Journal
A sporadic record of what happens in William Kentridge’s studio, in video, words and images
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Fundació Sorigué, Lleida
October 22 - July 30, 2025
An exhibition of drawings, film and sculpture from the collection of Fundació Sorigué has opened in Lleida, featuring “Tide Table”, “7 Fragments for Georges Méliès ” and “Journey to the Moon”, alongside the series of drawings “Middle-Aged Love” and the eight channel film installation, “More Sweetly Play the Dance”.
Photos courtesy of Fundació Sorigué
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Fundació Sorigué, Lleida
October 22 - July 30, 2025
An exhibition of drawings, film and sculpture from the collection of Fundació Sorigué has opened in Lleida, featuring “Tide Table”, “7 Fragments for Georges Méliès ” and “Journey to the Moon”, alongside the series of drawings “Middle-Aged Love” and the eight channel film installation, “More Sweetly Play the Dance”.
Photos courtesy of Fundació Sorigué
OPENING TONIGHT
“OH TO BELIEVE IN ANOTHER WORLD”
A film by William Kentridge for Shostakovich Symphony
No. 10
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
18 & 19 October, 2024
Performed by Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
Conducted by Josep Pons
Director
William Kentridge
Editors
Janus Fouché, Zana Marović, Joshua Trappler
Costume & Puppet Designer
Greta Goiris
Set and Model Designer
Sabine Theunissen
Cinematographer
Dǔsko Marović
Video Operator
Kim Gunning
Executive Producer
THE OFFICE performing arts + film
OPENING TONIGHT
“OH TO BELIEVE IN ANOTHER WORLD”
A film by William Kentridge for Shostakovich Symphony
No. 10
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
18 & 19 October, 2024
Performed by Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
Conducted by Josep Pons
Director
William Kentridge
Editors
Janus Fouché, Zana Marović, Joshua Trappler
Costume & Puppet Designer
Greta Goiris
Set and Model Designer
Sabine Theunissen
Cinematographer
Dǔsko Marović
Video Operator
Kim Gunning
Executive Producer
THE OFFICE performing arts + film
“O Sentimental Machine”
New project page now live on www.kentridge.studio
“Questions of machines and how they are used is an interest that has been explored in many ways. There are a lot of found objects in the studio that have been used for different projects to create sculptures, kinetic machines or mechanical objects. The megaphone is an obvious one because it’s about the multiplication and expansion of the voice. But a megaphone is also used because it’s one of the three figures that Cezanne describes as being necessary to describe the world, a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. And a megaphone is really just taking the idea of the form of a cone and putting that to work back in the world.
So there have been many megaphones in different projects. But there were other machines made in the last years that are still sitting in the storeroom. This was an attempt to see, could one control a megaphone? In fact one of the collaborators who worked with me on this project hacked into a Playstation Connect system so that he could do movements with his arms and these movements would control the control the movement of the megaphone, a bit like a Theremin. In other words there’s no visible connection but as your hands move you control how the megaphone moves.” WK
Take a detailed look at the making of the five channel film, “O Sentimental Machine”, originally made as a site specific installation at the Hotel Splendid on Büyükada Island, for the 14th Istanbul Biennale in 2015 and currently showing at LUMA Arles, as part of the exhibition, “Je n’attends plus”.
Actors
Sue Pam-Grant
William Kentridge
Musical composition & arrangement
Philip Miller
Video editing & construction
Žana Marović and Janus Fouché
Costume design
Greta Goiris
Director of photography
Duško Marović
Sound mix
Gavan Eckhart
Musicians
Voice
Joanna Dudley
Theremin
Janus Fouché
Bouzouki
Jannous Aukema
Piano
Philip Miller
“Mazi” composed by Necip Celal Andel, sung by Seyyan Hanım
“O Sentimental Machine”
New project page now live on www.kentridge.studio
“Questions of machines and how they are used is an interest that has been explored in many ways. There are a lot of found objects in the studio that have been used for different projects to create sculptures, kinetic machines or mechanical objects. The megaphone is an obvious one because it’s about the multiplication and expansion of the voice. But a megaphone is also used because it’s one of the three figures that Cezanne describes as being necessary to describe the world, a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. And a megaphone is really just taking the idea of the form of a cone and putting that to work back in the world.
So there have been many megaphones in different projects. But there were other machines made in the last years that are still sitting in the storeroom. This was an attempt to see, could one control a megaphone? In fact one of the collaborators who worked with me on this project hacked into a Playstation Connect system so that he could do movements with his arms and these movements would control the control the movement of the megaphone, a bit like a Theremin. In other words there’s no visible connection but as your hands move you control how the megaphone moves.” WK
Take a detailed look at the making of the five channel film, “O Sentimental Machine”, originally made as a site specific installation at the Hotel Splendid on Büyükada Island, for the 14th Istanbul Biennale in 2015 and currently showing at LUMA Arles, as part of the exhibition, “Je n’attends plus”.
Actors
Sue Pam-Grant
William Kentridge
Musical composition & arrangement
Philip Miller
Video editing & construction
Žana Marović and Janus Fouché
Costume design
Greta Goiris
Director of photography
Duško Marović
Sound mix
Gavan Eckhart
Musicians
Voice
Joanna Dudley
Theremin
Janus Fouché
Bouzouki
Jannous Aukema
Piano
Philip Miller
“Mazi” composed by Necip Celal Andel, sung by Seyyan Hanım
OPENING TODAY
ARTE POVERA
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection
October 9, 2024 - January 20, 2025
An exhibition curated by @carolynchristovbakargiev
“L’esprit d’escalier” is a site-specific wall installation made for the exhibition with the assistance of @marinefleurystudio and with the support of @liarummagallery, @hauserwirth and @goodman_gallery
OPENING TODAY
ARTE POVERA
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection
October 9, 2024 - January 20, 2025
An exhibition curated by @carolynchristovbakargiev
“L’esprit d’escalier” is a site-specific wall installation made for the exhibition with the assistance of @marinefleurystudio and with the support of @liarummagallery, @hauserwirth and @goodman_gallery
OPENING TODAY
A SHADOW OF A SHADOW
Sharjah Art Foundation
Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square
28 September–8 December 2024
“A Shadow of a Shadow” is a survey of 17 performances created by Kentridge from the late 1980s to the present, from his interpretations of Jarry’s “Ubu Roi” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, to Kentridge’s original works such as “The Head & the Load”. On view are objects and artworks produced for the development and presentation of these performance projects: drawings, stage backdrops, animations, puppets, props, costumes and installations.
Exhibition design by @sabine.theunissen
Video: An outdoor installation of the eight channel, panoramic film “More Sweetly Play the Dance” (2015), Arts Square, Bait al Serkal, Sharjah
OPENING TODAY
A SHADOW OF A SHADOW
Sharjah Art Foundation
Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square
28 September–8 December 2024
“A Shadow of a Shadow” is a survey of 17 performances created by Kentridge from the late 1980s to the present, from his interpretations of Jarry’s “Ubu Roi” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, to Kentridge’s original works such as “The Head & the Load”. On view are objects and artworks produced for the development and presentation of these performance projects: drawings, stage backdrops, animations, puppets, props, costumes and installations.
Exhibition design by @sabine.theunissen
Video: An outdoor installation of the eight channel, panoramic film “More Sweetly Play the Dance” (2015), Arts Square, Bait al Serkal, Sharjah
