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Discover our English activities!

Written by deBuren on 31 January 2012

• 29.01.2012 - 31.03.2012 Exhibition: The Residence (a wager for the afterlife)
• 01.02.2012 - 19:30 Lecture: Between Reason and Religion #4: Tariq Ramadan
• 02.02.2012 - 01.04.2012 Discursive platform: The Residence (reading room)
• 28.02.2012 - 19:30 Lecture: Philippe Van Parijs Linguistic justice
• 06.03.2012 - 19:30 Lecture: It's the economy, stupid #4: Mariana Mazzucato
• 14.04.2012 - 08.07.2012 Exhibition: 'Orban Space' The Work and Practice of Luc Deleu - T.O.P. office

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Good news?

Written by Paul Lewis on 26 October 2011

What would be the collective story of Europe’s top young journalists, brought together to ponder the future of journalism? The temptation would be for aspiring journalists to portray themselves as the victims in a “bad news” story. The headline? ‘Journalism Is Dying’. An opinion piece by Paul Lewis, journalist The Guardian, following his opening lecture at the conference YoungPress.eu in Antwerp. Authoritative media personalities, from both home and abroad, are invited to attend all three days.

Travel without moving!

Written by deBuren on 26 October 2010

Read, listen to, watch and download city portraits on www.city-books.eu. citybooks is a residential project for authors, photographers and video artists. They make unique city portraits in commission of the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. The citybooks are made available as text, e-book and podcast, all free of charge. This work in progress will shape an extensive network of the ‘United States of Europe’. Travel without moving!

A Slice of Kaas

Written by deBuren on 26 October 2010

Everyone in Flanders is crazy about Elsschot. This craziness reaches its climax with the auction of the bed of Elsschot. deBuren however, looked across the border and took Elsschot to Heerlen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Jakarta and...  California, where the young American Peter Laurence (who learned Dutch by reading Geert Mak) launches ‘A Slice of Kaas’ this weekend, a project on the graphic interpretation of Kaas by Dick Matena!

Time Travel: Life is somewhere and sometime else

Written by Jean-Lorin Sterian on 29 June 2010

TIME IS A BOOK is a project founded by artists Dirk Braeckman and Els Dietvorst. Time Travel spread over 300 books internationally. deBuren went to Bucharest and posed these questions to four young artists. Can art be engaged? Can you, as an artist, still be radical? Today, photografer Jean-Lorin Sterian responds.

Time Travel: Bucharest

Written by deBuren on 16 June 2010

The last episode of ‘Het Gentse Time Festival’ took place in 2009. Curators Els Dietvorst and Dirk Braeckman decided to make a book instead of a festival. A place for thought, not an event. Many artists used their different art practices to participate in the creation of this book. The project is now given an international dimension via Time Travel.

Time Travel: INSTANT-ART MANIFESTO

Written by David Schwartz on 8 June 2010

TIME IS A BOOK is a project founded by artists Dirk Braeckman and Els Dietvorst. Time Travel spread over 300 books internationally. deBuren went to Bucharest and posed these questions to four young artists. Can art be engaged? Can you, as an artist, still be radical? Today, director David Schwartz responds.

And the winner of the ECSDP Award 2010 is...

Written by deBuren on 4 February 2010

AEDH (European Association for the Defense of Human rights), EDRI (European Digital Rights) and deBuren are pleased to announce that the winner of the first edition of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award (ECSDPA) is PER.SONN.ES (in French) / FAKEFRIENDS.ME (in English).