TOM BOGAERT

TOM BOGAERT

  • WORKS
    • 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
  • RESUME
  • NEWS
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installation view, Maison de la Culture in Sidi Bouzid – Tunisia, 2015.

This work consists of seven photos, battery-operated Christmas lights, used picture frames, plastic flowers and a decorative hook.


The title is borrowed from a refrain in the song Firestarter by The Prodigy. This title references the catalytic action of the Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi – whose self-immolation arguably triggered the Jasmine Revolution, and the subsequent Arab Spring.


This project was first presented at the Maison de la Culture in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.


Photographic credits:


Trans-fixed (USA, 1974)
Chris Burden is nailed, Christlike, over the hump of a Volkswagen Beetle.


Canada Day (Belgium, 2001)
I crash my Vespa through a burning Canadian flag.


Chott (Tunisia, 2003)
Five images feature myself with a group of friends, on a motorcycle trip through Southern Tunisia.


Communiqué de presse
Press release