A-Tipis
Presenting works by
Gob Squad (D, UK), David Neirings (B), Private Thoughts in Public Places (UK, NL), Wouter Decorte (B), Sophie Nys (B), Grand Magasin (F), Aarich Jespers (B) and Atelier Van Lieshout (NL).
Eight structures, each an individual artwork, are presented jointly in an unusual out-door setting. They form the entity that is A-Tipis, consisting of four units developed by visual artists and four by performance-based artists. Resisting classification and refusing the well-know presentation frames, A-Tipis moves out towards people.
Using contemporary nomadism as a trigger, A-Tipis’ artists confront us with physical structures and life interactions placed in an a-typical setting. This summer, A-Tipis moves from a wide open grassland protected from the north sea by the dunes to a minutely designed city park frequented by all the kind of people a metropolis provides, to end up on a green peninsula, squeezed between a highway, medieval canals and the industrial outskirts of medium-sized city.
A-Tipis is not simply a mobile open-air exhibition through which you can walk. It is an active environment that invites you to participate in it by stepping out of the everyday world and into a new territory. It is a place to spend some time, to reflect and to let yourself be surprised by the unexpected things that may happen.
10 – 19 Jun 05 | Oerol Festival, Terschelling, NL
24 Jun – 03 Jul 05 | Parc de la Villette, Paris, FR
20 – 24 Jul 05 | Gentse Festen, Gent, BE
Co-produced by: Forma (UK), La Villette (FR), Oerol Festival (NL) and Victoria (BE)
A-Tipis is supported by EU Culture 2000
Photo: Phile Deprez
