I Giorgio Agamben fries an egg I (D6), installation, 2015
I Giorgio Agamben fries an egg I (a pawn and a queen) , documentation of the performative journey, 2017
Breakfast that comes, video, 2015
I Giorgio Agamben fries an egg I (D6), installation, 2015
I Giorgio Agamben fries an egg I (a pawn and a queen) , documentation of the performative journey, 2017
Breakfast that comes, video, 2015
Piece For Resistance. Other's Dialogue on Revolution, site-specific performatif dispositif, Moscow, 2014
Piece For Resistance. Other's Dialogue on Revolution, site-specific performatif dispositif, Moscow, 2014
Visitors of an exhibition space are suggested to 'do nothing'
2021
performance
exhibition 'In the Long Blink of an Eye', HISK -Gosset site, Brussels, curated by Daniella Géo
Images by the artist
Visitors of an exhibition space are suggested to 'do nothing'
2021
performance
exhibition 'In the Long Blink of an Eye', HISK -Gosset site, Brussels, curated by Daniella Géo
Images by the artist
Ekaterina Vasilyeva artiste
Katya Ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)
Ne rien faire contre rémunération
2022
performance & intervention in public space
produced with support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
exhibition Entretenir vaut mieux, New Space, Liege (Be) - duo show with Marc Buchy
curated by Dorothée Duvivier
Images by the Maxence Dedry
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Ne rien faire contre rémunération [Doing nothing for payment] is a new context-specific version of the performance Visitors of an Exhibition Space are Suggested to 'Do Nothing' (2021).
The artist suggested to the public to sit in large comfortable chair and be paid for 'doing nothing' the local hourly minimum wage. Visitors first sign a contract that provides a legal frame to their commitment to ‘do nothing’. After ‘doing nothing’ they receive a proof of payment. All applicable taxes and social contributions are paid according to local laws and regulations.
The original idea of paying people for ‘doing nothing’ was born from a discussion with Azad Asifovich, Azerbadjan-born, Paris- based ‘curator-at-large’, in the beginning of March 2020. It was conceived as a reaction to the pervading pressure for extensive overproduction and efficiency in the art-world and beyond. The exceptional circumstances that followed with the general lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic made an uncanny echo to this project.
The contract was drafted together with legal expert Julie Van Elslande and cultural worker Jesse Van Winden within the framework of the research on ecologies of artistic practice entitled Caveat and conducted by the Brussels-based platform Jubilee.
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Images by the artist
___________ (RIEN)
excerpt from the personal dairy of Louis XVI, July 14, 1789
paint on wall, 18 x 56 cm
"Among all the words already painted in red on the walls of New Space MISE AU POINT [focus], FREINS [brakes], PREVENIR [prevention] C'EST [is] GOUVERNER [gouvernance]...), I slipped the word RIEN [nothing].Painted with an old patina. it disrupts the sentence "prevention is gouvernance'. This intervention is a historical reference. "RIEN [nothing]" is the sentence that Louis XVI wrote in his diary on 14 July 1789, the day the Bastille was taken...(!). I draw a poignant echo to the current situation of doing or not doing anything in wartime.... " 1
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1 - interview by Pascale Viscardy, 'Entretenir vaut mieux', Flux News #88 (Be), 2022
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