Can the archive support intruders, subjectivity and paradoxes?
Substance Data (insertion into a collection database) is a project designed by The Mental Masonry Lab. It responds to the invitation by Hôtel Charleroi to 're-enact or re-interpret' Games of Stones that took place in 2014 in Charleroi, a work that wondered about the stone in a construction site of the city. As The Mental Masonry Lab wonders about urban situations and mechanisms, the Lab focuses its attention for this project rather on the institutional mechanisms of the M HKA (the host) and its archiving modalities.
After the dematerialisation of an artwork, where goes art?
During a three days’ workshop (28, 29 and 30th of April 2017) we unwrap, observe, record, describe, construct and rewrap the art work The Possessed Can Witness in the Court (2015) by the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan. The workshop invites specific profiles to collaborate with such as an architect, a drawer, a photographer, a writer and so on to help us to record and encode the work in the collection ensembles.org of the M HKA.
At the start of the workshop a scientific member of the collection staff introduces proceedings and modalities of archiving a new piece of art. On that basis, the workshop can start wondering about archive methodologies seen from an artistic point of view.
Art after art. The workshop has a goal and would like to fulfil the assignment of the recording of the art work The Possessed Can Witness in the Court (2015). At the same time the workshop is a free platform to discuss archive methodologies, ways of imaging/recording a piece of art and wherein the public of the museum is the witness of the action.
Participants:
Jan(us) Boudewijns, Achiel Buyse, Ruben Castro, Riet Eeckhout, Matilde Everaert, Bert Joostens, Ephraïm Joris, Miyeon Lee, Eva Maréchal, Jeanne Noël, Anne-Marie Sampaio.
204 pages, 22 x 16,5 cm, English | French, 2017 – Publisher: TMMED The Mental Masonry Lab.
A Voyage into the Moon
by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Essay by Ive Stevenheydens
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945: a sudden flash, a violent explosion, the atomic bomb. Somewhere on the Moon, a creature feels under threat. Shortly after that, the Japanese army receives a signal from a mysterious astronaut. Are we no longer alone in the universe?
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition:
A Voyage into the Moon - Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté française, Brussels (BE)
09.12.2021 – 06.02.2022
Curator Ive Stevenheydens
Head of exhibitions Grégory Thirion
Exhibitions assistant Mathilde Manche
Essay by Ive Stevenheydens
Graphic design Johanne Boca, Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Translation Helen Simpson
Copy editing Ann Michiels
Cover Skin_chpt 7
Photographs by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
pp. 4 - 29, 40 - 41, 48 - 51, 56 - 57, 60 - 62
Exhibition photographer Luk Vander Plaetse
pp. cover, 34 - 39, 42 - 47, 52 - 55, 58 - 61
Fonts: Comic Neue by C. Rozynski with H. Papazian, Kosugi Maru by Motoya
Printing and binding Graphius Brussels nv
200 ex.
This publication was made possible thanks to the support of Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté française, represented by Paul-Henri Wauters, General Manager, Flanders State of the Art and the SOFAM.
Les aiguilles
by Cédric Noël
Composition: thirty-two black ink drawings on squared paper 10,5x14,8cm, a digital photograph, a text
Excerpt : (...) Je me rappelais les maisons en bois de Šnipiškės. L’image la plus insistante, qui me revenait par bribes, était celle de cagettes retournées sur lesquelles étaient soigneusement disposées des petites choses de couture. Du fil, des boutons, des épingles et des aiguilles que des dames espéraient vendre en bordure de route. (...)
35 copies, 12 pages, 22,5 x 32 cm, French, 2022 – Publisher: TMMED The Mental Masonry Lab