[spectre] RG at Netwerk, center for contemporary art

[Geert Lovink]

> From: RG <rg at reinigungsgesellschaft.de>
> Date: 2 May 2007 3:38:46 PM
> To: REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mailing list <rg at reinigungsgesellschaft.de>
> Subject: RG at Netwerk, center for contemporary art
>
> Netwerk, center for contemporary art 
>
> "The consumption of today will affect our life tomorrow" 
> "Where you are - is where you work" 
>
> slogans for the mayday demonstration in Aalst/Belgium  by RG
>
> REINIGUNGSGGESELLSCHAFT 2007
>
> BAROQ at the GRIDIRON HOTEL
>
> 48hours initial hospitality incident (48hihi)
>
> with: Mari Brellochs, Heman 
> Chong, Armin Chodzinski, 
> Barbara Frieß & Adi Hoesle, 
> Florian Feigl, Nicolas Galeazzi, 
> REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT, 
> Jan Van Lierde, Agata Zwierzyñska 
>
> Artistic guidance: Joël Verwimp
>
> Opening from Friday 4th of May till Sunday 6th of May
>
> Can we use art as a metaphor for the entire world – similar, perhaps, 
> to the way Baroque theatre considered the stage as a metaphor for the 
> greater whole (topical art discourse and knowledge production)? JOËL 
> VERWIMP
>
> Netwerk / center for contemporary art gives substantial emphasis to 
> process-based research and presents a.o. situation-based and/or 
> context-oriented forms of mediation (such as interventions, 
> encounters, performances, events, talks, presentations, publications, 
> web logs ...). In these reflective (and self-reflective) processes 
> Netwerk tries to stimulate various forms of exchange (e.g. between 
> music, performance and the visual arts) that may be able to generate 
> new and meaningful artistic entities. The versatile and modular 
> infrastructure – a former textiles warehouse – offers every 
> opportunity to keep close track of such developments and attracts 
> numerous artists whose work crosses disciplinary divides.
>
> BAROQ at the GRIDIRON HOTEL is a collective project under the artistic 
> guidance of Joël Verwimp, a Belgian Berlin based artist who is also 
> member of the board of the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben. The project 
> starts its public activities with a three days opening, the 48 hours 
> initial hospitality incident (48hihi). During their stay at the 
> GRIDIRON HOTEL the artists will organize meetings, performances, 
> workshops, screenings and interventions in public space. On Saturday 
> night Joël Verwimp will moderate a public debate with Bettina 
> Steinbrügge, director of Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg, Lillian 
> Fellmann, artistic director of White, Wide, Wild Space (Zurich) and 
> Simon Sheikh, curator and critic. One of the central questions will be 
> in what way art worlds (informal and heterogeneous networks and formal 
> institutions) can be regarded and used as research fields for social 
> change and co-operation.
>
> Simultaneously, the exhibition Cabinet Reclus / Potential Estate will 
> be accessible in preview. Potential Estate is the umbrella title of a 
> scenario, put together by a group of artists examining the 
> possibilities of a collaborative residential format. After an 
> exploratory mission in the U.S., Belgium, a small suburban entity 
> situated in Wisconsin – founded by their Belgian and Luxemburg 
> ancestors, has been identified as a potential terrain for a 
> residential-annex-exhibition-project. On May 4th Cabinet Reclus takes 
> a run-up to its opening on Saturday June 9th. At that time the cabinet 
> will be presented in its completeness.
>
> With: Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, David Evrard, Ronny Heiremans & 
> Katleen Vermeir, Pierre Huyghebaert, Adam Leech, Vincent Meessen
>
> Exhibitions
> from May 4th till June 9th 2007
> from Wednesday till Saturday from 2 till 6 pm (May 17th - closed)
>
> Netwerk, Center for Contemporary Art
> Houtkaai z/n
> 9300 AALST
> +(32)53 709773
> http://www.netwerk-art.be
>
> REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
> rg at reinigungsgesellschaft.de
>
> Martin Keil
> Pfotenhauer Str. 84
> D-01307 Dresden
> Germany