#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#36: We support production separately.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#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.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#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.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#36: We support production separately.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#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.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#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.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|
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02.06.2023 20:00

Book launch

Pay what you can

Capital Compression (Arnout De Cleene & Michiel De Cleene)

As the wind deposits dust, and dirt settles into soil, the landscape forms. The amassment of dirt and specks transfers pressure upon pressure, upon pressure. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into diamond, and compression into capital.

Capital Compression explores the poetics of blockchain technology – photographically and discursively. The publication employs and tests strategies of authentication and documentation. A hashed poem in nineteen lines, a series of twenty photographs, and an essay intertwine. Each appropriates aspects of blockchain: its functioning, appeal and semiotics. At Kunsthal Gent, Michiel and Arnout De Cleene will give an artist talk to celebrate the launch of their latest book.

Capital Compression
Arnout De Cleene
Michiel De Cleene
2023
Roma Publications 446
Designed by Tjobo Kho
ISBN 978-94-6446-039-1
20+12 pages, softcover
€10

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