Moniek Darge

Moniek Darge was born in Bruges, 1952 and studied music theory and violin at the Music Conservatory of Bruges, painting at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Art history, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

On artistic level Moniek Darge is mainly active as composer, violinist, performer and audio artist. She's specialised in soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined. Ever since 1970 she's specialising in interactional improvisation on violin and in 1994 she also founded the Logos Women, a small group specialised in intermedia improvisations for various instruments, voices, and bodymovement and recently also in own compositions and music box performances.

She built light- and sound sculptures, installations and musical instruments and since many years she's constructing a series of alternative music boxes.

She's often invited by international artists to collaboration. In 1986 the Third Program of the National Belgian Radio broadcasted a series of programs about her concerts and performances in New York City and about some artists with whom she collaborated there. A similar program was made about her music experiences in Kenya and Rwanda.And later on also about Japan, China, Bresil, Australia, New Zealand etc. She herself also realised radio programs about women artists over the world.

Moniek Darge published several journalistic and literary essays, amongst which "Inter Media Myths, Auto-Author" (1986), an art edition, combining poetry, drawings, scores and pictures (Toronto, Art Metropole-catalogue no.12) and the book "Lijf tegen Lijf" (Body against Body, Kritak, Leuven, 1982). She's general editor of the 'Logos-Blad', the monthly magazine of the Logos Foundation, which appears already during seventeen years and in which she also tells her international music travel experiences. Many international magazines published her articles.

Besides her many concerts and performances all over the world and besides her activities as organiser, Moniek Darge is assistant professor at the "Hogeschool Gent" where she teaches 20th Century Art History, Audio Art and Non Western Art Studies at the Fine Arts Department and an Introductionary course to Ethnomusicology at the Music Department.

She is currently in charge of the artistic productions of Logos. In 1997 she got the title of Cultural Ambassador of Flanders for the Logos Duo.

You can also visit Moniek Darge's web-page.