Alex Schuurbiers - On the verge of silence, on the verge of song

Alex Schuurbiers develops an audiovisual installation about female seaweed collectors in India.

During this residency in STUK, Alex works on the optical sound of the 16mm projections. She lets the images developed with seaweed resonate with the dreamy guitar sounds of Bert Dockx, and investigates how they can be woven into field recordings and interviews, trying to come to a layered composition of image and sound.

Music: Bert Dockx
Sound recording: Thomas Jillings

Alex Schuurbiers is an audiovisual artist working primarily with analogue media. Her practice is aimed at cyclic, non-hierarchic narrative structures regarding the subconscious and memory. She works with themes such as heimat, intergenerational transmission, trauma, taciturnity and resilience. Alex is a founding member of Ursula, a collective of woman who work with moving image in Antwerp. Earlier she has created Handwerk (2021), En Vagues (2022), Where I Lay My Head to Rest (2023), Song of Homecoming (2024) and Placeholder (2025).