Means and Ends (EN) Performance by Jeremiah Day
Performance
“What is the capacity of art – in and for public life, in times of community making and international law breaking?” This question has guided the work of American artist Jeremiah Day for over two decades, across various mediums and contexts. In Means and Ends, he takes the contemporary art gallery—an essential yet often under-described institution—as a point of departure.
This performance explores key questions: What are the responsibilities of artists and institutions? How do freedom and self-censorship coexist? And what forms of collaboration are needed to build and maintain public cultural spaces? The piece emerged from conversations with Eléa De Winter, guest editor of the upcoming De Witte Raaf issue on the art market (July 2025), and from Day’s wrestling's with the economic, cultural, personal and political tensions within this field.
Jeremiah Day (b. 1974) is an artist, thinker and performer. Drawing from ‘new dance’ and especially Simone Forti’s Logomotion, his work blends movement, storytelling, and public engagement. He is a member of K77 Studio in Berlin, and his performances and installations have been presented at institutions including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and collected by the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and Frac Champagne-Ardenne.
Day has collaborated closely with Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam) since 2005 and Arcade (London/Brussels) since 2007. In 2022, his work on the memory of Julian Lahaut was featured in BOZAR’s centenary exhibition Project Palace.
Presented in the framework of De Witte Raaf’s forthcoming issue, Means and Ends invites reflection on the role of art, its market and its actors in public life today.
About Eléa De Winter
Eléa De Winter (b. 1994) studied art history at Ghent University and graduated in 2021. Since October 2023, she has been preparing a PhD on the art market in Belgium between 1933 and 1960 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in collaboration with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Technische Universität Berlin, and CegeSoma. Her doctoral research is part of the ProvEnhance project – Enhancing the provenance data of the collections of the RMFAB since 1933. She is also an affiliated researcher with the research group Art in Belgium since 1945 (KB45, Ghent University) and BAMLab – Brussels Art Markets Laboratory (ULB).
LANGUAGE :
English
TIME :
15:30 - 16:30
PLACE :
Meeting point : Staircase, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium,
Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles.
The performance will take place outside, near the museum.
PRICE :
Free access - No reservation required
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