Anonymous Footnoteater

Marijn Bril, 2022

Concept & realisation: Marijn Bril

Co-roduction: iMAL, Werktank, with the support of the Flemish government, KASK Curatorial Studies & Overtoon

Photos: Ernest Thiesmeier & screenshots of Anonymous Footnoteater

Inspired by Google’s Anonymous Animals peeking into shared online documents, the Anonymous Footnoteater is a new creature under the sun. Quietly taking note of the working process, it jumps in and out of curatorial texts, exhibition maps, and calendars. As anonymousfootnoteater@gmail.com it has been peeking into e-mail correspondence between curators and artists from the comfort of the cc. The Anonymous Footnoteater adopts a non-linear writing process, creating footnotes to the curatorial process and the final exhibition. It contributes references, tells anecdotes, and asks questions. When the exhibition is finished, it might eat all the produced footnotes by sucking it up through its elongated snout.