In addition to Spirit of Boz, another website has just been created : www.beboz.org. It’s all about Be Art, a brand new art project originated by Julien Friedler, from the "Around The Boz In 80 Years" project.
Here is its "manifesto" :
Be Art can be defined as an endeavor to transcend art field so as to project it in the social field.
Unlike POP ART, which brought popular icons into a privileged circle, Be Art will intend to reach people to transform them in artist’s avatars. Here, people will thus produce works, through the individuals who compose it. So, you’ll only need to be part of it to become one; following this axiom : in everyone sleeps an artist.
In this intent, different strategies will be used :
A profit making company designed in its whole as an esthetic performance (Boz Company).
Nights of Boz, displayed through three years.
The first one took place in Brussels, on December 2nd 2006. Electronic music, laser projections, light inscriptions on the dancers : this night was essentially the starting point of another adventure : “Around the Boz in 80 Years” (see later). Two other Nights are programmed : one in New York at the end of 2008; another in Venice, for 2009 Biennale.
Simultaneously, three works will have been started. They will be conceived as an art for the masses, created by the masses, on the basis of a minimal support.
1 “Around The Boz In 80 Years” will be centered around a simple questionnaire. Having started on December 2nd 2006 with the diffusion of the above mentioned questionnaire, the work will end on December 2nd 2086. So it’s a Vanity, in the classic sense, which will be perpetuated by a “Forest of Souls”.
2 “Give Up” will be built from an usual object given by anyone. Based on free association and the “transitional object” concept, this work will work around a collective imagination. Conceived for a period of 10 years, its ultimate meaning will be something of a chimera.
3 “Celestian Down-and-out” will collect sketches, sometimes very minimal (a line, some points aligned, the uneasy drawning of a curve,…). This work will be conceived as ascetism dedicated to despair. Confronting to it, one will discover the intimate coherence of the world we try to invent.
Its focal point will always be the same : to produce a supplement of soul where pain only rules.
