I never cared much for Nirvana
So this thing that had been in my studio for some time.
It had to go
Anonymous flowerbed (2024), by Paul Henning
In Dutch cities, in spring around Easter, tightly constructed flower beds appear in public spaces. These are mini Keukenhofjes, just as artificial as the Keukenhof flower show itself.
In response to that, I made my own Keukenhofje from pointers/name tags that you can find in herb gardens-botanical gardens. Just as colourful, just as natural. The signs are waiting for something nameless to come up, as a mockery of the habit of classifying and naming everything around us.
Time and Time Again (2024), by Timo Kahlen
¿loɹʇuoɔ uᴉɐƃǝɹ ǝʍ plnoM ¿sƃuᴉɥʇ ǝƃuɐɹɹɐǝɹ 'ʇɐǝdǝɹ 'ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ ¿ǝɯᴉʇ uᴉ spɹɐʍɹoɟ puɐ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq uɐǝl plnoɔ ǝʍ ɟᴉ ʇɐɥM ¿ɹɐǝuᴉl-uou ǝɹǝʍ ssǝɹƃoɹd puɐ ǝɯᴉʇ ɟᴉ ʇɐɥM ˙ɯnᴉpǝɯ ǝlᴉƃɐɹɟ ɐ sᴉ ǝɯᴉʇ
from the ‘Wackelpudding Series’
HD-video with sound,
01:04 min.
© VG Bild-Kunst 2024
315.39 Language Disorder: (aka) Fjárveiting, by Peter Christenson
HD-video with sound
00:35 min.
Peter Christenson (b.1979, USA) is a multiform conceptualist who works across media, platforms, and environments. As a social worker and former psychotherapist, Christenson often uses the moniker PSYCHOLOGARTIST to highlight the interdisciplinary, socially-engaged, and interventionist nature of his practice, sometimes classifying artworks with a specific diagnostic code from the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” a widely accepted instrument for psychiatric diagnosis.
Untitled (power pole), by Denis Rioux
‘This photograph was taken during a walk I often take in the summer along a gravel road on an island in northern Quebec. It’s part of a publishing project that will bring together 59 images of power poles photographed along this road. The 59 photographs are almost identical, repetitive or redundant’.
Eggs dance (2023), by Sebastian Hänel
Part 1
I was on a train through Poland. Before I ate my boiled egg, I made a drawing with it.
Balancing on the page of my sketchbook, I circled the egg with the pencil. Moving it, but avoiding letting it fall off the page, I gave the object the greatest possible freedom to move.
A kind of balance between freedom and control. The egg controlled my hand, my hand controlled the egg.
A game. Lines triggered by the round object (and the train) and my reactions to it.
A dialogue.
Part 2
Eventually I completed it into abstract shapes by expanding the lines according to their intensity. Sometimes to make them invisible, sometimes to use them as boundaries.
What has been my work now?
Transformed images of the movements of an egg?
To have a concept and follow it?
To be open to strange ideas?
zur letzten weihnacht (2022/2023), by Sascha Röhricht
zur letzten weihnacht
glühten unsere finger
wie nadeln am baum
umarmendes grün
deine augen tief traurig
wie der nächste tag
moos meiner moore
verloren gingen wir und
fanden einander
haiku 5-7-5 IOMSR 03.10.23
Fraudulent Activities (2023), by Ed Woodham
Video with sound
01:32 min.
Fraudulent Activities
It is a precipice
of humanity’s destruction
of potential.
There are consequences
of existential risk –
of existential catastrophe
It could be
extinction,
unrecoverable collapse,
or permanent dystopia.
Augmented Body in the Landscape, by Adrian Wood
The workshop Augmented Body in the Landscape aims to develop new pathways to experience the relationship between our bodies and the places we inhabit, and the ways that technology changes that relationship.
The participating artists chose from several sensing technologies: a stethoscope, a thermometer, a field recorder, a scent cone, and binoculars.
Each technology extends parts of the body that offer us sensory feedback — ears, eyes, nose, fingers (for touching). The participants explore the area using the technologies. They bring observations back into the studio, which they process through a series of language- and gesture-based prompts.
They then synthesize what they have generated – observations, gestures, language and sensory experience – to create a site-based embodied performance.
Augmented Body in the Landscape was created in collaboration with students of Katie Schetlick’s “Performing the Environment(s)” class at the University of Virginia on March 14, 2023.
Thorax Glissando (2023), by Nico Parlevliet
HD-video with sound,
01’34 min.
Please watch fullscreen
Thorax Glissando is based partly on an audio recording of a past work (Glissando Arioso-2012) and partly on an image-recording of the present moment.
Actually, the current image is what prompted me to search my sound archive for audio that would enhance that image.
After much thought, I decided to use the CT scans, which were made to monitor the cancer in my body, as images. With this, I try to bend the drama in such a way that you get the idea that anything that depicts a process can contain beauty.
Nico Parlevliet
20 Feb 2023