Overview of collaborations

Christina Della Giustina 2016/2017

AVU (Academy of Fine Arts Prague), Prague (CH) Teacher assistant for Saloun Visiting artist project Saloun

Julia Kull 2016

Piet Zwart Instituut Rotterdam: Assisting in a performance

Katalog 2016

Paleis van Mieris Amsterdam Illustrations and assisting: “Katalog” Monotone edition

Christina Della Giustina 2015

Punt WG and Vondelkerk Amsterdam: Assisting expo and live performance “You are variations”

Milo van der Maaden 2015

Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam: Expo curation and buildup

Oscar Santillan 2014

Jan van Eyck academy Maastricht: Assistant producer of video/performance project “The whisperer”

Willum Geerts 2013

Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam: Performing “Sorry Scriptorium” during Museum Night

Work discription

My works are performances, mainly in the form of video performances and performative installations. A clean aesthetic and a simple gesture or act is central to the works. The videos are framed around the act that is performed and the sound is intimate, usually focussing on the sound that the act or performer produces. The installations are processes set into motion, either for definite or indefinite time, typically referring to an experimental set-up.
The performances are in essence an attempt to express thoughts (an essai), using thinking as a way of reflecting on beliefs and actions, and the performer as the embodiment of expression. The intertwinement of thinking and doing. The works drift in-between the theoretical and the artistic, the intellectual and the experiential, in search of doubt rather than solutions. Every performance is a new attempt and can also be a re-interpretation; video makes a transitory performance material and at the same time is as singular as a live performance. I strive to strip video of its character as a linear medium, treating it rather as moving images, allowing audiences to move freely through the works to revisit them in different stages.

© 2017 EGA Huurdeman