OBJECT 002 (L)

OBJECT NR 002 TERM: Uniform PROPERTY OF: Rares Craiut This kitchen uniform is a second hand object that belonged to somebody in Germany before. The one who wears is meant to produce something because the uniform represents a working status cutting the person out of the environment. 

16. flow

16. flow eco-logics, cosmic worldview, inter-being What we see in this card is the world coming together in all its different realizations. The water, the roots, the plants, they all resonate with delicate harmony. Flow is the card of the ecology of things: not only of all things ‘natural’, but also the ecology of the…

2. care

2 care state of attention, practice, intuition, environmental Care in the Tarot of Hope comes just after Affect: the moment we become touched again by what surrounds us. Care is the card that emphasizes the need to become aware of our environments and the role they play in who and what we are. At this…

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…

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…