#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#28: Make Contracts.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#111: Do it together.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#40: Follow the artist|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#4: Pay what you can.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#61: No all male install teams.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#34: We pay artists.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#91: Embrace doubt.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#28: Make Contracts.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#111: Do it together.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#40: Follow the artist|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#4: Pay what you can.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#61: No all male install teams.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#34: We pay artists.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#91: Embrace doubt.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|
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23.10.2020 20:00

Book presentation & long reading session - ONLINE

Pay what you can

KASK + PILOOT present:
The Orphans of Tar - A Speculative Opera

Friday, 23 October 2020, 20:00
KASK school of arts HoGent + PILOOT present:
The Orphans of Tar - A Speculative Opera
Book presentation & long reading session


Join us ONLINE for an evening with The Orphans of Tar! The Orphans will read their book for and with you this evening.

Tune in via zoom - please register here and we will send you the zoom link.

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A factual-fiction, The Orphans of Tar features fictitious characters that are rooted in real-life questions considering a more inclusive society, a sustainable art ecology and the search for possible 'Third Spaces'.

The Orphans have their roots in the Tondelier urban Development in Ghent. In this book, they envision a fictional future of the site through characters like The Tar, The Anxious Explorer, Miss Trust, The Lobbyist From the Grave and The People.

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The book 'The Orphans of Tar - A Speculative Opera' results from a workshop by the artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans for students of Autonomous Design and Curatorial Studies at KASK Ghent in 2019. Heike Langsdorf, artist/researcher at KASK, invited Vermeir & Heiremans in the context of her series of working moments and writing processes Choreography as Conditioning, which is part of a cycle of work sessions entitled CASC at KASK.

As a case-study for the workshop, Vermeir & Heiremans invited PILOOT public art platform, a group of artists and a curator, that is developing long-term artistic reflections and exercises in relation to the urban development of the Tondelier/Rabot neighbourhoods in Ghent. This construction site became the location for a fictional future that was developed in the workshop.
After the workshop the group decided to continue the conversation and Heike Langdorf's invitation to make a publication was taken up in the form of a co-authored process of discussing and writing. The book makes the process of how The Orphans of Tar - A Speculative Opera came into being transparent.

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The Orphans of Tar - A Speculative Opera
Authors: Julien de Smet, Ronny Heiremans, Heike Langsdorf, Vanessa Muller, Filip Van Dingenen, Stijn Van Dorpe, Clementine Vaultier, Katleen Vermeir

Epilogue: Danielle van Zuijlen
Graphics: Gijs de Heij
Published by Art Paper Editions (2019)
Series concept: Alex Arteaga, Heike Langsdorf

The series Choreography as Conditioning is produced in the context of the research project Distraction as Discipline—an investigation into the function of attention and participation in performance art and art pedagogy (Langsdorf & Luyten 2016-2019) at KASK / School of Arts of University College Ghent

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