Remember Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)

There will come a time
There will come a time we believe
When the shape of the planet
and the divisions of the land
Will be less important;
We will be caught in a glow of friendship
a red star of hope
will illuminate our lives
A star of hope
A star of joy
A star of freedom

Dennis Brutus

"When the shape of the planet (different academies), and the divisions of the land (different ateliers, everyone in his own atelier, in his own academie) will be less important, we will be caught in a glow of friendship (cooperation)." (my interpretation)

The experience of the meetings together really moved me. It's so interesting to talk about art, to see work of other people, sharing thoughts...

Merry Christmass to y'all, may your wishes come true!

In the first place I was thinking that we can do something with the space that occurs between the people of cooperation. A space that exists, but is not visible. But we could make it visible in real time or in the minds of other people. Just think about the idea.

I find the idea of "Invite people from different schools and different cities" also very interesting and maybe we can bind the idea op the invisible space of cooperation on the idea to make from cooperation something more then what occurs between us. I feel a need to know what other peoples are doing in other schools, maybe they make art in the same subject as me. I have myself a few ideas: to organize an "open deur" (open the doors of the school) where people of the school talk and show there work on the interested students of other schools (maybe this idea is only possible and interesting for the masters), other ideas are to organize a procession of art or to do an action at different places at the same time, etc.

2010

These are the planned dates for next year

15, 16, 17 January

8, 26, 27, 28 February

19, 20, 21 March

PUBLIC SCHOOL (Brussels)

27 March - 3 April

21/01

It's a nice idea to go to the nocturnes, there's one on 21/01, I will be there.

there's a performance of Reto Pulfer on 20.30u in Extra City

There's an opening in Muhka and also a performance of Ken Jacobs on 21.30

ps.

I like to go to Narcisse Tordoir in CC Mechelen this weekend, if someone want to see it too,maybe we can go together. http://www.narcissetordoir.com/

nice photos, they let me think of Janfamily :

Gitte

Félix González-Torres

There is a show with Félix González-Torres
at Wiels in Brussel after newyear - I must recommend!

And also: It was suggested we could go to the nocturne here in Antwerpen (one evening - multiple shows).
Maybe have a discussion about the climate in the galleries?
antwerpart.be

Els here is the answer to your question

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Exhibition View, Secession

my blog

Check my work , check my bolg http://duweiweim1.blogspot.com/

(renewal~~~~)

I wish I could share this experience with more people. The expierence of meeting people from different countries, from different cities, from different institutions and who are all working with and thinking about 'art'. I liked the idea of an open forum.

Invite people from different schools and different cities just for one afternoon,evening,... and let them get to know each other and each others work, how they think about art, education,...Without the pressure of the name 'project' or 'three months',... How can we make this interesting? Can this be an end result? Can this idea (without making it concrete) bring us any other idea?

There is an artist , i cannot come up with his name right now , but his art exists mostly out of inviting people and cooking for them.

Can we make the expierence of meeting and working together visual? Like in a piece of art? A dance piece,music, theatre, performance, a manifest,...

Thank you for making this possible, for meeting, for talking, for thinking together!

The first work

I am so pity I could not come yesterday.I think the reading and explan text for project is more interesting.I really like this kind of felling for someone
together for talking ,meeting and creating.
Art need communication , the dialogue of group is very interesting and advantage.So I hope next time I can come and rejoin your.But I also think a lot of
things.I always to think when I life I need to do something,even I have a lot of idea are impossible.However I had do them. I want to do.I can do what I
like.For art,it is possible forever,today is, tomorrow also.Because long time ago more impossible things changed,They are possible.Past people believe,
we also believe.Education is teach and study, but art is do.It is to say.It is a language,It is a performence.we just want to find a form for explan ourself.
It is a way for show other self.The different space,different people, different feeling,you can see, you can use your eye, they do not to talking, they sing.
they move,they drawing, they painting on the wall,they go to the outside, they laugh, they shout very loudly,they throw the ston on the canvas.They are
different,but they also same.Maybe they are not themself.only they do themself.They try to do change some impossible things,They tell us the different
become same.They are not to do for art.They are seeking themself and do themself,The different just is explan form and role.
In life we need to play different roles, which is a need also a kind of instinct. Each in a different role can produce only for a different person or in a
different state , so it is always only one role, which differ from their true selves, and how far it? Do not know. But you are you, like in this world there
is only one Picasso,only one I like. The reason why a master is called a master because they are the first person for this form and style who have their first
piece of work belongs to the public also is theirself. The reason I can not be more than them because we are not that first person, which can not be under the
same conditions again become possible,
we do not need to do any comparison, our own is itself a miracle, is can not beyond the individual, and every time we work can be said to be the first works,
we only need self-transcendence in creative processcan Is impossible to become possible, and perhaps they can also become impossible. I am not like you, and
less likely than you, and you will also not be possible and you have different than me.
Art is a game, is a strange and interesting dreams, where we can do what we like to do, and do not think about anything because it is only a dream is a
stage, others believe that fiction is so for us it's true.

(Only an Attitude of Orientation)

In advance of our day together on Friday, here's some reading material: http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html?id=222

Basically, it's the second of three texts which attempt to reconsider what a relevant art/design education might look like in the imminent and foreseeable future. I think of it as a very cooperative text, not only because there are so many different people's ideas involved, but because it was arrived at very much by talking and working with colleagues and friends. It makes a point of paraphrasing rather than directly quoting, as a kind of proof of absorption.

First, I'm interested to know your thoughts and opinions.

Second, I'd like you to consider and bring along a possible addition to the text, i.e. a source, an idea, which might be an old or contemporary text (or, I suppose, image) to compliment the kinds of attitudes I'm compiling here. And of course you ought to be able to paraphrase – speaking, not writing – your contribution to the rest of the group.

That's it. See you Friday. Looking forward.

This is an action of Jason Mack, a glass artist. I think its beautiful to see that he get people involved into his action by asking them to collect glass. "The more glass the community brings, the bigger the tree gets."

http://www.mackglass.com/home.shtml

VVORK : Variety Evening at the New Museum from Rhizome on Vimeo.

You can find my website at: www.pietervn.be/blog/

Greetings,

Pieter

Definitions of Cooperation

Cooperation or co-operation is the process of working or acting together, which can be accomplished by both intentional and non-intentional agents. In its simplest form it involves things working in harmony, side by side, while in its more complicated forms, it can involve something as complex as the inner workings of a human being or even the social patterns of a nation. It is the alternative to working separately in competition.

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Dexter Sinister

Dexter Sinister

18 December

11am Meet at AIR

Participants present other practices of interest

12pm Stuart Bailey from Dexter Sinister

Objectif Exhibitions

Objectif Exhibitions

Friday 11 December at Objectif Exhibitions

A group of 11 studying in art institutions from across Belgium met for the first time at Objectif Exhibitions. The project CO-OPERATION is initiated by curator and educator Sepake Angiama and forms part of an ongoing series of investigations under the title "What can we achieve together?"

Sepake Angiama introduced some cooperative games and Lieve Symans the Exhibitions Coordinator at Objectif Exhibitions introduced the space and "…" an exhibition of work by Kirsten Pieroth.

The group forming the CO-OPERATION project come from Sint Lucas Brussels, HISK Ghent, St Lucas Antwerp and the Academie in Antwerp, including Maarten Raskin, Nick Defour, Stefanie Devos, Du Wei Wei, Els Corten, Jamilia Ahale,Pieter Van Nieuwenhuyse Gitte Le Bruyn, Lauren van Gogh, Thomas Grødal, Carola Mücke and André Catalalao.