#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#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.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#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.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#36: We support production separately.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#61: No all male install teams.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#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.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#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.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#36: We support production separately.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#61: No all male install teams.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|
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17.11.2023 17:00

Gathering with Paul Bailey

Pay what you can

Vrijdagavonden: Meeting Grounds: Essay as Event

  • Entrance: Pay What You Can
  • Language: English

A gathering devised by Paul Bailey with the graphic design department at KASK and special guest contributors: Metahaven (Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden), Dayna Casey and Katja Mater.

The essay for the American essayist and climate activist Rebecca Solnit is a meeting ground. It is a process of ‘gathering up the shards and mapping them where they are, to find the patterns out there or make one … about the disconnections and the mysteries’. (*)

Drawing from Solnit’s framing of the essay, Meeting Grounds invites investigation, and experimentation, with the visual essay as a verb (essaying), an event (a gathering), and as a social form for collective reasoning.

Throughout the evening we will gather around essayistic propositions shared by our guest contributors; meander through a series of essays (re)staged by graphic design students from KASK; and move along to, and between, a selection of tracks sampled and arranged by an essayistic ear.

(*) Rebecca Solnit, Introduction, The Best American Essays, 2019

Programme
  • 17:00: Doors / Bar open
  • 18:00 - 20:00: Presentations & Performances
  • 20:15 - 21:00: Conversation
  • 21:00 - 23:00: Deejayessayistic Set at Sheila's Bar
Friday Evenings

This autumn, we will present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 10 weeks during the Friday Evenings. We offer local partners a platform. And we put artists with whom Kunsthal Gent currently collaborates in the spotlight. Every Friday evening is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.

Programme Friday Evenings

13.10.2023 — Rainald Goetz & Jean D.L.: ‘Gestoord’
Book launch by German cult writer Goetz, by Art Cinema OFFoff & Het Balanseer

20.10.2023 — An Autumn Night met Ben Thorp Brown
Artist talk on Cura’s Garden, Kunsthal Gent’s new garden

27.10.2023 — Anna Schlooz:Tafelen / Maagmoeder
Performance dinner sharing stories, rituals and pancakes

03.11.2023 — Engagement Shares: The Power Of Boundaries
How to deal with complex situations of transgressive behavior?

10.11.2023 — Een avond met De Verffabriek
Artist run space De Verffabriek invites you to Kunsthal Gent!

17.11.2023 — Meeting Grounds: Essay as Event
A gathering devised by Paul Bailey and the graphic design department at KASK

24.11.2023 — rokko: How To Create Free Space in an Unfree World?
Artistic attempt in literature and performance by queer feminist bookshop rokko

01.12.2023 — L. Puska: Living With
Performance and conversation: what does it mean to be the caretaker of an artwork?

08.12.2023 — Sophia Tabatadze: Pirimze
Documentaire en gesprek over gentrificatie in Tbilisi, i.s.m. Tot in de Stad!
Documentary and conversation on gentrification in Tbilisi, with Tot in de Stad!

15.12.2023 — How To Organize a Zine Fair
Les VoiZines looks at the past & future of Zine Happening

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