Tabula Scripta is the result of a research residency at Rez Gauche. Within a setting of screen-printed backdrops, Lise Van den Broucke will perform the same repetitive action over the course of two weeks. Drawings are repeatedly sanded away from a lithographic stone and redrawn using a non-scannable pencil. The drawings are not printed, but erased once again. They emerge through a self-correcting method comparable to the way a non-human organism learns. As a result, the drawings possess a sense of temporariness, incompleteness, and constant transformation. The work is not so much concerned with the final result, but with a drawing that remains in a continual state of becoming, shaped by what came before and by the residue left behind on the stone.

Tabula Scripta is the counterpart to Tabula Rasa. Rather than an unwritten page, it departs from something that is always influenced by context and by what precedes it. The performance touches upon the idea that perception is never pure. It is always a symbiosis of predictions, anticipation of the future, and the reactivation of the past. The work activates the extended brain: the collaboration between brain, body, and technology. It points to the ways in which we use technology to remember, plan, and preserve in everyday life, as an extension of our thinking.

Visitors are invited to witness the temporary intermediate stages of this endless process of repetition and continuation, building upon what is already there.

Welcome to the public moments where the work presents itselfs provisionally and remains in motion:

23/06 - 3/07/26

Tue, The and Fri 11u-14u30

Fri 3 juli 18u-20u 

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