MAONO 0201234 - Exhibition

From May 28th till June 29th images of the futures filled the Inbox of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp.

We filled the narrow space of the inbox with a long table, on which a print on three seperate 8 meter long strips was displayed horizontally. During the opening night, the middle strip was printing, slowly filling the blackness of the table top. Like this we shared some of the excitement we ourselves felt when first seeing the printed images. These images "in production" point out how a collection like MAONO is always in the making. There is the quiet suggestion that tomorrow, we might be printing a whole other selection from the same set.

The interviews on eight screens on the left-hand wall, are all recorded by MAONO participants for the 'Conversation' missions in their Roadbooks. In these five to ten minute extracts the questions are as important as the answers. Check out the video's on this site soon.

On the opposite wall a giant poster of Daniel Sixte Kakinda's black and white drawing of a continuation scenario draws attention. At the entrance, on one side in French, the other in Dutch, Claus Sinzo Anzaa's poem Aurore.

At the far end on the table Jean Katambayi's conceptual installation Trotation (more here). Onto the furthest wall Trotation projects a stream of its messy randomised view of the world. Against that wall, the Epson printer that churns out the images and words laid out on the table.