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9000 Gent

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Today: Mark Požlep: Everything Under (with a film by Jonas Mekas)

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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23 — 24.11.24

Mark Požlep: Everything Under (with a film by Jonas Mekas)

→ Film
→ 11:00

→ Splinter vzw
→ 18:30

Wednesday 27.11.24

Splinter vzw:

Eye On Lebanon

→ Splinter vzw
→ 18:30

→ 13:00

Friday 29.11.24

Friday Evenings:

Eye On Palestine

→ 17:30

Wednesday 04.12.24

Syllabus Reading Group #23: Jasmine Reimer — Witch Hunt Aesthetics

→ Festival
→ 18:00

Thursday 05.12.24

Museumnacht:

Eye On Palestine

→ Festival
→ 18:00

→ 20:00

Friday 06.12.24

Friday Evenings:

Koba De Meutter: 2018 — 2023

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→ Manoeuvre
→ Finissage
→ 14:00

Friday 22.11.24

Manoeuvre:

Water Residue: Finissage Refuge

→ Manoeuvre
→ Finissage
→ 14:00

→ Manoeuvre
→ Open Atelier
→ 10:00

Wednesday 20.11.24

Manoeuvre:

Open Atelier

→ Manoeuvre
→ Open Atelier
→ 10:00

Sluiten

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01 — 05.07.24

Jubilee Summer School 2024: Commons To Coop

During a week of workshops, walks and public conversations at Kunsthal Gent, we study local histories of cooperative organisation, and work with the new tool for artistic research and countermapping Eavatea. Organised by Jubilee, a Brussels-based platform for artistic research jointly developed and led by its members, visual artists and art workers.

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In the course of the Jubilee Summer School 2024 at Kunsthal Gent, the programme explores the dynamic between a commons and an economic model that operates on the basis of collective ownership: the cooperative. In response to the social urgencies that were caused by the industrialization of Belgium a number of successful cooperatives were initiated in Ghent. In a series of workshops and walks we will explore inspiring models from the past, but also from the present.

‘Eavatea’ is a digital infrastructure that is being created by many different authors. Considering the tool a knowledge common social researcher Mayo Fuster Morell claims its goal is “to expand resources in quality and over time, with a view to broadening the flow of knowledge to stimulate innovation, where exclusive intellectual property rights have blocked that process.” As a digital commons Eavatea requires regular maintenance and updates.

Jubilee is a resident in Kunsthal Gent in 2023 – 2025: the development of ‘Eavatea’ is supported through Kunsthal Gent’s development programme Permanently Practising.

Programma

Mon 1 July

15:00 — 18:00 — Public Excursion: visit to ‘Gentse Gronden’ (STAM)
Mon 1 July

20:00 — Introduction research project Bureau of Analogies
Tue 2 July

18:00 — 21:00 — Reading Room #33: Fred Dewey and the Brechtian theatre
Wed 3 July

15:00 — 18:00 — Walk with Katinka de Jonge
Wed 3 July

20:00 — Screening short films
Thu 4 July

14:00 — 18:00 — Visit to ‘Le jardin des Fraternités ouvrières’
Thu 4 July

19:00 — 21:00 — Public Conversation: nadine / introducing Eavatea
Thu 4 July

21:00 — Performance Åsa Lie: International folk costume
Fri 5 July

19:00 — 21:00 — Public Conversation: Commons to Coop

Location of the events and starting point of the walks:
Kunsthal Gent
Lange Steenstraat 14
9000 Ghent

For updates on the programme, read about Commons to Coop: Summer School 2024 on jubilee-art.org

For inquiries and registrations, contact Jubilee: info@jubilee-art.org.
Only in case of urgencies, call: +32 470 653 278

Monday 1 July

15:00 - 18:00 — Pubic Excursion: visit to Gentse Gronden (STAM)

A visit to Gentse Gronden, an exhibition at STAM that offers a historical picture of public land ownership in and around Ghent. Today, the land owned by the city of Ghent is subject to debate. Should these lands be sold to finance a social policy, or should they remain public property? What role can land play in issues surrounding climate, food security and urban policy?

After our visit to Gentse Gronden we will meet Raf Verbeke. Last year, he and his action group ‘Te Duur’ forced a referendum on affordable housing in Ghent, but Verbeke was also involved in the lawsuit surrounding the sale by the Ghent OCMW of 467 hectares of agricultural land in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen to the Dutch company Bijloke BV, a subsidiary of a Luxembourg company of Fernand Huts (Katoen Natie).

Departure from Kunsthal Gent, 14.30

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20:00 — Fermentation and Speculation

Scott William Raby & Tobias Van Royen introduce their research project Bureau of Analogies (BOA), which focuses on Fermentation and Speculation, and draws parallels between Fermented Wild Ales communities in Belgium and the broader art sector. Due to their long shelf life these beers can be speculated on and along with their uniqueness, and difficulty to produce, make their socio-economic qualities quite similar to the output of the artists and art workers.

Location: bar

Tuesday 2 July

18:00 - 21:00 — Reading Room #33 Fred Dewey and the Brechtian theatre

This Reading Room is the sixth instalment around the library of the American thinker and organiser Fred Dewey. Jubilee member and legal scholar Louise de Bethune has selected a book from the Dewey library. While reading excerpts from the book, she will guide us through the complex notion of multiple authorship.

Bertold Brecht’s epic theatre on social and political issues aims for critical production and critical audiences. By breaking the fourth wall Brechtian theatre removes the audience’s static veil and welcomes the public to reflect and shape the play, enabling a process of moral and social education dealing with universal truths.

Location: Cura’s Garden

Wednesday 3 July

15:00 - 18:00 — Public Excursion with Katinka de Jonge

A walk in collaboration with Katinka de Jonge, which will take us from Kunsthal Gent along various places where the 19th century cooperative Vooruit was active. We will pass by the first coop supermarket modelled on the fashionable Grand Bazars of Paris, as well as the Vooruit printing house and the first workers bank. We will end our excursion in the art center VIERNULVIER, which in a previous life was known as the festive hall of the cooperative Vooruit. In Vooruit we will listen to an excerpt from Kunst Veredelt (Art Enobles), an audio walk by Katinka de Jonge, Adriënne van der Werf, Leonore Spee and Sascha Bornkamp.

Departure from Kunsthal Gent, 15.00

20:00 — Film screenings

Screening of two short films on the cooperative movement:

Onze drang naar bevrijding (1960 – Emile Vandervelde Instituut) 25′

Our Urge for Liberation was made on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Belgian Socialist Party. It outlines the misery of the working class in the ‘belle époque’ and the struggle it waged to improve its fate. Images of alleys and slum houses, child labor, the demonstrations for universal suffrage, the strikes of 1932 and 1936, the repression by the police. The film includes fragments from, among others, Henri Storck’s Misère au borinage and Newspaper Vooruit. The second half of the film provides an overview of a number of achievements attributed to the socialist movement.

Can We Do It Ourselves (2015 – Ekonomisk Demokrati) 59′

The film focuses on economic philosophy with an emphasis on the concept of economic democracy. It calls into question the fact that democracy prevails in so many models of world politics, yet not in economic spheres. By examining the key differences between market, capitalist and democratic economies, the filmmakers are able to present the many perceived benefits of empowering the working class, re-calibrating the scales of corporate influence and prioritizing the well-being of those providing labor over the maximization of profit.

Location: cinema

Thursday 4 July

14:00 - 18:00 — Public Excursion: 'Le jardin des Fraternités ouvrières'

A visit to Le jardin des Fraternités ouvrières, the permaculture garden initiated by Josine and Gilbert Cardon. In the course of 50 years they gathered around them a group of gardeners, who became the association Les Fraternités Ouvrières. As volunteers they share their knowledge and the 6,000 varieties of seeds in their grain library with more than 3,000 members. In 2000 Gilbert passed away, and Josine recently went to a retirement home for the elderly. Currently the garden is maintained by the group of volunteers.

Departure from Kunsthal Gent, 14.00

19:00 - 21:00 — Public Conversation: nadine / introducing Eavatea

Julie Vanderhaeghen (Atelier Cartographique), Loes Jacobs (nadine), Maximiliaan Royakkers and Ciel Grommen (Atlas of Ovens) introduce Eavatea, and discuss how the partners have developed the mapping prototype both as a curatorial and an artistic practice. This involves archiving, publishing and finally activating, the three basic functions of Eavatea that aim to enable a relational dynamic between the uploaded practices. Eavatea as an agora will be tested, and the new possibilities for conducting collective research will be experimented with in collaboration with the public. Artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans will moderate the conversation.

Location: cinema

21:00 — International folk costume: a performance by Åsa Lie

Dressed in an outfit made from heat foil, tape and a letter from a friend, Åsa moves between the pieces of Kunsthal’s Endless Exhibition. The fragility of the dress and the crisp sounds it produces, provoked by Lie’s movements and gestures, contrast with the actual sensation of warmth that the dress gives her.

Location: hall church

Friday 5 July

19:00 - 21:00 — Public Conversation: Commons to Coop

Mutualization of risk has always been an important motivation for establishing Jubilee as an artist-run initiative. In the context of the rollout of the mapping tool Eavatea, we ask ourselves whether membership of a cooperative can lay the foundation for a form of mutualisation that, with a modest individual cost, could still provide a significant collective benefit, namely the long-term continued survival of Eavatea, as the digital commons. In a public conversation with Aline Hernandez and Erik Bordeleau we will be exploring and constructing possible dynamics between a knowledge commons and the cooperative model.

Location: cinema

Credits

Autumn 2022 a partnership between a number of small artist-run initiatives, including five artist members of Jubilee, the Danish nomadic organisation f.eks. and the Brussels-based laboratory for contemporary transdisciplinary art nadine started working closely with Atelier Cartographique, a cooperative that designs digital maps, on a digital interface that could archive and publish the ephemeral practices of the initiatives and artists involved. The tool would allow the situated knowledge generated by their practices not only to become more visible for the public and colleagues, but it would also visualize possible links between these practices.

Archipelago of Artistic Practices is produced by Jubilee, in co-production with Atelier Cartographique (Brussels); Casco Art Institute (Utrecht); Flemish Centre for Art Archives (CKV, Antwerp), f.eks. (Aalborg); Kunsthal Gent; M HKA (Antwerp), nadine (Brussels).

The program is supported by the Flemish Community (VG), Flemish Community Brussels (VGC) and Culture Moves Europe.

COMMONS TO COOP

COMMONS TO COOP is part of Archipelago of Artistic Practices (2024 – 2025), an artistic and discursive program by Jubilee, platform for artistic research, in collaboration with Atelier Cartographique, Casco Art Institute, CKV, f.eks., Kunsthal Gent, M HKA, nadine.

Archipelago of Artistic Practices includes artistic presentations, small exhibitions and showcases in the context of which there will be workshops with guests and peers invited from their specific interest or expertise. These discursive programmes are completed with a public activity (indoor or outdoor) such as screenings, performances, walks, bike tours…

Jubilee

Jubilee is a Brussels-based platform for artistic research jointly developed and led by its members, visual artists and art workers. The focus on supporting artistic practices and initiating collective research projects allows the organisation to strive for sustainable conditions for an ecology of artistic practices.

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