{"id":1091,"date":"2014-07-13T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mounirasolh.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:42:27","slug":"vrij-oui-ligers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mounirasolh.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/13\/vrij-oui-ligers\/","title":{"rendered":"vrij\/oui\/ligers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1091\" class=\"elementor elementor-1091\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fe00b8a elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fe00b8a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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Replacing the &#8220;wi&#8221; in the middle of the word by &#8220;oui&#8221; evokes the phantom of the french language in this word that originally comes from french &#8220;volontair&#8221; or from latin &#8220;voluntarius&#8221;. To volonteer is to do something by will, the &#8220;oui&#8221; in the word stresses that out ironically. \u00a0<\/p><p>This video was shot at\u00a0<em>Atlas<\/em>\u00a0in Antwerp where every year about 20,000 immigrants go to inscribe for a Dutch course after their level in the language is tested. I had a plan to inscribe for the course, but this was not possible because I am not an official Belgium citizen, and do not have a residency card from Belgium, but from the Netherlands. \u00a0However, the director of\u00a0<em>Atlas<\/em>\u00a0gave me the permission to film the building and what was happening there on one of the last days during the inscriptions&#8217; \u00a0week.\u00a0Thus I met some of the people working there and I witnessed the crowds of mixed immigrants coming to learn Dutch, and luckily, my camera was able to record these moments.<\/p><p>The video is often and without previous notice interrupted by my personal notes that vary between general remarks, biographical and imaginative questionings.\u00a0 While we witness people speaking in Dutch, Arabic, English, Bengali or French, the video is not under-titled. This work was made during a residency at AIR Antwerpen where my aim was to study Dutch from Belgium, and not from the Netherlands. 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