TOM BOGAERT

TOM BOGAERT

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    • Wij Gwij Popinjay
    • Bonbon Tè Majik
    • Famasi Mobil Kongolè
    • Sun Ra Ra
    • This is Rwanda
    • Fountain
    • Ruining the City
    • Zoombies
    • Live from Berlin
    • Walking the Hellweg
    • Revolutions per Minute
    • Ant Farm Lagos
    • Observance
    • One two three, vive l'Algérie
    • Free Lens
    • Foam (I'm gonna live forever)
    • Bright Eyes
    • SecaCam Raptor
    • the one invented, twisted animator
    • 1971, Sun Ra in Egypt
    • pepsi, cola, water?
    • Prestige
    • Green Line
    • Voyage, voyage
    • Cracked Windshields
    • Pavement Popsicles
    • And Did Those Feet
    • Ant Farm Nablus
    • Sounds neat
    • Syria objects
    • Minecraft Mausoleum
    • Ariel
    • Watertanks
    • Greenhouse
    • Jordan Cucumber
    • KOMPRESSOR
    • Canary Space Ship
    • Empire state-building
    • Performance residue
    • Peacocks
    • Masque Qualité Export
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Piso Mojado (various locations, 2005-2011)

Dead Sea, Jordan 2010

The Piso Mojado series is a succession of performances in which Tom Bogaert mounts a yellow multi-lingual safety cone onto a mooring buoy. The buoy travels to varying bodies of water. As of yet, Bogaert installed Pisos Mojados in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Belgium, Miami, Palestine and Jordan.


The Piso Mojado piece functions as an “open” work with no specific meaning imposed. This allows the interpretation of the work to change with it’s content, which is fluid and changes with time, context and audience.


For example, in Miami the buoy was interpreted as a comment on the ‘Wet Feet, Dry Feet Policy’: a Cuban citizen, who is caught on the waters between Cuba and the United States (i.e.’wet floor’), would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore (‘dry floor’) gets a chance to remain in the US.


Miami Herald
De Morgen
Gaza Press Release
Review Amman