the first stock market bubble (the Mississippi Bubble). This bubble was the subject of a book of Dutch satyrical drawings depicting New Orleans as a city that was found on speculation. In his work Toon researches the metaphors employed in this book, in which all kinds of unearthly creatures spur economic activity in relation to the wave of privatization that happened post-Katrina and the development of mixed income housing.

Saturday May 21 at 1:30PM and 3PM & Sunday May 22 at 3PM, historical experiment by Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, in Vermilionville, 300 Fisher Rd, Lafayette.

Visual artist Eric Giraudet de Boudemange will conduct a historical experiment in Vermilionville, living history museum and folklife park in Lafayette. Through a series of performances, EGdB will explore ways of time travelling through Cajun history. The results of the experiment will be presented at the Acadian Center for the Arts (Lafayette) in 2017.

EGdB considers himself a storytelling artist. Recently he has been focused on traditional games and local practices of France, Belgium and the Netherlands using them as tools to give shape to personal and poetic narratives. He experienced post medieval dart games from the former french coal mines, carnavalesque medieval hunting in the French forest of Fontainebleau and he became a specialist in pigeon breeding and labyrinths. His stories often talk about history, politics, folk culture, landscape and biology with a taste for British humour. He is currently a resident at Deltaworkers in New Orleans.

Deltaworkers is a nomadic artistic production and residence program that investigates the southern states of the U.S. as one of the last mythical places in the West. They host and present European artists from different disciplines in New Orleans, a city that forms the perfect gateway to the south; a region where many of the historical, socio-political and cultural roots of U.S culture can be found.

The experiment takes place on Saturday May 21 at 1:30PM and 3PM & Sunday May 22 at 3PM and last for about 1 hour. Attendance is free but a reservation must be made through info@deltaworkers.org.

Days of Future Past takes place at Vermilionville on 300 Fisher Rd. in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Thursday April 14 from 6PM to 8:30PM, book presentation by Deltaworkers, at the Stacks.

To Live in the South, One Has To Be a Scar Lover is an essay bundle that aims to deconstruct the romantic and mythical image Hollywood has created of the Southern States. Editors and Deltaworkers founders Maaike Gouwenberg and Joris Lindhout will read fragments from the different essays and introduce their story of the South. 

Dutchies Gouwenberg & Lindhout came to the South in 2010 on an investigative road trip exploring the Southern Gothic. They never really left and are currently running the Deltaworkers international residency program in New Orleans.

To Live in the South, One Has To Be a Scar Lover is designed by Erik Kiesewetter who has been pivotal in introducing the South to Gouwenberg & Lindhout and is a board member of Deltaworkers. Kiesewetter will dedicate a few words to the beautiful design he made for the book.

Tuesday March 29th from 12PM to 6PM, finissage by Oliver Bulas, at PARSE NOLA

Traveling into the Future
If we leave the earth in a spaceship traveling close to light speed and we return after a duration of travel, then a longer period of time will go by on earth than on the ship. The cause for this phenomenon is time dilatation, which occurs at high speeds of this kind according to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Essentially, we could reach any distant future on earth in an arbitrary short amount of traveling time with sufficient traveling speed and acceleration. If we use an acceleration that is suitable for humans, than we will need a traveling time of over a year (from the perspective of a spaceship crew) to achieve a time shift of years.

Access to the exhibition is limited to 1 visitor at a time.
Please schedule an appointment between 12 and 6pm through info@deltaworkers.org.
Thank you.

Oliver Bulas (Shanghai 1973) creates ‘constructed situations’ in which the visitor immerses. He uses performance and prefers to work in the public space. He is wondering if the public space is a place where differences clash and are negotiated. A place where maybe a short flash of social space can incidentally shine up as a utopian moment. His work is a continuing investigation into what constitutes the social and the public spaces in our capitalist times in which everything is exchangeable. He previously exhibited at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Yvon Lambert Gallery in N.Y.C and Swell Gallery in San Fransisco.

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Tuesday March 22nd from 7PM, private research session by Maarten Vanden Eynde, at Studio Dawn DeDeaux.

Next to our public program we organise invitation-only events that aim as a catalyst within our residents’ investigative processes. A small number of specialists is invited to respond to a short presentation the artist gives around a specific question that arose while being in New Orleans. 

Maarten Vanden Eynde focusses on the Triangular Trade that connects Africa, America and Europe at large; and more specifically Congo, Belgium and the Southern States. He is looking at material remains and their ability to recall, rewrite or manipulate history and history writing. Cotton (and cotton trade) is one of the main materials he is looking at during his residency at Deltaworkers. His question for this research session are related to the specific influence the enslaved people from the Kingdom of Kongo have had on American culture while using the complex story of Africatown (near Mobile, AL) to talk about the difficulty of historical representation, fetishisation and commemoration.

For this research session we invited author Moira Crone, curator Bill Fagaly, artist Elizabeth Shannon and collector Mercedes Whitecloud.