1 affect disruption, potential, intensification, pre-conscious People often lead busy lives, multitasking their way through the day, struggling to keep all balls in the air. They move like speeding trains through a blurry landscape, painfully restricted to the tracks. Most moves prescribed by societal habits, education, social position or gender. Desire limited to the promise…
food & hunger (2012)
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…
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…
Salon d'Espoir 