gelitin All Together NowTim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium2011soloshow  The visitor (m/f) is asked to pee in a urinal, the urine then runs through a transparent tube throughout the gallery and is collected in a colossal plastic bubble best described as an oval hot water bed. That (warm) bubble offers other visitors a seat, a lie-down, a wandering moment or - why not - a moment to reflect on the sense and nonsense of life itself. (Jos Van der Bergh) We all need to pee, it is something omnipresent, a feeling we all know and we really wanted to use urine as a construction material. In fact, we always use the most normal things from our surroundings and turn them into objects or installations. Why not use urine, a material that otherwise would simply be wasted. In a somewhat simplistic way we could call it a ‘democratic sculpture’. The more people contribute to this sculpture, the more comfortable it becomes.

 gelitin 
All Together Now
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2011
soloshow

 The visitor (m/f) is asked to pee in a urinal, the urine then runs through a transparent tube throughout the gallery and is collected in a colossal plastic bubble best described as an oval hot water bed. That (warm) bubble offers other visitors a seat, a lie-down, a wandering moment or - why not - a moment to reflect on the sense and nonsense of life itself. (Jos Van der Bergh)

We all need to pee, it is something omnipresent, a feeling we all know and we really wanted to use urine as a construction material. In fact, we always use the most normal things from our surroundings and turn them into objects or installations. Why not use urine, a material that otherwise would simply be wasted.

In a somewhat simplistic way we could call it a ‘democratic sculpture’. The more people contribute to this sculpture, the more comfortable it becomes.

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 gelitin All Together NowTim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium2011soloshow  The visitor (m/f) is asked to pee in a urinal, the urine then runs through a transparent tube throughout the gallery and is collected in a colossal plastic bubble best described as an oval hot water bed. That (warm) bubble offers other visitors a seat, a lie-down, a wandering moment or - why not - a moment to reflect on the sense and nonsense of life itself. (Jos Van der Bergh) We all need to pee, it is something omnipresent, a feeling we all know and we really wanted to use urine as a construction material. In fact, we always use the most normal things from our surroundings and turn them into objects or installations. Why not use urine, a material that otherwise would simply be wasted. In a somewhat simplistic way we could call it a ‘democratic sculpture’. The more people contribute to this sculpture, the more comfortable it becomes.

 gelitin 
All Together Now
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2011
soloshow

 The visitor (m/f) is asked to pee in a urinal, the urine then runs through a transparent tube throughout the gallery and is collected in a colossal plastic bubble best described as an oval hot water bed. That (warm) bubble offers other visitors a seat, a lie-down, a wandering moment or - why not - a moment to reflect on the sense and nonsense of life itself. (Jos Van der Bergh)

We all need to pee, it is something omnipresent, a feeling we all know and we really wanted to use urine as a construction material. In fact, we always use the most normal things from our surroundings and turn them into objects or installations. Why not use urine, a material that otherwise would simply be wasted.

In a somewhat simplistic way we could call it a ‘democratic sculpture’. The more people contribute to this sculpture, the more comfortable it becomes.


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 gelitin All Together NowTim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium2011soloshow  The visitor (m/f) is asked to pee in a urinal, the urine then runs through a transparent tube throughout the gallery and is collected in a colossal plastic bubble best described as an oval hot water bed. That (warm) bubble offers other visitors a seat, a lie-down, a wandering moment or - why not - a moment to reflect on the sense and nonsense of life itself. (Jos Van der Bergh) We all need to pee, it is something omnipresent, a feeling we all know and we really wanted to use urine as a construction material. In fact, we always use the most normal things from our surroundings and turn them into objects or installations. Why not use urine, a material that otherwise would simply be wasted. In a somewhat simplistic way we could call it a ‘democratic sculpture’. The more people contribute to this sculpture, the more comfortable it becomes.

 gelitin 
All Together Now
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2011
soloshow

 The visitor (m/f) is asked to pee in a urinal, the urine then runs through a transparent tube throughout the gallery and is collected in a colossal plastic bubble best described as an oval hot water bed. That (warm) bubble offers other visitors a seat, a lie-down, a wandering moment or - why not - a moment to reflect on the sense and nonsense of life itself. (Jos Van der Bergh)

We all need to pee, it is something omnipresent, a feeling we all know and we really wanted to use urine as a construction material. In fact, we always use the most normal things from our surroundings and turn them into objects or installations. Why not use urine, a material that otherwise would simply be wasted.

In a somewhat simplistic way we could call it a ‘democratic sculpture’. The more people contribute to this sculpture, the more comfortable it becomes.


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A photostream of the destruction of Ai Weiwei studio by the Chinese government. n January 2011, Mr. Ai’s studio, which was to be used as an education center and a site for artists in residence, was demolished.  Mr. Ai believed that his advocacy in two causes might have prompted Shanghai officials to order the razing. The first was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who killed six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Mr. Yang became a hero among many Chinese, and was later executed. The second was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry. Mr. Ai made a documentary about Mr. Feng’s predicament. In April, Mr. Ai was detained by Chinese authorities as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. His wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital. Rights advocates say detentions have become an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s 2011 crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents was spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society. -source the New York Times

A photostream of the destruction of Ai Weiwei studio by the Chinese government.

n January 2011, Mr. Ai’s studio, which was to be used as an education center and a site for artists in residence, was demolished.  Mr. Ai believed that his advocacy in two causes might have prompted Shanghai officials to order the razing. The first was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who killed six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Mr. Yang became a hero among many Chinese, and was later executed. The second was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry. Mr. Ai made a documentary about Mr. Feng’s predicament.

In April, Mr. Ai was detained by Chinese authorities as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. His wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital.

Rights advocates say detentions have become an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s 2011 crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents was spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society.

-source the New York Times

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A photostream of the destruction of Ai Weiwei studio by the Chinese government. n January 2011, Mr. Ai’s studio, which was to be used as an education center and a site for artists in residence, was demolished.  Mr. Ai believed that his advocacy in two causes might have prompted Shanghai officials to order the razing. The first was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who killed six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Mr. Yang became a hero among many Chinese, and was later executed. The second was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry. Mr. Ai made a documentary about Mr. Feng’s predicament. In April, Mr. Ai was detained by Chinese authorities as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. His wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital. Rights advocates say detentions have become an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s 2011 crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents was spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society. -source the New York Times

A photostream of the destruction of Ai Weiwei studio by the Chinese government.

n January 2011, Mr. Ai’s studio, which was to be used as an education center and a site for artists in residence, was demolished.  Mr. Ai believed that his advocacy in two causes might have prompted Shanghai officials to order the razing. The first was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who killed six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Mr. Yang became a hero among many Chinese, and was later executed. The second was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry. Mr. Ai made a documentary about Mr. Feng’s predicament.

In April, Mr. Ai was detained by Chinese authorities as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. His wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital.

Rights advocates say detentions have become an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s 2011 crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents was spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society.

-source the New York Times

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A photostream of the destruction of Ai Weiwei studio by the Chinese government. n January 2011, Mr. Ai’s studio, which was to be used as an education center and a site for artists in residence, was demolished.  Mr. Ai believed that his advocacy in two causes might have prompted Shanghai officials to order the razing. The first was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who killed six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Mr. Yang became a hero among many Chinese, and was later executed. The second was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry. Mr. Ai made a documentary about Mr. Feng’s predicament. In April, Mr. Ai was detained by Chinese authorities as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. His wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital. Rights advocates say detentions have become an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s 2011 crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents was spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society. -source the New York Times

A photostream of the destruction of Ai Weiwei studio by the Chinese government.

n January 2011, Mr. Ai’s studio, which was to be used as an education center and a site for artists in residence, was demolished.  Mr. Ai believed that his advocacy in two causes might have prompted Shanghai officials to order the razing. The first was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who killed six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Mr. Yang became a hero among many Chinese, and was later executed. The second was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry. Mr. Ai made a documentary about Mr. Feng’s predicament.

In April, Mr. Ai was detained by Chinese authorities as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. His wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital.

Rights advocates say detentions have become an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s 2011 crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents was spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society.

-source the New York Times

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