'Boost in the Shell'
http://www.boostintheshell.be/

'The Pursued'
De Bond
Brugge
Belgium
21 may-31 july 2005.

In 2005 the city of Bruges in Belgium stands again on the
international art calendar with the important festival Corpus. The
human body is a universal theme and the artfestival Corpus brings
together the most recent artistic forms.

The Cultuurcentrum participates with the important exhibition of
contemporary art 'Boost in the Shell' en the dance- and
performancefestival Body Stroke.

The last seven years the Cultuurcentrum organized a large number of
spraakmakende exhibitions with artists as Wim Delvoye, Jacques
Charlier, Jan Fabre, Joel-Peter Witkin, John Isaacs, Simone Decker,
Gregory Green, Santu Mofokeng and many others.

Recently we are relentlessly reminded of the fact that we are free, to
do move, act and think. Apparently we are independent citizens, we
have a freedom of speech, travel where we want to, we consume, buy
what we want, etc.

But is this true ?
To what degree do we really control our mind and body? To what extent
are we controlled? Aren't we forgetting all to easily the many forms
of education, even conditioning which we undergo for years ? What is
the impact of influences of genetic or cultural origin, for e.g.
publicity or the media, on our behavior, thinking, feeling, acting?

For centuries the Cartesian split between mind and body, whereby the
second was clearly subordinate to the first, was used.

But more and more specialists point now at the relative autonomy of
our body to the mind. The body is not only a sort of interface between
subject and society, it reacts indepently from the mind, and reacts to
social and cultural impulses and pressures.

In 'Boost in the Shell' the human body is depicted as a canvas for
this contemporary subject, but also as an evolving biological
organism.

In this exhibition the curators Michel Dewilde en Jerome Jacobs tackle
some of the essential questions about human freedom on the one hand,
and conditioning on the other through more than fifty works of art.
In a labyrinthic exhibition structure they push the visitors to the
limits of being a human in the 21st century.

'Boost in the Shell'
Curators : Michel Dewilde, Jerome Jacobs

Artists :
Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy, Sarah Baker, Gilles Barbier,
Valerie Belin, Olaf Breuning, Daniele Buetti, Liz Cohen, Jake & Dinos
Chapman, Petroc Dragon, Sesti, Jean Dunning, Anthony Goicolea, Nezaket
Ekici, John Isaacs , Lawrence Malstaf, Zoe Leonard , John Lucas, Ryan
Mc Namara , Alex McQuilkin , Yoshua Okon, Ronald Ophuis, Martin Parr,
Dominic McGill, Leopold Rabus, Daniel Roth, Cheri Samba, Andres
Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Larry Sultan, Milica Tomic,
Wang Du, Del LaGrace Volcano, Inez van Lamsweerde, Alexandra Vogt,
John Waters, Sophie Whettnall.

Also works by

Nobuyoshi Araki, Stephan Balleux, Henry Bond, Norbert Briar, Elinor
Carucci, Colin Cook , Jen De Nike, Joy Garnett, Paul Glazier, Robert
Gligorov , Greg Gorman, Izima Kaoru, John Lucas , Loretta Lux , Marcel
Marien, Sebastian Muniz, Carolee Schneemann, Stephen J. Shanabrook,
Pepe Smit, Annie Sprinkle, Cedric Tanguy, Alastair Thain, Cornelie
Tollens, Michael Van den Besselaar, Eric White.

Exhibition site : De Bond, (next to the Smedenpoort (gate), 5 min from
the trainstation)
Address : Buiten de Smedepoort 1, 8000 Brugge
Dates : 21 mei-31 juli 2005.
open : wednesday-sunday : 10.00-17.00 hrs
Free entrance
Catalogue : 8 EUR
Website : http://www.cultuurcentrum.be & http://www.corpusbrugge05.be
Guided tours : on demand
Info : 00.32.50.44.30.40
Fax : 00.32.50.44.30.50