By the sweat of your brow..
House of the verger, Museumstraat 65, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
June 7, 2014
© The Unstitute
Together with God also the verger disappeared, but his house still breathes the traces of a subservient existence.
With performances and video 14 artists show what binds man to the earth.
By the sweat of your brow.. is a presentation within the framework of the Urban Explorers Festival 2014
May 17 – May 18, 2014
Unnoticed Art Festival
Haarlem, Netherlands,
© Theun Okkerse
The Unnoticed Art Festival is a festival for unnoticed live art and took place in an undisclosed Dutch city. The Unnoticed Art Festival balanced on the line between public and private. It showed artworks hiding in normality. The language, used to express the works, fit in the average social behaviour in public space and, because of that, remained unnoticed to bystanders.
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March 8 – March 31, 2014
installation
R&R Reuten Galerie
Prinsengracht 510s
1017 KH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Open: Wednesday – Saturday, 16.00 – 18.00.
Performative opening: March 8, 16.00-18.00. Continue reading
March 15 – March 16, 2014
The work ‘Cours’ (2013) will be on show at
Open Atelierroute 2014
Kunstkerk,
Museumstraat 65
3311XP Dordrecht
the Netherlands
11.00-17.00
February 27 – March 29, 2014
Yoko Ono Fan Club
UB Art Gallery
Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY
USA
I stand in front of a white wall.
I take a small round mirror out of my pocket, put some glue on the back and press the mirror against the wall.
I get very close to the mirror and by breathing in and out a few times, I cover it with damp.
I stand up again and wait until all the moisture is gone.
I remove the mirror and put it back in my pocket.
-BuroRotterdam
(expo. EX-MÊKH).
January 26, 2014
-Reuten & Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
May 17, 2015
January 26, 2014
Performance Damp @ Finissage ‘Fuck Focus’-show
EX-MÊKH
BuroRotterdam
Keileweg 26
3029 BT Rotterdam
The Netherlands
15.00-18.00.
In the morning I am standing for 30 minutes in front of a Dutch painting, Het Gein, by Willem Roelofs (1883),
imagining myself part of that landscape.
In the afternoon I am standing for 30 minutes in a field in the polder De Biesbosch,
with my eyes closed, imagining the space around me.
-Dordrechts Museum and Biesbosch, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
December 18, 2013.
(7-8 minutes)
I am standing barefoot, a glass of water in my right hand.
I wait for silence around me.
I then bow forward very slowly and spill some water. After a few drops I move back a bit.
The bowing and moving back is repeated until the glass is empty.
I return in an upright position.
–Kapitaal Utrecht (A night at the Gym), Netherlands
June 27, 2013 (try-out)
-Gezipark (photo © Hiroomi Horiuchi), Istanbul, Turkey
September 13, 2013
-Kunstrand, Dordrecht, Netherlands
October 5, 2013
2nd version: Spill (2021)
I walk into the gallery. On the floor are three big canvases leaning against the wall (frontside turned to the wall), each one about 130 x 140 cms. They are covered with plastic to protect them. You can’t really look clearly through the plastic. Taped on the works is a piece of paper with the written text: ‘Please don’t touch! I’ll come and fix it as soon as possible’.
I measure exactly where to hang the paintings, then drill holes for each of them, put screws in the holes and hang the works carefully on the wall. After I hanged the last one, I clean the floor in front of the works. Then I take off the works in the same order, put them against the wall, take out the screws, the plugs, fill the holes with plaster, paint the spots white again, clean the floor, take my equipment and leave the gallery.
This performance is repeated a number of times at unannounced moments during the exhibition
Let’s Get Physical,
presentation of MaHKU at Kapitaal, Utrecht, Netherlands.
June 2013
The work was redone in Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, DenHaag (NL) in 2019.