{"id":27610,"title":"White Cube","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2020-01-01","material":"video","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":80,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artist","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"white-cube","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/062/336/medium_500/White_cube.jpg?1601115331","cached_actor_names":"Renzo Martens","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Audio and visual equipment","nl":"Audio-visueel materiaal","fr":"Matériel audiovisuel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/062/336/large/White_cube.jpg?1601115331","poster_credits":"© Renzo Martens","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"\u003cp\u003eThis video documents the collaboration between Renzo Martens and the art league CATPC (Cercle d\u0026rsquo;Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise). Plantations have created great wealth for a few Western families since colonial times, including some that created or supported museums in their own names, such as Tate in England and The Ludwig in Cologne. CATPC create their works at the White Cube in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. This arts and research centre in the middle of the Congolese plantation zones was designed by OMA, and comprises a quintessential white cube museum space. The location is symbolic. Lusanga, formerly Leverville, was established as Unilever\u0026rsquo;s first palm oil plantation. Here, Unilever has confiscated land and violently imposed monocultural agricultural practices and labour conditions. Unilever has also established itself a major art patron.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this on-going project, CATPC\u0026rsquo;s fifteen members make self-portraits out of mud, which are 3D scanned and reproduced in chocolate in Amsterdam, the biggest cocoa port in the world. The sales of their chocolate sculptures have thus far generated profits which they have bought back 85 hectares of land around the White Cube, where they develop ecological and inclusive gardens, in opposition to monoculture. The monoculture of the homogenous, modernist white cube of art provides the capital to reclaim land, overcoming the other monoculture of corporate agriculture.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eChocolates portraits by CATPC are also available for purchase from the museum shop. All proceeds go towards helping CATPC buy further acres of land, that they will turn into ecological\u0026nbsp;food gardens.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","description":""},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"\u003cp\u003eDeze video documenteert de samenwerking tussen Renzo Martens en de co\u0026ouml;peratieve CATPC/Cercle d\u0026#39;Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Kunstcirkel van Congolese-Plantagewerkers). Plantages hebben sinds de koloniale tijd grote rijkdom gecre\u0026euml;erd voor een paar westerse families, waaronder een paar die musea in hun eigen naam hebben opgericht of gesteund, zoals Tate in Engeland en Ludwig in Keulen. De werken van de CATPC worden gemaakt in de White Cube in de Congolese stad Lusanga. Dit kunst- en onderzoekscentrum middenin de Congolese plantages werd pro bono ontworpen door het Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), mede-opgericht door Rem Kolhaas, en omvat een typische \u0026#39;white cube\u0026#39;-museumruimte \u0026ndash; voorlopig nog zonder dak. De locatie is symbolisch. Lusanga, voorheen Leverville, werd gesticht als Unilevers eerste palmolieplantage. Hier heeft Unilever land in beslag genomen en met geweld monoculturele landbouwpraktijken en unfaire arbeidsomstandigheden opgelegd. Unilever heeft ook naam gemaakt als belangrijke kunstmecenas.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn dit lopend project maken de vijftien leden van CATPC zelfportretten uit modder, die vervolgens in 3D worden gescand en in Amsterdam, de grootste cacaohaven ter wereld,\u0026nbsp; worden gereproduceerd in chocolade. De verkoop van de chocoladesculpturen heeft tot dusver steeds winst opgeleverd, en daarmee heeft men 85 hectare land rond de White Cube\u0026nbsp; teruggekocht. De leden cultiveren er ecologische en inclusieve tuinen, en dus geen monocultuur. De monocultuur van de homogene, modernistische witte kunstkubus verschaft dus het kapitaal om land terug te winnen en te zegevieren op die andere monocultuur \u0026ndash; die van de industri\u0026euml;le landbouw.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eChocoladeportretten van CATPC zijn ook te koop in de museumwinkel. Alle opbrengsten gaan naar de CATPC, zodat die nog meer hectares land kan kopen, waarop dus ecologische voedseltuinen zullen aangelegd worden.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCette vid\u0026eacute;o documente la collaboration entre Renzo Martens et la ligue d\u0026#39;art CATPC (Cercle d\u0026#39;Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise). Les plantations ont apport\u0026eacute; de grandes richesses \u0026agrave; quelques familles occidentales depuis l\u0026#39;\u0026eacute;poque coloniale, y compris certaines qui ont cr\u0026eacute;\u0026eacute; ou financ\u0026eacute; des mus\u0026eacute;es portant leur propre nom, comme le Tate en Angleterre et le Ludwig \u0026agrave; Cologne. CATPC cr\u0026eacute;e ses \u0026oelig;uvres au White Cube de Lusanga, en R\u0026eacute;publique d\u0026eacute;mocratique du Congo. Ce centre d\u0026#39;arts et de recherche au milieu des zones de plantation congolaises a \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; con\u0026ccedil;u par l\u0026#39;OMA, et comprend un espace de mus\u0026eacute;e cube blanc par excellence. L\u0026#39;emplacement est symbolique. Lusanga, anciennement Leverville, a \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; \u0026eacute;tablie comme la premi\u0026egrave;re plantation d\u0026#39;huile de palme d\u0026#39;Unilever. Ici, Unilever a confisqu\u0026eacute; des terres et impos\u0026eacute; violemment des pratiques agricoles monoculturales et ses conditions de travail. Unilever s\u0026#39;est \u0026eacute;galement impos\u0026eacute; comme un m\u0026eacute;c\u0026egrave;ne artistique majeur.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDans ce projet en cours, les quinze membres du CATPC r\u0026eacute;alisent des autoportraits \u0026agrave; partir de boue, qui sont num\u0026eacute;ris\u0026eacute;s en 3D et reproduits dans du chocolat \u0026agrave; Amsterdam, le plus grand port de cacao au monde. Les ventes de leurs sculptures en chocolat ont jusqu\u0026#39;\u0026agrave; pr\u0026eacute;sent g\u0026eacute;n\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute; des b\u0026eacute;n\u0026eacute;fices qui leur ont permis de racheter 85 hectares de terres autour du White Cube, sur lesquels ils d\u0026eacute;veloppent des jardins \u0026eacute;cologiques et inclusifs, en opposition \u0026agrave; la monoculture. La monoculture du cube blanc homog\u0026egrave;ne et moderniste de l\u0026#39;art fournit le capital pour r\u0026eacute;cup\u0026eacute;rer la terre, surmontant l\u0026#39;autre monoculture de l\u0026#39;agriculture d\u0026#39;entreprise.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDes portraits en chocolat de CATPC sont \u0026eacute;galement en vente dans la boutique du mus\u0026eacute;e. Tous les profits sont destin\u0026eacute;s \u0026agrave; aider le CATPC \u0026agrave; acheter d\u0026#39;autres acres de terre, qu\u0026#39;il transformera en jardins potagers \u0026eacute;cologiques.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}