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Erkka Nissinen
“the absurdist universe of Erkka Nissinen” Night school by Erkka Nissinen (2006, video, 12 min). On show 29 November – 10 January 2009 at Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Video trailers you can find here: http://www.av-arkki.fi/web/index.php?id=25&artist=1356 Links: http://www.mediamatic.net/page/63323/en http://www.edbprojects.nl/newsite/ http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28942/erkka-nissinen/ http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm...
Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili came to prominence in the early 1990s with his densely orchestrated paintings. He won the Turner prize in 1998. Chris Ofili theEYE The Upper Room 2002. In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation within reach for the...
Samuel François
‘Samuel François likes to play,and doesn’t take himself to seriously :whether it’s games of hide-and seek (when he installs a pair of legs,the feet in the air,emerging from ground) or when he disperses puddles of detergent products, amusing himself with...
Constant Dullaart
Take a look at the work from Constant Dullaart. Links: http://www.constantdullaart.com/ http://www.blownupblowup.com/ http://www.blownupballoon.com/ http://www.blownupexplosion.com/ http://www.thedisagreeinginternet.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/constantdullaart
Sofie Calle
Artist talk: Sophie Calle lecturing about her artwork, history, biography, the relationship with her father, her studies. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle
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- Website
- http://www.edwinstolk.nl/
- College / University
- Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, The Netherlands
- Program
- Arts
- Graduation
- 21 June 2007
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Performance, Sculpture, Video
- I am...
- a radical phenomenologist, a subjective terrorist.
- About my artwork
- As an artist I try to study perception and reality critically, reality which we seem to extract from our perception. I believe that creating borders eliminates the bounds with other constructions. I believe that life and existence is subjective and existential in it`s most natural form, so I have my doubts by 21st century objectivism. By the word objectivism I mean making objects out of living or non living 'things' by getting knowledge about those 'things' and separate these things from others by this knowledge.
Philosopher Merleau-Ponty said, we are not in or on the world, but we are available at the world, which means that we are a creating connection, this world we call our world is only an interpretation visualized by human words. Words which we also invented ourselves, so how true is this daily reality described by our words?
The process of creation starts from a pre- scientific point of view. Without certain knowledge that separates one aspect from the other. There is no in between 'things'. The product of creation is a temporary, ambiguous connection from a subjective order. For example; I make drawings on transparent plastics which create the possibility to watch the image from both sides. There is no front or backside, only connection. I never make rational studies or plans in front about what to create. The lines in a drawing come naturally by connecting. When it comes to my installations I connect to a certain space. My body is the receiver and my instrument of understanding. In my installations I prefer to work with materials available at the spot and combine these with materials from earlier works. The way of using materials you can call bricolage. The connection with the space is also realized by working with the materials which seem to belong there. The material from earlier work eliminates the possibility of objective thinking about the present and past work. Different meaning in perception arises by retrieving openness. I do not believe in absolute statements, but every Yes also has its no. It is always and, and. I try to show this in my work. I feel the need to show this because it looks like the more complex our 21th century has become, the more reduction in our perception has to take place to manage this complexity. What we think is our daily reality, is based on this reduction. That scares me. More often you see that knowledge based differences lead to violent acts and terror. We seem to forget that truth does not exist and we do not see our general connection in being available at the world. (text by Edwin Stolk)
- Artists I like
- Bruce Nauman, Kendell Geers, Danny Devos, Thomas Hirschhorn, Paul McCarty, Tracy Emin, Bas Jan Ader, Andrea Fraser, Dominic McGill, AES+F, Christian Holstad, Banks Violette etc.
- Interests
- General: Art, Artists, philosophy, politics, phenomenology, daily life, breathing, installations, museums, galleries, new media, internet, peaceful anarchism, etc. Music: to much to tell
Movies: documentaries, art movies etc.
Television: documentaries, news programs etc.
Books: Journey to the End of the Night,Louis Ferdinand Céline. Death on Credit,Louis Ferdinand Céline. Les Particules Élémentaires, Michel Houellebecq. different titles from Herman Brusselmans. Phenomenology of perception, Maurice Merleau Ponty. The Savage Mind, Claude Lévi Strauss, etc.
- The centre of the artworld is
- New York, Berlin, online
Investigating Spaces 2007 by Edwin Stolk
Investigating Spaces (2007)/ Edwin Stolk
"Imagine to be everything and everybody, everywhere and in every situation you can think of."
The video performance 'Investigating spaces' starts from a pre scientific point of view. This movie is about a search throughout our daily surroundings in a social as well as material way. In a small setting, a room in my house, I use daily life materials as metaphor for large global issues.
[tags] to the work could be: mass consumption, terrorism, addiction, individualism, objectivism, politics, games etc. but always in search for the acceptance of human behavior. I am a radical phenomenologist, a subjective terrorist, everything outside of me is inside and I am totally outside myself.
'Investigating Spaces' is not a search for beauty, to make this visible it's made by hand with a low resolution photo camera, the actual image is emotional, rough and dirty in its search for acceptance. General television shows us more and more these rough video material shot with mobile phones right at the spot, often it shows the down site of life. (text by Edwin Stolk)
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thanks for the add
saw your website and appreciated very much the drawings and sculptures!
best,
pascal.b
Thank you so much for putting "The Abyss" up on your blog. Really like your work!!
Cheers Ulf
azar
Ceck out John Bock´s videos. He´s one of the proffessors at our art academy.
Did you drink all that beer by yoursef ?
You can invite me and Ill help you.
No lets be serious- nice video(investigating spaces). It reminds me of an Akira Kurosawa Film called "Ran".
The old warlord is haunted by horrible dreams, he really has the same facial expression as you have.
Greetings from Germany
Vale
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