voice of Jonathan Mills, who still spoke Brooks' words. The lecture mostly focused
on the increasing threat of fascism, which, according to Brooks and Mill, is fueled
by a massive increase of an alienated cultural periphery.31
Exchange
'Exchange' is a consequence of the confrontation; artists from different fields en
gaged in discussions and exchanged artistic ideas with each other. This resulted
in mutual inspiration leading to new works. A clear demonstration of this can be
found in a quote from Bart Lootsma in the evaluation booklet of Forum 1980, in
which he writes about his experience at the workshop of Bernard Tschumi. He
explains how Tschumi was willing to talk about his work and how he did this in
a very polemical way. To demonstrate the latter, Lootsma gives us an example
of a remark by Tschumi against an architect who had a hard time considering
Tschumi's work as architecture: 'architects do not build - they design!' This ex
ample demonstrates the ground-breaking goal of Forum: the exchange of ideas
from different specialists. Another example of this 'exchange' is the collabora
tion between different artists. Laurence Weiner and Marina Abramovic offer a
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Bernard Tschumi, The Two Alters
(20th century Follies), 1980, Vleeshal
Middelburg, Forum Sculpture/
Architecture (Collection of
Maria-Rosa and Marinus Boezem,
photographed by Wim Riemens).
31 Rosetta Brooks, program booklet Forum Ornamentation, 1982.
