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Newsletter April 2023.

The journey as a performative residency
 

In September 2021, I travelled to an art residency in Spain.
I realised that the trip was not just a necessary displacement, but took on a meaning in itself. 
In a fortnight I drove, meandering, from Dordrecht to Murcia. Along the way, I searched for running water. That search determined my route, riding along flowing waters, the sea, streams and rivers.
Facing the waters, I stood, motionless, watching the flow.

In Spain, I was artist-in-residence at the AADK/Spain, a centre for artistic research in Blanca (Murcia).
After two months, I left Blanca and drove to France. There I continued working and it felt like a seamless continuation of that working period in Spain. In France, I stayed in my own house.
I realised that a residency is more of a 'state of mind' than a specific geographical location. You can just take that mode with you.

I decided to make a journey, considering the movement in itself as a residency. The starting point was clear; the end would be nothing more than the conclusion of a process.
The journey is not the metaphor of a work, but it is a work in itself, as a composition in time and space. There is no clear geographical goal, there is only the intention to be on the road. 

As part of this project, I take impromptu walks, car rides and travel by train.



The project is supported by the municipality of Dordrecht.


 
Matter and mind
 
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Photos taken on a train ride across the Alps.
Bernina (CH),
April 5 2023.


 
Anchor
 
 
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During a train journey across the Alps from St. Moritz to Zermatt, I wrote continuously for eight hours. Not to record the trip in a text, but to internalize my observations and reflections through writing.
The notes were not meant to ever be read back. After I wrote them, they lost their importance.


Anchor (2023)is related to the works:
Streams (2022)
Short-term memory (2019).

 

Hermannshöhe
 
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Hermannshöhe is a one-take realtime video recording of a scenic place in the Teutoburg forest (D). In the background the artist remains audibly present.


4K-video with sound.
40:14 min.
(best in fullscreen)


The work Hermannshöhe (2023) is related to the works:
San Juan (2010)
Idle (2013)

 

La Loue