On the occasion of the exhibition ‘40 Years of Chambres d’Amis’, we travel back in time during a debate with those who actually were there.
In this debate, various eyewitnesses who were involved in Chambres d’Amis in different capacities—from residents and artists to other stakeholders—will share memories of the exhibition and its impact on their private lives, the city of Ghent, and the history of exhibitions in general.
Speakers: Chantal De Smet (resident), Dirk Pauwels (staff member/photographer Chambres d’Amis), Bart Verschaffel (criticus), and Daniel Buren (participating artist)
Moderator:
Moderator: Angela M. Bartholomew (Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her dissertation, Disruptive Attitudes: Artists Counter the Art of Exhibiting in the Low Countries (1985-1991), she focuses on strategies artists developed in the 1980s to maintain control over the presentation of their work - including those deployed in Chambres d'Amis)