5. touch love, vulnerability, existential connection, courage In this image the Hope bags have found one another. They saunter through the sky in imitation of the birds above them. Some of them just surfaced from the lake, from their unconscious desires. Others are simply looking for others to dance with, to draw patterns in the…
Tag: vulnerability
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…
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 