Janes Zeghers
Introducing oneself

Visual artist Janes Zeghers sent some lists to introduce himself and give an idea of what we could expect from the position of artist as public mediator he takes over from Merzedes Sturm-Lie...

What came before…

• Read the open call
• Applied to KIOSK
• Interview
• Not selected
• Time passes
• Eventually Simon calls
• I say yes!
• Of course, the job is a dream
• Work never stands on itself; there is always someone looking at it, even if it is merely the maker.
• Furthermore I don’t believe in the autonomous object: it is always somewhere — in this case here, in a large round space in what once was a hospital, under a glass ceiling, in an art school in a provincial town in an overpopulated region.
• To be an artist inside the institution, can I be an artist inside the institution?
• Ideas for introducing myself as an artist–public mediator

Ideas for introducing myself as an artist–public mediator

• Replacing the inside of a vending machine with myself, dropping cans of coke into the tray
• Wash all the windows together with the person cleaning all the windows and make small talk about art during the process.
• Organizing a brass-band competition through the school’s corridors, the loudest one wins
• Handing out flyers for a debate evening on audience mediation but not showing up myself and see how the audience takes it
• Giving myself a task in the past to announce my past: what I did first, what came after, and then and then
• Locking someone in the exhibition space to make the headlines
• Helping organize someone’s 53rd birthday party
• Organizing a procession of sculptures to protest the lack of attention
• Organizing an art auction where all the works cost exactly one euro
• Make a to-do list that doesn't clearly state what I want to do
• Above all: meeting the artists exhibiting at KIOSK and talking with them
• Paul Demets says that a review of a poetry collection is actually an appendix to that collection. Coming up with such things. Appendixes.

To do

• Walk through the corridors of KASK & Conservatorium as if they were a forest — muddy footprints in the hallways.
• Make a friend, maybe.
• Design spreadsheets calculating how many people could have shown up.
• Design chairs and place them instead of the reception desk.
• Weld chairs.
• Meet Vijai, if I dare.
• As if it were a football match, devise tactics, deliver good crosses.
• Do something that makes someone smile.
• A pair of trousers with one trouser leg and one hollowed-out tree trunk.
• Carry out the secret tasks I gave myself.
• Carry out tasks I received from others.
• Come up with an introduction for the website...