{"id":24040,"date":"2012-06-30T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=24040"},"modified":"2012-08-20T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:04:41","slug":"michael-van-den-abeele-a-toast-to-the-ghost-the-host-wiels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=24040","title":{"rendered":"Michael Van den Abeele. A Toast to the Ghost, the Host. Wiels."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_01-682x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A_toast_to_the_ghost,_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_01\" width=\"682\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_01-682x487.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_01-340x242.jpg 340w, 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src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_06-340x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A_toast_to_the_ghost,_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_06\" width=\"340\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_06-340x242.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_06-682x487.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_06.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_02-682x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A_toast_to_the_ghost,_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_02\" width=\"682\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_02-682x487.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_02-340x242.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/A_toast_to_the_ghost_the_host_Michael_van_den_abeele_wiels_motto_books_02.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Toast to the Ghost, the Host<\/em>, Michael Van den Abeele.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>RENDER ME REAL. Millions of computers are rendering in the night; rendering everything more real, more realistic; rendering a new generation of extraterrestrials looking more real that the ones before; a new generation of dinosaurs, now feathered but covered in fur soon enough, if current rendering is done; of evil midget-like creatures; of astonishing landscapes covered with paramount super-structures and populated by the millions; a new generation of things as yet indescribable, but imperatively more real and convincing than before. The real is chased after like a deer; like the hunter that changed into a deer, now chased by his own dogs&#8230;<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Includes a conversation between Michael Van den Abeele and Dennis Cooper. <\/p>\n<p>Published on the occasion of <em>Un-Scene II<\/em> (exposition June 2012) at Wiels, Centre for Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<p>D 15 \u20ac<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/a-toast-to-the-ghost-the-host.html\">Buy it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toast to the Ghost, the Host, Michael Van den Abeele. &#8220;RENDER ME REAL. 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