FLAT_land 08
Sunday November 29th 2-5 pm Potahof Delft (nl)

bij wijze van SPREKEN (artist talk) with presentations of Brigitte Spiegeler (nl), Janna Navis (nl), Juan Duque (co) and Sara ten Westenend (nl) about their work at FLAT_land.

_galerij_loop_08_____ (exhibition) with work from Alison Owen (us), Ans Kanen (nl), Babette Kleijn (nl), Barbara DePonti (it), Brigitte Spiegeler (nl), Efrat Zehavi (isr), FloPIdisk (nl), Inge Hoefnagel (nl), Izabela Oldak (pl), Janna Navis (nl), Jimena Kato Murakami (pe), Juan Duque (co), Judith Jansen (nl), Odie Rynell Cash (us), Patricia Eustaquio (ph), Paul Santoleri (us), Peter Owen (us), Rik van Hazendonk (nl), Rolina Nell (nl) en Sara ten Westenend (nl).

Alison Owen (us)
Each of my installations is created on site in direct response to the physical and emotional characteristics of the architecture. Working with simple materials – thread, masking tape, paper, dirt, and found objects – I construct installations that subtly alter the space. The resulting works draw upon my impulse to investigate and make sense of my surroundings. I consider my work to be drawing-based, but rather than working in two-dimensions with pencil on paper, I draw in three dimensions with materials both tangible (cut paper, thread, paint) and ethereal (light and shadow). Like drawing, the work results in a series of marks upon the space that reveal the process of intense observation, interpretation and recording. The installation at FLAT_land presents artifacts of domestic experience. I collected or created objects that have some relationship to decoration, such as picture frames, potted plants, and wallpaper, and yet are one step removed from their original manifestation. They are flipped, emptied out, or recreated out of unsuitable material. In this space, layers have been stripped away and new layers have been added, and a balance has been reached between my work and the existing space. www

Ans Kanen (nl) and Efrat Zehavi (isr)
A spatial performance by Ans Kanen (dancer\performer) and Efrat Zehavi (Visual artist). Inspired by the “postmodern fable” of Lyotard Ans en Efrat started a shared process. They find themselves constantly in a situation where in material, space, body and sound resonant in a motive movement and coincidence. www

Babette Kleijn (nl)
I want to experiment with my work by analysing it. What will happen when I give a figurative respond on my abstract pictures. The analyze will be a work on its own as a clear defragmented reflection of that what is shown on the picture. All together the atmosphere might become a playfull area in which abstract asthetics and heavyness will play a main role. www

Barbara DePonti (it)
(in collaboration with Iskra Sguera)
“Speaking things”, the project, satisfies the desire to know a new city, which you have never seen before. The project wants to discover a new urban reality asking the collaboration of every citizen. The citizens will be actively involved in the project giving one of their belonging and then explaining its affective value and/or symbolic value. Collecting the objects will be the first point of contact between the artist and the people, and a first approach to the place. When enough object will be collected for every district and neighbourhood the artists will position them. The whole roof of an apartment will be covered with a large Delft map. The objects will be placed below the streets and houses they belong to. They will be hanging with a strip of paper that will describe each story as it was described by their owners. The work will fill up the room with hanging objects that all talk about the city of Delft, anyone with its own specific message. The project will place the city of Delft in an interior space that will become domestic and warm thanks to the “speaking things”. At the same time the “speaking things” will bring the visitor outside the walls with his mind, around every zone of the city with the entire story that describes them. www

Brigitte Spiegeler (nl)
My starting point of this project was the following: Reflections of what used to be, what will be what will never be. The building never asked to be built. Never asked to be demolished. Did the people who lived here, ask to live here? Anyway, they started to live here, brought their hopes, visions and expectations with them. In this project I would like to anticipate on the future, as well as freezing the contemporary and commemorate the past. I started the project with a campaign; The ‘I want my future back’ campaign. After this start I wanted to explore the space, the appartment. During a residence period in Budapest I collected old pictures, I have found on the market. Pictures of families, familiar pictures of people I do not know. I have used these pictures to depict reflections of people who lived here. You do not know their history, you do not know them personally. But you are so familiar with them. www

FloPIdiskKlangKollektief (nl)
Edwin van der Does (floPi) Michael Polane (FloPi) Sjaak Jöbses and Mauz Huismans have joined forces to create a Multi-installation called //PERSPEKTIEF--. Due to the fact that Delft is the place where /FLAT_land is situated we thought it was appropriate to incorperate the rich past of Delft in our installation. So the maintheme is Camera-Obscura. A little reference to Vermeer. We created rooms with this principal, not only in image but in sound aswell. Via means of livesampling, sensor-triggering, arduino programming and multichannelsoundprocessing we try to make a total sensory installation.Take a walk through the house and hopefully experience this. FloPidiskKlangKollective is a group that evolved in the late nineties at the Art-academy Tilburg. All the groupmembers, 7 strong, are involved in the more experimental part of music and art. Noise performances, Improvised soundscapes, circuitbending, liveVJ, dada and Absurdism are the keywords. In 2008 a new form of performing was developped ; The midiFanfare. FlopiDisk (FKK) are Edwin van der Does (/Rumatov), Esper Sanchez (SPR), Joost Mantel (BuDADA), Michael Polane (Illiqual/Rumatov), Thijs van de Leur (Tube-A-Loop), Tim van Akkerveeken (T!v@K), Lesley Strik (Lez is More). www

Inge Hoefnagel (nl)
Inge Hoefnagel lives and works in Rotterdam, but finds the inspiration for her work mainly outside her normal habitat, preferably in the Sahara belt. The sketches she produces there, form the basis for three dimensional art. The themes of the last years have been genetic manupulation and climate change.
This time Inge will visit the deserts of Morocco from 11 till 24 October. On November 29 she will show her new work. Her quest will be for symbols, markers, signs and routes; the legend of her travels. www

Izabela Oldak (pl)
I am an artist, a painter living and working in Amsterdam. I was born in Rybnik in Poland in 1982. In 2007 I Graduated Academy of Fine Art in Poznan in Poland. Currently I study Fine Art in Dutch Art Institute in Enschede. Mostly I am creating abstract paintings and installations inspired by ornaments, fashion, design, psychedelic patterns, kaleidoscopic images, phantasmagoria, illusions, visions, fantasies, dreams and symbols. For me art is about research for truth, is a language to communicate and to express emotion and thoughts, to force people to think, to discuss and to expand horizons.
About the project “Reminiscence”; for the FLAT_land project I want to create a really intimate salt-painting titled: “Reminiscence”, consisting of organic beautiful patterns based on my dreams, symbols and daily life experience. I will place it in the building which will be demolished. By this action I want to direct the attention on the temporary side of life and human nature as a metaphor of living and dying, creation and destruction a universal cycle of life. www

Janna Navis (nl)
Outside autumnwind is a ghost. In the flat all doors are wide open, and plants and shrubs that took their refuge here, bow obediently for such force. White waves come very nearby and a sheep is enforcing himself to hide behind the wallpaper.....FLAT_land out in side is an installation of Diepzout Janna Navis in cooperation with Paul Caron. www

Juan Duque (co) and Jimena Kato Murakami (pe)
A space... How to approach it, making it our own? When entering into 636 Poptahof for the first time brought about these questions: “How many times the doors have been opened and closed?” ,“Under which circumstances in their inhabitants’ daily lives?”, many people came to live in those spaces, many people left leaving traces, we came as strangers, we observed, we imagined, we also had stories to tell. We took the space as hostage, and worked there to render homage to those memories re-appropiation it’s a territorial struggle...
Working with materials found in the 636 flat – wooden doors, frames, curtains, carpets, newspapers, we constructed in situ installations that alter the space. www

Judith Jansen (nl)
Going all the way down to your inner core and make work from that point is the essence of my work. It is an outward manifestation of your inner, being as close to my sub consciousness as possible. Concepts such as ‘honesty’ and purity’ mean a lot to me. I’m making a picture of an identity; whoever it might be. It’s about dealing with the struggles between; soft-hard, attraction-subtraction, beauty-ugliness. All these tensions are to be found in ones identity; in body and behaviour. I’m trying to express contradictions in the body and a certain kind of sexuality. The contradictions become visible in the use of materials, such as: Metal-wool, Lycra-latex. To me my drawings are the same, but sometimes a little more save. They´re like small pages of your diary picked up from the floor to be seen by anyone. At FLAT_land I am showing some of my drawings, I believe they integrate very well with their environment. I’m trying to work more or less site-specific by also making installations. The old apartments have just been abandoned by its inhabitants.
There are reminders of the people who used to live her: On the walls you still see the colours and scratches. I want to create an apartment left by itself; starting to create a life on its own. Anything can happen. www

Odie Rynell Cash (us)
For the first part of the residency I chose to use discarded materials and work of the former artists in residence who occupied my studio (603). I used the material to address contemporary issues of identity, race and class in Holland from a foreigners perspective. By using images and objects thrown out by the former artist I question the ideas of what is art and is the work actually original being that it is rejected artist material with new subject matter and are the political elements relevance from someone outside the Dutch culture? www

Patricia Eustaquio (ph)
My works weave objects into a narrative and rely on the spaces in between what is actually there. The objects serve as clues, to complete the puzzles in our heads while our mind-cogs grind into the social, archaeological and art-historical spheres that our lives encounter. The almost violent tearing down and reconstruction going on outside to me seem to beg for a different kind of renovation indoors, and my idea is to transform the studio into an unexpected space amid this ‘violence’: to allow the space to use up the material inside and play with the elements streaming in from the outside. For the last three months, I have been collecting discards as well as flea market finds and have been transforming these into an overgrown garden, or a petrified living space. www

Paul Santoleri (us)
Ink drawing direct on the wall, I travel light, though my baggage is marked heavy- I draw from fragments, from sketches and photos, to make the drawing in the space… I’ll also show some small pieces and photos of street interventions. It’s inspired by the lichen in Finland, the graffiti & sculptures in France and Germany and being here in the Netherlands. I often have had a studio in a building soon to be demolished or renovated. There’s something fleeting and final about working in spaces like this, every morning I hear them clean out another apartment, filling another dumpster, Doom daily creeping ever closer. The buildings, I imagine, like most concrete structures will be sand on the beaches of tomorrow. www

Peter Owen (us)
I make drawings and paintings that encompass personal experience, public spaces, and the collective memory and narrative of cities. For this residency, I am creating a series of drawings using as source material specific architectural elements of the surrounding neighborhood. The drawings indicate the simultaneous renewal and entropy that transforms cities over time. www

Rik van Hazendonk (nl)
The shadow of beauty installation by Rik van Hazendonk
For this installation I was inspired by the stains of glue and paint that I found on the bare cement floor of the apartment. These stains, covered by floorcovering when the apartment was still inhabited, refer to decorations that have disappeared with the inhabitants. On freshly painted walls, stains ‘produced’ by this painting of the walls are presented on the back of hardboard panels. Thus the apartment has turned into a gallery showing what is normally ‘unseen’, refering to what cannot be seen anymore. www

Rolina Nell (nl)
I make site specific paintings/murals and work with acrylic paint on canvas. My paintings often express my curiosity concerning women’s roles within a social and cultural structure. My work captures and isolates images of ordinary woman and girls; so common that it is usually overseen. They almost get absorbed by there surrounding, but despite of this it seems they turn their back to you and do what ever they like. It is mysterious who they are; their identities are only given by clothing and decorations. In spite of the colorfull forms, funny garments and details the paintings also have a feeling of sadness. My interest in unravel the existence of ordinary things generally invokes a feeling of emptiness and a sad look on the past or unfulfilled desires. www

Sara ten Westenend (nl)
The two basic artistic assumptions that characterize my work are stillness and redefining. These assumptions become visible in my three-dimensional work, by doing interventions and writing texts. I use everyday objects from my direct environment for my research, in which image and language are closely connected. I have started a new research, in which the thin border between the imaginary and the real, between thinking and seeing, is being investigated. Where does the image come into existence? Is the image something static, or is it a constant movement between seeing and thinking? How do you present the image in the reality of space? In this research I want to use different media, show how they represent different realities, and explore how I can move be-tween them. From drawing to photo to intervention to text. I see my stay at id11 as the beginning of this long term research.