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…
interview bureau d’espoir on author/authority
Of horizontal authorities, anorexic redistributions, and debating politics with trees. Welcome to Bureau d’Espoir Chinese artists used to change their names three times in their career in order not to be linked all their lives to the same work. In this way they gave up on the concept of the “I” related, to a…
how to talk to a tree…
How to talk to a tree. And be sure they’re listening. What does it mean to speak? To have a dialogue? To resonate with another human being. Or a plant. Or a brick. Is there anything like a dialogue possible with an entity that is not conventionally and conveniently structured in a rational…
0. hope
0. hope birth of hope, disconnection, crisis, seed This is the very beginning of Hope’s journey, the zero point of the Major Arcana of the Tarot. In Greek mythology hope is connected to Pandora, the nosy maiden that got tricked into opening the box that contained all the miseries of the world, and in doing so set…
Salon d'Espoir 