funeral | 2008

FUNERAL, 21 june 2008 - MIDSUMMERNIGHT

The Funeral was a night, honoring the project frogs OS, active from 2000 until 2008. The ceremony borrowed its form from a cross section of different funeral traditions but without the habitual religious references and symbolism.

In a light hearted way the funeral 'burried' frogs OS while introducing the open-frames site as its possible continuation : An archive of all the projects created within the frame of frogs OS, the site was opened on the night of the funeral for the use of a wider artistic community.

The Funeral took place at Hotel Noailles (http://www.mobileinstitute.org/presentation) Brussels (Ixelles). Eclectically curated by The New Feldküche and Obnoxious/Obnoxious it involved a series of culinary and auditive compositions and compilations by different artists who were respectively in charge of the ceremony over the course of the evening.

The full evening program :

ALL NIGHT LONG : Obnoxious/Obnoxious :
Master Fader / The Snail / Mr Foo
( mobile triple dj set - Amsterdam )

20:00 Grand Diner by The New Feldküche
21:00 Funeral Eulogy
22:00 Mieke Lambrigts,
23:00 cock/pool/tails,
24:00 tom&jerry,
01:00 Pierre Deruisseau,
02:00 explicitexplicit
06:00 Breakfast

Frogs was initiated in 2000 as a pilot project. In 2002 frogs OS (open source) grew into a structure that supported collaborations between artists from different disciplines, providing workspace through an association with Nadine (Brussels), wp Zimmer (Antwerp) and Netwerk (Aalst) and small working budgets through funding from the VGC and eventually from 2004, through a collaboration with Kunst/Werk. From 2000- 2008 Frogs OS was coordinated by Heike Langsdorf.

Frogs OS thus became a busy network of people and projects: Christoph Ragg, Christophe Meirhans and Heike Langsdorf (now C+H) as well as David Helbich, Shila Anaraki, Koen Nutters, Mette Ingvartsen, Ula Sickle and Michel Yang formed the starting point for what would eventually become a much larger network of collaborators.

The 36 projects created under frogs OS can be found on this site by searching under people/frogs.

concept and organisation :
Heike Langsdorf
realisation :
Heike Langsdorf, Alexander Baervoets, Marc Vanrunxt, Caroline Derycke, Christophe Meierhans, Christoph Ragg, Michael Schmid, Koen Nutters, Andre Avelas, Harm van den Dorpel, Ula Sickle, David Helbich
commissioned by :
frogs OS
support :
frogs OS, Kunst/Werk, C&H, The new Feldküche, Obnoxious / Obnoxious, The Mobile Institute, Nadine, Netwerk / center for contemporary art, explicitexplicit, OF, La Compilothèque, Tom & Jerry
thanks to :
Bains_Connective, Joanna Bailie, Lilja Hermannsdòttir, Christiane Huber, Hans Bocxstael, Dolores Hulan, Johan Deschuymer, Carl de Smet
and :
Pierre Deruisseau, Katja Dreyer, Various Artists, Mieke Lambrigts, Erika Langsdorf, Jeroen Peeters, Tom Bonte