vandaag/morgen
Artwork from the VIERNULVIER Collection
Artist: Studenten LUCA School of Arts Gent | (BE) | 2013
In 2013, De Vooruit celebrated its centenary. The lavish festive programme, which spanned six months, concluded with the ‘Possible Futures’ festival. On and off stage, the festival sought answers to questions about the future. It united artists, designers, thinkers, scientists, activists and audience members with the goal of developing scenarios for ‘Possible Futures’: what might an arts centre – and by extension the city and the world – look like in the next century?
A group of students from the graphic design course at Ghent’s LUCA School of Arts also gave it some thought. Under the guidance of our designer at the time, Matthias Timmermans, they participated in a workshop that would result in a series of subtle poetic interventions on the Terrace. This sticker is the only remnant of this, but it continues to capture the imagination.
In 2015, the festival was followed up under the new title ‘(im)Possible Futures’. Here the boundaries of the (im)possible were explored in collaboration with CAMPO and Ghent University. Because, in a world full of difficulties, the power of artists lies precisely in confronting us with impossible, unrealistic, impractical scenarios, whether utopian or dystopian.
LUCA School of Arts is a multidisciplinary teaching and research environment with campuses in several cities, where creative talent can develop artistically, performatively and technically. Like KASK & Conservatory, it’s an art school that VIERNULVIER regularly collaborates with to give young talent a platform.