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Contribution to issue #19, October 2009
The preliminary notes of my game Disillusion are published for the first time. Other contributing artists in this issue: Danny Devos, Ed Ruscha, Petrit Halilaj, Pierre Bismuth, Ingrid Mwangi, Robert Hutter, Ermias Kifleyesus, Paul Chan.
Gagarin is an artist’s magazine (since 2000) entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working anywhere in the world. Concept & coordination, Wilfried Huet
S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (Belgium), plans a unique & comprehensive exhibition with works of the participating artists of Gagarin, confronting their textual contributions from the complete Gagarin oeuvre with works from the museum and special loans. 3rd December 2009 – 7th March 2010. Opening 3rd December 2009
Solo exhibition in Freud’s Dreams Museum Saint Petersburg. Bolshoy pr. Petrogradskaya storona, 18A
11th October – 7th November 2009
The exhibition displays a number of printed works, which are digital collages consisting of an accumulation of superimposed layers that form a complex tangle of images, texts and meanings –like a hyper-palimpsest. This term was coined by Russian linguist Andrey Zaliznyak to refer to the Novgorod Codex, an 11th century old book unearthed on July 13, 2000 in Novgorod (not far from St Petersburg) in which hundreds of texts have left their traces on an almost inextricable tangle. The contents of the digital collages are deeply rooted in psychoanalytical concepts. Psychoanalysis is used here as a tool to reflect on the nature of subjectivity, which ultimately leads to the disclosure of any boundary between the subject and the Other as a primary illusion. This is why all the characters that appear in my works are invaded by their surroundings in both a physical and psychical way, as if the world passing through them would fulfill their fundamental lack. For this exhibition all my printed works have been gathered and showed together for the first time.
I participate with Seven Masks, an installation formed by a long narrative sequence (16,74 meters x 49 cm) that public walk along with an accompanying sound track in a mp3 player with headphones.
You can get a detailed impression of Seven Masks and its sound track in the section Narrative Sequences.
Solo project in ECAT, contemporary art space in Toledo (Spain)
16th July – 2nd September 2009
It is about a sound installation in ECAT’s exhibition space: a former Renaissance chapel. Visitors can listen to the pieces at each set of seat + headphones. Additionally, the works also sound through the PA system in the space. The only visual element is the cut-out “Frame 04″, from the series Close-up Cut-outs.
Just follow this link to listen to the sound pieces (only Spanish versions)
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Fragmentation of perception / perception of fragmentation
Publication, Marjolijn Kok & Suzanne van Rossenberg eds.
Narrative installation Mimicrywill be adapted to the format of the book as contribution to this publication.
After the successful session ‘fragmentation of perception / perception of fragmentation’ at the ‘17th archaeology and theory symposium’ in Leiden, the session organizers are convinced that a publication would be a good way to continue the momentum gained. Also with contributions of: Hannah Kalverda, Erik van Rossenberg, Nina Höchtl, Risk Hazekamp, Deric Carner, Annabel van Baren, Özlem Altin, Francesco Ventrella, Elles Besselsen, Marjolijn Kok, Suzanne van Rossenberg.
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Residency in International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York City
Scheduled for 2010
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Corrillosis an initiative of David Maroto and Marjolijn Dijkman, supported by TENT. It is a series of presentations by and for Rotterdam-based artists, designers, architects, curators and theoreticians. The Corrillos meetings started in September 2008, and take place more or less monthly.
The sixth Corrillos took place on 16th June 2009. Hosted by artist Jonas Staal. He invited two couples of guests to choose and present a single recent project to public, to open up a subsequent discussion: cultural activists Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels (BAVO) and artists Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum. Dinner was served again by courtesy of Rode Kaapje.
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Framing the Image is a project by Logement (Antwerp), which is about a complex intersection of projects and platforms. I participate with an installation in four instalments, to take place in Brussels, Vienna and Antwerp. It involves the scattering of my Close-up Cut-outs project (small version).
Corrillosis an initiative of David Maroto and Marjolijn Dijkman, supported by TENT. It is a series of presentations by and for Rotterdam-based artists, designers, architects, curators and theoreticians. The Corrillos meetings started in September 2008, and take place more or less monthly.
The fifth Corrillos took place on 21st April 2009. Hosted by NAI curator Huib Haye van der Werf. He invited two guests to present their work in public: Artist/planner Hans Venhuizen and curator/designer Ester van de Wiel. Dinner was served again by courtesy of Rode Kaapje.
