S&D#024 / APE#202: Anything, But Certain Booklaunch

Join us on Sunday 3 July for to celebrate the launch of S&D024/APE202: ANYTHING, BUT CERTAIN and the start of Summer.
15:00-19:00 at the DiNG Vitrine (Design museum Gent, Drabstraat 2, next to the billboard). Free posters will be available and this event coincides with the opening of the Serving Library ‘objects’ exhibition on the same location.

Welcome!

480 PAGES in continuation of:
S&D024/APE047 (2014) SO MANY DARK GIFTS
S&D024/APE069 (2016) SABOTAGE AND COMPLICITY
S&D024/APE117 (2018) OCCUPATION AND HOSPITALITY

This book is an archive of past realizations and future possibilities, a mix of memories and dreams to visualize the collective present in 019, a post-industrial space for art, graphic design and architecture in Ghent, Belgium. It started with this playful idea of trying to invent projects ahead of us and present them as if they are already realized, as if our future already belongs to our past. We liked to poke fun at the petrifying mass of expectations we increasingly felt surrounded by in looking for a sustainable practice, having to know in advance what we were up to while our creativity had always entailed adapting to surprise. But then the pandemic came, imprisoning us into a present that felt surreal because of the way it made the world into a place we could no longer share, unless as a negative space of shared disaster. And so, the original idea started to shift.  How to imagine a shared future? How to surpass the compressed space of our present, if it leaves no room to imagine the future differently than as the reality of a catastrophe already taking place? How to turn our collective past into a resource of future survival? 

This book is not an anthology of former successes and future flowering to be expected.  It’s a survival guide exploring the future along fictive paths while reconfiguring the past we have so far documented. It’s a shortcut to our archive as a reservoir of reinvention. If you dig through the layers of the collective past we have recovered, you will find a heterogeneous crust of words and images about to burst open, an island in the making, featuring the flagpole of multiple artists, unlocking the future as if it is already present.  

With contributions by Adriënne van der Werf, Edward Hollis, Joachim Dumoulin, Katinka de Jonge, Maíra Dietrich, Mathew Kneebone, The Serving Library, Tom Van Imschoot & Waterland

Published in collaboration with Art Paper Editions.
The new ‘The Situation As It Is’ publication by De Cleene De Cleene will  also be included in the package.