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Creating typologies means creating a more or less systematic classification of the types of things according to their common characteristics. It means erasing the particular characteristics in order to keep only the most general ones. In the case of Lieven De Boeck, this search leads at one hand to a typology of Architecture (as in the seven tables of urbanism which replaces some un-adapted concepts from modern architecture with some new un-adapted words), a typology of the museum (based on the ideas of Ernst Neufert) and a typology of Housing (which took form in a book, and in the exhibition “making things public” at the Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Arts in Rotterdam).
On the other hand Lieven de Boeck creates a typology of himself through the medium of the self portrait. Although this portrait can be a performance (do you come to my house tonight), a drawing (We/ slide projection), a neon text (let us be us) or an object (my belongings), it always is a personal invite to write or imagine his identity.
Lieven de Boeck’s projects deal with general themes such as; identity, borders, private and public, territory, appropriation, but through this process of the typology in a very individual way.

Making Traces
Autoportrait contre nature

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Articles and reviews. From 2004.
Selection

2007 Artforum. December Issue. English. Review on LetusbeUS #2. English.
2007 Over de grenzen en identiteit. Rebecca Nelemans.Bredapaper.Dutch.
2007 Hart. Magazine #26.07/09/2007.LetusbeUS. Dutch.
2007 Lecture by Pieter Van Bogaert at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
Lieven De Boeck and his White Flag.
2006 Haecceity Papers. Fall 2006. Antipodes- Measuring the world.
The Line of desertion. English.
2006 Lecture by Doctor Johnny Golding at the New School, New York.
Lieven De Boeck and his Fireworks II project. English.
2006 Lecture series on Contemporary Art and Theory. Lecture by Dr. Kimberly Paice, Assistant Professor Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Cincinnati, “Lieven De Boeck’s museum and his dictionary of space project.”
2005 Handleiding. Netwerk Exhibition catalogue,
White is always beautiful. Text by Pieter Van Bogaert. (English)
2005 Issues on Temporary culture and aesthetics. (UK)
Terra Reformatione and Fireworks II/ Le bleu du ciel. (English)
2005 Negation in Art and Architecture.
Exhibition catalogue, text by Teresa Stoppani. (English)
2004 Lecture about the work of Lieven De Boeck by Wouter Davidts. (English)
Home Call. Witte de With, Rotterdam.
2004 Icon magazine. Hang. October 2004. Artist pages.
Project Fireworks II. Le Bleu du Ciel. (English)
2004 HTV, # 163, May ( NL) . Front page Project
The White Flag and The seven Sins of Urbanism.