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+ Book release ‘Tarot of Hope’
Van 13 december tot 3 januari 2014 werkt Bureau d'Espoir in ZSenne. Met de 22 dagen lange research performance Battery, in de ramen van de galerij, testen twee onderzoekers het potentieel van de 'publieke batterij' als een instrument voor de productie van hoop.
Het Natural History Museum of Hope is een actieve tentoonstelling waar de bezoekers terecht kunnen voor de Hope Sessions: film, een Hoop Tarot lezing, de uitwisseling van een Hoop Object, of gewoon een kop thee.
Meer avontuurlijke bezoekers kunnen zich ook aanmelden als vrijwilliger om samen met de batterij-onderzoekers een aantal privé-sessies te ondergaan, om de nieuwe hoop-instrumenten van Bureau d'Espoir te testen.
Bureau d'Espoir organiseert daarnaast lezingen en concerten.
Het volledige programma HIER
From the 13th of December to the 3rd of January Bureau d’Espoir occupies the performance gallery ZSenne. With the 22 days ongoing performance ‘Battery’ in the street windows of the building in which two hope researchers test the power of the machine to turn dire circumstances into hopeful ones. And with the Natural History Museum of Hope: an active exhibition and performance installation in which visitors can come to exchange Hope Objects, browse through the Hope Library or have a sessions with the caretakers to read the Tarot of Hope with them.
The more adventurous visitors are also invited to join the performers in the battery, as test volunteers to try out different strategies of hope, developed by Bureau d’Espoir.
The opening of Bureau d’Espoir takes places on the 13th of December from 19:00 onwards. This marks the start of the Hope Object Exchange, accompanied by The Hope Sessions, a sample concert using the material of hope interviews conducted over the last 5 months.
Next to these ongoing activities, Bureau d’Espoir also organizes lectures and concerts on the topic of Hope today.
Full Programm HERE
Bureau d’Espoir researches the possibility of creating new engagements with the concept of hope, both on a political, social, physical and spiritual level. The Bureau started up in 2009 with the simple question: ‘why do something rather than nothing?’. Since then the project has evolved into an active work hub for the development of different collaborative research projects, concerned with the import, export and commonal development of hope. Bureau d’Espoir wants to lay bare the absurd and affective nonsensical by-products of a global economy and our present global system of institutionalized bureaucracy. With the Battery project, the Natural History Museum of Hope, and the publication Tarot of Hope, Bureau d’Espoir proposes a tool for rethinking our relation to the world, using bits and pieces of material that have been gleaned over the working years of the Hope project.
A full overview of the projects and works of Bureau d’Espoir can be found on www.bureaudespoir.org