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Jeff Hassay-Elena Bajo
Love Letters to a Surrogate
MUHKA, Antwerp
Performance
| VariableHere is how the project works. First, artists in Los Angeles who performed a set of instructions in Love Letter to a Surrogate Stage 1 at the Torrance Art Museum and a few others who wanted to be a part of it, write a set of instructions for participating artists in Belgium. As such the artist in Belgium reenacts or acts as a surrogate to reproduce an action/performance that the asking artist could have performed himself or herself had they been in Antwerp. The selection of Belgian Artists for LOVE LETTER TO A SURROGATE stage II was a collaboration between Warren Neidich en Lode Geens.
Three underlying conditions formed the unconscious of the project. It was hoped but not a prerequisite that artists would ask artists across generations. That a conversation or correspondence would take place between artists and that these would be saved and sent to the MUHKA in Antwerp via the internet or fax where they would be printed and archive. The strong connectivity to similar practices found in Conceptual Art and Fluxus would be acknowledged and provide food for thought.