#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#4: Pay what you can.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#34: We pay artists.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#40: Follow the artist|#56: Take a lunch break.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#4: Pay what you can.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#34: We pay artists.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#40: Follow the artist|#56: Take a lunch break.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|
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CHT/Totalism.org hackbase

ARTIST TALK AND ARCHIVE EXHIBIT LAUNCH
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Kunsthal Hackbase

Starting October 2021, the CHT/Totalism.org hackbase will inhabit Kunsthal Gent's fall period of the "Permanently Practising" development programme, with a participation-focused public programme. With Labs, Inhabitation, Excursions, Happenings and a Mini Exhibit.

To participate and find out more, contact the hackbase at info@totalism.org

On Friday 15 October at 20.00, CHT/Totalism.org will introduce their practice and open a mini exhibit of CHT artefacts in the workspace. >>> moved to 12 November 20.00

About the base in Canary Islands (Spain)

CHT/Totalism.org hackbase is an infrastructure research project in Canary Islands (Spain). Since 2011, ad-hoc crews use common-owned equipment and coordinate by consensus-established protocols, to curate, develop, document and practice the transitional tactics, technologies, theory, and arts, towards post-capitalism. Started as a shared house; organizing experimental off-grid desert camps since 2014, *open to all*.

Crews are ad hoc groupings. They are process instead of loosely interpersonally coordinated. Against the trendy glorification of "communities", there is no in-group versus the out-group.

Crews establish nature—infrastructural situations, drawing equally from dramaturgic logic, DIY technology, psychedelic media, and ecological embeddedness.

Crews collaborate and publish on the homegrown hypermedia platform, “E2h”, rendering both hands-on and mediated research into a variety of online results (protocols, systematics, tactics, representations, software, etc.). This powers the project's replicability — durational (→successive crews), and expansive (→other bases).

The base is a primer of a new institutional type, prototyping and seeking to propagate its logic of networking and labouring. Bases principally don't see themselves as the destination, but as sustainable experimental apparatuses towards that effect. Bases however challenge all comfortable status-quo collectivities, and demonstrate increasing readiness for real-world transition.

About CHT/Totalism.org

CHT/Totalism.org established in 2011 as "CHT#1*", a house in Lanzarote (Canary Islands/Spain). The original hackbase*: a coliving hacklab. It hosted >150 people that stayed an average of 2 weeks. It collaboratively documented itself as a "Type 1" hackbase*, including the house manual*, a financial model*, an architectural manifesto*, etc — setting off a consistent and accelerating pace of authoring. The project also assembled an initial commons of equipment*, which was taken onto its next iteration as a "Type 2" base* in 2014: an off-grid operation. More organizationally and infrastructurally challenging, scalable, generally replicable, eco, cheaper ... Ultimately, more transformative and inclusive.

Throughout this time, CHT/Totalism.org has been roughly 50% on-site, 50% on-tour. Public presentations, hack and writing sessions were held in Brussels at IMAL, Medialab Prado & Transeuropa in Madrid, Berlin at Anthropocene Campus & Spektrum, Poortgebouw in Rotterdam, CCC congresses in Hamburg and Leipzig, XM24 Bologna, amongst countless hackerspaces and online channels.

The project acquired a large transporter* in 2016, and built it into a mobile living unit / media lab / cinema / bio-lab / studio capable platform — shapeshifting to a "Type 4" base*.

As of 2021:
CHT/Totalism.org is an expanse of thousands of interlinked pieces of living written, intermedia & sensor documentation, software specs & code*, and infrastructure equipment, held together as a multi-faceted hypermedia & resource compendium, and affiliated with a growing number of hack, art, activist and theory collectives.

The project's material instance has moved on to the Fuerteventura* island. We are on-site during the pandemic & continue to further the common infrastructure, develop new strategies for non-mainline subsistence and labour, and encourage the spread and consolidation of similar efforts.


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