Peer View is a series of evenings where artists are invited to share their ways of working and to delve deeper into the research behind a finished work of art. For this first session, we invite two musicians: Ben Bertrand and Roman Hiele.

After an introduction to a project or work - completed or in progress - we focus on the creative process that often remains out of sight once a work is finished. We can think of questions such as: what kinds of dialogues with the world do artists create during the development of new work? What relationships do they have with their sources of inspiration? Which texts are read, which (personal) archives consulted, which conversations held, which field trips undertaken? And how is thinking and working shaped through this material?
In other words: how about the work behind the work? 

Rather than a comparison or a dialogue between the two artistic practices, each Peer View unfolds two different approaches in order to show a scope of ways of working. The audience is warmly invited to ask questions during a conversation afterwards.

Each evening we invite two artists working within the same discipline. During the upcoming series we focuses on: musicians (25 March), social practicioners (8 April), visual artists (27 May), and film makers (24 June). 

Ben Bertrand uses the bass clarinet and a plethora of machines to create hypnotic pools of sound that dilate time and space. Bertrand has been working up his own interpretation of the bass clarinet as an instrument of the avant-garde. Touching upon ambient and cosmic as well as earthy sceneries, his is a gentle musical paradox come to life.

Roman Hiele is a musician and composer trained in improvised music. His electric live shows built on improvisatory approaches, translated into a sonic world, of eclectic harmonic content and rudimentary rhythm. 

Curated and organised by Dorine van Meel and Jesse van Winden

Location: Becue top floor (no elevator)
Chaussee de Forest 138, 1060 

Entrance: free donation 
Please bring cash for the bar and food

Doors open, food and bar: 17h
Start: 18h
End: 20:30h, with possibility to continue informally

Many thanks to 1060CultureCultuur and the bicommunautary teams for culture in St Gillis/St Gilles for the support!