25 March 2024

LUNÄ Talk: Energy (In)Dependency

Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, FR

On the evening of 25 March, when the moon is full, the LUNÄ Talk will focus on transitioning from one energy to another, from one infrastructure to another. How can we envisage transitions without considering the need to bring history to a close before embarking on new projects? The history of energy is written as a race towards the new, towards renewal, without ever questioning the possibility of moving towards solutions of repair or transformation. It’s about turning pages and arguing that the future will be more efficient, appropriate, or cleaner. These political choices will be discussed over a few hours, involving the guest speakers and anyone else interested.

Participants:
Marjolijn Dijkman, artist and moderator of the LUNÄ Talk
Maarten Vanden Eynde, artist and co-host of the LUNÄ Talk
Fanny Lopez, historian of architecture and technology, co-curator of the Power Up exhibition
Clémence André, engineer in charge of urban planning and connections at Territoire d’énergie Hautes-Alpes
Marie Lechner, teacher-researcher at L’École supérieure d’art et de design d’Orléans, author and exhibition curator
Stéphanie Schmitt, partnership relations manager, UEM

With a written letter to the participants of the LUNÄ Talk to catalyze the discussion by Cara New Daggett (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, author of ‘The Birth of Energy’)

Fall 2023

‘Renewable’ Energy Frontiers – CFI Issue 6

Commodity Frontiers Journal, Online

From a technical point of view, renewable energy is energy from “natural” sources that can be constantly replenished; things like wind, sun, waves. Without a doubt, these are important fossil fuel alternatives. But when commodity frontier dynamics are the entry point for analyzing energy and energy transitions, the notion of renewability comes into question. To define an energy transition in technical terms without addressing the people who could make a transition possible, or the root causes of climate change, environmental degradation, and global inequality leaves a foundational question unanswered: in addition to energy, what else is being renewed in today’s renewable energy frontiers?

Several contributions in the Issue look at how renewable energy reproduces — or renews — extractive, colonial, exploitative relations. The first three articles are grounded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the mining of cobalt, a mineral marked as key for the renewable energy transition, including Maarten Vanden Eynde’s conversation with artist, documentary photographer, and journalist Pamela Tulizo who is living and working in Goma, in North Kivu, D.R. Congo.

10 - 28 February 2023

On-Trade-Off: Jean Katambayi – Thami Mnyele Award

Residency at Thami-Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam, NL

Jean Katambayi Mukendi will work at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam to prepare new work for the upcoming exhibition 'Charging Myths' of On-Trade-Off at Framer Framed.

Established in 1990, the Thami Mnyele Foundation runs since 1992 a unique three month artists-in- residence program in Amsterdam. The main objective of the Foundation is to advance cultural exchange between artists from Africa and the diaspora, the Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular.

Fall 2021

Livestock Frontiers – CFI Issue 3

Commodity Frontiers Journal, Online

In this issue of Commodity Frontiers, contributors take up issues relating to animals, livestock, and livestock production through a commodity frontiers lens. Fueled by increasing (local, national, imperial, and global) livestock production “developments” and demands for livestock products—most notably (but not only) meat—and reinforced by technoscientific innovations, new livestock frontiers have emerged and spread across the globe. With livestock frontiers we mean both processes and sites in which animals are bred, reared, cured, traded, and commodified in novel ways, by re-allocating land, labour, capital, knowledge, and other resources, to enhance productivity and maximize gains. By doing so, livestock frontiers have changed human-animal and interhuman social relations, economic systems, and ecological landscapes in various and often unintended ways. Furthermore, livestock frontiers have become deeply entangled with frontiers in agriculture, securing the production of fodder crops such as soy and corn. These changes include, but are not limited to, the industrialization of livestock production that we discussed above.

Issue 3 features several contributions, including Maarten Vanden Eynde's interview with Christien Meindertsma, the Dutch designer who has researched and wrote a book called Pig 05049 which relates the many consumer products made from a pig called 05049. They discuss Meindertsma’s motivations for making the book and reflect on some of the challenges of promoting and brining about social change regarding meat (and other) consumption.

1 March 2020 - 28 August 2021

Bie Michels – ‘(Pas) Mon Pays’

Enough Room for Space, BE

The film ‘(Pas) Mon Pays, Part I and II’ together with the installation ‘The Copy’ will be shown at Enough Room for Space. The exhibition will also present archival material in relation to the history of the colonial monument in Mechelen and the proposed new inscription.

As the title indicates, ‘(Pas) Mon Pays, Part I and II’, is in two parts. The first deals with a colonial monument in Mechelen and Michels’ efforts to decolonize this statue with a group of Belgian citizens with Congolese roots. The second shows the artist’s visit to DR Congo and is based on her personal history. The film is an attempt to let the past encounter the present and see further into the future of the postcolonial situation, in both DR Congo and Mechelen.

1 - 15 November 2020

On-Trade-Off: Residency period & Research trip (III)

Lubumbashi and Manono, DRC

Georges Senga and Gulda El Magambo undertook a third research trip to Manono, DRC. They continued to conduct a whole range of interviews with people ranging from artisanal miners, the director of the Ministry of Mines and Geology, the Luba chef among others. This material will be collected in the ‘OTO-Resource Collectif’, a collective archive of images, texts and audiovisual materials, made available to all participating artists for the production of new works.

On-Trade-Off is an ongoing artistic-research project that reflects on environmental and economic implications of the extraction and processing of Lithium, the main raw material needed for the global production of Green Energy.

14 September 2020

On-Trade-Off: Dorine Mokha

Digital Earth Fellowship 2020 - 2021

Dorine Mokha is selected for the Digital Earth Fellowship to further develop his project developed in the context of On-Trade Off. Dorine Mokha weaves together a personal and national history of the Congolese lithium mines to reflect on the economic and social political inequalities.

Mokha will look into collective memory, forgotten, forbidden stories, oral and written archives around the site of the Gécamines Mining Company and the Manono lithium project open-pit mine. Lithium is a planetary commodity for the ‘digital revolution’ and multiple products, such as the Tesla car. While earth’s collective memory is being stored in memory drives powered by lithium batteries, Mokha aims to fight the local and planetary amnesia of the histories and memories connected to the sites of extraction for the minerals in the mobile phones we carry in our pockets.

His project, (Dis)Charged is a research and performing arts project, in which he will combine music, dance, spoken word, and visual components.

August 2020

ICC: Research Residency – Nelson Makengo

Enough Room for Space, BE

Nelson Makengo, a cinematographer from Kinshasa, DR Congo, was in residence at ERforS during which he started working on a new photo series called ‘Troon’ and a new documentary film called ‘Le Vieux Kilo’(working title), that takes one of the most iconic items from the collection of ICC as departure point. A bible translated in Kiswahili, containing a hidden 9mm revolver, was given to ICC by a former Belgian White Father.

Several interviews were conducted and a plan has been developed by Nelson to travel to the former mission in Kilo Moto of the priest, the infamous goldmine in the East of Congo in 2021.

September 2020

ELIXIDER 2020

Third batch of cider, ERforS, BE

As part of ELIXIR we're now producing apple cider with  fruit of the public orchard surrounding the FeliXart museum (located around the corner of ERforS HQ).

Felix De Boeck, an early modernist Belgian painter, made his living from his orchard. As a result he was working independently as an artist without the pressure to sell his works. The orchard is maintained by the Province but it's resources are scarcely used; most of it becomes fallen fruit. Elixir will harvest some of these fruits and transform this resource during public events into all sorts of products which will be used for upcoming events of Enough Room for Space.

16 January –7 March 2020

On-Trade-Off: La Contrepartie

Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Ville de Lilas, Paris, FR


On-Trade-Off: The Weight of Wonders is an artistic trajectory initiated by the artists' initiatives Picha (DRC) and Enough Room for Space (BE). With: Sammy Baloji, Marjolijn Dijkman, Jean Katambayi, Musasa, Georges Senga, Daddy Tshikaya, Maarten Vanden Eynde.

The starting point for the research project On-Trade-Off is the raw material lithium. A naturally occurring element (number three on the periodic table), lithium is currently considered to be ‘the new black gold’ because of its crucial role in the global transition towards a ‘green and fossil fuel free economy’.

23 January - 29 February 2020

On-Trade-Off: Georges Senga

Residency at ERforS, BE

One month residency period of Georges Senga to develop his individual artistic project within the collaborative research project On-Trade-Off. The starting point for the research project On-Trade-Off is the raw material lithium. A naturally occurring element (number three on the periodic table), lithium is currently considered to be ‘the new black gold’ because of its crucial role in the global transition towards a ‘green and fossil fuel free economy’.

8 December 2019

On-Trade-Off: Film Program and Conversation

De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL

What are the human, environmental and economic consequences of mining in Katanga, in DR Congo? In their films 'Pungulume' and 'Mangeurs de Cuivre', artists Sammy Baloji (DRC) and Bodil Furu (NO) highlight the role of and craving for resources in the turbulent history of civil wars and conflicts in DRC.

On Sunday 8 December Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond will show these two films in collaboration with Cargo in Context. Between the two screenings, curator Rosa Spaliviero (Picha) will have a conversation with anthropologist Filip De Boeck (KU Leuven, BE) to further discuss the topics addressed in the films.

27 October 2019

On-Trade-Off: Charging Tesla Crash

Future Genealogies, 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, DRC

30 October - 6 November 2019

On-Trade-Off: Residency period & Research trip (II)

Manono, DRC

Alexis Destoop and Gulda El Magambo undertook a second research trip to Manono, DRC. They continued to conduct a whole range of interviews with people ranging from artisanal miners, the director of the Ministry of Mines and Geology, the Luba chef among others. This material will be collected in the ‘OTO-Banque Collectif’, a collective archive of images, texts and audiovisual materials, made available to all participating artists for the production of new works.

On-Trade-Off is an ongoing artistic-research project that reflects on environmental and economic implications of the extraction and processing of Lithium, the main raw material needed for the global production of Green Energy.

29 September 2019

Nuclear Culture: Learning From Deep Time

ONDRAF/NIRAS - National Institute for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Material, Kastelsedijk, Dessel, BE

How can we imagine the unbelievably long lifespan of radioactive waste? And how do we make it clear to future generations that they are on a disposal site? A few artists worked with these and other questions. During the open house of ONDRAF/NIRAS you will discover the result of their creative exercise in the Installation for the production of monoliths (IPM).

With: Alexis Destoop, Andy Weir, Commonplace Studio, Jesse Howard & Tim Knapen, Thomson & Craighead, Maarten Vanden Eynde.

August 2018 - Ongoing

INSTITUTE OF COLONIAL CULTURE (ICC)

Research on Congolese Heritage, National Museum of Lubumbashi, DRC

Initiated by Philippe Mikobi and Maarten Vanden Eynde, ICC consists of a collection of artefacts representing colonial presence in Congo, mainly focusing on the period 1884-1960. There is hardly any tangible material left in Congo of that period, due to the hastily departure of most colonisers after the independence in 1960. The ICC will officially open at the National Museum of Lubumbashi in 2021.

ICC is looking for artefacts, documents and photographs representing the life and work in Congo of former European colonists, or their children and grand children. Ranging from clothes, personal and religious items to tools, equipment, photographs, letters and administration, ICC welcomes any suggestions for materials, books and documentation that represents this historic period.

Please contact erfors@gmail.com for inquiries or donations to the collection.

12 - 30 June 2019

On-Trade-Off: Residency period & Research trip (I)

Picha, Lubumbashi & Manono, DRC

Jean Katambayi, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Gulda El Magambo undertook a collective research trip to the Manono mining area and collected raw materials and audio/visual documentation. They conducted a whole range of interviews with people ranging from artisanal miners, the director of the Ministry of Mines and Geology, the Luba chef, the head of Manono Abbey among others. This material will be collected in the ‘OTO-Banque Collectif’, a collective archive of images, texts and audiovisual materials, made available to all participating artists for the production of new works. 

On-Trade-Off is an ongoing artistic-research project that reflects on environmental and economic implications of the extraction and processing of Lithium, the main raw material needed for the global production of Green Energy.

25 May 2019 Opening event + Screenings 1 / 8 / 15 June 2019

The Voters and the Politicians & No Wo.man is an Island

Enough Room for Space, BE

Opening with the premiere of 'The Voters and the Politicians' a new film by Rune Peitersen, a conversation between Rune Peitersen and Wouter Hillaert about 'The Voters and the Politicians' and the related political issues addressed, and a participatory event No Wo.man is an Island hosted by Erika Sprey and Rune Peitersen.

The Voters and the Politicians is taking its outset in a personal experience - his first conscious contact with the democratic system during a political demonstration as a teenager in Denmark – Peitersen attempts to analyse the relationship between voters and politicians in Western democracies through a series of iconic situations and political archetypes. 

On the eve of the European elections, you're kindly invited to participate in the staged polylogue No Wo.man is an Island hosted by Erika Sprey and Rune Peitersen. Moving through space and assuming shifting roles we will speak in tongues about one of the central questions that haunt these elections: is a (new) future possible for the EU? For once not seeking sleek solutions or half baked compromises, we will entangle ourselves in the different strands of the Gordian knot and stretch these to their extremes, as we dig ourselves deeper in our post-factual truths that may or may not untangle new vista beyond the EU.

18 May 2019 (13:00-16:00)

On-Trade-Off: LUNÄ Talk

Contour Biennale 9, NONA, Mechelen, BE

This LUNÄ Talk, held as part of On-Trade-Off, will focus on the environmental, social and economic implications of the extraction and processing of lithium. In the discussion, we will look at the history of energy and address the importance of raw materials from D.R. Congo in both the industrial and technological revolutions. At the same time we will address experimental models of sustainable energy production and future prospects for lithium mining in D.R. Congo.

Hosted by the artists Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde, researchers Raf Custers (Gresea), Jeroen Cuvelier (Ugent) and Zheng Li (KU Leuven) will engage in conversation with the artists Femke Herregraven, Sammy Baloji and Jean Katambayi who are part of the project On-Trade-Off.

22 April - 2 May 2019

Performing Objects – Residency: Justin Balmain

Enough Room for Space, BE

…they could watch themselves. No one who ever came to know himself with the detachment of an observer, is ever the same again. Edmund Carpenter, Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!

Following a research and development period partnered with the Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Justin Balmain utilised Enough Room for Space as an opportunity to nurture and expand upon production undertaken in Marseille, France. Interacting directly with a maleific object that remains in archival limbo in the Mucem collection, Balmain worked with the museum staff towards addressing ideas of the value of objects within cultural and capital contexts: access, commodity, archival and conservation practice, along with the complex issues this particular object raises: superstition, optics, art history, the occult, class and hierarchy within museological contexts.

September 2018

ELIXIDER 2018

Second batch of cider, Enough Room for Space, BE

As part of ELIXIR we're now producing apple cider with  fruit of the public orchard surrounding the FeliXart museum (located around the corner of ERforS HQ).

Felix De Boeck, an early modernist Belgian painter, made his living from his orchard. As a result he was working independently as an artist without the pressure to sell his works. The orchard is maintained by the Province but it's resources are scarcely used; most of it becomes fallen fruit. Elixir will harvest some of these fruits and transform this resource during public events into all sorts of products which will be used for upcoming events of Enough Room for Space.

Produced with: Arne Skaug Olsen, Amélie Bouvier, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Marjolijn Dijkman

Thanks to: Felix Artmuseum, Drogenbos, Be and Regionaal Landschap Pajottenland & Zennevallei

23 March 2019

Finissage: ‘A Series of Characters’ by Alice De Mont

Exhibition, Lecture, Conversation, Enough Room for Space, BE

On the occasion of the finissage of Alice De Mont's exhibition 'A Series of Characters', Arno M. Feld will give a lecture on 'Triangular Art-Coaching in Business Environments'. Arno M. Feld, the alter ego of Christoph Baum, is an art coach who uses art and creation as a tool to enhance employees’ creativity, innovativeness and success rate. This lecture is part of De Mont's research on the function of the alter ego in artistic practice.

De Mont and Baum made the video lecture ‘Erfolg durch Kunst’ together which is on display in the exhibition 'A Series of Characters'. Their second collaboration developed for the finissage involves a scenography developed by De Mont to transform Feld's lecture into a performance. Feld's lecture will be preceded by a brief introduction by performance artist Johanna Sarah Schlenk. After the lecture by Feld, an informal conversation will take place between Alice De Mont, Christoph Baum, Johanna Sarah Schlenk and the public on the use of an alter ego as an artistic tool.

Time: 15:00-20:00 (start talks 16:00)

2 Maart 2019

Uncertainty Scenarios – Session #8

Enough Room for Space, BE

On the 2nd of March we hosted Uncertainty Scenarios - Session #8, a gathering with a contributions by Maarten Vanden Eynde, Pádraic E. Moore, Steeve Sabatto, Cécile Massart, Daniela De Paulis and Olivier Weber. The session was accompanied by a specially prepared menu for UV light with uranium glass ware and by a part of the 'Uncertainty Scenarios - Playlist' with music influenced by the Atomic age arranged by Amélie Bouvier and Marjolijn Dijkman.

Participants of Session #8: Marjolijn Dijkman, Amélie Bouvier, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Antye Guenther, Pádraic E. Moore, Daniela De Paulis, Maxime Bondu, Simon Ripoll-Hurier, Emma Perrochon, Olivier Weber, Steeve Sabatto, Cécile Massart, Alexis Destoop, Florence Cheval.

17 - 20 January 2019

Lectures and workshop by Marjolijn Dijkman and Paul O’Neill

Swimmingpool and Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, BG

Swimming Pool is hosting a double lecture by Marjolijn Dijkman (Co-Founder of Enough Room for Space, Brussels, BE) and Paul O’Neill (Director of Publics, Helsinki, FI). This event is part of the Public Program of the Curatorial School, which Swimming Pool organises this year. Curatorial School main’s interest lies on the potentials of independent curatorial activity towards creating spaces.

Their public program aims at exploring agency of project spaces, and how such initiatives can move society. They also reflect on their irregularity (which consists in a low level of institutionalisation, shared economy, as well as DIY culture) and how this allows for new types of institutionalisation that correspond to how our environment is structured today.

25 October 2018

On-Trade-Off: Initiation Phase of Contour Biennale 9

Contour Biennale, Nona, Mechelen, BE

During the Initiation Phase organised by kunstencentrum nona, curator Nataša Petrešin Bachelez will introduce her approach to this edition of the Biennale. Next, the graphic studio OSP from Brussels will present its methods and procedures for working on the Biennale’s platform. After this presentation a heart-to-heart conversation will be held between participating artists Ana Vaz, Clémence Seurat, Maarten Vanden Eynde, and Sammy Baloji. This is the first in a series of conversations that will be held throughout the year.

Maarten and Sammy will introduce ON-TRADE-OFF a project initiated by Enough Room for Space and Picha with presentations at the upcoming 9th Contour Biennale.

1 October - 14 October 2018

On-Trade-Off: Residency period & Artist Talk

Picha, Lubumbashi, DRC

Residency and working period at Picha in Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo in the framework of the long term research project On-Trade-Off. With Jean Katambayi, Daddy Tshikaya, Musasa and Maarten Vanden Eynde. During the residency period Jean Katambayi and Daddy Tshikaya made a scale model of the famous Tesla X, using copper wires and other recycled materials. Maarten Vanden Eynde worked together with the Lubumbashi based painter Musasa on the creation of painted wall charts, inspired by old educational charts. The charts summarise the origin, use and influence of Lithium and other pivotal elements like copper, gold and uranium.

13 October - 17:00 Artist Talk with Jean Katambayi, Daddy Tshikaya, Musasa and Maarten Vanden Eynde at Picha.

1 October 2018

On-Trade-Off: Launch project

Initiated by ERforS, BE and Picha, DRC

The artist initiatives Picha and Enough Room for Space are developing an experimental research project, called On-Trade-Off. To be understood as a collective artistic trajectory, the project looks both at the importance of one specific raw material, called lithium, for the transition into a green and fossil fuel free economy, and the influence its extraction and transformation has on everyone and everything involved, ranging from the miners who take the lightest metal in existence out of the ground, to the produced batteries that power cars, homes and potentially the entire planet.

17 June - 9 September 2018

Performing Objects: ‘Taming Anonymity’ by Guy Woueté

Exhibition, Enough Room for Space, BE

An exhibition by Guy Woueté with an accompanying screening by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, both working with personal and subjective narratives in response to the representation of contemporary migration and colonial histories.

On Guy's journey that took him from Antwerp to the Jungle of Calais and back, he wrote his own subjective story of this larger collective moment. All the images, texts and objects collected by Guy became part of his personal story within the context of the significant history of the jungle of Calais. The work reflects on the question of the collective that is being shared within an artists book and this exhibition.

'Nou voix' by Maxime Jean-Baptiste is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of Maxime's father, as a Guyanese figurant, in the movie 'Jean Galmot aventurier' (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana. By re-enacting a part of the film, Maxime and his father try to unravel other voices that have been unheard in the original French film.

Finissage 8 September - 17:00: Laura Nsengiyumva will start a conversation with Guy Woueté and Maxime Jean-Baptiste about the related themes in their practice to be followed by a conversation with the audience.

17 May 2018

IDAHOT in Drogenbos!

Enough Room for Space, Drogenbos, BE

Enough Room for Space hosted the press conference of Cavaria and Holibihuis Vlaams Brabant on the 17th of May. For the third year, ERforS flied the rainbow flag together with cultural institutions, in hope of a more openly tolerant Commune of Drogenbos we can be proud of.

This year, after an intense citizens' initiative (instigated by ERforS) Drogenbos will participate from now on to fly the rainbow flag during IDAHOT an action initiated by çavaria and Holibihuis Vlaanderen, and implement some of their suggestions for new inclusive gender neutral policies in our commune and start a local sensibilisation campaign against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. (IDAHOT is The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia).

3 February 2018

Performing Objects – Workshop VI

Workshop by Geert Belpaeme, De Veerman, BE

Geert Belpaeme hosted another workshop with the members of 'Performing Objects' exploring the relation between the body and architecture. 'Performing Objects' experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience.

16 & 17 December 2017

Performing Objects: Research trip

Paris, FR

During a two day group visit to Paris we visited several exhibitions in the city and met with curator Lotte Arndt and artist Candice Lin to discuss their exhibition project 'A Hard White Body' at Bétonsalon and it's relation to the project Performing Objects. Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience.

27 May 2017

Uncertainty Scenarios: Simon Ripoll-Hurier

SYNC at Greylight Projects, Brussels, BE

The Temporary Telecommunication Union,  a performative film installation,  is part of a project by Simon Ripoll-Hurier called Diana. Sometimes, 'birders' try to attract birds by mimicking their calls. Other times, 'paranormal investigators' try to communicate with ghosts. From time to time, 'radio hams' make contacts, talking in a coded language and following obscure protocols. These characters and many more are building an ocean of interferences in which the background noise seems to take the first role. The composite assembly thus convened is called the Temporary telecommunication union.

17 May 2017

IDAHOT in Drogenbos!

Enough Room for Space, BE

Sadly enough our beloved commune Drogenbos is one of the two communes in Flanders and Brussels that doesn't participate in the action of the Holebihuis Vlaams-Brabant from Leuven to hang a rainbow flag in support for The IDAHOT (The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia).

For the second time Enough Room for Space, this year together with FelixArt Museum and De Muze hang the flag on the cultural institutions in Drogenbos, in hope of a more openly tolerant Commune of Drogenbos we can be proud of!

18 March 2017 (19:00 - 22:00)

Performing Objects – ‘End To End’, book launch & event

ERforS and 'Supermarket Drogenbos', Drogenbos, BE

The launch will be accompanied by a presentation with images of the process of 'End To End / Raversijde', a film screening of 'Semiophores' by Pauline M'barek and a performative intervention ‘Physical experiments at the supermarket #4’ by Edwin Deen at the night shop in the centre of Drogenbos explores and shows the ‘hidden nature’ of seemingly unnatural/artificial, human made things. M’barek’s work operates in the transitional space between knowledge and perception, the observer and the observed, the shown and the hidden.

For the project End To End the experimental group Performing Objects is inspired by Lean Management, a form of factory management developed by Toyota in Japan. 'End to End' is a working method which structures a collective process within which objects are constantly being transformed. Variations of the project 'End To End' have so far been on display in China (2015) and Madagascar (2016) and in Belgium (2016).

11 November 2016 - 12 March 2017

LUNÄ Talks

11th Shanghai Bienniale, Power Station of Art, CN

LUNÄ is a copy of the original table of the Lunar Society, an 18th-century group of British industrialists, scientists, poets, and writers. They used to hold inspiring meetings – mostly during full moon – to explore the ways in which science, technology, and art could serve society. A newly produced facsimile of the original table has been produced in China for the 11th Shanghai Biennial. A series of five LUNÄ Talks are organised every full moon during the period of the biennial and are hosted by Chinese curator Liu Tian.

20 January 2017 (15:00)

The Unity of All Things

La Loge, Brussels, BE

One time Screening of The Unity of All Things / 物之合 , by Alexander Carver and Daniel Schmidt, 2013 | 97 min. at La Loge for 'Present Club'. Proposed by members part of the experimental research project Uncertainty Scenarios.

The Unity of All Things is a work of experimental science fiction about the construction of a particle accelerator on the U.S./Mexico border, and is grappling with questions of self and other by employing particle physics as a metaphor for the morphing nature of human identity. The film engages the utopian impulses of the genre, not through the imagining of another world, but through the rendering of this world as Other. All subjects are treated as alien, or as radical others, who search for, or advance different ideological, psychological, or sexual ideals of belonging. Subjects oscillate between the contemplation of past societal traumas and idealisations of futurity that refuse to synthesise or resolve, but instead reveal a troubling satire of the present.

6 January 2017

Uncertainty Scenarios: Lecture – Water Finds its Own Level

by Alejandro Alonso Diaz ERforS HQ, BE (19:00h.)

The title of this lecture is a simple, direct statement introducing a set of questions connected to the notion of liquidity, as a means to explore what we can understand as material uncertainties. Paying special attention to the realm of water, and more specifically to this of the ocean, 'Water Finds its Own Level' takes interest in researching the idea of what it means to jointly conceive ‘liveable ecologies’ in the wake of the Anthropocene and within advanced-capitalist societies; the politics of location in coming to grips with inter-agentivity, intersectionality and multi-species thinking and becoming with other modes of being in the world. Coinciding with the lecture we will present a film and sound installation by David Ferrando Giraut.

10 December 2016

Performing Objects – Bie Michels and Anja Veirman

Enough Room for Space, BE

Bie Michels will present results of her working period in Madagascar last summer for the ongoing project ‘Bricks in Madagascar’ and Anja Veirman will introduce ritual textiles from Mali. Anja Veirman is an art historian with a special interest in art and divination.

Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. This project researches different ways artists can anticipate this process during the conceptualisation and the conception of their work. The artworks made for this project will possibly manifest themselves in different locations outside the regular arts contexts.
(Start 14:00h.)

27 November 2016

Uncertainty Scenarios – Session #3

Enough Room for Space, BE

On the 27th of November we hosted Uncertainty Scenarios - Session #3 at the ERforS, a gathering of people related to the project Uncertainty Scenarios with a contribution by John Ryan Brubaker, Sol Archer, Sofia Lemos & Elias Heuninck, and Maxime Bondu.

Uncertainty Scenarios is a collective experimental research project that explores the ways people throughout history have tried to speculate, predict and anticipate the future and different attitudes that go along with this. The project creates a common ground for a group of artists that all share interest in the concerns of the project and aims to establish a context for the development of new works.

26 November 2016

VODUN: Performance lecture by Theo Atrokpo (in French)

Enough Room for Space, BE (in collaboration with mòsso)

Theo Atrokpo from Benin will give a performance lecture where he will give insight into the world of Vodun with an introduction into its rituals, charms and performative objects. During this intimate evening event, Theo Atrokpo will present the objects used and worn at Vodun ceremonies like raffia, beads, sceptres, bells or the apklè. He will also present some medical magic ingredients like atakun, which has medicinal and esoteric virtues: its chewed seeds will incite the spoken words. Besides this he will introduce some incantations and Vodun chants.

(Due to limited seats available please reserve before the 20th of November)

14 August - 15 September 2016

Present Perfect: Residency Period

Alioum Moussa / Maarten Vanden Eynde, ERforS / Verbeke Foundation, BE

During this residency period, Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE) and Alioum Moussa (CM) are building a two-part mobile structure, of which one side is the other’s opposite, yet the structures depend upon one another to stay in balance. During Performatik17, they will visit a different location in Brussels every day with their mobile house. You are invited to visit them in pairs for a discussion about what dependence and independence mean to you – at a personal, political and artistic level. The project will be translated into a growing photo exhibition at Kaaitheater. Moussa and Vanden Eynde originally created the project for SUD2010, the triennial art event in Douala (Cameroon), whose starting point was the 50th anniversary of independence being marked by 17 African countries.

20 May 2016

LUNÄ Talk: Deep Evolution

ASTRON (Dutch Institute for Radio Astronomy), Dwingeloo, NL

The second LUNÄ Talk in Drenthe this year takes place at ASTRON. On the table lies the question of how science, philosophy and religion relate to each other, focusing on topics such as ‘deep evolution’, the (re)writing of history and speculative future developments in astronomy, SETI research, anthropology, philosophy and religion. Among the guests: Professor Michael Garrett, Professor Anthropology Peter Pels, visual artist Daniela de Paulis, philosopher of religion and theologian Taede A. Smedes, artist Marjolijn Dijkman.

17 October 2015 - 15 May 2016

Transgression / Transition

Exhibition, ERforS HQ, BE

The installation is part of Transgression/Transition: an exploration of the Senne and its surroundings, an ongoing research project by Paoletta Holst on the Belgian Senne river. The project started in April 2015 and has known several moments of exploration and presentation since. These photographs represent the Senne and its surroundings in the colors of the regional area destinations as defined by the Belgian regional spatial planning institutions.

4 April 2016

Visual Arts in Cameroon: A Genealogy of Non-formal Training

Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, CM

Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century. Her book meticulously reconstructs the multiple ways of artistic knowledge acquisition - from the consolidation of the "Système de Grands Frères" in the 1970s to the emergence of more discursively oriented small artists’ initiatives which responded to the growing NGO market of social practice art opportunities in the 2000s. Based on archival research, participant observation and in depth interviews with art practitioners in Douala and Yaoundé, this study is a must read for everyone who wants to better understand the vibrant artistic scenes in countries like Cameroon, which until today lack a proper state-funded infrastructure in the arts.

March - April 2016

Triangular Trade: Research Residency

Deltaworkers, New Orleans, USA

Report by Maarten Vanden Eynde of a research trip for the development of the project Triangular Trade. For centuries, goods and people, for a long time considered as commodities as well, have been shipped around the world. Triangular Trade focuses on the trade between Africa, Europe and America, i.e. the North Atlantic trade route. For this initial research phase the triangle was narrowed down to the Kingdom of Kongo (representing Africa), New Orleans – and the Southern States (representing America), and Belgium (representing Europe). In the search for traces of African culture in the Southern States has is looking at material remains and influences.

21 - 27 February 2016

Present Perfect: Residency Period

Alioum Moussa / Maarten Vanden Eynde, ERforS HQ

Alioum Moussa (based in Yaounde, CM) and Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE) will continue to work on their collaborative project In_Dependance for the upcoming Performatik Biennial in Brussels initiated by Kaaitheater. The project started in 2010 and took the 50th anniversary of the independence of 17 African countries as a starting point, the project’s aim is to inspire dialogues about a variety of notions of independence, be they individual, political or artistic.

29 January 2016

Uncertainty Scenarios – Session #2

ERforS HQ, Drogenbos, BE

Uncertainty Scenarios - Session #2 hosted an informal presentation of Maya van Leemput introducing the work of Agence Future (AF). The goal of AF is to support foresight and futures exploration in Flanders, Belgium, Europe and the world and to involve a diverse public in foresight activities. AF pursues projects, activities, research, events, communication, education, creation, production, experiment and publication on the subject of (images of the) futures.

16 - 17 January 2016

Performing Objects at The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial

Vigeland Museum, Oslo, NO

During its two day participation in the biennial Performing Objects will organise a one - day intimate workshop and a one day public performance. For their workshop in Oslo they invite 8 artists, curators, art students and others with an interest in 'objects and their possibilities to act' to take part.

11/12/13 September 2015

Performing Objects at Brussels Art Days

Exhibition at ERforS HQ, BE

Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. This exhibition is a dialogue between the artists who are regularly involved in the project Performing Objects and guest artists we have invited in relation to our interests. The exhibition will present video works, installations, sculptural works and there will be performances happening during the three days. The exhibition will take place at the head quarters of Enough Room for Space (including its project space, the guests accommodation, the studios) and expand outside in the surrounding public space.

With: Céline Butaye, Alice De Mont, Marjolijn Dijkman, gerlach en koop, Toril Johannessen, Frank Koolen, Nicolás Lamas, Bie Michels, Anouchka Oler, Odilon Pain, Anne Marie Sampaio, Bas Schevers, Alina Tenser, Nico Van Dijck, Kristof Van Gestel, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Herman Van Ingelgem, Lorelinde Verhees.

11 August 2015

Conversation with Mark von Schlegell followed by the Uncertainty Scenarios Playlist

Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE

Talk with Marjolijn Dijkman and Mark von Schlegell (writer and critic, Cologne). Followed by a music set compiled by Marjolijn Dijkman and Amelie Bouvier from the Uncertainty Scenarios Playlist. This playlist is a growing compilation of great songs from different periods of time relating to the future, ranging from deeply pessimistic to highly optimistic.

8 - 9 May + 19 June 2015

Performing Objects at The Kringwinkel

Kringwinkel / WOrK Palace, Antwerp, BE

This collective working period will develop new ideas for our upcoming participation in the exhibition 'Liu Shui Xian' (Assembly Line) in Shanghai. We will use objects from the central recycling plant in Antwerp and learn more about the process of recycling and the management of the goods and employees at the plant which are inspired by Lean manufacturing.

1 April 2015

Uncertainty Scenarios – Session #1

La Conciergerie, La Motte - Servolex, FR

During this first public event of Uncertainty Scenarios, the involved artists will introduce existing and works in progress. The evening will contain a series of presentations by the artists alongside a temporary installation in the exhibition space.

Participants: Maxime Bondu, Amélie Bouvier, Marjolijn Dijkman, Myriam Mihindou and Maarten Vanden Eynde

28 February 2015

Performing Objects – Workshop II

Destelheide, Dworp, BE

Heike Langsdorf will guide the second performance workshop part of Performing Objects. The workshop will explore experimental performance relating to the assembled objects by the participating artists.

5 - 9 February 2015

Performing Objects – Bas Schevers

Performance and new work, Galerie gallery, NL

Bas Schevers will be exhibiting parts of his current research on the corner as an object. This exhibition will include a video work in process of a performance with a corner, instructions for the audience to interact with the empty corners in the exhibition space as well as a video interview with Wouter Davidts on corner solutions in architecture.

November 2014

Artist-Run

interview in Courant 111

Interview by Sam Steverlynck with Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde about Enough Room for Space and their motivations for it's founding ten years ago. (Dutch)

4 October 2014

ELIXIDER 2014

First batch of cider

As part of ELIXIR we're now trying to produce apple cider with fallen fruit of the public orchard surrounding the FeliXart museum (located around the corner of ERforS HQ). Elixir will harvest some of these fruits and transform this resource during public events into all sorts of products which will be used for upcoming events of Enough Room for Space.

25 - 26 September 2014

Vision Forum Autumn meeting

Norrköping Art Museum, SE

The annual Vision Forum Autumn meeting will focus on how to formulate problematics and how this process is similar and different in the arts and sciences.

2 May 2014

Performing Objects – MAP-IT session

ERforS HQ, BE

On the 2nd of May we set out a possible future for the collaborative research project Performing Objects using the MAP-IT tool developed by Liesbeth Huybrechts.

28 March 2014

Groupvisits to the HQ

ERforS HQ, BE

Since our inauguration we are starting to welcome different kinds of groups to our HQ on a more regular basis. The friends of the S.M.A.K. made one of such group visits this week. So far we have hosted international art students, curators, collectors and art lovers.

Interested to visit us? Feel free to make an appointment.

11 - 12 March 2014

Vision Forum Spring Meeting

Norrköping University, SE

Vision Forum spring meeting will focus on how creators can nurture human and inter-human qualities in the face of the (disintegrating?) welfare state. The participants will reflect on questions about how technology and human mobility has changed ideas of wealth distribution, solidarity and discuss if there are new ways deal with/counteract or resolve these questions.

12 -14 February 2014

Inauguration of our new Enough Room for Space HQ

Exhibition and Launch of ECHOES, Brussels, BE

The new headquarters of Enough Room for Space in Brussels are being inaugurated with an exhibition of artwork by Cameroonian authors. Their films, videos, photo series and installations are reflecting political issues that mark everyday life in Cameroon and artists' experiences upon leaving this country.

Works by: Jean-Pierre Bekolo, LucFosther Diop, Beate Engl & Justine Gaga, Salifou Lindou, Maarten Vanden Eynde & Alioum Moussa, Patrick Wokmeni

January 2014

LUNÄ at Enough Room for Space HQ

ERforS HQ, Drogenbos, BE

LUNÄ is now located at the head quarter of Enough Room for Space and will be used for upcoming projects at the ERforS HQ as a regular meeting and dinner table.

January 2014

Start of Performing Objects

Experimental research project

Performing Objects will explore objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. Performing Objects will research different ways artists can anticipate this process during the conceptualisation and the conception of their work.

Initiated by: Marjolijn Dijkman and Kristof Van Gestel

December 2013

ECHOES – DiARTgonale Special Edition #2

Online reader and print version

The second DiARTgonale Special Edition deals with ECHOES: a famous novel, an idiosyncratic image bank, a sound archive and historical statements reverberate in the contributions. Artists, writers and passionate amateurs of both continents have engaged with each other in the production of intriguing artworks, interviews, surveys and stories.

28 September 2013

ELIXIR 2013

Harvest feast, Drogenbos, BE

Harvesting in the public orchard of Felixart Museum located around the corner of ERforS HQ from 13:00 - 23:00h. We'll be making apple / pear liquor, compote, bake bread & make pizza's in the bakehouse.

Please feel free to join! Kuikenstraat 6, Drogenbos, behind the FelixArt Museum.

17 December 2012

Launch JAMAN

lecture and launch, SAVVY, Berlin, DE

The magazine “JAMAN” (Bamum for “German”) spotlights encounters between Cameroon and the “West” during more than a hundred years. The art works, the poetic and scientific texts and the cartoons that have been specially produced for this issue challenge cherished notions of cultural authenticity. „JAMAN“ is the fist of a series of special editions published by the European art organisation Enough Room for Space in collaboration with the Cameroonian artist journal DiARTgonale.

23 November 2012

Launch JAMAN

Lectures and launch, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, DE

JAMAN is the fist of a series of special editions by Enough Room for Space in collaboration with the Cameroonian artist journal DiARTgonale. In Bayreuth, Christian Hanussek and co-editor Annette Schemmel will introduce JAMAN and the other contributions to the edition, which span the years between 1905 and 2025 and deal with further incidents of exchange, appropriation and hybridisation.

16 April 2012

The Invisible Hand

HKS, Bergen, NO

Together historian Richard Sheldon, economist Ove Jakobsen and curator Charles Esche will explore the roots of the capitalist way of thinking by discussing and researching Adam Smith and the way his ideas have influenced other thinkers. These lectures will be followed by a panel discussion.

10 December 2011 - 5 February 2012

LUNÄ at The Greater Cloud

NiMK, Amsterdam, NL

LUNÄ, a remake of a table that was originally used by 'the lunar society members', a 18th century enlightenment society that was influential during the industrial revolution, will be part of the exhibition 'The Great Cloud'. The table was a meeting point where the ideas for some of the most significant technological changes were formed. This 21st century version of the table will also function as a stage for talks and the developments of ideas and on top of the table works will be positioned by artists like Pamela Rosenkranz as well as by people working outside the art world.

December 2011

Residency Period Present Perfect

Collective working period, throughout Cameroon

Marjolijn Dijkman, Beate Engl, Christian Hannusek and Annette Schemmel are travelling to Douala, to Maroua, to Yaoundé and to Foumban in order to advance their projects with Ruth Afane Belinga, Nicolas & Rose Eyidi, Justine Gaga, Achille K Komguem, Salifou Lindou, and Lionel Manga, amongst others.

17 June - 15 July 2011

Georgia Here We Come Again!

Residency at GeoAIR, GE

Five years after the exchange project Georgia Here We Come! in 2006, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Marjolijn Dijkman are invited to return to Tbilisi and explore possibilities for new project with Enough Room for Space and GeoAIR in the future.

8 July 2011: artists talks at the Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi

15 June 2011

LUNÄ Talk: On Time Capsules and Conditions of Now

Spike Island, Bristol, UK

This LUNÄ Talk is hosted by members of Time Capsules and Conditions of Now, a trans-disciplinary art project bringing together artists and curators who each also operate within a second field, such as a yoga teacher, writer and a practicing GP.  The group invite the audience to participate in a series of playful engagements with time and presence. The event coincides with the full moon, in homage to the original Lunar Society.

Involved: Fatos Ustek, Lisa Skuret, Kaz, Jean Matthee, Ole Hagen, Vanda Playford, Soledad Garcia, Marjolijn Dijkman

January 2011

LUNÄ

Installation and ongoing series of events

LUNÄ, by Marjolijn Dijkman, is one of the results of the residency Please Excuse Our Appearance organised by Enough Room for Space and Ikon Gallery in 2007.

LUNÄ is a facsimile of the original table around which an influential group of industrialists, poets, inventors, doctors, writers, physicists, chemists and thinkers known as the Lunar Society met each month in Birmingham between 1765 and 1813. LUNÄ is used for an ongoing series of critical discussions updating topics that occupied the Lunar Men.

21 November 2010 - 13 March 2011

Alter Nature: We Can

Presentation of Zoology of Genetology ZG 1

During Alter Nature: We Can, Z33 shows Zoology of Genetology, one page or quire of a large publication about Genetology.

November 2010

\ Cosmology of Genetology \ CG \ 1

Fourth quire of a larger publication about Genetology

Introduction text: Martin Lo

With: Anish Kapoor, Tomás Saraceno, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Martijn Hendriks, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Jim Plaxco, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pathfinder/Sojourner, Marjolijn Dijkman, Mungo Thomson, Rinus Van de Velde, Toril Johannessen, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, Cornelia Parker, Damien Hirst, Georges Lemaître, Albert Einstein, Damián Ortega, Chaos theory, Alexandra Mir, Alicia Framis, Dennis Feddersen, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, Piero Golia, The Death Star, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, Higgs boson particle, Large Hadron Collider, SNOLAB, Kamioka Observatory, Andreas Gursky, Katie Paterson, Chu Yun, Neil Johnson

12 June - 13 July 2010

Stardust in a Nutshell

Exhibition, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE

Stardust in a Nutshell presents a selection of art works made in Cameroon in the past years, by both Cameroonian and European artists. As contemporary artists they all address politically relevant topics and share a conceptual approach to their practice. 

Involved artists: Stefaan
 Dheedene, Christian H
anussek / Salifou
 Lindou, 
Dunja
 Herzog,

 Boris
 Nzébo, 
Maarten
 Vanden 
Eynde / Alioum 
Moussa, 
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Patrick 
Wokmeni, Hervé Yamguen

27 May 2010

Event Smooth Structures

Workshop, lecture & screening, Amsterdam, NL

As part of the project Smooth Structures, this lecture by NASA mathematician Martin Lo sheds light on a new theory about dark matter and dark energy, followed by the screening of Werner Herzog’s experimental sci-fi film The Wild Blue Yonder, partly featuring authentic astronauts and scientists (including Martin Lo!).

March 2010

Industrial Evolution

Publication by Maarten Vanden Eynde

Fernand Baudin Award for Best Artist Book 2010

"Birmingham played a leading role as front runner for the Industrial Revolution, changing the world beyond recognition and paving the way for the largest population explosion in human history. In 2007 most of the manufacturing companies moved out off Birmingham to other parts of the world where labour is cheaper. Together with the companies the knowledge to manufacture things is disappearing. In two generations there will be hardly anyone left who has the ability to make something."

March - April 2010

Residency period Present Perfect

Collective working period, Douala, CM

The artists Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde and curator Annette Schemmel are exploring possibilities for future collaborations with Cameroonian artists and writers on site in Douala. After a long prelude of conversations in Europe, we are doing studio visits and are hosted by Douala’s art initiatives to screen and present artworks brought from Europe, which address the notions of memory, history and the future.

18 November - 19 December 2009

World Wide Wonders

Exhibition, University of Ghent, BE

World Wide Wonders is an exhibition that draws inspiration from the rich and fascinating museum collections of Ghent University, curated by Maarten Vanden Eynde and Guy Bovyn.

With: Stijn Cole, Koen De Decker, Tom De Smedt, Mariana Castillo Deball, Toril Johannessen, Irene Kopelman, Kianoosh Motallebi, Rinus Van de Velde, Maarten Vanden Eynde

6 September - 4 October 2009

Landscaping

Exhibition, Hoofddorp, NL

Landscaping unveils a world that could represent ours in the future. It is a collection of visions on the human made landscape, an overview of different pieces of the puzzle being part of the new geological layer we are currently placing over the world. What will remain of the present? What is our heritage for the future?

Participating artists: Edward Burtynsky, Fia Cielen, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Peter Fend, Jeroen Jongeleen, Panamarenko, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Maarten Vanden Eynde

Curated by: Enough Room for Space

June 2009

Corrillos #6

Informal artists meeting

April 2009

Corrillos #5

Informal artists meeting

6 February - 15 March 2009

CURATOR CURATOR #3: Towards Confluence

HISK, Ghent, BE

Two curators, Remco de Blaaij (NL) and Kamila Wielebska (PL), send in almost identical proposals and were invited to work together. With the river as a metaphor their exhibition will embark in a search for why things come together or why some things are separated and will never meet.

with: Æ - Ramon Hulspas and Erik Vermeulen, Erica Boom, Tamara Dees, Grzegorz Klaman, Joanna Malinowska, Tanja Muravskaja, Patrycja Orzechowska, Erno Rubik

March 2009

\ Archaeology of Genetology \ AG \ 1

First quire of a larger publication about Genetology

Introduction text: Hans Theys

With: Toine Klaassen, Brian Jungen, Ira Bartell, Damien Hirst, Zatorski + Zatorski, Admiral and Minister Pedro of the selfproclaimed freestate Ladonia, Ai Weiwei, Niklaus Rüegg, Vija Celmins, Piero Golia, Allan McCollum, Pompeii, Mark Dion, Savage, Shi Jinsong, Marjolijn Dijkman, Ant Farm, Jim Reinders, Pascal Rostain & Bruno Mouron, Haim Steinbach, Patrick Nagatani, Tony Cragg, Andy Warhol, Biosphere II, Rachel Whiteread, Guillaume Bijl, Michael Sailstorfer, Maarten Vanden Eynde

February 2009

Corrillos #4

Informal artists meeting

7 - 23 November 2008

CURATOR CURATOR #2:What is my name?

HISK, Ghent, BE

Why am I me (myself)? Am I me (myself) in respect to others and to the codification of the world or vice versa? Perhaps in this time we need a bit of oblivion regarding the way we communicate and handle the real in order to be able to reflect on how we perceive and communicate it and on who we really are.

Lorenzo Bruni (IT) presents an ambitious group show with 18 artists, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, James Lee Byars, Peter Coffin, Bas Jan Ader, Dan Rees, Felix Gonzalez-Torresa and Jonathan Monk. No less than 29 works will be spread around the building in order to stimulate new consciousness of perception of space.

With interventions by: Jonathan Monk, Dan Rees, Peter Coffin, Koo Jeong-A, Rossella Biscotti, Simone Berti, José Dávila, Mario Airò, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Nedko Solakov, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mario Garcia Torres, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio

12 September - 12 October 2008

CURATOR CURATOR #1: WALL TO WALL

HISK, Ghent, BE

Curator/artist Karolin Tampere (NO) worked intensively together with artist Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS), dissolving the presupposed roles of artist and curator. Their long dialogue and collaboration resulted in an installation in which two walls converse about the meaning of life, the universe and several strange objects in the room.

With: Karolin Tampere & Egill Sæbjörnsson

March 2008

Localisms, workshop

Museum de Paviljoens, NL

The artists and designers participating in this workshop share a common interest in the singularities and peculiarities of specific locations. The workshop focuses on the area F-7, the only plot of land in the heart of Almere that hasn’t been rulerdrawn yet.

Participants: Richard Wentworth, Marjolijn Dijkman, Savage, Eric Van Hove, Melle Smets,  Frank Koolen, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Julie Peeters

2006 - 2007

Pah’Bèt

Publication by Dunja Herzog

December 2007

Material Gathering

The ANNEX at the Jan Van Eyck, NL

27 - 28 January 2007

Thinking About

Artistic exchange gathering

Thinking About! is a two-days meeting. doual'art will present its work and discuss with the artists, architects and cultural operators, who will be involved in the cultural projects in Douala in the coming years. Artists, such as James Beckett and Blaisse Bang, will take part in the round-table and will share their experiences.

Participants: Lucia Babina, Blaise Bang, Ulrike Bartels, James Beckett, Edgar Cleijne, Stefaan Dheedene, Marjolijn Dijkman, doual’art, Emiliano Gandolfi, Christian Hanussek, Dunja Herzog, Iolanda Pensa, Daniela Roth, Didier Schaub, Fiona Siegenthaler, Claudia Wegener, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Kamiel Verschuren, Alexander Vollebregt

January 2007

The History of Tomorrow

GHB, Van Abbemuseum, NL

The History of Tomorrow contains a short sci-fi story staged in the near future. The story is set around the Van Abbemuseum and describes a situation in the future where the gravitation on earth is slowly disappearing. The main character is closely connected to the museum and its collection plays an important part in the story.

July 2006

Work Together!

Article for So Fresh, published by Expodium, NL

"Humans are herd animals, and mankind derives its monopoly on earth from collaboration. This survival strategy has proven to be the most successful to guarantee individual survival. In unity there is strength..."

Maarten Vanden Eynde contributed a column to the publication So Fresh! with a passionate tribute to collaboration.

March 2006

One Minutes Workshop

NAC, Tbilisi, GE

An improvised one minute workshop by David Djindjikhachvili, Krzysztof Wegiel and Stefaan Dheedene during Georgia Here We Come! The One Minutes is a place for artists to experiment, to produce and to present within the inexorable limit of 60 seconds, initiated by the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (NL).

1 - 25 March 2006

US Here I Come!

Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, US

Exchange project between Marika Asatiani and Maarten Vanden Eynde, who will live each others life for three weeks while residing in Tbilisi, Georgia and Los Angeles, US.

2 - 24 March 2006

Georgia Here We Come!

First residency, Tbilisi, GE

After the Rose Revolution in 2003, the new Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili called back his fellow country-men, who fled Georgia in the past decades, to come and help rebuild the once prosperous and wealthy country into a modern western democracy. We decided to respond to this call as well and see for our selves how a new democracy is being introduced or rather implanted and what the side-effects are of such an enormous political and sociological shift.

Participants:  Marika Asatiani, Daan van der Berg, Stefaan Dheedene, Marjolijn Dijkman, David Djindjikhachvili, Orgacom, Suze May Sho, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Eric von Robertson, Krzysztof Wegiel, Lado Darakhvelidze, Mamuka Samkharatze, Melano Sokhadze, Polina Rudchik, Luiza Laperadze, Bessa Kartlelishvili, Aleksandre Katsitadze, Giorgi Tabatadze

January 2006

Online: Genetologic Research Weblog

online sketchbook

Launch of the weblog which functions as an online sketchbook where, besides individual work, other artworks, events in history, scientific discoveries, intellectual discourse and philosophical explorations are assembled in order to be able to define Genetology. The content is categorised within the different existing branches of science since they represent our best attempt to separate and encapsulate all existing knowledge.

Compiled by: Maarten Vanden Eynde