TR17/01 A&B - The New Conversations- volume 1 & 2 - Track Report 2016
Nico Dockx (1974) works as a visual artist, curator, publisher and researcher with a fundamental interest in archives. His interventions, publications, texts, sounds, images, installations, performances and conversations —which are usually the result of collaborations with other artists— embody the relationship between perception and memory, which he interprets differently each time.
Together with Louwrien Wijers, Egon Hanfstingl and many other collaborations, he has been working on his PhD project The New Conversations at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and which he obtained in 2014 at CAC Brétigny upon invitation of curator Pierre Bal Blanc. This, among other things, was done by organizing events in Antwerp, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York and Hallum, where artists, theorists and art students entered into dialogue about certain notions that crystallized from the archive, such as the 'archive' and the 'economy'. Conversations, performances, preparation and consumption of meals and informal contacts always went hand in hand in the process. As a result, the material from Wijers' archive was activated and given the opportunity to lead a new life. As with the previous conversations, this defense, described as 'PhD performance', was accompanied by presentations, conversations, performances and informal contacts at the dinner table. All this took place in the iconostasis (Le Gambit) by Yona Friedman.
Contributions by Marina Abramovic, AA Bronson, General Idea, Joseph Beuys, Kasper Bosmans, Thomas Crombez, Els De bruyn, Robby Decorte, Valérie de Ghellinck, Sarah de Wilde, Leon Eixenberger, Olafur Eliasson, Eric Ellingsen, Claudia Garcia Sosa, Erik Hagoort, Egon Hanfstingl, Lutz Henke, Jeremia Holliger, Institut für Raumexperimente, Interfaculty, Asako Iwama, Pieter Jennes, Clara Jo feat. Elise Eeraerts, Saori Kuno, Sarat Maharaj, Daniele Marx, Sis Matthé, Lauren Maurer, Stanislav Menshikov, Sands Murray-Wassink, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Rory Pilgrim, Matthew Stone, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Machteld van Buren, Ton van der Laaken, Albert van Westing, Francisco J. Varela, Lawrence Weiner, Jonas Wendelin, Christina Werner and Louwrien Wijers.
2 volumes - EN - 17x24.5cm - softcover - Edition of 250 - numbered and signed - good condition
Together with Louwrien Wijers, Egon Hanfstingl and many other collaborations, he has been working on his PhD project The New Conversations at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and which he obtained in 2014 at CAC Brétigny upon invitation of curator Pierre Bal Blanc. This, among other things, was done by organizing events in Antwerp, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York and Hallum, where artists, theorists and art students entered into dialogue about certain notions that crystallized from the archive, such as the 'archive' and the 'economy'. Conversations, performances, preparation and consumption of meals and informal contacts always went hand in hand in the process. As a result, the material from Wijers' archive was activated and given the opportunity to lead a new life. As with the previous conversations, this defense, described as 'PhD performance', was accompanied by presentations, conversations, performances and informal contacts at the dinner table. All this took place in the iconostasis (Le Gambit) by Yona Friedman.
Contributions by Marina Abramovic, AA Bronson, General Idea, Joseph Beuys, Kasper Bosmans, Thomas Crombez, Els De bruyn, Robby Decorte, Valérie de Ghellinck, Sarah de Wilde, Leon Eixenberger, Olafur Eliasson, Eric Ellingsen, Claudia Garcia Sosa, Erik Hagoort, Egon Hanfstingl, Lutz Henke, Jeremia Holliger, Institut für Raumexperimente, Interfaculty, Asako Iwama, Pieter Jennes, Clara Jo feat. Elise Eeraerts, Saori Kuno, Sarat Maharaj, Daniele Marx, Sis Matthé, Lauren Maurer, Stanislav Menshikov, Sands Murray-Wassink, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Rory Pilgrim, Matthew Stone, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Machteld van Buren, Ton van der Laaken, Albert van Westing, Francisco J. Varela, Lawrence Weiner, Jonas Wendelin, Christina Werner and Louwrien Wijers.
2 volumes - EN - 17x24.5cm - softcover - Edition of 250 - numbered and signed - good condition