Tarquinia

Tarquinia (2006)

Video installation, 2006, at M HKA Antwerpen 2007 “Lonely at the Top”, curators Dieter Roestraete & Grant Watson. The title of Marie Julia Bollansée’s work refers to an old Etruscan city near Rome. Tarquinia was the most important of the twelve cities of the Etruscan League and is now an archaeological site primarily known for its necropolis – an underground cemetery containing more than six thousand tombs, many of which are decorated with splendid colourful murals. However, of this partially macabre history hardly a trace can be found in Bollansée’s “Tarquinia”, a three-part projection in which a festively laid table with an ever changing line-up of guests is the central point – a picture which is loosely based on Tarquinia’s ancient wall paintings. Although associations with the iconographic tradition of the Last Supper are brought to mind, “Tarquinia” definitely plays on a different emotional register – that of a festive beginning rather than that of a majestic fatal ending.

Director: Marie Julia Bollansée

Casts

	Anaïs Bollansée as
	Zelia Eylenbosch as
	Erna De Schutter as
	Eric Joris as
	Pablo Bollansée as
	Laurens Dierickx as
	Rina Vets as
	Ludwig Lemaire as
	Maria Hendricks as
	Mon De Schutter as
	Dwaro De Bruyne as
	Jef Diericks as
	Lisbeth Wolfs as
	Anneke Rombaut as
	Jan Storms as
	Peter de Maeyer as
	Julia Poniwierski as
	Inge Grognard as
	Anke Schäfer as
	Marie Julia Bollansée as
	Jo Crepain as
	Leo Copers as
	Jim Bollansée as
	Olmo Claessens as
	Joëlle Meerbergen as
	Sven Van Kuijk as
	Martine Kint as
	Peter Willaeys as
	Arthur De Maeyer as
	Bea Matthijs as
	Riet Storms as
	Piet Pollet as
	Karel Bollansée as
	Griet Verbeke as

Crew