Installations

This is more or less how frontera will look like - and how it looked at Nimk.

To be shown in Imaginary Property's studio at Jan van Eyck's Academy during the opening week.

The interactive portrait and videobooth will be shown as part of the Imaginary Property research subjects in Jan van Eyck's opening week From the 11 to the 18 of January 2009

Today the passage from "intellectual" to "imaginary" property is challenging traditional notions of ownership and personhood. It is the theft of the soul which in both, analog and digital modes, turns images into property or vice versa: property into imageness.

The Museum of the Stealing of Souls has opened on July 19th 2008, hosted by manifesta7 in Trento, Italy. It is devoted to histories of the invention, appropriation and reconfiguration of the subject by photography.

The first episode of IMAGINARY PROPERTY took place in Vanabbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL). It is focussed on their most recent acquisition, a so far unknown piece by El Lissitzky. The project researches the way, in which the museum configures, builds, installs, uses and performs the relationships to the objects that are supposed to be owned, preserved and displayed as its property. Or: how does the museum produce a spatio-temporal domain in conformity with its own concept which has to relate back to the original idea of granting to the public some controlled and temperate access to the realm of collective imagination?