SUPER DEMOCRACY - The Senate of Things

Three cultural institutions enter into a dialogue with the Belgian Senate during the exhibition SUPERDEMOCRACY, which is on display throughout October. BPS22 in Charleroi, BOZAR in Brussels and M HKA in Antwerp provide a cultural dimension to the Senate’s current issues.

1.10.2017 - 31.10.2017

Jacques Charlier

(c)image: M HKA
La Zone Absolue/Canalisation, 1969
Video , 00:13:45
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This fluxus related - video gives an image of a hole that is dug in the ground. By this action Jacques Charlier (defender of the ‘Belgitude’) articulates a comment on art to find the dream, an attitude of art. He is irreverent but radical related to the tradition of art and beliefs that everything is art and uses often unimportant forms of the art – system like parody and persiflage, a valorization of the art-world as in technical services, even the ground work of laying pipes and drainages referred to this.