Potential Estate

10/01/2024

https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=11381&menu=0

01/22/2024

About our Belgian settler colonial past...way before Congo..."Although the name Wall Street derives from the existence of one and the same wall, in place of the present street, the plans of New Amsterdam show two different names for this street. "De Waal Straat" (Dutch name) does not refer to a wall, but to a large group of Walloon settlers who helped create New Amsterdam, since etymologically, in Dutch, a Walloon is said to be "Waal". Indeed, around 1630, the total population of New Netherland was 300, the vast majority of whom were Walloons. Wallabout Bay, north of Brooklyn, takes its name from a distortion of the Dutch Waal bocht, meaning Walloon Bay, a name chosen because of the settlement of several Walloon families." (Wikipedia)

03/22/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=172467898889087&id=100083776338498

Half of all U.S. states, 25 to be exact, carry Native American names. Today we will be taking a look at the 25 states and the meanings of their names. They will be listed in alphabetical order.
1. Alabama: Named after the Alabama, or Alibamu tribe, a Muskogean-speaking tribe. Sources are split between the meanings 'clearers of the thicket' or 'herb gatherers'.
2. Alaska: Named after the Aleut word "alaxsxaq", which means "the mainland"
3. Arizona: Named after the O'odham word "alĭ ṣonak", meaning "small spring"
4. Connecticut: Named after the Mohican word "quonehtacut", meaning "place of long tidal river"
5. Hawaii: Is an original word in the Hawaiian language meaning "homeland"
6. Illinois: Named after the Illinois word "illiniwek", meaning "men"
7. Iowa: Named after the Ioway tribe, whose name means "gray snow"
8. Kansas: Named after the Kansa tribe, whose name means "south wind people"
9. Kentucky: Origins are unclear, it may have been named after the Iroquoian word "Kentake", meaning "on the meadow"
10. Massachusetts: Named after the Algonquin word "Massadchu-es-et," meaning "great-hill-small-place,”
11. Michigan: From the Chippewa word "Michigama", meaning "large lake"
12. Minnesota: Named after the Dakota Indian word “Minisota” meaning “white water.”
13. Mississippi: Named after the river which was named by the Choctaw, meaning “Great water” or “Father of Waters.”
14. Missouri: Named after the Missouri tribe whose name means "those who have dugout canoes"

10/18/2021

Resistance is resistance through joy!

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented on the current situation: “This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole”. The decision to

05/01/2021

Robert Morris in Wisconsin...

04/25/2021

Should one agree to not know what he/she is doing ? After a Donald Winnicott important text reading, interesting questions are raised at the end of this talk about the limits of the cultural and the freedom coming with the "potential space"

Art historian Darby English probes art’s interaction with instituted forms of historical subjectivity and experience, focusing on artistic and other cultural...

02/14/2021

https://www.burlingtonhistory.org/how-burlington-liars-club-started

CREATOR AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF BURLINGTON LIARS' CLUB WAS NOT OTIS HULETT - WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

10/30/2020

Where decoloniality meets (precarious) sustainability.

Simone Leigh with Brick House (in production), a High Line Plinth commission. Photo by Timothy Schenck, 2018, courtesy of the High Line.

10/29/2020

not new but still relevant.

The Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline stretches from Superior, Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ontario. It crosses northern Wisconsin into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

05/19/2020

Pre-order...

(Pre-Order) A famous artist has vanished . . . As the art and entertainment contexts converge, movies and television shows try with greater frequency to frame the art world for popular consumption. Accrochage has a similar aim, but written by an art

02/14/2020

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We are a FULL hardware and liquor store...open 7 days a week...Monday through Friday 8 - 6pm...Saturday 8 -5 pm...Sunday 8 - 3pm. Our website is www.belgium.doitbest.com...We order every week so if there's something you need we can have it in a week.