Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels

Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels

Since the end of the 1970s, the canal area in Brussels has been an innovative setting for avant-gardist artistic creation in the area of non-traditional music, contemporary dance, theatre research and multidisciplinary and digital performances. Cultural operators have found affordable real estate th...

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第一著者: Rouyet, Yves
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Anglais
出版事項: Brussels Studies 2016
主題:
associative sector
history
culture
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:brussels_1213 https://doi.org/10.4000/brussels.1213 urn:doi:10.4000/brussels.1213 en https://journals.openedition.org/brussels/1213 2016-11-23T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dc8c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels Brussels Studies Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2031-0293 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/brussels Rouyet, Yves associative sector history culture Since the end of the 1970s, the canal area in Brussels has been an innovative setting for avant-gardist artistic creation in the area of non-traditional music, contemporary dance, theatre research and multidisciplinary and digital performances. Cultural operators have found affordable real estate there due to deindustrialisation and late and relatively slow residential gentrification. This article is aimed at identifying the key stages in the development of alternative culture in the canal area, within and especially outside recognised and subsidised institutions. It is based on the hypothesis that the artists and this unique area have had a mutual influence on each other. On the one hand, the area has enhanced artistic creation with its strong characteristics: urbanity, deindustrialisation and cosmopolitanism. On the other hand, the presence of cultural activities has attracted a public which has rarely been there, thus participating in the partial reconstruction of its image. Depuis la fin des années 70, les quartiers qui bordent le canal à Bruxelles constituent un espace des plus novateurs en matière de création artistique avant-gardiste dans le domaine des musiques non classiques, de la danse contemporaine, de la recherche théâtrale et des performances multidisciplinaires et numériques. Les opérateurs culturels y ont trouvé des disponibilités immobilières bon marché en raison de la désindustrialisation et du caractère tardif et relativement lent du mouvement de gentrification résidentielle. L’article vise à identifier les étapes-clés du développement de la culture alternative dans le territoire du canal, au sein et, surtout, hors des institutions reconnues et subventionnées. Il part de l’hypothèse que la rencontre entre des artistes et ce territoire si particulier a eu une influence réciproque. D’une part, l’espace a nourri la création artistique de ses caractéristiques fortes : l’urbanité, la désindustrialisation et le cosmopolitisme. D’autre part, la présence des activités culturelles a drainé dans ces quartiers un public qui s’y rendait rarement, participant ainsi à la reconstruction partielle de son image. Sinds het einde van de jaren ’70 behoren de wijken langs het kanaal in Brussel tot de meest innoverende locaties voor avant-gardistische artistieke creatie op het vlak van niet-klassieke muziek, hedendaagse dans, experimenteel theater en multidisciplinaire en digitale kunstvormen. De culturele actoren vonden er vastgoed dat beschikbaar was tegen lage prijzen wegens de deïndustrialisatie en de late en vrij trage gentrificatie. Het artikel strekt ertoe de sleuteletappes in de ontwikkeling van de alternatieve cultuur in de kanaalzone, binnen en vooral buiten het circuit van de erkende en gesubsidieerde instellingen, toe te lichten. Het artikel gaat uit van de hypothese dat de ontmoeting tussen artiesten en dit bijzondere gebied tot een kruisbestuiving heeft geleid. Enerzijds heeft het gebied de artistieke creativiteit gestimuleerd met zijn troeven: stedelijkheid, deïndustrialisatie en kosmopolitisme. Anderzijds heeft de organisatie van de culturele activiteiten een publiek aangetrokken dat anders zelden in die wijken kwam. Dat heeft bijgedragen tot een gedeeltelijke verbetering van het imago van de kanaalzone.
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topic associative sector
history
culture
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history
culture
Rouyet, Yves
Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels
description Since the end of the 1970s, the canal area in Brussels has been an innovative setting for avant-gardist artistic creation in the area of non-traditional music, contemporary dance, theatre research and multidisciplinary and digital performances. Cultural operators have found affordable real estate there due to deindustrialisation and late and relatively slow residential gentrification. This article is aimed at identifying the key stages in the development of alternative culture in the canal area, within and especially outside recognised and subsidised institutions. It is based on the hypothesis that the artists and this unique area have had a mutual influence on each other. On the one hand, the area has enhanced artistic creation with its strong characteristics: urbanity, deindustrialisation and cosmopolitanism. On the other hand, the presence of cultural activities has attracted a public which has rarely been there, thus participating in the partial reconstruction of its image.
author Rouyet, Yves
author_facet Rouyet, Yves
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title Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels
title_short Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels
title_full Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels
title_fullStr Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels
title_full_unstemmed Rock the Canal! A history of cultural life in the canal area of Brussels
title_sort rock the canal! a history of cultural life in the canal area of brussels
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