Projects
SPOT #1 – A.A.E. Essai 1 – Lucas Cyrille
ENSEMBLE
Currer Bell College
Workshops: Wonder Room and Talk Show
News
Kristof Vrancken shortlisted for Sony World Photography Awards 2020
Very happy to announce that Kristof Vrancken has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in the category ‘Environment’ with his series Transit. Transit depicts the evolution and history of the town of Genk in Belgium, using the 19th-century anthotype process in new forms. It consists of nine photographic prints made with an organic and drinkable emulsion created from plants harvested from the locations seen in the pictures. As a consequence, an interesting relationship between the physical landscape and its photographic representation emerges. This method not only allows me to approach… Read More
AnneMarie Maes – L’Origine du Monde at STARTS
L’Origine du Monde is an artistic representation of the research by AnneMarie Maes into the possibilities of cyanobacteria and algae as sources for renewable energy, pollution sensors and novel biodegradable materials. The living sculpture shows a strongly enlarged bacterial chain made from glass cells. Every cell is filled with cyanobacteria producing photosynthesis in real time. Together they form a complex microbial population that communicates via quorum sensing and reduces CO2 emission whilst producing oxygen and biopolymers. L’Origine du Monde was created during a STARTS residency with the Hybrid Forms Laboratorium at the Vrije… Read More
Minor Disturbances Comet 21/Borisov 8th December 2019 and Place
Inspired by Charles Ives vision of spatially distributed creativity in his unfinished Universe Symphony, The Faculty of Minor Disturbances (FMD)[1] sent out an invitation to create a minor disturbance as we corralled the forces of the universe together with 2I/Borisov, an interstellar comet which visited the solar system in December 2019. Find the responses we got on this page. Lothar Baumgarten (1944-2018), Shaiprabowë, 1985 © ADAGP, photo © Tate The Faculty also just had its first publication as part of the online magazine Place which has dedicated its second issue to Déplacement / Displacement. Find our contribution here. [1] FMD IS PART OF… Read More
Sara Bomans in Gekende Woorden (Known Words)
Sara Bomans is in good company this Friday evening when the exhibition ‘Gekende Woorden’ (Known Words) opens at the Academies Tielt. She’s showing a selection of her Secret Thoughts drawings alongside work by amongst others Arpaîs Du Bois, Bruce Naumann, Peter Downsborough, Bernd Lohaus and Ante Timmermans. On Friday 3 April the catalogue is presented alongside a performance by Peter Morrens who also takes part in the exhibition. As the title indicates the exhibition focusses on the use of words in art works and thus language and meaning in art. From… Read More
The Animal Curator
Very pleased with my first publication in an Italian magazine. My paper, The Animal Curator – Duchamp’s Inframince and Animality, was written in response to a call for papers by Gabriela Galati on the issue of Making the Posthuman: A New Landscape in Art Theory and Practice. Looking at seemingly curatorial activities by the bower bird is the starting point for this paper to explore the notion of the “animal curator”. Where Wolfe’s introduction to Serres’ The Parasite (2007) was earlier used to stress the necessity of “becoming minor” or “animal” in a… Read More
SPOT #1 – A.A.E. Essai 1 – Lucas Cyrille
2020 needed to start with a new iniative for which I am happy to introduce this new column for newly SPOTted talent, extraordinary exhibitions and/or specfic projects. For the first issue of SPOT I am happy to introduce the work of one of my students at ESADHaR that answers all of those categories. Under the heading A.A.E. Essai 1 (Action Art Environnement -Reinforcement office for nature and culture), Lucas Cyrille has organised his first exhibition in the space of Collectif d’en face, an artists collective here in Rouen. The original co-ordinates of the mostly found… Read More
Le film sans fin – performance lecture
To start the new year off first of all a Very Happy, Prosperous, Joyful, Exciting, and why not, Funny 2020. Humour and going with the flow seem to be the only possible attitude to have in view of the ongoing strikes here in France that so far have made any travel completely impossible for yours truly. 2020 announces itself thus slowly and as a year of reflection which is exactly the way Bureau Doove will take in the upcoming time, with more attention for (personal) research and slow development projects. To start… Read More
Sara Bomans – Open Studio
On Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December Sara Bomans organises an open studio where you can see and buy her work. Prices start at 1€ but there’s no obligation to buy. Get in touch with Sara on bomanssara@hotmail.com to get her address which is situated close to the train station of Hasselt, Belgium. Open from 2 – 7pm.
Le film sans fin – La pierre percée
This summer we filmed the episode ‘La pierre percée’ as part of the ongoing project Le film sans fin by Ollivier Moreels and Jean-Louis Vincendeau and under the heading of AATP (Agence Artistique de Traduction Poétique) near Saint-Nazaire. For this collaboration Sara Bomans wrote a text and made a series of drawings that were integrated in the film. Jean-Louis Vincendeau wrote an accompanying text which you can find in the French version below the film and of which an English translation is soon to follow. Also see the website of Ollivier Moreels… Read More
ENSEMBLE
Pictures Léo Barranco, 2019 Bureau Doove’s first major exhibition in France, ENSEMBLE, was a selection of the work of graduates from four schools for art, architecture and design in Normandy: ésam Caen, ESADHaR Le Havre/Rouen and École nationale supérieure d’atchitecture de Normandie. It was the first time that the schools presented their graduates together. Edith Doove was invited to make a selection and present this in the majestic abbatial church of Saint-Ouen. She developed a specific scenography with a large 25 meter long plinth at the heart of the exhibition to showcase maquettes… Read More
