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EXHIBTIONS

Poster, Making Do: Uses and Tactics
BKKC, Tilburg, 2010

Koen Delaere
Bas van den Hurk
Marjolijn Dijkman
Piet Dieleman
Bruno Listopad
Lorelinde Verhees
Ian de Ruiter
Thomas I’anson
Manuel Suarez Eiris

In this project the format of the poster was interpreted in the light of French culture sociologist Michel de Certeau’s philosophy on modernity. In his book ‘L’invention du quotidien. Vol. 1, Arts de faire’ Certeau argues that the gap between the homogeneity of the major scientific, political or philosophical stories and variety of everyday practices are unbridgeable. According to De Certeau there are two possible reactions to this problem: to either emphasize this gap or to pretend that it does not exist. In the latter solution life is brought back to simple abstractions. Certeau calls this ‘strategy’. In emphasizing the gap one searches for operations that theme this gap. This is what Certeau calls ‘tactics’.

The format of the poster usually functions as a strategy. In Making Do the artists have approached the format of the poster in a tactical way. In doing so, they have not let homogeneity be their guide, but rather tried to emphasize the heterogeneity of images and their production methods.

A selection of works from the BKKC exhibition was also presented at:

Whatbar #9 as part of Version>010 at Kaplans, Chicago, USA, 2010

with special guest:
The Lord of the Yum Yum

and a selection was presented at:

Inkubáljuk hírlevél Május, Europemania Festival, Pecs, Hungary, 2010

with a.o.:
Hester Scheurwater
Fragmenta
Generation Bass
Boef en de gelogeerde aap
Junkie XL
Chicks on Speed
Jazzanova
You Say Party ! We Say Die!