TAB Event - AIT Artist Talk#33 "Communicating Vases: Talk by Tokyo based artist, Eric Van Hove"

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Tokyo based artist Eric Van Hove will give a work presentation, introducing several bodies of recent works and site specific installations in Senegal, Japan, Iran, Belgium, Madagascar and Egypt.

This talk is part of a larger series of what the artist calls "storytelling objects" rather than lectures. Each of these uses a number of earlier works and interventions -some unfinished or never even shown- as the base for a display of ideas and ruminations believed to be more meaningfully conveyed through stories. This storytelling object will be followed by discussions on the use of the "broader public space" -meaning the foreign public space- for artistic interventions pondering such ideas as statelessness, interdependence or diasporism and showing how working with such spaces which offers an appropriate catalyst for engaging with issues of today.

Van Hove will also show a video piece (Abreaction series) made during the Shanghai Biennial in 2004. Finally, he will also introduce a recent work, Off the record, where the artist created a short-lasting tactical art platform by hijacking a recently installed cellphone-run locker system in Tokyo.
Off the record = www.transcri.be/projects/offtherecord.html

Born in Guelma, Algeria in 1975, Van Hove was educated in Cameroon, Belgium and Japan, studying Contemporary art (BA, Brussels), Traditional Japanese Calligraphy (MFA, Tokyo) and is currently a PhD candidate of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music.

Contact:
Please send e-mail to office@a-i-t.net with your name, organization and the e-mail address. Prior booking required due to the limited Space.

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