Lieven De Boeck is someone and no one, all and nothing, present and absent, outspoken and unspoken. His engagement is a statement but also a sensibility, which creates his spectrum. In the present timeframe, each position is charged with tension. Still, Lieven presents a poetic path by silencing places and by banishing place from its position. A symbolism for a new entity is born: everyone in all, all in everyone.

Lieven De Boeck is someone and no one, all and nothing, present and absent, outspoken and unspoken. His engagement is a statement but also a sensibility, which creates his spectrum. In the present timeframe, each position is charged with tension. Still, Lieven presents a poetic path by silencing places and by banishing place from its position. A symbolism for a new entity is born: everyone in all, all in everyone.

The texts in the publication L.I.E.V.E.N.D.E.B.O.E.C.K. // TEXTS#1 engage the work of Lieven in numerous ways: the historical, the poetic and the architectural, amongst others. The publication is introduced with a summary of the critical texts, and an introduction to the book and Lieven De Boeck’s work by Freek Lomme.

#2 L.I.E.V.E.N.D.E.B.O.E.C.K. is a visual catalogue / appendix to the textbook.

Managing director / editor:Freek Lomme

Artist:Lieven De Boeck

Texts:

Cathleen Chaffee: curator and writer (US)
Anselm Franke: curator (DE)
Sara Reisman: curator and writer (US)
Aaron Seeto: artist, writer and curator (AUS)
Pieter van Bogaert: curator and writer (BE)
Johnny Golding: philosopher, poet and writer (UK)
Freek Lomme: curator and writer (NL)

Graphic design:
Remco van Bladel

Produced in collaboration with:
Netwerk galerij, Aalst, Belgium
Lmack projects, New York

specially stamped, signed cover with all a letter of Lieven’s alphabet.

Lieven’s presentation at Extra City shows a snapshot of the second part of the research, Public Space. An important element in this research is the work l.e.t.t.e.r.s., consisting of 366 letters and drawings, one for each day of the year, by Lieven de Boeck that he addressed to himself. The letters are copies of found fragments of text and images. In de Boeck’s research they play a fundamental role because by telling a story from one person to another, they break through the private environment allowing for a public inner space between writer and reader to arise. Through the medium of the letter de Boeck plays with the borders of this created space. By transposing certain fragments into his own alphabet, the text turns into an image which can only be read by the artist. In so doing the public space is at once privatised and erased.

Graphic design:Remco van Bladel & Lieven de Boeck
With the support of: Extracity, Antwerp and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck