THE THIRD LANDSCAPE
2019
crox 591–602
De titel is ontleend aan een bij Agustin Fernandez Mallo [Nocilla Trilogy] aangetroffen fragment over The Third Estate van Gilles Clément,
What is the Third Estate? Everything.
What role has it played to date? None.
What does it aspire to? Something. pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès quoted in Manifesto of the Third Landscape by Gilles Clément
De productie, op dat moment nog zonder titel, komt in 2018 op tafel tijdens een teamvergadering op het gelijkvloers van Zilverhof 34. Co-locatie en activisme zijn de trefwoorden. Begin 2019 komt croxhapox zonder plek te zitten.
txt The Third Landscape refers to not-used and/or not usable landscape. Within this framework the 2019 crox-team explores situational & contextual activism. TTL is a project on radical positions, statements, actions. Artists who question the mechanisms of control and the forces behind cultural hygiene and normalisation. Developed in different national, political and economical contexts these practices show apparent similarities –common ground of the discourse, interest in similar topics such as feminism, environment (milieu), destigmatisation of certain groups of people– and apparent differences –other ways of development, solutions and actions emerging from a distinctive social environment, including general ideas, morality and government).
The Third Landscape is constructed as a forum for art practice exchange. Foreign artists are invited to show their work to the Belgian public, Belgian artists get introduced to the Russian public via media such as discours.io. [txt AWS]