Books & Catalogues
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 25/25 (artist book) 20 x 23 cm, 80 pages, 25 colour illustrations, 32€
Edited by Éric Van Hove - Photographies by Éric Van Hove, Texts by Michel Assenmaker - Graphism by Saskia Gevaert
This artist book introduce the 25 first photos of the Metragram Series, which were presented at gallery Rossicontemporary in Brussels, along with the second chapter entitled tu es venue from the book Poser by Michel Assenmaker. The book was launched @ WIELS in Brussels on the 30th of October 2009, coincidently the evening of the death of Claude Levi-Strauss who's book "Tristes Tropiques" was instrumental in inspiring the series. It was accompanied by an original slideshow screening as well as a short documentary entitled Michiyuki, filmed at the end of 2008 by Azilys Romane during a dual video-talk invited by Sophie Nys which took place in the context of "De Avonden" organized by the Brussels independant project space établissements d'en face, an event which is at the origin of the making of the book.
Available for sale in the following art bookshops & libraries: Peinture fraîche (Brussels), Tropismes (Brussels), Florence Loewy (Paris), Tschann (Paris), Librairie Filigranes (Brussels), WIELS Bookshop (Brussels), COPYRIGHT Bookshop (Ghent), Librairie du Jeu de Paume (Paris), Librairie St-Hubert (Brussels), Posada art books (Brussels), ...
Interview with Vicente Gutierrez for Shift Art Magazine (Tokyo/Japan): the contextualisation of my contribution to the Atomic Sunshine exhibit
Read the text in English here : www.transcri.be/text/interview_Vicente_Gutierrez_2008.pdf (English - 2008)
Read the text in Japanese here : www.transcri.be/text/interview_Vicente_Gutierrez_JP_2008.pdf (Japanese - 2008)
Excerpt : I guess I was following Henri Michaux, as well as the reading of two books: Monolingualism of the Other by Jacques Derrida (1998) and Abdelkebir Khatibi's Amour Bilingue (Love in Two Languages, 1983). I decided I needed to lose my mother tongue into a non-European language, and I had heard that Japanese was among the hardest. I was also interested in Japan because of its animistic link to Africa, I feel these are the two only regions in the world that are Animistic. Tokyo is the only city where Animism meets Technology and Modernity since all other cities with Animistic ties outside of Japan are situated in the developing world. Having grown up in Africa, I had an eye for seeing this in action (...) (more...)
 Essay / Contribution to Art Space Tokyo (english - 2008): a personal guide book to the Tokyo art scene (ISBN: 978-09741995-5-9)
Read the text in English here : www.transcri.be/text/artspacetokyoessay.pdf (English - 2007)
Excerpt : The cheer size, ludic fluidity and digital dystopic pace of Tokyo as a social and urban environment, described by Félix Guattari as "Intériorités extranéisées" along the lines of Abe Kōbō's Ruined Map, is for me in contradiction with the art scene it hosts, which undoubtedly lacks the uncompromising refinement and poetic vigour of a certain past. The modern Japanese culture and this city in particular I personally compare to a black hole for it entered modernity with a gigantic explosion before collapsing into a fascinating fast-spinning bulimic invisible urban gravity that eats and process its surrounding realities: time, memory, cultural behaviours, TV programs, languages, fashion habits, architecture, etc. Moreover, it does so in accordance with its animistic background (...) (more...)
Interview with Marleen Wynants for Janus Art Magazine (Brussels/Belgium): the use of site specific environments & the notion of "ephemeral"
Read the text here : www.transcri.be/text/interview_Marleen_Wynants_2008.pdf (English - 2008)
Excerpt : Is acceptance by society for you a reason to move on with your work to an area where it isn't? What is the role or the interplay between private and public space for you? What's the relevance of an exhibition space? Or do they all merge? What is your relation towards time? How does your work relate itself to time? It is a sign of the time? Of a very specific here and now - opposed to the global standardization of place and time? What's the role of a gallery? Of a museum? What would the perfect museum be like? A lot of your work is gone or disappears right after or even during the performance: can we still talk about an original here? Was there ever an original? Or only an original? (more...)
Interview with Jan Van Woensel for Lokaal01 & PILOT:3 (Holland/Italy): contemporary artists and nomadism
Read the text here : www.transcri.be/text/interview_Jan_Van_Woensel_2007.pdf (English - 2007)
Excerpt : How did you first started to travel around? When, and why, did you move from Brussels to Tokyo? Did you travel to Tokyo before or did you just go and stayed there? What is your interest in the elsewhere? Do you often go to artist-in-residency places to make new works? How do you adapt to all these new environments? Do you find that they are only superficial or do you feel that they really encourage a commitment with the local environment, the people, the community, the social situation? (more...)
Carte du Tendre - Laurent Courtens (Belgium)
Essay for fluxnews art magazine
Read the text here : www.transcri.be/text/articlecourtenseflux.pdf (French - 2009)
Excerpt : Dans chacune de ses interventions, Van Hove s'efforce d'associer ces deux pôles. En chaque circonstance, il s'agit à la fois d'appréhender la spécificité d'une réalité concrète et de propulser celle-ci vers un horizon général. La série des Métragrammes permet de visualiser la persistance de ce dessein. Elle le rend tangible, lui offre une constance optique et rituelle. (more...)
On the road again - Laurent Courtens (Belgium)
Essay for L'Art Même art magazine
Read the text here : www.transcri.be/text/articlecourtens.pdf (French - 2008)
Excerpt : Nous l'avons signalé, cet exil volontaire est à l'image des reconfigurations résultant de la globalisation : sous la coupe du marché mondial une nouvelle unité humaine se dessine. Ce n'est plus une juxtaposition de territoires et d'identités délimitées, mais un continuum d'existences en mutation, traversé par des flux migratoires, décentralisé, continuellement remodelé par des pôles de développement inédits. Partout sur la planète, les situations préservent leur spécificité, mais elles sont plus que jamais communes, solidaires, interdépendantes. C'est ce qu'on peut entendre par "glocal", contraction de global et de local passée dans le langage courant de la sociologie. (more...)
Enlighten at the time and elements - Ko Chan Aye (Myanmar)
Critical text for Law Ka Pa La Magazine and Moe Magazine
Read the text here : www.transcri.be/text/Ko_Chan_Aye_critical_text.pdf (Burmese - 2007)
Abreation in Alexandria - Joseph Badtke-Berkow (Egypt/Japan)
Read the text here : www.transcri.be/text/Abreaction_in_Alexandria.pdf (English - 2005)
Excerpt : Eric Van Hove chalks poetry on the broken streets of Alexandria's Turkish district as curious onlookers gather around. Hunched over with a fistful of fresh sticks of cyan colored chalk he writes in French about love, time, death, shadows, sun, dirt, hunger. It is difficult to accurately describe the effect he has on the people who bare witness to a scene they have come across some random Tuesday afternoon in April, but there are a few general categories we might venture to describe. (more...)
Side publications
Crosswords / Eurozine - multilingual and transnational web-journal on "multilingualism and digital networking".
Website : xwords.fr/blog/
Description : A collaborative writing and syndication project. It prepared the ground for the 2008 Eurozine conference in Paris.
(Paris / Ile-de-France / internet - 2008)
Janus Art Magazine No 23 - Double-fronted art magazine
Website : www.janusonline.net
Description : Magazine founded by Jan Fabre and Dirk Imschoot. 10 pages long review in English and Dutch with illustrations.
(Belgium - 2008)
Into the Atomic Sunshine (Catalogue ISBN-13: 978-1604619669)
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Description : Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9. Group-show catalogue. Critical text by Shinya Watanabe.
(USA/Japan - 2008)
De Kantlijn 05 - Open forum (newspaper) for artists and writers
Website : www.dekantlijn.nl
Description : A full page in the December 2007 issue accompanying a text by Freek Lomme. Reference to
(The Netherlands, Eindhoven - 2007)
PILOT:3 - Live archive for artists and curators.
Website : www.pilotlondon.org
Description : PILOT is an independent not-for-profit initiative led by artists and independent curators, that provides a ongoing support network and annual large-scale independent forum for emerging artists who do not have commercial representation.
(52nd Venice Biennial+internet - 2007)
"Book of Questions" - Group Raketa - A RAKETA and FilmForm project supported by Stiftelsen Langmanska Kulturfonden, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse and Framtidens Kultur.
Website : www.raketa.nu
Description : "Book of Questions" is a publication produced by Raketa in collaboration with almost 40 contributors; artists, writers, architects, photographers and researchers. The book is presented in three different versions; as a paper book, as a wall paper and on the net. The publication is dealing with Professor Roger Connah's text "Life Behind the Screen 38 Questions from the Hip". The questions have served as a departure for various Raketa projects over the last couple of years and the book is an encounter with ideas seen, heard or read during this working process. www.raketa.nu/boq
(Sweden+Japan+internet - 2004)
Blast #14 - September/October - Bimonthly cultural French magazine
Website : www.blast.fr
(France - 2004)
ISIMD 2004 - Yeditepe university journal - 2nd international symposium of interactive media design's catalogue
Website : www.newmedia.yeditepe.edu.tr/
(Turkey+internet - 2004)
Glowlab/Neuroscape - A journal of multi-media work in psychogeography and public art
Website : www.glowlab.blogs.com
(USA+internet - 2004)
ART-e-FACT - Croatian On-line magazine to seek and encourage possible answers
Website : www.artefact.mi2.hr
(Croatia+internet - 2004)
Sidereality - A journal of speculative and experimental poetry
Website : http://www.sidereality.com
(USA+internet - 2003)
"En coulisses, parfois, les artistes changent de costumes" Actualités - A book by Olivier Foulon (composed from his black ink drawings), with the participation of John Murphy, Eran Schaerf and Eric Van Hove.
ISBN : 90-72076-19-2 (french language)
(Benelux - 2003)
Dirt Press Magazine - Literary journal of contemporary arts and letters
Website : www.dirtpress.com
(USA+internet - 2003)
Organdi Quarterly - Arts and criticism peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal
Website : http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/
(France+internet - 2003)
Magazine Les Voix - Franco-Japanese cultural magazine
Website : www.lesvoix.com
(France+Japan - 2003)
Crimson Feet Magazine - Independent print magazine of art, essays and poetry
Website : www.crimsonfeet.org
(India+internet - 2003)
Muse Apprentice Guild - Literary magazine
Website : www.muse-apprentice-guild.com
(USA+internet- 2003)
Les Editions Hermaphrodite - Patchwork en pleine con-position
Website : www.hermaphrodite.com.fr
(France+internet - 2002 to 2005)
M.A. thesis - Tokyo Gakugei University - Traditionnal Japanese calligraphy - Japanese language - 2005
- - Essay on Japanese traditional calligraphy and Western contemporary art - read the text(pdf)
Ten selected letters - Japan-Europe correspondence excerpt - 2001/2003
- - Letter to Olivier Foulon - Tokyo, January 13, 2002 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Isabelle Mairiaux - Tokyo, January 23, 2002 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Michel Assenmaker - Tokyo, August 20, 2001 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Dominique Thirion - Tokyo, June 10, 2002 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Pierre Culot - Tokyo, June 26, 2001 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Michel Assenmaker - Tokyo, December 6, 2001 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Olivier Foulon - Kyoto, August 14, 2001 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Michel Assenmaker - Tokyo, June 25, 2002 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Olivier Foulon - Tokyo, February 3, 2002 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
- - Letter to Pierre Culot - Tokyo, September 17, 2001 - read this text in english(pdf) - or in french(pdf) - or in Japanese(pdf)
Tempted description of three years of art work process and position - Hand manufactured book - 2000
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Essay on the artist, the craftman and the apatrid - Hand manufactured book - 1999
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