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Agency vzw

Agency vzw was founded in 2019 by artist and activist Kobe Matthys (1970–2023) together with a group of people to support the activity of Agency as a practice.

The organisation’s purpose is 'to explore the interference of the apparatus of intellectual property law for an ecology of artistic practices and to revive a sustainable diversity of practices.'

When Kobe left, he asked Agency vzw to take up his role as main guardian for the List of Boundary Things of Agency, and the space in which it is hosted.

A praticotheque is what Kobe envisioned the space, the List and library to be. A space built to allow research, debate and alliance between practices.

Agency vzw strives to make this praticotheque accessible and investigates the continuation of public activation in 'assemblies' (formats of exhibition, performance and publication), with due respect for its main inspirator and founder.

To this end, in a trajectory supported by the Flemish Community, Agency vzw is actively working on inventorising the digital and physical environment (List of boundary things, library, architecture) in a collaborative way.

AGENCY VZW WIKI

The Agency vzw WIKI is an experiment in creating a user-driven and -governed inventory of the praticotheque in a wiki-environment.

For the moment it is under construction by a dedicated working group and can only be consulted at the praticotheque.

PUBLIC MOMENTS

• UPCOMING
  • 15/06/2025: The Infrastructure of Archives, a Jubilee programme at M HKA, Antwerp
  • 16/06/2025: Jubilee Reading Room #42: Archipelago of Artistic Practices
  • 22/06/2025 : Assembly: Thing 001359 (Chico Mendez Mural Garden) in the context of The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, (Border Buda, Vilvoorde)
• RECENT PAST
  • 14/12/2024: Dreaming of the commons. How can we keep collective practices alive?
  • 20/01/2025: Jubilee Reading Room #38: Agency
  • 17/03/2025: Jubilee Reading Room #39: Agency and the Undercommons
  • 14/04/2025: Jubilee Reading Room #40: Agence & Notre condition
  • 19/05/2025: Jubilee Reading Room #41: Agency & NICC

RECENT COLLABORATIONS

• experimenting ways to navigate & inventorise the List of boundary things focussing on the context of Border Buda - workshop with ERG
• Inventorising the library – research by Alice Mahiant
• Exploring the inventory of the Praticauthèque in a wiki environment – with Michael Murtaugh
• Drawing a legal framework for Eavatea – research and workshop by Louise de Bethune and Julie Van Elslande

• Etat des lieux 'Archives' - research supported by NADINE vzw

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CONTACT

Agentschap Agence Agency
Rue Theodore Verhaegenstraat 18
1060 Brussels
info@agentive.org