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Elke Van Campenhout Tarot of Hope

25 euro - tarot cards and book

1 December 2013

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tarot of hope

If you wanted to come up with a language that could be understood by anyone, and that allows for different ways to adapt to the situation, but that still speaks about what concerns us all, the Tarot is the way to go. The Tarot is an ancient method to gain insight into your current situation. It is a way to bring different aspects of your life together, and relate them to an outside world that sometimes appears hostile or unconcerned by your sorrows or doubts. With the Tarot of Hope, Bureau d’Espoir tries to get a grip on our current situation.

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The journey through the Majors

In the Major Arcana, Hope gets born out of chaos: a miserable situation of economic crisis, emotional instability and institutional failure. But walking the journey of Hope from these miserable beginnings towards its realization in Utopia, opens up small pockets of change with every step. Things never are what they seem in this game. Every card has a good and a bad side, a way to progress and a warning against inertia. The Major Arcana of Hope contains 22 cards, starting with the zero point of hope in its namesake card, and then evolving through two series of ten, before arriving at the card that is both the end and a new beginning: Utopia.

The first series of ten cards explore the earthly sides of Hope, and bring insight into the emotions, the material attachments, the rational powers and the sexual and subconscious drives that give rise to our actions and imagination. The last card of the first series of ten is called Breath and this a card that both closes the door on this first earthly cycle, as well as opening the door to a second part of the journey. Though darker this time, full of doubt and crisis, imploring the reader to leave behind his identity, his beliefs, and his certainties, this second cycle has a more profound and even spiritual charge to it, and emphasizes the interconnectedness between the individual and the world she inhabits. But in this Tarot arriving in Utopia is not an end point, only another turn-around moment, in order to restart the quest on the next level.

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Ed. by Adva Zakai and Elke Van Campenhout Curating as Environmentalism

1 September 2012

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2012 BLOCK III

1 September-30 November 2012

2012 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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international conference Tender Institute

7-8 September 2012

How can an institute still stay an institute when it is embracing its 'tenderness': when it recognizes its dependency on the interest of its users? The risk to become obsolete in the whirlwind of heterotopic interests? The challenge to re-invent its administration to shift from a politics of categorization to one of attention and engagement?
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Elke van campenhout the tender institute

12 January 2013

“In the whirlwind of changing subsidy policies, and political crisis, the Institute has become a partner to be mistrusted. What has become clear from all the waves of institutional critique that have fueled the visual arts production in the last decennia, is the Institute’s extreme flexibility to reinvent itself, to recuperate and produce the ruling discourses, in a constant craving for the new. The Institute in this understanding has become synonymous with capital power struggles, with normative regulation of the arts scene, and with an unsavory attachment to a global economy that creates and sustains inequality, poor labor conditions and a sanctimonious elitist attitude towards knowledge and its distribution.”

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BUREAU d’ESPOIR

15 December 2014

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Bureau d’Espoir is a long-term research project on hope, initiated by Elke Van Campenhout. Bureau d’Espoir researches the possibility for a new engagement with the concept of hope, both on a political, social, physical and spiritual level.

Bureau d’Espoir is a research practice that starts out from the question: why do something rather than nothing? The last ten years the artistic sector seems to be burdened by a nagging form of debilitating self-critique that blocks artists (and other artistic workers) from assuming an affirmative position on the scene. Not only does it feel like any kind of performative gesture has become over-identified by decennia of critical theory, but an all-encompassing economic system has rendered any kind of emancipatory or critical gesture close to impossible.

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Bureau d'Espoir SELF-INTERVIEW Elke – Elle

1 September-31 December 2015 / Abbeye de Forest

Elke (a.pass researcher): Elle, with the new project ‘Mobile MNSTRY’ you again tackle some of the issues you have been dealing with in your extended project Bureau d’Espoir already for some years: the recuperation and embrace of practices and terms that have been categorized, marginalized and recuperated by capital strategies. For example: you worked on the mobilization of the concept of ‘anorexia’ in the Hunger and Anorexic practices as tools for rethinking our relation to the consumption of food, and our own place in the ‘food chain’ of capitalism. You worked in ‘Battery’ on the embrace of circumstances that are considered detrimental to the ‘healthy’ development of the individual: 21 days of imprisonment, hunger and lack of private space as a spiritual-aesthetic machine for the production of hope and change. Now you propose the Mobile Monastery: a practice that is based on rethinking the monastic rule, the disciplining and deep experience of the everyday, introducing ‘poverty’ and social service (karma yoga) into the practice. Your proposals all seem to verge on the extreme, uncomfortable, and frankly, possibly moralistic. How do you plan to make this collective practice seem inviting to collaborators.
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2015 BLOCK III

1 September-30 November 2015

2015 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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Bureau d'Espoir Mobile MNSTRY

9-22 November 2015 / Abbeye of Forest

The Mobile MNSTRY (Monastery, Ministery, Monster-y) is a collective location project, organised in and around the previous Abbeye of Forest. The MNSTRY will install a temporary (monastic) community that lives and works within a limited area, following a shared time score and accepting the rule of poverty for the duration of the workshop. During this time all activities of the MNSTRY will be organised within the public contexts of Forest, and developed as an open invitation to the neighbourhood and passers-by. During the workshop the time score of the MNSTRY will bit by bit start to change: the original 'monastic' score will be taken over by the members of the community, who will start to decide on what there is to be done, what we will spend our shared time on, and what is it that is needed today, here, and for whom.
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