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The History of Tomorrow is short story written on the occasion of GHB, a project of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. The project wanted to raise questions about the museum, the conditions of a museum, the relation of the museum towards an art-initiative. How do initiatives think about the museum and it's conditions? How would or could they position themselves within the institution? For the newspaper of the Exhibition we wrote a text about our ideas about the museum. In this text we stated the importance of the fiction of a museum, and the impossibility of undermining the conditions.
Our contribution was a publication printed in the design of the existing evacuation plans (one red and one blue book) that are located underneath every telephone in the Van Abbemuseum. The publication contained a short sci-fi story written by Maarten Vanden Eynde about the loss of gravitation on earth. The new alternative emergency booklet (a green version) is put permanently underneath every telephone as an extra 'evacuation plan'.
Thanks to: davidkremers (CalTech, USA), Stefano Campagnola and Martin Lo (JPL/NASA, USA), Piero Golia and Eric Wesley (MSA^, USA), Fillipo Barbieri (iLOYOLi Lab, IT)
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The History of Tomorrow, 2006/2007
Groothertogdom Brabant, Van Abbemuseum, NL
A5, 24 pages (2x 200 copies)
in collaboration with Marjolijn Dijkman
editor: Willem Vanden Eynde |
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