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DR. Jae Emerling
Professor of modern and contemporary art in the College of Arts +Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the Director of the College of Arts + Architecture Honours programmeSCULPTURE COMMUNISM: AN OEUVRE IN CONSTRUCTION, HERE-AND-NOW And Polo said: 'The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already... -
Dr. Angela Dimitrakaki
writer and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh.HOW TO BE A HISTORY PARTICIPANT: THE STAKES OF SCULPTURECOMMUNISM AND THE FINITUDE OF CHOICES The generation issue: On the modern and the contemporary When an artist born in 1976... -
Fabiola Bierhoff
PhD Candidate in the History and Cultural Studies programme at the Freie Universität Berlin.THE MEMORIAL PAPERS: DEMOCRATIC, DISPOSABLE SOUVENIRS Digital Versus Analogue Dissemination In 1967, long before the impact of self-publishing and dissemination made possible by the Internet, theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan... -
Dr. Jo Applin
senior lecturer in modern and contemporary art at the University of YorkRENDEZVOUS: the mode of exchange In 1921, on his way back from a celebratory drink to mark the opening of his first exhibition in Paris, the American artist Man Ray... -
Dr. Jon Wood
independent writer and curator who specialises in modern and contemporary sculptureEVERY-PHOTOGRAPH-SCULPTURE-THING 'En art, il n'y a pas d'étrangers.' Constantin Brancusi In January 1955 the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened its doors to one of the most ambitious... -
Nina Schallenberg
Curator of the Nationalgalerie at the Hamburger BahnhofTHE DISSOLUTION OF THE HOME Home Until the late nineteenth century, the purpose of sculpture—whether monument, tombstone, or bust—was first and foremost to represent or to commemorate. Thus it was... -
Dr. Philip Ursprung
Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at ETH Zürich.EAST OF EDEN Since the dawn of industrialization, people have been ashamed of their own labor. They hide it from the gaze of others, just as Adam and Eve hid... -
Dr. Stefaan Vervoort
architect and professor at the Department of art music and theatre sciences, Ghent UniversityPARADISE NOW In a short text published in 1963, Theodor W. Adorno gives a succinct analysis of an American pop song entitled 'Especially for you'. The lyrics sound as banal... -
Steven ten Thije
research curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Researcher and lecturer at the university of Hildesheim.PHOTOCOMMUNISM In a photograph printed on cheap newsprint a sizeable man, presumably Cuban, in a yellow T-shirt, balances a small Constructivist-looking sculpture made of multiplex on top of a balcony... -
Jessica Morgan
director dia art foundation and former tate modern curatorThe Belgian artist Jan De Cock has constructed an extensive new work entitled Denkmal 53, Tate Modern, Bankside 53, London SE1 9TG, 2005. Although officially sited in the Level 2... -
DR. Monica Amor
Professor of Global Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of ArtPrefab and Uncertain The Semi-Architectural Spaces of Jan De Cock Monica Amor The social space bristles with monuments – imposing stone buildings, discreet mud shrines –which may not be directly... -
Dr. Jon Wood
independent writer and curator who specialises in modern and contemporary sculptureWhere is the Studio of Jan de Cock? Jon Wood Le jour d'après, Jonas sortit très tôt. Il pleuvait. Quand il rentra, mouillé comme un champignon, il était chargé de... -
Bart Verschaffel
full professor and teaches architecture theory and architecture criticism at University GhentIs it Art, as Usual? Bart Verschaffel Magritte: 'Que voulez-vous, ce n’est que de l’art...' Duchamp: 'On fait ce qu’on peut' Jan De Cock strode into the art world with... -
Bruno Bosteels
professor in LAIC and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.Three Paradoxes of Communist Art Bruno Bosteels 1 The idea of a communist art form is from the start riddled with paradoxical tensions. Of course, there is no shortage of... -
Kirstie Skinner
researcher, writer, lecturer and consultant specialising in contemporary art and teaching at both Edinburgh College of Art and the University of EdinburghThe Picture and the Step Kirstie Skinner The picture changes with every step you take. Jan De Cock Jan de Cock’s Denkmal 7, installed in the square next to the... -
Bernard H.F. Taureck
professor of philosophy (emeritus) at the University of BraunschweigPATHS TO THE TRANS-POSTMODERN Reflections on Jan de Cock’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. A Romantic Exhibition Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2012 Bernard H.F. Taureck THE WORK OF JAN DE COCK Jan de... -
Tim Martin
writer and classically trained painter and sculptorOCCUPYING THE MUSEUM JAN DE COCK’S DENKMAL 53 AT TATE MODERN Tim Martin In a curious coincidence, in September 2005, the Tate Modern staged Denkmal 53 by Jan De Cock... -
Luk Lambrecht
curator of Everything For You, Otegem and artistic coordinator at CC Strombeekseconds of history Art is the medium per excellence for transposing a person’s sensations, mood, emotions and reflections in a form that stimulates the senses. The aesthetisation of society has... -
Frank Vande Veire
philosopher and writer. teaches at the Hogeschool GentJacqueline Kennedy Onassis Every epoch has its dreams and bestows these dreams onto the next generation. It as if it were projected against the firmament. One of the brightest constellations... -
Chris Dercon
art historian and curator. former director of Haus der Kunst in Munich and Tate Modern in LondonA Completely Different Idea, Elsewhere Chris Dercon 'We need not investigate whether an idea is true or correct. What we should do, is seek a completely different idea, elsewhere, an... -
Dr. Wouter Davidts
teacher at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Ghent UniversityCompelling Reticence Denkmal 9 and the Ghent University Library Placez-vous devant tel monument, telle façade, tel meubel, telle pièce d’orfèvrerie au devant telle porcelaine, devant tel appareil d’éclairage et efforcez-vous... -
DR. Wouter Davidts
teacher at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Ghent UniversityTravail de [vi]site Jan De Cock en het paleis voor schone kunsten te brussel DR. Wouter Davidts So hätte das haus nichts mit kunst zu tun und wäre die architektur... -
DR. Marc De Kesel
PhD in philosophy. Director Intern & Extern Affairs at the Titus Brandsma Institute at the Radboud University NijmegenInvaginatio transcendentalis On Jan De Cock’s Collateral Damage DR. Marc De Kesel The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.... -
John C. Welchman
Professor of art history in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego and Chair Emeritus of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the ArtsCamouflaging Over Totality John C. Welchman Loudspeaker We might consider Jan De Cock's work as an action addressing a mass, loosely on the model of the loudspeaker; except, of course,... -
Jan Frederik De Cock
MANIFEST FOR SCULPTURE COMMUNISM IN VENICE. Dear Biennial visitor, Forgive me when I say that you are permanently being watched, tough no longer listened to. The business world and its... -
Jan Frederik De Cock
MANIFEST VOOR SCULPTURECOMMUNISM IN VENETIË. GEACHTE BIENALE BEZOEKER, Vergeef mij wanneer ik zeg dat u permanent wordt bekeken, maar niet langer naar u wordt geluisterd. De bedrijfswereld en haar markt... -
CLASSICALISM
traditional contemporary artHET ONBEKENDE MEESTERWERK Honoré de Balzac I GILLETTE Op een koude decembermorgen tegen het eind van het jaar 1612 liep in versleten uitziende kleding een jongeman heen en weer voor...
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