FOOD & HUNGER Marcella.B & Elke Van Campenhout 1) Food and art production Knowing about food and where our foods come from, or even knowing what exactly it is we are eating, has been the leveller for a new movement of engaged and interested citizens-artists who want to come to an understanding of the different…
Category: BASIC TEXTS
under this header you find the texts written in the last 3 years on the subject of hope.
the tender institute (2012)
AN INSTITUTE IN SITU Elke Van Campenhout Who’s afraid of the Institute? In the whirlwind of changing subsidy policies, and political crisis, the Institute has become a partner to be mistrusted. Paraphrasing Dorothy Parker you could say that the Institute in most contemporary engaged art practices is ‘not one to be tossed aside lightly. It…
Spirit
Interview with Elke Van Campenhout by Heike Langsdorf and Sébastien Hendrickx in the context of the long-term research project OTCOE (more here)
Curating as Environmentalism (2011)
Curating as environ-mentalism ‘to find a frame, a timing or a situation within which suggestions of others can be realized’ tom plischke (1) 1. In this text I would like to focus on a particular form of curatorship: a practice that grew out of (and in opposition to) the ‘new’ style of programming…
Bureau d’Espoir about LaZone
Interview with Bureau d’Espoir (Elke Van Campenhout) Co-curator of the Residency “LaZone”, October 2010 Coralie Stalberg: How do you envision LaZone? Elke van Campenhout: LaZone is a long-term project I am working on that is related to the topic of ‘critical hope’. In this collaboration with Bains Connective we worked with the invited artists of…
Salon d'Espoir 