THE
PUBLIC
SCHOOL
KOMPLOT
BRUSSELS
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This is a discussion list for The Public School project, “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”
** What this list is for **
1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here.
2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary.
3. A place where anyone else anywhere (including people at various Public Schools who are reading along or running parallel sessions) to participate as much as you want to – send responses, questions, provocations, photos, demands, etc.
The noworkshop organizers believe that the concept of revolution is a relevant and urgent one for our times. What does a revolution imply for society, and for the individual? Is the total collapse near, is it necessary, is it desirable? What are the possible positions in relation to revolution for the artist and for the activist?
You are kindly invited to join lectures which address the subject arts and politics from
Dieter Lesage, on tuesday the 18th at 14.30
Bavo (Gideon Boie), on thursday the 20st at 14.00
Elke van Campenhout (Aude Thensiau), on friday 11.00
Do we need a revolution?
Those of us who are serious about the cosmo-political, and indeed spiritual, implications of our art, our actions, and our lives, are deeply and genuinely troubled by the situation that we find ourselves in.
It is something more than a game. The true mission, we believe, is something else than finding enjoyment in confusion, aporia or ignorance.
Our political analyses are advanced. They are radical.
Their radicality - let’s be honest - is not matched by our practice, however, as artists, as members of society.
We fail to face the logical consequence of what we desire.
We sigh for what is not.
What would it mean to take things seriously? How can we bring it to another level? Where do we want to go next?
A presentation on "Book Club", an occasional gathering of artists in Toronto to explore artist's books and ephemera.
I wish to explore "Book Club" as a model for an informal pedagogy between peers. It constititues both an opportunity to both examine difficult-to-access items of ephemera but also provides insight into an artist's thinking through their respective collections and presentation choices.
As part of the presentation I will present some artists books I am currently researching, some book projects of my own, and will share some items I have discovered during my stay in Brussels.
I encourage those attending to consider bringing a publication to share with the group.
For the french version, please scroll down.
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The Art Workers Club
Proposal for the Public School
Dessislava Dimova
For the duration of 1 month the gallery space of KOMPLOT will be turned into a club for any art practitioners based or visiting Brussels at the time.
The club will be a space for meetings, discussions, reading, producing work, sharing individual projects, exchanging ideas and knowledge, intellectual recreation and the creation of an actual Brussels art community in a common shared space.
The Art Workers Club is not a nostalgic re-appropriation of early Soviet factory practices, but rather a productive critique of the conditions of work in the contemporary art world, which are a function of the today’s conditions of globalized labour in general.