bureau annex | 2010

from experiment
Arising from an experiment in 2010, bureau annex is a practice concerned with artistic work in the ‘wild city’.
It unavoidably embraces participation, considering it a socialised process necessary for the production of art.
The core-interest is to propose and make artworks together with people that find each other through a loose structure, based on affinity. This affinity is not there from the outset but man-made by an artificial behaviour: 'hanging out' regularly next and with people and in places at first sight completely unacquainted, the artist becomes present in a reality which naturally wouldn't become familiar: an 'annex' of a reality out of natural touch.
more on the initial experiment >>>

to tradition
Connecting people and content back from where the previous work ended, bureau annex produces independent works irregularly and occasionally but continually.

at present
As part of OTÇOE - works for passers-by and drawing further on the potential of becoming an urban tradition, bureau annex is producing a next work:
back again, a serie's of small video-works, the first a creation for April 2013, commisssioned by Les Halles / Trouble Festival.

>>> bureau annex is part of OTÇOE - works for passers-by.
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previously
summer 2010
---> workshop LA PLAGE: several ideas for a Postcards From The Future, a series of urban interventions by the collective C&H, were proposed and tested.

winter 2010
---> one postcard was realized for the North Station Brussels >>> with people, who took part in LA PLAGE and others joining in.

throughout 2011
---> some people took part on other episodes of Postcards From The Future as well as on Changing Tents .

beginning of 2012
---> AFTER THE CARD, a work-session at La Maraude: people who worked on the postcard were invited to be interviewed about their opinions concerning the performance at North-Station in the winter 2010. Based on this interviews a text for the book Epilogue was produced.

initial experiment :
Christiane Huber, Heike Langsdorf
support 2010-12 :
radical_hope, La Maraude, Kunst/Werk, a.pass
supported as part of OTÇOE :
VGC, Les Halles, Trouble Festival