Twofold Workshop. Parting, Fusing, Telling

Mudam: 05.04.2025 | 10:00 – 12:00 (Youth) + 15:00 – 17:00 (Adults)

Casino: 08.04.2025 | 14:00 – 16:00 (Youth) + 17:00 – 19:00 (Adults)

In collaboration between Mudam and Casino Luxembourg

Artists Ho Tzu Nyen and Eva L’Hoest both explore perception through innovative media. Ho Tzu Nyen’s work T for Time challenges linear storytelling and the representation of time itself, using generative processes to create evolving narratives. Eva L’Hoest, through works like Main Station, manipulates sound and space to reshape how we experience time. Both artists disrupt traditional perceptions of time and space, making sensory experiences central to their practice.

This collaboration between Mudam and Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain will delve into these themes through two distinct yet connected workshop sessions. Navigating through image manipulation and sound, loops and concrete storytelling, participants will immerse themselves in an experiment on perception.

Generating ever-changing narratives

05.04.2025 at Mudam Luxembourg

With Léa Giordano

In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to get introduced to film. They will view, manipulate, alternate and edit the film sequences by hand. Inspired by Ho Tzu Nyen’s idea of multiple forms of time, participants will create a handmade algorithm of loops that allows different timelines to coexist instead of following a single linear one. The participants will curate the multiple timelines to work together. With all the films being looped simultaneously, they will create a unique composition of system which will generate a different narrative every time it is activated, overthrowing chronology in favour of an ever-changing cycle of memories, that result in a different storytelling at each iteration.

Participants are invited to join the second workshop at Casino to create a voice-over, which will allow the work to travel like memory and grant a freedom in the exchange between moving images and audio.

Biography

Léa Giordano is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam and Luxembourg. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in photography, she expanded her practice into experimental filmmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her work fluidly moves between moving images and photography, using the materiality of analogue film as both metaphor and medium to shape narratives and embrace the organic evolution of her creation process. Her practice explores themes of longing, belonging, melancholia, nostalgia, abandonment, change, grief, acceptance and the passing of time. Through a meditative engagement with nature and the tactile processes of analogue film, Léa creates intimate spaces where emotion, memory and time intertwine.

Deviating the narrative: From writing to voice  

08.04.2025 at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain 

With Eva Mancuso

They say that time erases everything and afterwards there’s nothing left. But what if time, before erasing everything, invented new things?

The second session at Casino Luxembourg shifts the focus from image to voice. Inspired by Eva L’Hoest’s Main Station, where sound connects fragmented visuals into a sensory experience, participants will add a voice-over to their previously generated moving images. Through rhythm, repetition and layered storytelling, they will construct their own time pieces – works that unfold in cycles, shaped by both abstraction and narration.

This workshop will take stories, myths, legends and nursery rhymes we heard as children and rewrite them, letting the gaps, mistakes and stammering of the passage of time have their say, and making the story go off course. This will mean telling not just the story, but also the story of an intimate, personal relationship with history or myth, and in this way inventing a new story that considers the work of undermining, but also of creation.

It will be based on this work on myth that we will be able to write a voice-over for the images produced during Mudam’s workshops. This voice-over will not seek to illustrate the videos but rather to echo them. The theme of memory and its flaws is at the heart of the Mindful Hand exhibition and the video work Main station.

Biography

Eva Mancuso is a poet and performer who lives and works in Brussels.  Her first book, Je n’arrive pas à parler et à dire des choses en même temps was published by L’arbre de Diane in April 2024. She has performed at the Maison poème, the CWB Paris, the NOVA XX biennial, the Loge, Mommen workshops, Art au Centre, Espace Magh, etc. With her sister Anna Mancuso, she created Je veux rester trouble comme la flaque à côté de la grue à côté du canal, an adaptation of her book. It is a post-MeToo performance that returns to a pre-MeToo world to talk about a desire not to let yourself be shaped by the desire of others. She has published in print (Sabir, L’écharde, etc.) and online (Trounoir, lundi.matin, Remue.net). She has created solo readings and performances, notably as part of the ‘Mutantx’ residency at the BIP, as part of Thu-Van Tran’s exhibition at La Loge, or in collaboration with Sébastien Plevoets at Ateliers Mommen, or with Eva L’Hoest at Iles Mardi, and soon at Casino Luxembourg.

Duration: 2h

Participation fee: 10€ | 1,50€ with Kulturpass

Booking required: mudam.com/rsvp-twofold-workshop

Possibility to book the workshops together or separately | 12 places per group | Write to: [email protected]