25/10/2000
Indiscipline
Roomade, Bruxelles
Indiscipline demonstrates the wide net of contemporary disciplines. Programmed are eight "presentations" from artists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, theater makers and others. Throughout the city of Brussels at various locations the concepts are realized and branch of into many fields corresponding with locations and activities all over Europe. This "theater of operations" will form an unrestricted exhibition map on which the projects will take place. In doing so Indiscipline will trace the complex strata of contemporary culture.
Curateurs Jens Hoffmann and Barbara Vanderlinden.
Indiscipline demonstrates the wide net of contemporary disciplines. Programmed are eight "presentations" from artists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, theater makers and others. Throughout the city of Brussels at various locations the concepts are realized and branch of into many fields corresponding with locations and activities all over Europe. This "theater of operations" will form an unrestricted exhibition map on which the projects will take place. In doing so Indiscipline will trace the complex strata of contemporary culture.
Invited are eight practitioners who each articulate a concept that participates in the widening of contemporary thought. Presenting ideas that do not fit in the structure of clearly defined disciplines. It challenges the intellectuals to actively participate in the creative process of exhibition making and to place their intellectual findings into direct publicness. On the other hand, Indiscipline will invite the artists to go beyond the language of the visual and focus on the conceptual qualities of their work.
The project is "undisciplined", and moves between the structures of theater, happening, exhibition, workshop and the internet. It shows the complexity of culture and cultural production. Since the presentations do not have a fixed form they will be presented as a series of time-based events. Every week one event is being programmed. These one-time events could easily pass unnoticed. During the opening and initial press conference each participant will present her/his proposition, blurring the borderlines between opening and press event.
In the Center Brussels 2000 and on the web site of Indiscipline, two of the project's venues, Indiscipline will provide a continuous documentation of the different aspects of the eight events during the whole period of the project from 26 October to 3 December 2000.
Originally used by the French Section of the Situationist International, see The Situationist City by Simon Sadler, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 1998.
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