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"Bigotry, hatred, prejudice - these are the ugly symptoms of a sickness humanity has
always and everywhere suffered. Racism can, will and must be defeated."


Kofi Annan - United Nations Secretary General
"The world is the natural setting of and field for all my thoughts and all
my explicit perceptions. Truth does not "inhabit" only "the inner man" or more accurately,
there is no inner man, man is in the world and only in the world does he know himself."


Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 1945
1. Description of the proposed project and activities planned :2. How the project relates to cultural pluralism :3. Anticipated outcomes for the project :

4. Artist's short biography :
    Born in Guelma, Algeria (1975). Eric Van Hove was educated in Cameroon, Belgium and Japan, studying Contemporary art (BA, Brussels), Traditional Japanese Calligraphy (MA, Tokyo) and is currently a PhD candidates in Contemporary Art in the Tokyo Geidai University of Fine Arts and Music. He has been based in Tokyo, Japan since 2001.


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5. List of activity for 2003, 2004, 2005,... :

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6. Source Materials linked to Ectype project :

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Eric Van Hove - Tokyo - 2006.