CHANGING TENTS | 2011
During one week radical_hope was staging CHANGING ROOM for the BURNING-ICE Festival :
CHANGING TENTS at Kaaitheatre.
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CHANGING ROOM - REHEARSALS FOR A CHANGING WORLD
A Changing Room is a social ritual, following a set of rules, 'rehearsing' changeability : whatever happens in a well conceived Changing Room is consciously performed within and for this 'staged world'. Conceiving, organizing, and performing a Changing Room is an exercise in self-programming and self-curation.
CHANGING TENTS @ BURNING ICE
Located between the KBC Bank and the Kaaitheatre on the quai des Péniches, six tents and a car together formed a temporary zone for social and economic change. A group of artists had been invited by Radical_Hope * to set up this out-of-the-ordinary “camp”. On Monday January 17 everyone was welcome to come and learn to erect the hexayurts. A hexayurt is a special kind of tent, designed by Vinay Gupta as incredibly cheap shelter for those in need. People could stay and get involved in the week-long process of action that aimed to generate ideas : ideas about new ways of organising work, urban food production, alternative energy management, innovative financing schemes and so on.
Changing Tents was a 7-day-world consisting out of six tents and one vehicle !
the Performing Tent for changing ideas
the Co-Working Tent for changing business
the Currency Tent for changing systems
the Biography Tent for changing facts
the Kitchen Tent for changing products
the Fashion Tent for changing bodies
a Demobilised Car for changing problems ...People were invited to programme, curate, squat, take-over, visit the Changing Tents and use them for their own purposes.
They could send an e-mail to radical_hope or pass by the tents ! There was NO deadline.
[radical_hope is a character at work, confronting us with what art does and can(not) do. The guiding question is how from an artistic point of view a context can be touched and challenged without loosing its natural complexity. The practice of radical_hope is generating in-situ instruments for social transition and respectively tries to put into action the principle of changeability : being such that alteration is possible.][more]
Tour
17-01-2011 until 23 Jan 2011 : KAAITHEATER : Akenkaai 2 quai des Péniches, 1000 Brussels / Burning Ice Festivalgeneration :
radical_hope
cur(at)ed and maintained for Radical_Hope :
Heike Langsdorf, Christiane Huber, Guy Gypens
Installing artists & partners :
Philippe Chatelain, Johan Deschuymer, Mette Edvardsen, FoAM, Nicolas Y Galeazzi & Joel Verwimp (Verlegt Verlag), Vinay Gupta, David Helbich, The Hub Brussels, Annemie Maes (okno), Christophe Meierhans, Julie Pfleiderer, Iphigenia Tillieu
and :
Elke Van Campenhout & Ariane Loze - Bureau dEspoir, Martijn Van Dalen, Various Artists (nadine), Herman Venderickx, ...
production :
Kaaitheater
administration :
Kunst/Werk
Using artists :
Mathias Bienstman, Ygor Byttebier, Ana Casimiro, Allessandra Coppola, Agnese Cornelio, Caroline Daish, Bembo Davis, Katja Dreyer, The Erroristas, Arne Goyvaerts, Sven Goyvaerts, gunschmitt, John Jordan, Eva Karia, Vladimir Miller, Martin Ophoven
and :
Roland Spinola, Tariq, Jacob Wren, Jan Vannoppen, Akseli Virtanen & Jan Ritsema, Marthe Van Dessel, ...
micro-sponsors :
Micro-sponsors : Rasa Alksnyte, Alexander Baervoets, Varinia Canto Vila, Damaged Goods, Hendrik De Smedt, Herman Demoulin, Bruno De Wachter, Katja Dreyer, Mariet Eyckmans, Benedicte Lobelle, Annemie Maes, Enrica Passado-Burgo, Miriam Rohde
and :
Els Silvrants-Barclay, Two Dogs Company, Olivier Van Hamme, Herman Venderickx, ...
co-production :
APASS, Kunst/Werk
support :
Micromarché
special thanks to :
Adil Mabchour
photography (stagiaire) :
Anka Gujabidze