Actually travelling in Asia for several exhibitions in
Beijing and Tokyo with the support from the Commissariat général aux relations
internationales de la Communauté française de Belgique, Eric Van Hove will give
a work presentation, introducing several body of recent works and site specific
installations in Senegal, Costa-Rica, Japan, Iran, Madagascar and Egypt.
This talk is part of a larger series of what the artist labeled “storytelling
objects” rather than lectures. Each of these uses a number of earlier works and
interventions - some unfinished or never even shown - as the base for a display
of ideas and ruminations believed to be more meaningfully conveyed through
stories. Maybe here the travelling contemporary artist is in some way similar
to the Kamishibai of Japan who, between the two World Wars, was telling from the
back of his bike different stories based on a number of picture cards. One can
also think of the bakhshi or Ashug of central Asia or the itinerant storytellers
of Africa (mililist of the Congos, Griots of Mali, bards, ashiks, jyrau,…) who
go from one village to the next, unfolding a story.
This storytelling object will be followed by discussions on the use of the
“broader public space” - meaning the foreign public space - for artistic
interventions pondering such ideas as statelessness or diasporism and show how
working with such spaces offers an appropriate catalyst for engaging with issues
of today.
Van Hove will also show a video piece (Abreaction series made during the
Shanghai Biennial in 2004. Finally he will introduce a recent work, Off the
record, where the artist created a short-lasting tactical art platform by
hijacking a recently installed cellphone-run locker system in Tokyo. Off the
record =
www.transcri.be/projects/offtherecord.html
Born in Algeria the same year Bas Jan Ader was lost at sea, Van Hove spent most
of his youth in Yaoundé (Cameroon). He graduated from E.R.G. in Brussels,
studied Traditional Japanese Calligraphy (MfA, Tokyo) and is Doctor of Arts
(D.A.) from the Tokyo Geidai University of Fine Arts and Music. He is based
between Europe, Africa and Japan.
Talk invited by Centre for Community Cultural Development.
Date: 18 July 2008 (Friday)
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Venue: 4/F Conference Room, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre
30 Pak Tin Street,
Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Enquiries: Centre for Community Cultural Development
Tel:
2891 8482/ 2891 8488
Fax: 2891 8483
Email:
cccd@cccd.hk
Website:
www.cccd.hk
Address: L5-04, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre
30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, Hong Kong
