The Barricade (De Barricade) (happening)

Happening — Concept: Maud Vande Veire, Emmanuel Depoorter / Participants: Pieter Bauters, Robin Vermeersch, Thomas Crombez, Calyps 07, Thomas Kilpper / Date: 18 November 2004 

Film — Duration: 3 min 9 sec / Format: standard video / Year: 2004

Publication — available on www.frommetoyou.be / Concept: Emmanuel Depoorter, Maud Vande Veire / Design: Maud Vande Veire / Dimensions: 14,5 x 19,5 cm / Pages: 28 / Print: digital print / Publisher: University Ghent / Edition: 70 / Year: 2004

The Barricade was an event to mark the presentation of  Non-Centered Fold / American Wrestling, a book with drawings by Emmanuel Depoorter and a text by Erwin Wittewrongel, published by the University of Ghent.

The location of the happening was an unused student restaurant called The Barricade. We built six wooden volumes, one of which served as the display for the book. Together with befriended artists, musicians, theorists and university staff we turned the other volumes into a lectur room/ cinema, a bar, a stage ande two exhibition spaces.