Francisco Camacho
12 Sep 2010 - 09 Jan 2011
"Entkunstung de l'art"
PROJECT ROOM @ AQUARIUM
12 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
Artist residency: 12 September – 29 October 2010
Exhibition: 30 October 2010 – 9 January 2011
For the autumn residency Casino Luxembourg invited Columbian artist Francisco Camacho (Bogota, 1979; lives and works in Amsterdam). Francisco Camacho’s work is situated at the crossroads of political performance and social analysis. As a politically engaged artist, he is particularly interested in identity related concerns of his host country. In collaboration with soldiers from the Luxembourg Ecole de l’Armée (military school), the statements of six leading figures from the local economic, cultural, political and religious realms have been “deconstructed” according to a particular method of analysis. As for the local hiphop group de läb, they summed up the interviews in their very own style in the song Den Dag vun der oppener Dier (Open day) which, through using the metaphor of a house, unveils the Grand Duchy’s hidden facettes.
The project realised by Francisco Camacho will be presented in the “Aquarium” of Casino Luxembourg from 30 October 2010 – 9 January 2011 in an environment mixing rap, graffiti and a video installation.
A publication on the project with texts by Kevin Muhlen and Emmanuel Lambion will be published during the exhibition.
Casino Royal by de läb - Den Dag vun der oppener Dier on:
http://casinoroyalbydelab.bandcamp.com/
The artistic path of Francisco Camacho (born in 1979 in Bogotá; living and working in Amsterdam) is hinged around the relationships between politics, society and art. His work, somewhere between political action and social analysis, is made up of performances and supported by trends in social philosophy. The project undertaken by Francisco Camacho, as resident artist at Casino Luxembourg, is entitled Entkunstung de l’art and refers to the concept of Entkunstung (“des-artification”) forged by the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno. This signifies a work of art’s loss of artistic character in relation to cultural industry. According to this concept, the object character of a work of art gives way to a new definition of art in society: engaged art seeking to make art a solution in itself rather than a piece of merchandise.
For his project in Luxembourg, Francisco Camacho firstly made a series of filmed interviews with local personalities from the political, economic, cultural and religious realms. The artist broached subjects relative to the Grand Duchy such as national identity (with Georges Christen, strong man and entertainer), political and economic “liberalism” (with Laurent Mosar, president of the House of Representatives), cultural identity (with Octavie Modert, minister for culture), logical and statistical analysis of economic prosperity (with Jean-Jacques Rommes, director of the ABBL – Association des banques et banquiers luxembourgeois), the financial sector (with Carlo Thill, president of the management board of BGL BNP Paribas) and religion (with Fernand Franck, archbishop of Luxembourg).
Secondly, these speeches were submitted to a “deconstruction” process. To do this, the interviews were shown to two groups of people – in this case, pupils from the École de l’Armée (military school) in Diekirch and members of the Luxem¬bourgish hip-hop group de läb – who analysed the talks, while aiming for a conclusion which could sum up current identity concerns of Luxembourgers. Following different paths for reflection given in the preamble by Francisco Camacho, the young military recruits lent themselves to the interactive and argumentative debating game, whilst maintaining an analytical approach. With a more rebellious reasoning, the rappers from the group de läb composed Den Dag vun der oppener Dier (Open Day), a song which, by hinging itself around a metaphor of the house, unmasks the hidden face of the Grand Duchy.
The song Den Dag vun der oppener Dier was produced by de läb during a single concert performance in the “Aquarium” of Casino Luxembourg during which the public were invited to draw graffiti on the glass surfaces in the area. The “traces” of the concert (the scene, the beer bar, the graffiti, etc.) today make up, together with the video produced by Francisco Camacho at the École de l’Armée, the setting of the Entkunstung de l’art project.
PROJECT ROOM @ AQUARIUM
12 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
Artist residency: 12 September – 29 October 2010
Exhibition: 30 October 2010 – 9 January 2011
For the autumn residency Casino Luxembourg invited Columbian artist Francisco Camacho (Bogota, 1979; lives and works in Amsterdam). Francisco Camacho’s work is situated at the crossroads of political performance and social analysis. As a politically engaged artist, he is particularly interested in identity related concerns of his host country. In collaboration with soldiers from the Luxembourg Ecole de l’Armée (military school), the statements of six leading figures from the local economic, cultural, political and religious realms have been “deconstructed” according to a particular method of analysis. As for the local hiphop group de läb, they summed up the interviews in their very own style in the song Den Dag vun der oppener Dier (Open day) which, through using the metaphor of a house, unveils the Grand Duchy’s hidden facettes.
The project realised by Francisco Camacho will be presented in the “Aquarium” of Casino Luxembourg from 30 October 2010 – 9 January 2011 in an environment mixing rap, graffiti and a video installation.
A publication on the project with texts by Kevin Muhlen and Emmanuel Lambion will be published during the exhibition.
Casino Royal by de läb - Den Dag vun der oppener Dier on:
http://casinoroyalbydelab.bandcamp.com/
The artistic path of Francisco Camacho (born in 1979 in Bogotá; living and working in Amsterdam) is hinged around the relationships between politics, society and art. His work, somewhere between political action and social analysis, is made up of performances and supported by trends in social philosophy. The project undertaken by Francisco Camacho, as resident artist at Casino Luxembourg, is entitled Entkunstung de l’art and refers to the concept of Entkunstung (“des-artification”) forged by the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno. This signifies a work of art’s loss of artistic character in relation to cultural industry. According to this concept, the object character of a work of art gives way to a new definition of art in society: engaged art seeking to make art a solution in itself rather than a piece of merchandise.
For his project in Luxembourg, Francisco Camacho firstly made a series of filmed interviews with local personalities from the political, economic, cultural and religious realms. The artist broached subjects relative to the Grand Duchy such as national identity (with Georges Christen, strong man and entertainer), political and economic “liberalism” (with Laurent Mosar, president of the House of Representatives), cultural identity (with Octavie Modert, minister for culture), logical and statistical analysis of economic prosperity (with Jean-Jacques Rommes, director of the ABBL – Association des banques et banquiers luxembourgeois), the financial sector (with Carlo Thill, president of the management board of BGL BNP Paribas) and religion (with Fernand Franck, archbishop of Luxembourg).
Secondly, these speeches were submitted to a “deconstruction” process. To do this, the interviews were shown to two groups of people – in this case, pupils from the École de l’Armée (military school) in Diekirch and members of the Luxem¬bourgish hip-hop group de läb – who analysed the talks, while aiming for a conclusion which could sum up current identity concerns of Luxembourgers. Following different paths for reflection given in the preamble by Francisco Camacho, the young military recruits lent themselves to the interactive and argumentative debating game, whilst maintaining an analytical approach. With a more rebellious reasoning, the rappers from the group de läb composed Den Dag vun der oppener Dier (Open Day), a song which, by hinging itself around a metaphor of the house, unmasks the hidden face of the Grand Duchy.
The song Den Dag vun der oppener Dier was produced by de läb during a single concert performance in the “Aquarium” of Casino Luxembourg during which the public were invited to draw graffiti on the glass surfaces in the area. The “traces” of the concert (the scene, the beer bar, the graffiti, etc.) today make up, together with the video produced by Francisco Camacho at the École de l’Armée, the setting of the Entkunstung de l’art project.