Museum Contemporary Art Ghent-Balen
Louise Osieka looks back at the exhibition the Belgian artist Jef Geys set up in 1984 with 61 pivotal art works of the S.M.A.K. collection in a secondary school in Balen, a small village up north in Belgium where he taught "positive aesthetics" from 1960 to 1989. Central to Jef Geys’ pract...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Territories / edited by Els Silvrants-Barclay and Pieternel Vermoortel |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Louise Osieka looks back at the exhibition the Belgian artist Jef Geys set up in 1984 with 61 pivotal art works of the S.M.A.K. collection in a secondary school in Balen, a small village up north in Belgium where he taught "positive aesthetics" from 1960 to 1989. Central to Jef Geys’ practice are projects that allow knowledge to be transplanted from the one to the other closed systems, as "foreign bodies" that crack open and expose institutional engineering. By ignoring all sense of hierarchy of superiority between institutions, knowledge or people, his projects aim to genuinely emancipate and empower. Jef Geys made a selection of archive material for CAVE. |
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| ISBN: | 978-3-95679-136-9 |