
Since 2006 Potential Estate, have been developing a mobile, pars pro toto format – a Cabinet – in which knowledge dilutes itself into tales. Each Cabinet is a chapter in a plurivocal narrative whose epilogue is continually postponed. Using auctions, drinking games, bowling alleys, films, t-shirts and rodeos, Potential Estate invoke the ghosts of forgotten Modern figures, who often appear to them as venomous tricoloured snakes.

Cabinet
David Bald Eagle
takes us to the first ’Wild West’ village in Belgium, which is explored through performances and non-academic lectures, and their new film screened on the bus.

Potential Estate is a temporary alliance that designs residential spaces and narratives. It operates along models of self-organization and participation. As a performative answer to the crisis of the community, Potential Estate has elected Belgium, Wisconsin (USA) as its new Frontier.
Each Cabinet is the chapter of a plurivocal narrative. One could already come across the ghosts of pedagogist Joseph Jacotot, communard geographer Élisée Reclus, multiple pseudonym Wally Hope, fourierist anarchist Marie-Adèle Anciaux, Hopi priest Cleo Jurino and artworks of guest artists Seth Price, Joe Scanlan, Jimmie Durham and David Robbins just to quote a few of them.
Potential Estate has exhibited Cabinet Jacocot in STUK (Leuven), Cabinet Reclus in Netwerk (Aalst), Cabinet Hope in Koraalberg (Antwerp), Cabinet Anciaux in 1st Brussels Biennial and Cabinet Jurino in M hka extra muros (Antwerp). The Crying of Potential Estate, their first film, has been screened in CEAC, Xiamen (China).
" My brain is frozen. I have to break free from this culture of mechanical reproduction and the thick incrustration who die on the surface "
in « House of 10.000 corpses », Rob Zombie, 2003.
Potential Estate is a temporary alliance that designs residential spaces and narratives. It operates along models of self-organization and participation. This practice is highlighted in a number of Potential Estate activities : cabinets, public events and the present website.Cabinet David Bald Eagle
Salon5 - Performative Journeys - Argos Center for Art and Media
12 September 2010
11:00 - 17:00
Please note: this event has a limited capacity of 50 people, and booking in advance is therefore required. — Please contact reservation@argosarts.org or 02/ 229 00 03. — Entrance Fee: € 15 including picnic on location
Meeting at 10.45am at Argos, Werfstraat/rue du chantier 13, 1000 Brussels
Potential Estate announces the distribution of The Crying of Potential Estate (Blank Version), a film of murder, money and multiplicity.
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Steps and ladders are an ancient and universal device for representing the growth, the upward and downward motion of nature. They are the symbol of achievement in the rise and descent through space, just as the circle, the coiled serpent, is the symbol for the rhythm of time...
David Freedberg / Pathos at Oraibi : What Warburg did not see

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