Potential Estate

Potential Estate is an international collaborative research project. It involves various artists who have been developing collaborative works with experimental and critical approaches on the issues of residence. Potential Estate mixes artistic research and practice. Participants to the project elaborate open proposals for various institutions. Institutions are invited to collaborate and implement the project on location. The first group of artists involved in the project, have been invited in may 2006 by Vincent Meessen within the frame of a first Cabinet. Cabinet Jacotot, as it was called, included a.o. samples from existing projects mostly realized by Belgian artists: Herman Asselberghs, Johan Grimonprez & Dieter Lesage (Lost Nation), Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir (A.I.R), Ivo Provoost & Simona Denicolai and David Evrard (Building Underwood). These works were displayed in collaboration with graphic designer Pierre Huyghebaert. The Cabinet also presented side contributions by Adam Leech and writer Laurent Flamand. Artists were invited on a double basis: first, they had produced several relevant collaborative projects before, and secondly all had a direct experience of the USA, this second condition being linked with the proposed location for the “residential” in Belgium (Wisconsin, USA) in 2008. Through this first sample of relevant past projects from various artistic horizons, Meessen suggested that a temporary collaborative unit of production and reflection might be initiated within a mid-term exchange process. The aim is to produce new works and elaborate contents related to these various micropolitical practices . Put next to another, most of these locally oriented projects tend to draw the dotted lines of a cosmopolitical practice of art.

Year: 2006-2009

Multimedia: research, exhibition, screenings, lectures, events,...

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Cabinet Jacotot, Exhibition views, STUK, Leuven, 2006

Works by Herman Asselberghs, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, David Evrard, Laurent Flamand, Johan Grimonprez, Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, Adam Leech, Vincent Meessen, Pierre Huyghebaert.

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Unincorporated, Exhibition view, STUK, Leuven, 2006

Works by Herman Asselberghs, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, David Evrard, Laurent Flamand, Johan Grimonprez, Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, Adam Leech, Vincent Meessen, Pierre Huyghebaert.