#nestvlieders

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NESTFLEERS 21.2 2025- Nacht van de Academies, Herentals

Nestfleers, a collaboration with Ignace Cami, is a participatory ongoing project based on fictional folklore.

We invited students from the Academy of Herentals to imagine mythical creatures, the ‘Nestfleers’, through collective imagination. These beings embody the urge of young animals to leave the nest. At the end of the workshop, the participants became the Nestfleers using costumes and masks.

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NESTVLIEDERS

2024, Turnhout, BE

with Xin Hu Gao, Annaluisa Ivanciuc, Lotte van den Boom, Danté Verheyen, Thimo Vosters, Shanti Wouters, Emmanuel Yagobnegad Hege, Rila Akrawi, Emma Gielis, Thimo Gysen, Liesel Helsen, Perla-Poppy Loreti, Benthe Mertens, Lauren Nicol, Jenka Simons, Linde Thiré, Jade Van Rillaer, Rikkert Van Tichelen, Dency Verbruggen, Lia Vermeire, Belle Vleugels (Heilig Graf, Turnhout)

𝘕𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘝𝘓𝘐𝘌𝘋𝘌𝘙𝘚, a collaboration between Bart Van Dijck and Ignace Cami, is a participatory project based on fictional folklore. The artists invite groups of people to imagine mythical creatures, the 'Nestvlieders' , through collective imagination. These hybrid creatures embody the urge of young animals to leave the nest.

Nestvlieders - video presented in the show 𝘏𝘠𝘉𝘙𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘕 (8.06-17.11.2024 curated by Tom Liekens & Glenn Geerinck, Warande, Turnhout, BE)

watch video: https://youtu.be/IsG1vmpsBdY?si=VmejkkcMmOoud3Cy

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Nestfleer eggs

2021

Nestfleers (Nestvlieders) is an ongoing collaborative project in which Ignace Cami and Bart Van Dijck research the shaping of myths around the figures of the Nestfleers. Participants of the Înterzone Smmr Camp were given an egg, each containing a part of the Nestfleers song

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NESTVLIEDERS

2019 - ongoing

project in collaboration with Ignace Cami

Nestvlieders is a collaborative project in which visual artist Ignace Cami and me research the shaping of myths around the fictional figures of the Nestvlieders. “Nestvlieders” is the dutch word for Nestflüchter (German), Nidifugous (English) or Nidifuge (French).

This biological term describes organisms, mostly referring to birds, who leave the nest shortly after being hatched or born. The term is derived from Latin, nidus for “nest” and fugere meaning “to flee”.

Nestvlieders is an ode to metamorphosis. The project focuses on just that. The game of suggestion and imagination. The shifting of the shape in which the creatures are perceived. The imagination of the local community is a big factor in shaping the myth of the creatures. Monsters thrive well in our imagination, so we leave a big part of the creation to the audience. Just like myths, legends and folktales every person that sees or hears about it becomes an accomplice, a co-creator. How? By involving the public in the project in different ways.

http://ignacecami.be/work/nestvlieders/