elke van campenhout

elke van campenhout is the research coordinator of a.pass.

formerly she worked as a free lance dramaturg and researcher on artistic research projects in nadine brussels, paf (performing arts forum) reims, TQW (tanzquartierwien),kunstenfestivaldesarts brussels, gasthuis amsterdam and many others. she was a critic for the newspaper de standaard, and the classical radio station klara, and head editor of the performance magazine etcetera.

as research coordinator elke van campenhout is in charge of the artistic and pedagogical profile and functioning of a.pass on the PhD-level, and she is in charge of the a.pass research center.

my projects

REASONS TO BECOME A HUNGER ARTIST

HUNGER ARTIST -- elke van campenhout -- Wed 25 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions
Check out the second reason to become a Hunger Artist:
Redefine Relational Aesthetics, Radically: here

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call to join the hunger artists

HUNGER ARTIST -- elke van campenhout -- Tue 17 Jan 2012 -- 0 reactions

THE HUNGER ARTIST invites you to join us in an international movement of hunger artists. The practice of Various Artist Marcella.B can be picked up by anyone interested. In the upcoming weeks and months the hunger artist will inform you about the FIVE BEST REASONS to become a hunger artist, about suggested practices to become a serious hunger artists, and about the ethics and politics that conduct the practice. THE HUNGER ARTIST is a practice that overrules the distinction between esthetic politics, spiritual growth, ethical correctness and playful confusion. If you want to join the group just come to http://www.facebook.com/groups/311770432197784/, and if you start up your own HUNGER ARTIST PRACTICE, please keep us informed on these pages.

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Cornered

Bureau d'Espoir -- elke van campenhout -- Wed 19 Jan 2011 -- 0 reactions
Video performance by Bureau d'Espoir after Adrian Piper's "Cornered," 1988 and Tim Jackson's book "Prosperity without growth"
concept and text by Elke Van Campenhout and Ariane Loze
performance by Ariane Loze

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friday, 29 october 2010

interface fictions -- elke van campenhout -- Fri 29 Oct 2010 -- 0 reactions
FRIDAY, 13h24

Things start going wrong today. Michiel doesn�t arrive then after our first interaction, so i�m a bit stuck in space. Adva has preparation stress for the Dominokingdom next day in nadine, so she arrives later for the breakfast. Lilia becomes her stand-in for the first part of the breakfast score. We pick up the conversation I had with Adva the day before, and use the time to discuss the potential of this workshop formula to use in different contexts. We also precise the need for modifications to the scores: they have to be communicative to the outside and the others, so that their affective potential is released. Maybe we should ban computers out of the scores, since a bunch of people sitting around a table working is not really stretching out the concept to its fullest power. We also try to come up with different ways to understand the scoring: not only based on time, but on musicality, on the spatial constructions, on the affective landscape, etc... Repetition in this environment becomes a very complex given, residing on the different possible parameters to follow. Right now every one is kind of struggling throughout this enormous amount of choices to make at every single moment of performing the score. Also on a documentation level this poses a lot of questions, since everyone always only carries one perspective on what is happening. So the question arises how to think of a fragmented but communal form of archiving. We try to bring it into our communal talks, but what prevails is the question of (self-induced) power: the scores are quite stringent and demanding, and some participants need to blame an outside force for the power exercised over every single moment of their day. on the other hand everybody knows this power is self-induced and can thus not be turned into a refusal towards the exterior. You can only fight yourself here. But if you fail, you also deny the other ones the completion of their stories. It is at moments quite stressful to realize your interwovenness with the �bigger group�, the fact that not doing something in these kinds of circumstances is a clear statement of absence to the other�s, since they perceive this as a clear gap in their work.

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interface fictions - photos

interface fictions -- elke van campenhout -- Fri 29 Oct 2010 -- 0 reactions
i made a public photo gallery with the pictures of interface fictions. you can easily add yours just by email. please do so! i know you have much nicer ones then mine.
gallery

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diary thursday 28 october

interface fictions -- elke van campenhout -- Thu 28 Oct 2010 -- 0 reactions
THURSDAY, 13h28

In the gallery, the atmosphere is slowly shifting during the days to a discussion platform. Little constellations find their way into the scores. My sessions with adva and emiel, michiel�s with varinia and anette, people passing by participating, listening to the other�s conversation while involved in their own practices. This morning we talk about the equilibrium between the stringency of a framed proposal like the time scores, and the freedom it offers for interpretation and interpersonal exchange. Ideally the scores could just work like a transforming social body; relying on the interpersonal transformations more than on an exact time frame, the social body could start speeding up and slowing down at will. Keeping to the score but not to the temporal limitations.
What is the relation between this as a set-up for a workshop and an �environmental� curatorial practice, only offering a formal framework for a freely evolving artistic practice? As a test case it proves its strengths and weaknesses immediately. The experiment only exists in the very strict respecting of the minimal rules for the whole thing to happen at all. Without that there is no social body appearing, and the image of the whole set-up doesn�t become visible to the outside world either.

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diary wednesday 27 october

interface fictions -- elke van campenhout -- Wed 27 Oct 2010 -- 0 reactions
WEDNESDAY, 13h25

The constellation has changed today. I did my Nigella practice in front of the window and more people seem to have noticed. It�s Wednesday and the streets are more busy, school children boisterous and challenging the set-up. In the gallery space this time Doris, Manne and Future Husband, who lingers as he did yesterday. Michiel not here, which changes the whole atmosphere for some reason. My position being somehow always related to Michiel�s position in space. This morning with Adva we talked about curatorial practices, and how an open framework for artists to enter into, and to react to each other�s work (as it is in Dominokingdom), also engenders a form of �active� archiving: of picking up where the other has left, transforming it all the time towards future interpretations. I like that idea, but considered that maybe the curator then becomes the active archiver of the discourse that �appears� in these practices as not being completely random, or sense-less. Him being the one that, looking back, lays bare possible points of collision and relates them back to the context in which the framework was produced (institutional, city orientation, whom did the invitations reach, how do the interpretations relate to the social fabric of the city/the scene, etcetera...).
With Future Husband we decided to transform the Flemish Lion into a fierce Puss-in-Boots with killer boots. Also, as a rehearsal for our marriage we decided to go together to the Manifesta exhibition in Murcia, taking a short stop to visit some of his friends in Madrid.
David arrives, the freeze this time not noticed by anyone. They stand in front of the gallery until the window has opened completely, opening up the space for the rest of the day.

elke

diary tuesday 26 october

interface fictions -- elke van campenhout -- Wed 27 Oct 2010 -- 0 reactions
TUESDAY 13u23

The gallery is almost empty. Doris is sitting at the table, eating and staring at her computer. I don�t know what she is working on. My future husband is still here working on our heraldic sign: a flemish lion in high heels against the background of a lys de france. We discuss adding a musical symbol, but cannot agree on which one: I find a bongo too exotic, and a piece of music too cliché. we do agree on putting in a book with as its title laus stultitiarum. I haven�t included enough time in my score to look up all the right images to then translate into embroidery. There are too many things coming up and not enough time in a day to realize them all. It is very quiet here now, with most of the others working outside. David arrives, which means we will finally be able to open the front door. Every day from now on at 13u34. They freeze midway the little place in front of the gallery on their way to the door. The workman behind them seems intrigued by what�s going on. It is the same man that already stared at Lilia�s and my unisono yoga session. It feels like the window sessions are working. Cooking in the window I�m thinking of putting Nigella to shame. People react bemused. Only a few minutes to go before my rearranging task. I guess I will just move my whole corner to the other window. Or not. Maybe just clean up the trail I left behind all morning.

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