Without meeting Harmen de Hoop and Biancoshock will give eachother assignments to make an artwork in the city where they currently are.
Every work will be a reaction to the one made before by the other artist. The documentation of their interventions and actions will be shown here.
09.03.2022 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: SHIP SOMETHING TO SOMEONE.
HARMEN DE HOOP: AFRICAN SCULPTURES - DULLIKEN, 2022
Many African states have been fighting for more than a century for the return of their artifacts stolen during colonial times. Experts estimate that 80-90% of Africa's cultural heritage can be found in European museums, or rather in their storage. Some museums refuse to give back the looted artworks, stating that it is irresponsible to return artworks to a place without proper storage facilities, security, and climate control. That argument is not valid anymore, new art museums are built everywhere in Africa. That’s why Harmen de Hoop decided to send the African sculptures in his collection to a museum in Dakar, not knowing whether these sculptures are valuable museum pieces, or worthless souvenirs made for tourists.
20.02.2022 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT CONSUMER PRODUCTS.
BIANCOSHOCK: PRIME - MILAN, 2022
The need for lightness feeds the unsustainable heaviness of consumerism.
28.01.2022 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT ADVERTISING.
HARMEN DE HOOP: STREET ART - BIEL, 2022
What do we want? What do we need? What do we value more: consumer products or art?
20.12.2021 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK USING FLYERS.
BIANCOSHOCK: MAGIC MOVIE - MUGGIO, 2022
The Magic Movie Park in Muggiò was a gigantic multiplex and the second largest "Made in China" bazaar in Europe (15 cinema rooms and 170 shops). It was closed only one year after its opening, when it emerged that the cinema was owned by the Italian and Chinese mafia.
Biancoshock found in the abandoned building thousands of "new" flyers intended to promote the cinema and the restaurants inside. 15 years later, he decided to distribute these leaflets in Muggiò to promote another brilliant example of corruption and bankruptcy.
15.12.2021 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT RELIGION.
