They called these objects open objects

2010-06-20 18:10:01

Dit object dat een venster lijkt te zijn naar de wereld,

2010-06-20 18:03:23

veranderingen en ingrijpende hervormingen

2010-06-20 17:53:07

Wij zien een groot gedeelte van hen, die leven in omstandigheden, die hun gerechtvaardigde aspiraties tot hersenschim maken. Zij zijn niet in staat zelfs maar te denken aan een werk dat hun toekomst draaglijker zou kunnen maken.

2010-06-19 17:27:58

Dat de momenten dat ik het draag, steeds langer lijken te duren.

2010-06-18 17:20:10

Het hoofddeksel dat mijn hele gezicht afschermt draag ik een paar uur per dag. Ik probeer mezelf ervan te verzekeren dat het niets te betekenen heeft dat de momenten dat ik het draag, steeds langer lijken te duren.

Op de boot was de nacht gelijk aan de dag. Elk uur klonk een sirene, een signaal om ons te laten weten dat de visnetten vol waren.

2010-06-18 17:09:11

Vannacht werd ik wakker van het geluid van regen tegen het raam.
Direct werd ik eraan herinnerd dat ik weer terug ben in Beetsterzwaag.
Niet meer gewend om de hele nacht door te mogen slapen, ben ik opgestaan.

als geen ander weet ik hoe het leven is buiten de kolonie

2010-06-17 16:44:27

Het scherm slokt de kamer en alle belevenissen en gesprekken op

2010-06-15 21:04:53

2010-06-15 16:37:57

Hij lijkt hier tegelijkertijd wel en niet te zijn, hij kijkt uit naar verre plaatsen of is eigenlijk al vertrokken.

2010-06-14 17:50:33

Mijn kleur is rood. Het kan haast niet anders dan dar ik op de verkeerde dag geboren ben. Blauw ben ik van binnen, blauw als het water zoals kinderen het tekenen.

2010-06-14 17:11:43

 Het schilderij boven de trap van een zeilboot in een storm op zee, deed me denken aan het eerste schilderij dat ik verkocht: 'schreeuwende haringen' .

2010-06-13 17:36:41

niemand mag de goederen, die hij voor zijn behoefte niet nodig heeft, uitsluitend voor zijn eigen genot gebruiken, wanneer anderen gebrek hebben aan het noodzakelijke

2010-06-11 17:45:01

DE MENS IS VAN NATURE HOEKIG

2010-06-11 16:05:15

De begeerte om meer te bezitten wordt opgeofferd aan het verlangen om meer te zijn.

2010-06-06 17:47:10

De Gelijktijdigheid van het een en het ander is het mooiste en meteen ook het angstaanjagendste dat er is.

2010-06-06 08:58:24

Dit apparaat is bezig zichzelf te vernietigen en met zichzelf ons

2010-06-05 18:08:46

Dit object dat een venster lijkt te zijn naar de wereld,

2010-06-05 08:57:41

De Kiemen van Mogelijkheden

2010-06-04 10:52:12

Zelfs in het donker kan ik de verschillende kleuren makkelijk van elkaar onderscheiden: een bewijs dat kleuren niet alleen een visuele gewaarwording zijn.

2010-06-01 08:53:12

#6-11, Hakky 8 by Nadine Hottenrott

2010-05-29 18:41:22

see also: http://www.obio.nl/nij/

Exploring II

2010-05-27 12:37:24

2010-05-27 12:20:50

isolatie

2010-05-27 12:14:00

outside world

2010-05-27 12:12:50

Exploring

2010-05-26 11:11:56

Transition//Transmission

2010-05-24 18:26:28

H E X A G O N                 F O O D

patterns

2010-05-23 18:20:39

EVERYONE IS 6; 6 IS IN EVERYONE

2010-05-22 12:51:53

Everything is 6

Everything is equal

Everything is 6

Every day is new

Everything is 6

A week has 6 days

Everything is 6

Every day of the week is dedicated to one of the compartments of the hexagon

Everything is 6

6 colors

Everything is 6

Blood does not make a Family; color makes the Family

Everything is 6

Every day has it’s own color

Everything is 6

Your color day depends on the day you were born

Everything is 6 

We live in small of 6 people all belonging to the same color family

Hierarchy does not exist  

Everything is 6 

Hierarchy does not exist

Everyone is 6,  6 is in everyone

HEXAGON; EVERYTHING IS 6

2010-05-21 22:15:46

Het nieuwe woord; het nieuwe beeld

2010-05-20 22:09:37

Het is wachten

2010-05-19 23:23:01

Het geometrische patroon is typerend

2010-05-18 18:11:10

Het geometrische patroon is typerend voor een periode waarin ze zich probeerde los te maken van externe invloeden.

Het geometrische patroon staat centraal in de ontwikkeling van de eigen symboliek.

The story

2010-05-16 22:31:06

 SYB

by Pavèl van Houten

 The 21^st century

 Well, here’s the story.

Hoofdstraat 70, Beetsterzwaag. The House of the Eagle. A fully equipped house; all the modern technology available, such as beamers, four laptops, tv’s, washingmachine, microwave... Just name it and you’ll be able to find it in this house.

The owner of the house, Syb Hellinga, loved the idea of having artists working in this house, while staying there for a certain period of time. To give artists an oportunity to experiment, discover or create new boundries. To re-invent, to get inspired, and especially to be in search of a ‘new human-dignifying world’.

Syb, open minded as he was, was not willing to submit to the existing boundries of time. He not only wanted modern artists to have the opportunity to be in search of these new values, to be in search of re-inventing themselves and the time they are living in. He also wanted to hand this opportunity to artists who live in other times. To make a long story short he sended this house, in all it’s modernity, to the age when The House of the Eagle was build, which was in the 16^th century.

The 16^th century

In the 16^th century, a group of artists, the name yet unknown, was living in this house. You could call it an art-colony. Not quite accidental this colony was in search of a renewal of the, in that time, contemporary art. The gift of Syb was of great meaning to them. Their call to be able to invent new forms of art was answered.

All of a sudden, this group of artists were confronted with a completely new set of values, esthetics, techniques and ways of living. Although their wish was answered the impact was enorm. Yet their craving for new meaning, for new ways of expressing themselves was bigger than their fear of the unknown.

Even more: they were intrigued by all the objects which had absolutely no meaning to them. They could tell the these objects had an original function, but the function was unknown to them. Therefore (and because of their own set of ideas, backgrounds and such) they filled these objects in with new meaning. Now these objects expanded in each their own way. Some became more esthetical, others garbage, others religious, others more usefull… They called these objects: open objects.

The artists started their stay in this ‘futuristic house’. They had to deal with the untamable urge to make art throughout these new possibilities. 

You could state that the artists dealt with it in at least three different ways. Some focused on their new position. They had to re-orientate. They felt somewhat misplaced, and needed, within their technical limits, to stabelize their new situation.

 Others became interested in the renewed religious values of this so-called 21th century. They found a bible which was, for them, very informal. It seemed as if God had become a common good, as if the large distance between divine and common became more blurred. On the one hand they noticed it in writing; for example in the new bible the word ‘angel’ had changed into the word ‘messenger’, or: the word ‘virgin’ had changed into the word ‘girl’.

Secondly there was a physical religious shift, most noticable in the light. Although light was in the 16^th century dominated by the creation of day and night, now it was easily able to switch it on and off anytime. Light became common, it became human. The artists were unsure whether it was a positive or negative shift.

 Finally there were artists in the colony who became intrigued by some completely ‘open objects’. They wanted to give these objects a new meaning. Somehow a new location.  They studied, categorized them. It became a search to re-invent these things, to give it all a new meaning. To give them a new location. Looking back probably a transcending location.

And within all these shifts, all posibilities they tried to live as they were used to. Eather way they had to live in the house. They had to warm themselves, eat, wash, communicate and so on. Living in a house filled with ‘open objects’ required a lot of effort. Especially their diners were hard to make due to all these strange objects lying around. But after a week of experimenting they became quite good at it, and invited a group of artists to join them for lunch. During lunch they showed them all the weird, some ugly and some gorgeous things within this above all intriguing house.

Well, for now the story ends. But it will continue. Yet within different hands. To give different meaning.

Presentatie week 1

2010-05-16 22:23:53

Stilte

2010-05-15 23:35:18

Eerste ontdekkingen

2010-05-14 23:09:28

defenitie van de dag

2010-05-13 22:11:35

  “Open object” = Een gebruiksvoorwerp waarin de gebruiker nog geen functie herkent, maar deze wel zelf invult. Hierdoor verandert het object en wordt de betekenis en/of de waarde ervan uitgebreid. 

You don't see, what you don't know

2010-05-13 10:37:18

START

2010-05-11 12:09:07