9.9.19

My BOEKS ate my HOOLAWHOOP. Woops!


A message far too late, but I started a new initiatieve in January 2019, titled BOEKS, a platform for showing books on the Bijloke site in Ghent. After BOEKS was born, my Hoolawhoop faded out more or less... I really enjoyed Hoolawhooping for ten years though. Sigh, as in diepe zucht.

Mm, maybe I'll return one day, as a slow blogspotter.

Until then you can follow BOEKS hero and thero:



https://boeks.gent



https://www.instagram.com/boeks.gent/

31.3.19

Devil's mask (with bunny ears), 17th-18th century

https://stamgent.be/nl_be/collectie/kunstwerken/01661

29.3.19

Smashing with a prehistoric stone tool






"Wearing a suit, Jimmie Durham sits behind a desk like a bureaucrat performing his duty: smashing things. In an orderly manner, a person goes in, delivers an object, Durham smashes it with a prehistoric stone tool - violently but impassively. He stamps and signs a piece of paper as receipt and gives it to the same person, who goes off-scene. The same order of events is repeated several times during 92 minutes. This video-performance was part of Durham’s teaching residency at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Italy, in 2004."

Source: http://ensembles.mhka.be/actors/jimmie-durham
Jimmie Durham & Maria Thereza Alves, 'Smashing', 2004
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (Inv. no. AMVP 3253).


27.3.19

I love the word trouble






"I love the word trouble. It refers to everything that is not limpid, tidy. It’s a word that gets medicalised too often; a word used inappropriately by the police. And maybe we have ended up mistrusting this word – even when it refers to something from our internal selves. I want to bring the word back into favour. Unlike “indecision”, it is a term that refers to a tumult of the mind, to a state of suspension, to a sort of opacity of the real. That which is trouble merely suggests, without providing a basis for naming what is to come or what will arise. Being troubled is a state familiar to lovers. We know."

Read Claudio Pazienza's beautiful 'State of the Cinema 2019' for Sabzian here.

About the intimate language that inhabits us. In English, Dutch or French.

(Images: film stills from Kira Muratova's Brief Encounters, 1967 and The Long Farewell, 1971)

24.3.19

windows stairs








Also in Sart-Tilman, "Zone Génie civil, Mathématique, Montéfiore, SEGI"

23.3.19

CHU Sart-Tilman, Liège - Charles Vandenhove in collaboration with










For the interior designs, Charles Vandenhove collaborated with Daniel Buren, 
Sol Lewitt, Niele Toroni, Jo Delahaut, Marthe Wéry, Jacques Charlier, and others.
Photos of the original situation here.


15.3.19

TREE FESTIVITIES by Lois Weinberger








Baumfest ('Tree Festival'), 1977
In Stams, Tirol, July-September 1977
Cherry trees, plastic sacks and foil
Courtesy Salle Principale, Paris

3.3.19

Sarah Margnetti, '"Charlotte Herzog’s Bathroom", oil painting, Berlin, 2017


www.sarahmargnetti.com

also appeared in the series "I want that bathroom": 
https://hoolawhoop.blogspot.com/2016/09/cesar-manrique-knew-how-to-bathe.html

26.2.19

Pieter De Bruyne

Reliëf 3
Ruimtelijke constructie III / La Piazza
Teken 3

Perpetuum immobile
Chantilly
Man/vrouw

Pieter De Bruyne, Belgian interior architect and furniture designer (1931-1987)
Some of De Bruyne's designs can be found in the collection of the Designmuseum, Ghent

20.2.19

Logomotives 1963-1983 "Masterpieces of Poesia Visiva'














With among others
Alain Arias-Misson here and here
Julien Blaine here
& Jean François Bory here