parade

Contents: 31 Tiensevest

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Sub-Title

Installation and CD Rom

a collaboration with Bert de Leenheer & Dirk Vanhecke

End Date

Start Date

1 May 1997

Location

Gallery Transit, Leuven Belgium

Body

We were invited by Gallery Transit to make a project for the 1996 opening of their new gallery space.

In 1994 the gallery relocated in a beautiful Art Nouveau inspired town house. The only previous occupants, the owners, had stored throughout the house all their belongings, clothes and furniture. Transit moved all their accumulated possessions, as well as the gallery, into the building. They decided to leave only the salon, the physical core of the house free of domestic objects, painted white as the exhibition space.

Two pairs of lives at either end of the century have been laid over one another, the similarities and differences can be found in the stored chaos of material possessions.

With every room of the house nearly full, the conventional classification of things has collapsed. Paintings are stacked on top of furniture, souvenirs mix with food, clothes merge with packed libraries; whose, when, and where, are difficult questions even for the occupants to answer. Into this extraordinary situation we came to work. What began as a photographic inventory -following the logic of Lost Property - gradually disintegrated. However tempting, it seemed dishonest to introduce a stranger's order - to put words into people's mouths - into the complexity of this material entanglement.

What evolved were 148 images and sound, presented in a form of a slide show viewable from the living room of 31 Tiensevest during the duration of the exhibition.

We produced a limited edition CD rom as a catalogue of the project, it contains all the images and features a soundtrack specially composed by the Bammer Project.

Contents:31 Tiensevest was included as part of Material Culture at the Hayward Gallery, London 1998.

In 2007 we made a new yet related project for Transit entitled ArtLife

baby3

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Parade Baby
Mechelen unknown date

Baby2

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Parade Baby
Mechelen 2000

Baby1

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Parade Baby
Mechelen 2001

Baby

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MECINA reportage
Flower Festival, Mechelen 1955

Parade installation 1

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Parade Installation
Huis van de Mechelaar 2007

Parade installation

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Parade Instalation
Huis van de Mechelaar 2007

Contour interview

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This interview is published in the catalogue to Decoder; 3rd Biennial for Video Art curated by Nav Haq for Contour 07, in Mechelen, Belgium. It accompanies our project Parade

Nav Haq: To what extent do you believe that forms of cultural production that sit outside of the mainstream can inform contemporary art practice?

Well, you could think of the whole history of 20th and 21st century art as a continuous dialectic between artworlds and their artworks, and other forms of cultural production; the objects, images or practices of the everyday. Art is revitalized, not just informed by amateur, everyday and ordinary creative drives. From Braque, Picasso and cubist collage, via Duchamp and the readymade to â€˜appropriationâ€™ art in the 80â€™s and now artists like Thomas Hirschhorn, Nan Goldin or Luc Tuymans etc. Virtually all contemporary artists trade on this border. Perhaps the difference with how we work, is that rather than hide this exchange and pretend that our originality pours from a private source, we acknowledge the inherently collaborative and social nature of creativity.