GHB

GHB is not an exhibition. GHB is the code name of a project that consists of presentations and performances, ideas and proposals, a workplace for the temporary formulation of ideas. Some of the galleries will not be included in the programme and will remain empty.

From 13 to 25 January 2007, the Old Building of the Van Abbemuseum will become the territory of diverse artists’ initiatives and art establishments from Brussels, Flanders, Noord-Brabant and Limburg. These are all located in the historical region of the Grand Duchy of Brabant, which was founded nine hundred years ago. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Van Abbemuseum and an alternating selection of art establishments in Noord-Brabant and Flanders organised the Triennial of the Southern Netherlands. In 1966, 1969 and 1972, three travelling exhibitions were organised with young talent from the south of the Netherlands and Flanders. GHB is a contemporary version and continuation of this tradition.

The guest establishments are: Etablissement d’en Face [Brussels] & Artis [’s-Hertogenbosch], bkSM [Strombeek and Mechelen], MuHKA_media [Antwerp], Stichting Kop [Breda], Het Apollohuis [Eindhoven], De Nederlandse Cacaofabriek [Helmond] and Hedah [Maastricht].

Erica Boom

CONCEPT OF ‘STARRING in 13 days time’

‘900 years Groothertogdom Brabant’ shows that positions and connections are liable to changes. When you compare this model with other models you see that structures have a certain way of transformation-rate. The question is how human beings and institutes relate to this.

In the project ‘Starring in 13 days time’ I will represent the connection between time and place by mapping the movement of persons over a period of 2 till 14 weeks. The first day of the presentation (opening) the patterns of the participators are already worked out. Each day after the opening, I will add new information of the participants by showing their movements during the 13 days of the presentation ‘GHB’.