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
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.
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