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Program - Cabinet Reclus
10 June 2007
ABSTRACT
On May 4th 2007, Cabinet Reclus – the name of the temporary stop at Netwerk – has taken a run-up to its opening on Saturday June 9th, presented in its completeness.

On May 4th 2007, Cabinet Reclus – the name of the temporary stop at Netwerk – has taken a run-up to its opening on Saturday June 9th, presented in its completeness.

Opening of the Cabinet

Preview open from 04/05/07 to 08/06/07
Open wednesday to saturday from 14:00 to 18:00

Final Opening : A Potential Event

- 2.00 pm
Meet the artists - Guided Tour in Cabinet Reclus › Studio
Video Projection Program – Looped › Studio
David Robbins – Ice Cream Social, TV-Pilot (2004, 8’)
Seth Price – Folk Music & Documentary (2004, 6’)
Adam Leech – The Historian of Brussels, Illinois (2007, 3’30")
Video Projection Program – Looped › Corridor
Vincent Meessen – Walker-on (2007)

Flemish Bastard

Flemish Bastard aka Jan Smits aka John Smiths aka Canaqueese : metis Mohawk chief whose birth and death dates remain unknown. Son of a Mohawk mother and a Dutch father, he led war parties against the French and served as an intermediary between the French, Dutch, and English circa 1650-1687.

Source : Perrot, Nicolas. Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l’Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History) ; see also "The Role of Chief Canaqueese in the Iroquois Wars" by Peter Lowensteyn

Congress on boat
The fourth CIAM congress (1933) was held on a boat (the S.S.Patris) going from Marseille to Athens and back. They discussed the theme of the functional city. Moholy–Nagy shot a film on the boat : Diary : Architects’ Congress.


- 3.00 pm : Film Projection – Cinema › Zaal
Dear Wendy - Thomas Vinterberg (2004) (fiction – 101’)

- 4.45 pm : Popcorn Break › Studio

- 5.00 pm : Lecture (in English) › Zaal
Torsten Feys (European University Institute, Firenze, Italy)
Belgium and Mass Migration in the New World in the XIXth Century, Facts and Thoughts

- 5.45 pm : Book Presentation ‘Residenz’ › Studio
Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost

- 6.15 pm : Performance › Corridor
Folk is Not Dead - DJ Elephant Power

- 7.00 pm : Film Projection – Documentary › Zaal
K. Koper & C. Vertige – Sad in Country (part I) - documentary (2007, 60’)

- 7.30 pm : Hotdogs for the people › Studio

- 8.00 pm : Performance › Studio
David Evrard – Frankly Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn (2007) followed by
Le Bowling des Cousins (2007) starring Anne Grand’Henry

- 9.00 pm : Video Projection - › Studio
Steve Reinke – Anthology of American Folk Song

- 9.30 pm : Live act by Jean-Yves Evrard
Wild Turkey & Cold Country › Studio

- 10.00 pm : Party
DJ Elephant Power Sonig – Club Party › Corridor

Other articles in this chapter

Cities : The Grand Suburban Tour - Visit those locations
If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium ! - Nine countries in eighteen days... impossible. But not for some hapless American tourists who, during a whirlwind trip to Europe, come up against a lot more than just a language barrier.
Elisée Reclus : About and From - Born 1830, died 1905. Geographer and anarchist, lived in exile in Belgium.
About Utopian Communities - In 1803 George Rapp, a Lutheran separatist from Germany came to America in search of religious freedom. Along with 800 people from Pennsylvania, Rapp carved out a utopian niche in the wilderness.
Creationism Was Not Invented In Europe - Fantasy is a situation imagined by an individual or group, which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator. But fantasy is also another name for Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug.
Story Number 505739 - Seminole Tribe of Florida buying Hard Rock cafe business.
Tape Number: EF06/1189
Duration: 00:03:22
Intime: 10:40:12
Date: 2006-12-072006-12-07 GMT
Source: AP TELEVISION/ Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment
Nova Belgica - From 1615, the region between Virginia and New-England was equally named New-Belgium or New-Netherlands.
Projet de construction d’un Globe Terrestre à l’échelle du Cent-millième - Le géographe Élisée Reclus projette la construction d’une mappemonde de plâtre de 120m de diamètre pour l’Exposition universelle de Paris.
Statement - "East West at home best"
Statement - An office during closing hours.

"We speak belgian"
Walloons from Wisconsin don’t use the word "walloon" to define the dialectal langage they speak ? They say : "we speak belgian".
If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium (1968)
"I’m Europe, Baby. I sent you Dutch Elm Disease, German Measles, and Russian Roulette. You sent me World Wind Vacation Tour #225. Now we’re even." Read more
Nova Belgica

According to the legend, New York was founded in 1626 by the Dutch in the southern part of Manhattan Island. Some schoolbooks, history books, television broadcasts - and down to cigarettes makers - even say that the founder of New York was named Peter Stuyvesant.

The reality is somewhat different... (read further)

Historic Brussels
Welcome to Historic Brussels
Belgique : a ghost town
Belgique is an unincorporated community in eastern Perry County, Missouri, USA. It is located about five miles south of Chester, Illinois. Its post office has closed and its mail now comes from Perryville. The community was founded in 1890 and is named after the French name for Belgium. In 1970 it had more than 20 occupied residences and a large building. Since the flood of 1993 there is no longer a town, but the cemetery remains.
Shop New Belgium
Shop New Belgium, Co
Mon les Walons d’Amerike

Old Walloon stories found back in Wisconsin.

Viyès racontroûles ritrovêyes e Wisconsin

Proposing a radio publicity
On the occasion of Cabinet Reclus, Potential Estate was offered the opportunity of broadcasting a radio publicity on national radio. The outcome of incorporating this format in Potential Estate operations was a reenactment of VRT announcement style by American native speaker Adam Leech in Dutch. Ultimately the proposition was rejected, and replaced by a VRT employee reinstating the VRT announcemnet style. The score for this publicity was provided by DJ Elephant Power. It consisted of a remix of Walloon folk songs that were interpreted by Belgian immigrants settled in Wisconsin since the 19th Century. The score was reworked unauthorized by VRT. Potential Estate offers you the possibility to listen to the original proposition HERE.
Venturi in Milwaukee

Robert Venturi’s early professional work was in the office of Eero Saarinen, where among other projects, he worked on the design of the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center.

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour collaborated on another book, published in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas," a further exploration of urban sprawl and the suburbs in relation to their architectural theories.

Floating Island
Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island (1970-2005) is a project by Robert Smithson that was realized posthumously. Produced by Minetta Brook in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, Floating Island features a barge landscaped with earth, trees, shrubs and rocks : a "non-site" of Central Park. Towed by a tugboat, this fabricated "island" circled the island of Manhattan for a week in September of 2005. A video documents the evolution and realization of this project.

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