SoundImageCulture
News
17/18/19-05-2012, 14-18h, Pianofabriek
SoundImageCulture-SIC Medialibrary
Here are the artsists!
17/18/19-05-2012, 10-17h, Pianofabriek
Root seminar with Eric Pauwels
SIC2012 are:
Caroline Daish (Australia), Christine Moderbacher (Austria), Emilie Kengmo Chappatte (Cameroon-Swiss), Eva la Cour (Denmark), Helena Dembsky (Slovenia), Isobel Clouter (Britain), Jaason von Bannisseht (The Netherlands), Julie De Clercq (Belgium), Julie Pfleiderer (Germany), Messaline Raverdy (France), Miki Ambrozy (Hungary) and Salomé Laloux-Bard (France).
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14-05-2012 - 23-05-2012:
Soundlab #3 – Seeing Sound – curated by Caroline Daish (SIC-participant 2012) and Julie Pfleiderer (SIC-participant 2011/2012), is 10 days investigating the border between Sound and Performance.
21-05-2012 – 23-05-2012, Soundlab #3 – Seeing Sound, 10-17h: Workshop with Ant Hampton (SIC-Team 2012): Fantasy Interventions
at Beursschouwburg Cost: 50€
Please subscribe for Ant Hampton Workshop before 13th May 2012.
Expo > 13.05.
Tine Guns (SIC-participant 2010) & Anne Fontenelle
WALLS gallery Recyclart
Vitrine n°7 : Ursulinenstraat / Rue des Ursulines 7
“Stil, de koning is dood! / Silence, le roi est mort ! / Stille, der König ist tot !”
Expo > 20.04 / Open : monday : 14:00 > 17:00 ; tuesday & thursday 13:00 > 17:00 and on appointment
Save the date
29-05-2012, 10:00h, Bibliothèque d’Ixelles, 19, rue Mercelis, 1050 Bruxelles
cinématinées, organized by Christine Moderbacher (SIC-participant 2011/2012)
Screen "Notre Marriage" by Tülin Özdemir (SIC-participant 2007)
18-06-2012, 20:30h, Pianofabriek
Screening Ivan and Ivana de Jeff Silva (SIC workshop 2012)
Official Selection Visions Du Reel 2011, Official Selection Viennale 2011, Official Selection RIDM 2011.
Ivan and Ivana, 3 minutes trailer
SIC Agenda
16/17-04-2012, 10-17h, ARGOS:
First Project Presentations Participants SIC2012
17-04-2012, 17-19h, ARGOS:
Welcome, meet the new participants and share a drink
18-04-2012, 9:30-12h, ARGOS:
SIC-coach Laurent Van Lancker presents his work
23/24-04-2012, 10-17h, ARGOS:
"Sound, Narration, Representation" Workshop with Laurent Van Lancker
30-04-2012, 10-18h, ARGOS:
SIC-coaches Mary Jiminez, Eric Pauwels and Didier Volckaert present their work
01-05-2012, 10-12h, ARGOS:
Editing-coach Rudi Maerten presents his work
01-05-2012, 14-18h, at ARGOS:
Quick dating and selection of the coaches
07/08-05-2012, 10-17h, Beursschouwburg:
“Psychedelic ethnographies” Workshop with Ben Russell
08-05-2012, 17-19h, Beursschouwburg:
Meet the artist and share a drink.
09-05-2012, 13:30-19:00h, KASK Cinema, Gent:
“Expanded Documentary” with Ben Russell, Sarah Vanagt, Laurent Van Lancker
14-05-2012, 10-17h, ARGOS:
Active Experimental Workshop with Didier Volckaert
17/18/19-05-2012, 10-17h, Pianofabriek:
Root seminar with Eric Pauwels
17/18/19-05-2012, 14-18h, Pianofabriek:
OPEN HOUSE: Meet SIC!
21/22-05-2012, 10-17h, ARGOS:
“Sound and Space” Workshop with Patrick Codenys
29-05-2012, 10 -17h, ARGOS:
Active Experimental Workshop with Didier Volckaert
30-05-2012, 14-18h, Pianofabriek:
"Text & Context" with Pieter Van Bogaert
04/05-06-2012, 10 -17h, ARGOS:
Active Experimental Workshop with Didier Volckaert
11/12-06-2012, 10-17h, ARGOS:
Technical Workshop on editing with Rudi Maerten
13-06-2012, 14-18h, Pianofabriek:
"Text & Context" with Pieter Van Bogaert
18-06-2012, 10 -17h, ARGOS:
“Implicit Knowledge” Active seminar with Jeff Silva
18-06-2012, 20:30h, Pianofabriek:
“Ivan & Ivana” by Jeff Silva, Screening
19/20-06-2012, 10 -17h, ARGOS:
Participants' presentation with Jeff Silva
20-06-2012, 17-19h, ARGOS:
Goodby for the Summer! Share a drink and meet the artist Jeff Silva
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03/04/05-09-2012, 10 -17h, ARGOS:
“Rushes” Viewing and discussions with the team and Ant Hampton and Britt Hatzius
04-09-2012, 17-19h, ARGOS:
Welcome back! Meet the artists and share a drink.
19-09-2012, 14-18h, ARGOS:
"Text & Context" with Pieter Van Bogaert
01-10-2012, 14-18h, ARGOS:
"Text & Context" with Pieter Van Bogaert
08/09/10-10-2012, 10-17h, Beursschouwburg:
Active Workshop with Ant Hampton
15/16-10-2012, 10 -17h, ARGOS:
“First Edit” Viewing and discussions with the team and Ben Russell
16-10-2012, 17-19h, ARGOS:
Meet the artist and share a drink.
14-11-2012,14-18h, ARGOS:
"Text & Context" in connection to the projects with Pieter Van Bogaert
19/20-11-2012,10-17h, ARGOS:
“Second Edit” Viewing and discussions with the team and Patrick Codenys
20-11-2012, 17-19h, ARGOS:
Meet the artist and share a drink
21-12-2012, 20h, Beursschouwburg:
Public Presentation SIC2012
SoundImageCulture
SoundImageCulture / SIC is a group of artist-anthropologists committed to artful storytelling through real human encounters that challenge documentary conventions, and opens up to sound and image installations. SIC offers a nine-month program to assist professional filmmakers, social scientists and artists in the realization of their personal project. The SIC involves a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives and practical workshops so as to link formal and ethical questions during the production process as each creator develops their original, personal point of view.
Informed by developments in cultural theory, social sciences, and the visual arts (Laura Marks, Arjun Appadurai, Jean Rouch, Trinh Minh-ha en Jonas Mekas) we question the relation between artist, subject and viewer. The answer is not to eschew representation; rather, SIC proposes an ethical reflection on how ‘the other’ is presented in contemporary media: we believe this to be an urgency of the multicultural society we live in. The SIC involves nine months of artistic coaching through collective seminars, individual advising, group critiques, and inter-artist dialogue. For additional perspectives, we occasionally host visiting artists and critics.
Application SIC 2012
Selection
Interested candidates in SIC should submit their application before January 10, 2012. The SIC team will review the applications and invite finalists for interview by 10 February 2012. Each year SIC is open to a maximum of 10 participants. SIC is especially interested in project proposals in which artistic development goes together with antropological influences.
Participants
SIC is open to people with experience in the arts. The selection is based on an audiovisual project proposal (film, video installation, sound creation,…) submitted by the candidate which contains following paragraphs: What is the subject of your project and why do you want to make it? What’s the relation between the author and his or her subject/"other": what is the type of interaction between author and subject and how can this relation be specified? Is there a viewer involved, prefigured, abstract or concrete? What is your formal approach, what is the relation between your subject and the form you choose?
Practical info
SIC is open for participants who speak Dutch, French and English. The SIC team speaks and understands these 3 languages. The modules and groupsessions are in English.
Send your application by email
The application should include:
- Project proposal
- CV
- Portfolio (condensed and relevant for the proposal)
- Images through youtube/vimeo/others
SIC 2012
Deadline : January 10, 2012
Interviews : between 1 & 10 February 2012
Selection notification: February 15, 2012
Start : April 16, 2012
End : December 22, 2012
Course fee
Fee: 500 euro
The subscription fee should be transfered to our bank account (IBAN BE61 0682 5170 4317 BIC GKCCBEBB) before the start of the first seminar in April. If necessary, participants can request a payment plan.
Foreign candidates must arrange the necessary papers to stay in Belgium: e.g. a student visa or an official residence permit.
Collective
Patrick Codenys
He started his musical career within the electronic group Front242 - their sources of inspiration range from architecture, graphic design to film. His work with the artist Kendell Geers explores the field of Contemporary Performance Art. Patrick Codenys is professor of "Sound Creation" at La Cambre - Brussels. Patrick is coach and conducts the workshop "Sound and Spatialization".
www.front242.com
Mary Jiménez
Mary Jiménez realized and produced several fiction and documentary films as well as scenarios and radio productions. She is formed as filmmaker; architect and urbanist.
Mary is a coach.
Rudi Maerten
Formed in editing at INSAS, Brussels.
Editor of short films, documentaries and fiction films.
Worked with Anne Térésa de Keersmaeker, Marie Jo Lafontaine, Thierry de Mey, Wim Vandekeybus etc.
Rudi coaches the editing.
Eric Pauwels
Master in film directing INSAS, Brussels. Religious Science Laboratoire Audio-Visuel à l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Phd Cinématographie Sorbonne, Paris (promotor Jean Rouch). Studio lector INSAS. Writer of novels and theatre plays. Realised and produced a number of documentaries.
Eric is a coach and conducts the "Root Seminar".
Pieter Van Bogaert
Pieter Van Bogaert is a critic and curator. He is a regular contributor for Belgian arts magazine ‹H›ART and other publications. He made exhibitions for Bergen Kunsthall, Witte de With, Z33, Netwerk, deBuren and the office of square. He currently prepares a new exhibition for beginning 2013 at M, Leuven. He lives and works in Brussels.
Pieter conducts the workshop "Text/authors and Context".
An van. Dienderen
Master in the Audiovisual arts, Sint-Lukas, Brussels. Master and phd. Comparative Cultural Sciences, UGent. Visiting scholar UC Berkeley (California).
Filmmaker and essayist. Postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts, Ghent. An is artistic director of SIC.
Ant Hampton
Performance maker, writer and director, he founded Rotozaza - a project which focussed on instructions to unrehearsed performers. This gave rise to the Autoteatro series which he continues via different collaborations. His collaboration with Britt Hatzius, 'This Site Could Be Yours' is the backbone to his work with SIC. Ant conducts the "Active Workshop".
www.anthampton.com, www.rotozaza.co.uk
Laurent Van Lancker
Training: Master Film and Tv direction, IAD, België, Master and Mphil Cultural anthropology, SOAS, London. His films are presented on international festivals, arts centers and TV. Gives creative workshops (animation film, sound, photography) in Belgium and abroad.
Laurent is artistic director and coach. He conducts the workshop "Sound – Narration – Representation".
www.polymorfilms.be
Ben Russell
Ben Russell is an artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the moving image. He received a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2010 FIPRESCI award and he has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art. Ben conducts the workshop "Psychedelic Ethnography".
www.dimeshow.com
Jeff Silva
Jeff Daniel Silva is an artist, teacher & curator based in Boston. Jeff studied Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College and received an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. He currently teaches at Harvard University & The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in experimental, documentary and ethnographic film studies and production. Jeff conducts the workshop "Implicit Knowledge".
www.jeffdanielsilva.com
Didier Volckaert
Didier Volckaert is an Artist and Neo-Futurist. He created Optical Installations, made several award winning Documentaries and even a Fiction Feature Film. His main interests apart from life and Cinema are Japanese Pop Culture, Industrial Music and Art, Toys, Pirates and Piracy, Science Fiction and the Exotic.
Didier is a coach and conducts the "Active Experimental Workshop".
Susanne Weck
Artist and former SIC participant, she is now doing the daily coordination of the programm.
Master in fine arts from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, co-founder of the artist group FMSW, she realises different projects around orientation and worldviews.
Workspace
Auto-production *author-as-producer
In SIC the artist is producer for his or her own work, and participants retain all copyrights to their project and materials.
SIC doesn’t offer studio space, recording equipment, or bursaries. Participants are expected to have or find their own means for filming, editing, and so on.
Cross over
SIC operates at the intersection between art and anthropology. Contemporary anthropology addresses the need to represent the world of ‘the other’ without reducing it to Eurocentric, exclusively Western, or neo-colonial categories. Arising partly from this need, we have witnessed the ‘sensory turn of anthropology’ for which video, film, and sound are crucial to recording and expressing cultural experience.
The converse has been seen in what art critic Hal Foster calls ‘the ethnographic turn of contemporary arts.’ Myriad contemporary artists now work ethnographically and share content with the field of anthropology: e.g. nationalisms, migration, and expressions of identity. SIC coach An van.Dienderen explores this interaction by postdoctoral artistic research at the KASK art academy in Ghent.
Performative documentary
We conceive the audiovisual as a performance in which the encounter will lead the process. The interaction, negotiation, or confrontation in the documentary encounter is the force that drives this artistic process.
Medium
SIC does not believe that representational media are mirrors that reflect reality, but rather systems through which different identities can be performed. We stimulate participants to understand cultural identity not in terms of authenticity, but as the way by which groups and individuals are imagined and articulated. For this reason, SIC believes that participating artists should use whichever media are appropriate for the project in question: film, video, photography, sound, etcetera.
Workshops
The projects are accompanied by collective seminars, individual coaching and dialogue with a coach of the SIC team.
Text and Context Pieter Van Bogaert
This seminar reflects upon the relation between form and content through the critical analysis of texts (by a.o. Ariella Azoulay, Georges Didi-Huberman, Laura U. Marks, Kodwo Eshun) and contexts (by a.o. Elias Sanbar, Renzo Martens, Black Audio Film Collective). Topics include spectatorship, representation, resistance, exotism, voyeurism and more.
Root Seminar Eric Pauwels
The aim of this seminar is to critically examine key-works in documentary film history. Special attention is given to films made in first person, by film authors who reflect upon the position of the viewer and the distance to ‘the other’ (Rouch, Mekas, Gheerbrant, Van der Keuken, ...). The emphasis is on the ethical core of each encounter. The film is understood as a creation shared between filmmaker and the people filmed.
Sound – Narration – Representation Laurent Van Lancker
Analysis of films and documentaries (Trinh T. Minh-ha, Alexander Sukurov, Hans-jurgen Syberberg, Sergei Losnitsa, Pedro Costa, Aline Moens) presenting new narrative forms and original soundscapes. This seminar encourages the participants to experiment with sound and narrativity in a sensorial way. The concept of ‘local aesthetics’ is questioned by analysing films with similar topics and narrative structures, made by directors with mixed cultural origins.
Psychedelic Ethnography Ben Russel
This workshop is conceptually organized around the seemingly opposite poles of psychedelia and ethnography, two approaches which have the same goal at heart: the understanding of our/selves in the world. Taking its cues from current trends in contemporary art that feature a nostalgic turn towards modernist notions of the sublime and the phenomenological on the one hand and a willful reinvention of non-fiction on the other, this workshop proposes a critical study of past and present in order to forge a new way forward. Drawing from the flicker films of Paul Sharits to the trance anthropologies of Jean Rouch; from the embodied abstractions of Jordan Belson to the subjective ethnographies of Robert Gardner, the end result will be a syncretic understanding of how these touchstones can be integrated into a filmmaking practice.
Sound and Spatialization Patrick Codenys
This active workshop turns around sound, its technics and possibilities for narration. Site specificity and perception are accentuated and experimented with. Placing and a possible circulation of the public are at stake as well as rhythm, temporality, duration and orientation of a work.
Active Experimental Workshop Didier Volckaert
The seminar of Didier Volckaert brings us back to the basics of Cinema and the use of AudioVisual Media today. It reflects on the fact that the difference between Anthropology and Visual Anthropology (or Documentary in the broadest sense) is the use of a machine, a technological construction, as means of direct communication (filmmaker--other) and delayed output (filmmaker--other--public). It opens up this awareness for any use of AudioVisual Media in Art, Science and even entertainment. The seminar is a manifest against the dominant position of language in our Culture and a confrontation with the complexity of images. But it’s also the joy of exploration, experimentation and a renewed sense of freedom in our standardized media society. By re-tracing the origins of our machines in Pre-Cinema and Dead Media we try to understand their parameters and how we can use them to give sense and meaning, to communicate our point of view and to create Art. All of this brought to you in both a sensorial and active way in direct relationship to your own project.
Implicit Knowledge: On Seeing, Hearing and Believing in Cinema Jeff Silva
Cinema, particularly non-fiction film, is bound up by the lived experience, by the index, by the "actuality" of human existence. But cinema is also a powerful form of magic; it's a kinesthetic dance of movement, light, color and sonic vibrations that penetrates our bodies and can alter our perception to embed alternate forms of knowledge that can have a lasting impact on the viewer long after the ephemeral images on the screen have disappeared. How do we find conjoin meaning, memory and affect in a productive way? How might we create implicit cultural stories that engage the audience as collaborators in the construction process? How can ethnographically inflected works benefit from these ideas? We shall attempt to probe these questions by exploring the very essence of cinema, and how we see and hear.
Active Workshop Ant Hampton
Ant Hampton's three-day workshop will involve a playful reshuffling and recontextualisation of the participants footage and overal aims. Situating itself somewhere in between reality-check and daydream, it aims to press pause on the ongoing process and once more go back to the beginning - the live moment of first capture, the initial observation - yet this time stepping through the mirror of our mental retina to explore what was absent, what didn't happen, and then, "what if...?"
Production Laurent Van Lancker
An introduction to the different channels that exist to find support for your project. Whenever applicable, participants are also supported in writing their applications.
Editing sessions Rudi Maerten
The SIC participants, faculty and a professional documentary editor come together to discuss the edits in progress, and to reflect upon the point of view, audiovisual communication, narration, and any problems that arise.
Participants 2012
Caroline Daish
Ordinary
This project is an interplay between my brother and myself, using improvisation, intuition and reactive forms that are part of my practice. The subject is attention and presence. Is there a parallel between my brother's story and the listener when they enter a 'headphoned' binaurally recorded piece? The real and the recorded bleed into one another, perception is questioned, and the audience enters the opened moment. What happens? Can we feel our subjectivity?
Caroline is a performer and artist and lives and works in Brussels.
Christine Moderbacher
Tunisian
Fragments
"Tunisian
Fragments" is a subjective, fragmented collage of a post revolutionary country that
is
struggling
with
the
after effects
of the Revolution. The film aims to create ambiguous, personal
impressions from encounters with Tunisians throughout the country who are caught
between
excitement, pride and the consequences of the historic event on their every day reality.
My project interweaves encounters and observations, contradictions and emotions, opening
up a landscape of disillusionment and pain, but also
humor
and
hope.
Emilie Kengmo Chappatte
Many of the people I know who have immigrated have chosen to integrate a different society due to its perceived superiority - whether economically, socially, politically or otherwise. However, most leave their country of origin with preconceived ideas of what life in a new society will be like, the image of which is often shaped by the media. By engaging in a dialogue with Sub Saharan African women who have immigrated to Washington D.C., this film will seek to address the disparity between expectations of what a ‘new life’ will bring and the reality of living in a ‘host’ country and dealing with issues such as social and cultural displacement and the consequent re-negotiation of one’s own identity within a foreign environment.
Emilie is a visual anthropologist and dancer and lives and works between Lyon and Manchester.
Eva la Cour
Juxtaposing and bringing together mutually independent and very different kinds of image-centered narratives and residues, tied to a northern light expedition to Akureyri in Iceland 1899-1900, my proposed audio-visual project for the SIC-program intend to explore the idea of 'time-images' and the ways in which such are culturally constructed.
As the director at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and responsible for the expedition to Akureyri, Adam Poulsen was accompanied by researcher Dan la Cour (my grandfather) as well as the visual artist Harald Moltke. His painted documentations and illustrations of scientific observations and results, potentially function as examples of the relationship between scientific facts and artistic fictions in the production of knowledge, which is part of the more ephemeral subject matter of my proposal.
Eva is an artist and visual anthropologist and lives and works in Copenhagen.
Helena Dembsky
Je veux voir la Tour Eiffel
"Je veux voir la Tour Eiffel" takes off in Lampedusa where the author meets a number of Tunisian migrants to Europe. She then follows three main characters who during the filming process take on the role of project ‘assistants’, to Paris and Tunisia. Through personal (and at times intimate) narrations, the author not only analyses social, political and economic aspects of migration, but rather explores whether recent migratory projects could be drastically reduced to the question of masculinities, and if and how hegemonic masculinity can be preserved in extreme quotidian situations.
Helena is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker and lives and works in Berlin.
Isobel Clouter
Each and every daughter (working title).
Growing up in Soho the conflicts that face my daughters as they define themselves and their gender identity are inevitably influenced by their immediate environment. The extent to what this influence may have I cannot define but already their explorations through play exhibit the early signs of the assimilation of cultural identity through indoctrination. This project will explore the landscape of female development through a triptych of sound-led films which are part auto-ethnography / part sonic exploration, documenting cultural influences on women in English culture, at three key stages in the development of female identity. Including intimate and changing acoustic perspectives to understand to what extent the indigenous rituals, religion and environment perpetuate the female perception of self in English culture.
Isobel Clouter is a curator, artist and mother living in Soho, London.
Jaason von Bannisseht
This documentary reveals and explores the sentiments of a diasporic people. 'Indo' culture came into existence only as a subsequence of the Dutch colonisation of what now is Indonesia. Today, this culture exists only within other dominant host cultures. The maker, together with members of this community, will explore and negotiate the meaning and the cultural politics of being 'Indo' and discover/reconnoitre the material objects that help them to recall their cultural background and engender their culture in the present.
Jaason lives and works in Nijmegen. He is a Videographer and Curator/programmer for visual, audio, and performative arts at Artist Initiative Extrapool.
Julie De Clercq
The Persian side of Nilou
"The Persian side of Nilou" is an intimate family portrait following my daughter Nilou from the moment she is born. Through a child's eye the film tributes the people of Iran and as Nilou grows up between Belgium and Iran, careful questions start to arise that investigate the role of (digital social) media.
Julie is a movie director and lives and works in Brussels.
Julie Pfleiderer
With my proposal I would like to go on researching and experimenting the processes of fracturing time.
I am interested in the perception of time that can be put under certain rules or conditions.
A perception that is ambiguous, fragmented, fractured:
What if narration is not a closed continuum but constantly changing?
Can you change your perception of narration through repetition, reproduction and reenactment?
I am portraying a story of a student from Madagascar, his memories about coming to Europe and living in Brussels now. I am working on the documentation and dramatization of this story.
Julie is a theatre director and artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Brussels.
Messaline Raverdy
Derrière les volets
A factory will be demolished. Its front shows my name and yet I am not allowed to enter, and can’t see anything of the inside. It was the factory of my grandfather, who torrefied coffee there. His wife, my grandmother, lives vis-à-vis since 1932. She goes blind. I quest to look at her place. I am entering the plant by way of personal memories and intimate perceptions by all those who have crossed it. They draw me little by little the collective and fantasized image of a place crowded with imaginations and memories.
Messaline is an artist and lives and works in Brussels.
Miki Ambrozy
The Movement is Us
Micro-stories from a development project where children turn their gaze on the outsiders coming into their lives. What is the agenda that I represent? What is the agenda that my presence assumes? Who is developing who? Using video as a participatory tool, I will ask children in a development project to take a good look at me and at what I represent. My encounter with a new world, the myth or reality of community development, cultural aid, and never ending good intentions.
Miki lives & studies in Brussels. He works with participatory video.
Salomé Laloux-Bard
L’ Age des Cabanes
Why does the field of contemporary art -cultural substantiality in the Occident and eschewed by popular classes - encloses itself in self-satisfaction? Why is it that “in Africa, contemporary art, no one cares”? The more one comes up to the contemporary age, the more one feels the symptom of exile in the context of repression and the erosion of models. The project “l`âge des cabanes” aims to understand in an empirical way, the decay of our cultural system.
Salomé is an artist an lives and works in Brussels and Gagny / France.
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