We’re in Berendrecht, Belgium, in November 2021, listening in to an armistice commemoration service recorded by Tony Van Dorst, who describes the scene: “”The local fanfare ‘Koninklijke Fanfare Willen is Kunnen’ from Berendrecht is participating in the yearly Armistice Commemoration.” ILUITEQ from Italy have reimagined this Belgian armistice commemoration into a moment of celebration in […]
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
