All projects by Ceel Mogami de Haas
Encycloplasticity - installation view (july 2010 Geneva)

This work has been elaborated as a vast bricolage of several points brought up in my overall research on knowledge technologies.
The installation consists of 5 “bibliothèques renversées” (upside down bookcases or knocked down bookcases), named in this way after an entree in the 1750’s Dictionnaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre et proverbial ... by Philibert-Joseph Le Roux; a set of self-made black and white posters (consisting of A3s stuck together) providing what I would call a parallel discourse to the overall research mostly in words; and a set of 5 inkjet printers connected to a computer in its turn connected to internet that would due to a self written program (script) generate random Wikipedia articles and then send one article at the time to one of the five printers (the articles would then slide down from a cardboard slide into a archive box).








Compendium of a Compendium - Installation view (mixed media).




Compendium of a compendium at Digressions et Détournements, Palais de l’Athénée - Salle Crosnier, Genève, 29-05-2009 till 27-06-2009 (Installation - mixed media).






Video 'Hole' (33"32)

Compendium of a compendium - the Doorgeefshow (Pass it on show) in Antwerp, NICC, 3-04-2009 till 21-06-2009.









Lecture/Performance (at NICC, Antwerp) - Compendium of a Compendium, a few words on encyclopaedic practices (cf. http://towards-an-essay-on-encyclopaedias.blogspot.com/)


Ten (A to Z) burned Larousse Encyclopaedias (year 1968).