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Means and Ends - Performance by Jeremiah Day Performance 10.05.2025

Publié le 24 avril 2025 – Mis à jour le 24 avril 2025



Means and Ends

 

“What is the capacity of art – in and for public life, in times of community making and international law breaking?”
 

This question has been central to the work of US-artist Jeremiah Day, across various mediums and contexts, for over two decades. In this performance, Day’s point of departure is the crucial but often under-described institution of the contemporary art gallery. The performance will explore questions related to responsibility and integrity, freedom and self-censorship, as well as the collaborative efforts required to build public cultural spaces.



The inspiration for this performance arose in dialogue with Eléa De Winter, guest editor of the upcoming issue of De Witte Raaf on the art market, and from Days' wrestling’s with the personal, economic, cultural and political issues inherent in this field.

Jeremiah Day (b. 1974, USA) is an artist, thinker, mover and organizer. Building on the legacy of ‘new dance,’ especially postmodern dance pioneer Simone Forti’s Logomotion, Day facilitates performance workshops fostering creative leadership and communication, including public speaking and performing. Day’s work navigates both self-organised and official cultural frames, and he is an active member of K77 Studio in Berlin. His installations and performances have been presented at institutions such as The Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and his works are included in collections like the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Frac Champagne-Ardenne. Since 2005, Day has collaborated closely with Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam, and since 2007, he has worked with Christian Mooney’s Arcade in London and Brussels, formally a commercial gallery and now a community-interest-corporation. In 2022, his work on the commemoration of Julian Lahaut was featured in BOZAR’s centenary exhibition Project Palace, curated by Wouter Davidts.

The performance ‘Means and Ends’ is part of De Witte Raaf’s forthcoming issue on the art market, to be published in July 2025. De Witte Raaf is a bimonthly publication dedicated to fostering and enriching discussions about visual arts in the Netherlands and Flanders.



 

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).

Drawing:

Jeremiah Day, Are Not Cowards, For Willem Arondeus (Performance notation: Ellen de Bruijne Projects, October 12, 2022); Indian ink and acrylic on paper, 33 x 46 cm



 

Partenaire(s)
This performance is supported by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.