“The Mahjouba Project: Bridging the Gap between the Handmade and the Industrial”

Montgomery Fellow, Eric van Hove, PhD, artist and social entrepreneur shares the prototypes for his project, a commercial electric motorbike using mainly Moroccan handcraft.

January 18, 2017
7 pm - 10 pm
Location
Hood Downtown
Sponsored by
Montgomery Fellows Program
Audience
Public
More information
Ellen Henderson

~~“The Mahjouba Project: Bridging the Gap between the Handmade and the Industrial”
Eric van Hove, PhD, Dartmouth Montgomery Fellow, conceptual artist, and social entrepreneur, will discuss the prototypes for his current project, Mahjouba, a commercial electric motorbike using mainly Moroccan handcraft.


Reception to follow.
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Montgomery Fellows Program in cooperation with DEN and the Hood Museum of Art

~~For more information on The Montgomery Fellows Program, please visit http://montgomery.dartmouth.edu. 
 
Eric van Hove is the Montgomery Fellow during the spring term 2017. Since 1977, the Montgomery Fellows Program has brought more than 240 artists, writers, musicians, performers, public intellectuals, scholars, social activist and politicians to campus to enrich the educational mission of Dartmouth and to give students and faculty the opportunity to meet the most distinguished individuals from all fields of human endeavor. During their stay at Dartmouth, the fellows and their families reside in the Montgomery House on Occom Pond.
 
Morocco hosts 3 million craftsmen whose role, manpower and informal economy shows great potential in the wake of the solar power technology development. Eric van Hove, conceptual artist and social entrepreneur based in Marrakesh, Morocco, returns to Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow.  Eric will give an update on his Mahjouba – Motorbike project involving craft as a social empowerment tool in the post-Fordist and post-Colonial context of North-Africa.
 
Eric van Hove is a conceptual artist and social entrepreneur who was born in Algeria to Belgian parents, raised in Cameroon, educated in Tokyo and spent nearly a decade of his adult life traveling and working extensively across every continent. Recently, he settled in Morocco to establish what he calls a “living, socioeconomic sculpture” – or as others know it: Atelier Eric van Hove. Beyond being an embodiment of metamorphosis, this atelier is where V12 Laraki, the full-fledged sculptural replica of a V12 Mercedes engine with craft –exhibited last spring in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery at Dartmouth College and presented by the artist at TEDx Marrakech- was born. Furthermore, his Atelier is also the cornerstone of his new goal: initiating a Renaissance of Craft in the Maghreb in post-Fordist times.
 

 

 

 

Location
Hood Downtown
Sponsored by
Montgomery Fellows Program
Audience
Public
More information
Ellen Henderson