{"id":14461,"title":"= Basic","dimensions":"variable dimensions","date_begin":"1980-01-01","material":"Installation with various painted elements, plastic curtain, plastic flooring, fluorescent water, dimensions variable","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery","cached_tag_list":"AMVK","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":46,"permalink":"basic","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/033/660/large/D_80_II_4_001.jpg?1478247480","poster_credits":"(c)image: AMVK","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;This is an installation made of pieces of PVC and Plexiglas that I found in the waste container of the factory where I worked from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. I painted abstract symbols and idioms on them, fragments of science and human signs. The painted things hung in a plastic spiral in the middle of the room. The texts on the wall that I connected to each other in a criss-cross fashion by means of electricity wire seemed to float in space because I used black light. My first computer animation I made a few years earlier, in BASIC, which was one of the first consumer computer languages. So I chose = Basic as a title.\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026quot;I worked on Plexiglas and PVC because it was a societal trend in the 1970s to reject plastic, since it didn\u0026#39;t perish. For me, plastic seemed to be the ideal medium to make art, precisely because of its perpetuity. I\u0026rsquo;ve always loved plastic, and I used it in an urge to make beautiful things. Yet I made things other people sometimes found ugly. There\u0026rsquo;s anger and a kind of protest in these works. I use signs that bear the future within themselves, I use new ways of thinking and representing, things which are autonomous. The notions of shape and colour, as separate entities, are being replaced. This is the beginning of a research on information.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;I lay thin plastic on the floor and pour yellow-fluorescent water on it, it is slightly radio-active (not harmless). I hang 21 texts on the wall on different heights, fluorescent on transparent plexi, clear in what they stand for. The texts are combined by the use of thin, black electricity- wires. The combinations are made on the spot (my thoughts and interests of that very moment).\u0026nbsp;There hangs a spiral for formed by a large thick sheet of plastic, in there 17 plexi-works of irregular shapes, and new as well as older images on them. It is quite possible to walk in but not out. It is necessary to walk through the water, and difficult to see a thing through the thick plastic.\u0026nbsp;The lights are 4 black lights and 1 TL under the plastic.\u0026nbsp;On the opening-night disturbing but aesthetically acceptable music is played.\u0026nbsp;The whole has a feeling of walking into a power-field.\u0026nbsp;To enter an idea.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;A new manner of perceiving can only perceive the new. Therefore I use signs who\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; have the future as content\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n-\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; present new ways of thinking\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n-\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; stand on their own\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n-\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; replace the terms form and colour as separate units.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the start of an investigation towards information.\u0026nbsp;In how far science has influenced our future -- and in the future?\u0026nbsp;In how far logics will play a role in this.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; future\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; art\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; =\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; logics\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;science\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003ePractical use of \u0026ldquo;logics\u0026rdquo; leads to gain of time through passing over predictable processes.\u0026nbsp;It is very positive to say things which one never could have thought. This means that the evolution of your way of thinking - goes on outside you without consciousness or personal intervention - certain circumstances become defining for immediate train of thought.\u0026nbsp;An image only calls 1x certain thought\u0026nbsp; -- sometimes an image calls the memory to that thought.\u0026nbsp;Associations on 1 bit of time -- in relation to an image are unique.\u0026nbsp;Everything has to be made so that the continuance is in it -- and so that it is never finished.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Dit is een installatie bestaande uit stukken pvc en plexiglas die ik vond in de afvalcontainer van de fabriek waar ik werkte van de late jaren 70 tot midden jaren 80. Die beschilderde ik met abstracte symbolen en uitdrukkingen, flarden wetenschap en menselijke tekens. De geschilderde dingen hingen in een plastic spiraal midden in de ruimte. De teksten aan de muur die ik door middel van elektriciteitsdraad kriskras met elkaar verbond leken, omdat ik blacklight gebruikte, te zweven in de ruimte. Mijn eerste computeranimatie maakte ik een paar jaar eerder, in BASIC, dat was een van de eerste computertalen voor de gewone consument. Dus koos ik = Basic als titel.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Ik leg dun plastic op een vloer en giet er geelfluorescerend water op, het is licht radioactief (niet ongevaarlijk).\u0026nbsp;Ik hang 21 teksten op de muren op verschillende hoogten, fluorescerend op transparante plexi, duidelijk in hetgeen ze bedoelen. De teksten worden verbonden door dunne, zwarte elektriciteitsdraden. De combinaties worden gemaakt ter plaatse (mijn gedachten en interesses van dat moment.)\u0026nbsp;Er hangt een spiraal, gevormd door een groot dik plastic, daarin 17 plexi-werken met onregelmatige grootte en zowel nieuwe als oudere vormen erop. Het is mogelijk de spiraal binnen te wandelen, maar niet eruit.\u0026nbsp;Het is noodzakelijk om door het water te lopen, en moeilijk om iets te zien doorheen de dikke plastic.\u0026nbsp;De verlichting gebeurd door 4 black lights en 1 TL onder het plastic. Op de opening wordt verstorende, doch esthetisch aanvaardbare muziek gedraaid. \u0026nbsp;Het geheel geeft het gevoel binnen een krachtveld te lopen, de spanning is ondraaglijk.\u0026nbsp;Een idee binnengaan.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nEen nieuwe manier van waarnemen kan slechts het nieuwe waarnemen. Hiervoor gebruik ik tekens die\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- de toekomst als inhoud hebben\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- op zichzelf staan\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n- de termen vorm en kleur als afzonderlijke eenheden vervangen.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDit is het begin van een onderzoek naar informatie.\u0026nbsp;In hoeverre wetenschap onze toekomst heeft be\u0026iuml;nvloed -- en in de toekomst?\u0026nbsp;In hoeverre logica hierin een rol gaat spelen.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003etoekomst \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;kunst\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; =\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003elogica \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; wetenschap\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraktische aanwendingen van \u0026ldquo;logica\u0026rdquo; leidt tot tijdwinning door overslaan van voorspelbare processen.\u0026nbsp;Het is zeer positief dingen te zeggen die men nooit gedacht zou kunnen hebben d.w.z. dat de evolutie van uw gedachtegang - buiten u om verder gaat zonder bewustzijn of persoonlijke interventie - bepaalde omstandigheden worden bepalend voor onmiddellijke gedachtegang.\u0026nbsp;Een beeld roept slechts 1x een bepaalde gedachte op -- soms roept een beeld de herinnering aan die gedachten op.\u0026nbsp;Associaties op 1 tijdstip -- in verband met een beeld zijn \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;nmalig. \u0026nbsp;Alles moet zo gemaakt worden dat het vervolg erin zit -- en wel zo dat het nooit af is.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Cette installation se compose de morceaux de PVC et de plexiglas que j\u0026rsquo;ai trouv\u0026eacute;s dans un conteneur \u0026agrave; d\u0026eacute;chets \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;usine o\u0026ugrave; j\u0026rsquo;ai travaill\u0026eacute; de la fin des ann\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;70 au milieu des ann\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;80 et sur lesquels j\u0026rsquo;ai peint des symboles abstraits et des expressions, des bribes de science et des signes humains. Les objets peints, rassembl\u0026eacute;s dans une spirale en plastique, \u0026eacute;taient suspendus au milieu de l\u0026rsquo;espace. Les textes au mur, que j\u0026rsquo;avais reli\u0026eacute;s p\u0026ecirc;le-m\u0026ecirc;le entre eux \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;aide de c\u0026acirc;ble \u0026eacute;lectrique, semblaient flotter dans l\u0026rsquo;espace parce que j\u0026rsquo;utilisais de la lumi\u0026egrave;re UV. J\u0026rsquo;avais cr\u0026eacute;\u0026eacute; ma premi\u0026egrave;re animation par ordinateur quelques ann\u0026eacute;es auparavant en BASIC, un des premiers langages informatiques pour le grand public. J\u0026rsquo;ai donc choisi =BASIC comme titre de l\u0026rsquo;installation.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1472,"name":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}