petticoat government - petticoat government (catalogue)

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For the 2024 Art Biennale in Venezia, the collective (Denicolai & Provoost, Antoinette Jattiot, Nord, Spec uloos) has developed a multidisciplinary scenario based on the participation of existing folkloric giants from different communities. Unlike a finished work, the project treats the Belgian Pavilion in Venezia as a point of transit, representing the journey so far and yet to come in kaleidoscopic perspective. The elevated staging of the giants and the accompanying sound installation create an ungrounded space, a terrain of freedom where emphasis on the oral and the co-construction of narratives invites reconsideration of both ancient tales and modern myths. Petticoat Government is a choral work, in movement, led by a collective and multidisciplinary body that incarnates the possibility of shared, joyful governance. The position of author is shared by seven members (Sophie Boiron, Valentin Bollaert, Simona Denicolai, Pauline Fockedey, Pierre Huyghebaert, Antoinette Jattiot and Ivo Provoost) who form a team, assisted and accompanied by many others.

 Catalogue: In the Pavilion’s copy shop in Venezia, the catalogue of Petticoat Government was printed on-demand from the website (https://petticoatgovernment.party). This printing practice aims to avoid unnecessary over-production and to give a physical dimension to the performative edition. The website is developed by http://variable.club and takes the side of a stubborn code ecology described in chapter 11 of the Digital Ethics publication (https://cloud.encc.eu/s/dXYWA7LN95dtDgn). This makes it possible to offer a wide and narrow screen (cell phone) web interface, on the one hand, and quality pdf outputs, on the other. This pdf serves to print the catalogue. The printed catalogue that you could buy in the Pavilion was packaged in a copy of the newspaper L'Petti Lion (download the full pdf on https://petticoatgovernment.party/i/gazzetta.pdf). In its current version, as printed on-demand, the catalogue consists of notes written by the Young Curators Storytellers and contributions from authors, researchers, anthropologists, socio-cultural facilitators and art critics: Jean-Baptiste Carobolante, Manah Depauw, Benoît Dusart, eli lebailly and Maximilien Atangana, l'art même (Christine Jamart), Silvia Mesturini, Alexis Zimmer. These invitations to authors from disciplines outside the field of art, strictly speaking, reflect the diversity of the project’s biotope. The content of the published version has been augmented throughout the presentation at the Biennale. From December on, the printed and packaged catalogue is available from MOREpublishers (https://morepublishers.be).