Lode Geens, ‘Hek’ (Fence) (2009)
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Jan Dibbets
Jan Dibbets, ‘Museum Sokkel met vier hoeken van 90°’ (‘Museum plinth with four corners at an angle of 90°’ (1969)
Dibbets dug out the four corners of the Stedelijk Museum to expose the building’s ‘plinth’.
Institute for Human Activities (IHA)
The Institute for Human Activities (IHA) asserts that even when art critically engages with global inequalities, it most often brings beauty, jobs, and opportunity to the places where such art is exhibited, discussed and sold – London, Venice, New York and Berlin. At its secret artist colony in the Congolese rainforest the IHA aims to make critique profitable in those places that provide artistic content, thus recalibrating art’s critical mandate.
In 2012, the IHA began ‘A Gentrification Program’ on a former Unilever plantation, 800 kilometers from Kinshasa, on a tributary of the Congo River. As Congolese plantation workers cannot live off plantation labour alone, they will now, with the help and support of the IHA, try to live off their artistic engagement with plantation labour. Two small self-portraits, cast in cocoa from a Congolese plantation, are now available for € 39,95.
Self Portrait by Djonga Bismar.
Self Portrait by Manenga Kibwila.
Giny Vos
Giny Vos, ‘Work to do’ (1985)
Intervention on the lighting scheme of the Europoint towers in Rotterdam.
Li Mu
Li Mu worked for the Van Abbe Museum as an invigilator during the exhibition ‘Double Infinity’ (2010)
Elena Bajo
Elena Bajo, ‘To the North, The Crystal of Non-Knowledge, a Landscape to be invented’ (2010)
Solyst Skulpturen Park, Copenhagen
Trashed damaged staircase and stained color glass window found in a wasteland, re-assembled and welded in collaboration with unemployed workers, subsidized by the Danish Government.
