Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there
2003

This is the first work produced in connection with my interest in Swiss sociologist Albert Meister's book La soi-disant utopie du centre beaubourg (1976). The upper part of the work shows a photo of the Beaubourg plateau in Paris, used as a parking lot before the Centre Georges Pompidou was built. The lower part reads an emancipatory quote by writer and artist Kodwo Eshun from an interview with Geert Lovink in 2000. Since 2003 the work has been presented in various forms, such as a poster, postcard, and banner.

"Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there", a speculative dialogue with Kodwo Eshun, by Geert Lovink, 2010

Malmö Konsthall, 2020. Photo: Helene Toresdotter
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 2020. Photo: Rik Vannevel