Since 2006 Potential Estate, have been developing a mobile, pars pro toto format – a Cabinet – in which knowledge dilutes itself into tales. Each Cabinet is a chapter in a plurivocal narrative whose epilogue is continually postponed. Using auctions, drinking games, bowling alleys, films, t-shirts and rodeos, Potential Estate invoke the ghosts of forgotten Modern figures, who often appear to them as venomous tricoloured snakes.

Cabinet

David Bald Eagle

takes us to the first ’Wild West’ village in Belgium, which is explored through performances and non-academic lectures, and their new film screened on the bus.

Potential Estate is a temporary alliance that designs residential spaces and narratives. It operates along models of self-organization and participation. As a performative answer to the crisis of the community, Potential Estate has elected Belgium, Wisconsin (USA) as its new Frontier.

Each Cabinet is the chapter of a plurivocal narrative. One could already come across the ghosts of pedagogist Joseph Jacotot, communard geographer Élisée Reclus, multiple pseudonym Wally Hope, fourierist anarchist Marie-Adèle Anciaux, Hopi priest Cleo Jurino and artworks of guest artists Seth Price, Joe Scanlan, Jimmie Durham and David Robbins just to quote a few of them.

Potential Estate has exhibited Cabinet Jacocot in STUK (Leuven), Cabinet Reclus in Netwerk (Aalst), Cabinet Hope in Koraalberg (Antwerp), Cabinet Anciaux in 1st Brussels Biennial and Cabinet Jurino in M hka extra muros (Antwerp). The Crying of Potential Estate, their first film, has been screened in CEAC, Xiamen (China).