If you write a story down, do you kill it?<\/p>\n
Putting something to print, means giving it permanence, making it available to everyone (who can get their hands on it, and who can read) in duplicated form over time. The printed word still has an authority, difficult to dispute. More commanding and reliable than hearsay, a printed document is seemingly robust, traveling through the future, while constantly telling of its past.
\nWith the Living Catalogue, the curators challenge this notion by choosing to communicate their collaborative project THE GO-BETWEEN via the medium of presentations, talks, events, film screenings, interviews, food give-aways and discussions, in as many locations that show interest to host this choice of format.<\/p>\n
THE GO-BETWEEN is a series of nine ephemeral art projects exploring process-based ways of working, developed since the beginning of 2007 in and around an apartment in one of the characteristic blocks of the Bijlmer, a suburb in the South-East of Amsterdam. Aware of the negative impacts of short-lived cultural projects in local neighbourhoods, the curators of the THE GO-BETWEEN decided on not giving a ‘full stop’ to their activities by either limiting the art projects to the short term (both artists’ Mark Hosking and Frank Koolen’s works live beyond the time frame of THE GO-BETWEEN), or delivering a printed publication retrospectively summarising the project as a reference document.<\/p>\n
The idea of a tale, taken on the road and woven in a variety of locations, echoes the actions of the first traveling bards, poets and minstrel bands and reminds us of the root of storytelling – the predecessor of the printed word. The organizers of the Living Catalogue, enthusiastic about the potential of a morphing portrayal of THE GO-BETWEEN are testing how long the story can avoid being ‘set in stone’ and with this approach, extend both the life and possibilities of the project and summon up a new cultural tool at the same time. <\/p>\n
The Living Catalogue Tour 2007:<\/strong><\/p>\n September 2007 October 2007 November 2007: Upcoming 2008:<\/strong><\/p>\n Upcoming 2008:
\nCurating Degree Zero, Bergen, Norway<\/p>\n
\nde Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
\nMonkeytown, New York<\/p>\n
\nYour Space, Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands<\/p>\n
\nSantiago, Chile
\nBuenos Aires, Argentina
\nLos Angeles, USA<\/p>\n