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Author Archives: Erik Hagoort
“Let’s break loose”
“Can generosity itself be a reciprocal practice?” Chicago based curator Mary Jane Jacob asks in her contribution to What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (2005). To ask this question means that the equation of generosity … Continue reading
Posted in Participation
Tagged 31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit, art and reciprocity, Buddhism, Collective Actions, compassion, Encounter, Erik Hagoort, giving, Jacqueline Baas, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Lertchaiprasert, Mary Jane Jacob, receiving, Reciprocity, Rirkrit Tiravanija
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Face-to-face or shoulder-to-shoulder
On a fine, windy Summer day in 2008 Swedish artist Tobias Karlsson invited me to sit with him in one of the three cubicles, mentioned “Untitled”, which he presented as part of his graduation show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie … Continue reading
Beyond reciprocity
Joseph Beuys: “If I take care of you, others will take care of me.” Stanislav Menshikov: “If I take less, others have more.” These two quotations still resonate in my mind since I attended “La chaîne est belle”; the New … Continue reading
Posted in Economy
Tagged care, community, compassion, economy, Erik Hagoort, exchange, friendship, giving, Joseph Beuys, love, Reciprocity, Stanislav Menshikov
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Potential reciprocity
Between 1933 and 1939 the Russian poet Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) wrote down thirty “Cases”. Number 19 describes the following “case”: Encounter Once a man walking to his office met another man, who just before had bought a Polish white bread and … Continue reading
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Yearning for Reciprocity
Between the small towns of Štúrovo in Slovakia and Esztergom in Hungary flows the river Danube, five hundred metres wide. Now the Mária Valéria bridge connects both towns and spans the border between both countries, but from 1944 till 2001 the bridge lay in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Performance
Tagged Erik Hagoort, giving, homesick, receiving, yearning
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Homo Reciprocans
Our society, any society, seems to be structured by, and caught up in, a dynamics of reciprocity. This seems such a self-evident fact, that it might come as a surprise that it is a relatively new idea, notably launched by … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Participation
Tagged economy, Erik Hagoort, exchange, giving, Marcel Mauss, receiving
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One Way Reciprocity
From 1973 to 1986 James Lee Byars sent numerous letters and postcards to Joseph Beuys. Scribbles on small pieces of paper; poems knitted in golden thread on sheets of red satin; sentences inked on rice paper resembling the stones of … Continue reading
Collective Actions Encounter
The header image of this blog shows the outcome of a 1970s event by the Moscow conceptual art group Collective Actions. Most of their actions consisted of situations in which a group of people, invited by the action’s organizers, participated in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Participation, Performance
Tagged Collective Actions, Encounter, Performance, Reciprocity
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