Seasonal Matters Rural Relations

During their Fri­day Eve­nings programme, Kunsthal Gent pre­sent a 10-week pro­gram­me around one or more artists, a col­lec­ti­ve or orga­ni­sa­ti­on. During ​‘3 publi­ca­ti­ons’ Kathrin Böhm, Sea­so­nal Neigh­bours and arts plat­form Plan B pre­sent and dis­cuss their new books. The three have in common that they produce artistic work in and around the countryside.
08/11/2024, 20h

Seasonal Neighbours: Seasonal Matters Rural Relations. (Field)notes on rhythms, rituals and cohabitation
What if tra­di­ti­o­nal rela­ti­ons­hips, bet­ween humans and non-humans, plants, the wea­ther and the rhythm of the sea­sons, are being lost in the race for pro­fit and for incre­a­sin­gly inten­si­ve methods of pro­duc­ti­on? In sixteen con­tri­bu­ti­ons, inter­dis­ci­pli­na­ry col­lec­ti­ve Sea­so­nal Neigh­bours attempts to obser­ve, record and archi­ve nar­ra­ti­ves for the exis­ting, dis­ap­pe­a­ring and new­ly emer­ging rela­ti­ons­hips in the countryside.

Arts platform Plan B: Veldwerk I-III
With Veld­werk, each edi­ti­on, arts plat­form PLAN B sup­ports a group of artists/​collectives in an artis­tic research pro­ject out­si­de the city. Together they ask open ques­ti­ons: a search for the value of the small-sca­le, the local, and how to ini­ti­a­te and pre­ser­ve col­lec­ti­ve dyna­mics. At regu­lar inter­vals the group meets and at the end they offer an insight into the research pro­ces­ses through a publi­ca­ti­on. During the Fri­day Eve­nings, Kun­sten­plat­form PLAN B will pre­sent, among others, the publi­ca­ti­ons that emer­ged from the tra­jec­to­ries of the Veld­werk III artists: Nina de Vroo­me, Bar­ba­ra T’Jon­ck, Tim Theo Deceu­nin­ck, May Abnet and Áni­ma O. Cassamajor.

Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life
Over the last three deca­des, Kathrin Böhm has expand­ed the terms of soci­al­ly enga­ged ways of wor­king to an unpre­ce­den­ted sca­le by pro­du­cing com­plex orga­ni­za­ti­o­nal, spa­ti­al, visu­al, and eco­no­mic forms. Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Sca­le of Life offers a sig­ni­fi­cant addi­ti­on to deba­tes on con­tem­po­ra­ry art and archi­tec­tu­re, soci­al acti­on, and public cul­tu­re. Mate­ri­al deri­ved from Böhm’s inter­na­ti­o­nal net­works and pro­jects pro­vi­des an in-depth impres­si­on of the dee­ply ingrai­ned col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve and dura­ti­o­nal natu­re of her way of working.

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