Last Saturday, we went at the last moment to the Media Arts Festival in Leeuwarden. The festival lasted until Sunday. The festival took place in the old prison of the city and showed works of art made by graduates in new media. Some of the works were exhibited in the solitary confinement cells while others where shown the corridors and other areas of the building.
For me the most interesting contributions where:
Eric Parren – Genepool http://ericparren.net/works/genepool.html
Aram Pourdjafar – Identiteit van een vluchteling
Tim Scheidegger – klei/gezichtsculptuur
Jan Merlin Marski – Entropie http://www.screenfly.eu/?page_id=165
Martha Benedikte Hjorth Jessen- http://marthabenedikte.dk/portfolio/works/
en tot slot Marcel Brosens – Equal is not Equal http://marcelbrosens.com/?p=work
You should really check out the links
Although the works differ very much, from recorded performances and photography to interactive displays, the visitors were asked to vote for ‘the best’ art work. I voted for Tim Scheidegger’s ‘klei/gezichtssculptuur’.
It is a video of about 15 minutes that was shown in one of the confinement cells. The video shows the face of the artist filmed close-up against a white background…Suddenly from out of nowhere (at least the viewer can’t see it) someone trows a piece of wet clay in his face really hard.. And when I say hard I mean really painfully hard.
Trapped in the small space of the cell the viewer is forced to watch how one piece of clay after another lands on his head. Over time the artist has difficulties to see and breath and is transformed into a statue. The small cell just got a little bit smaller in just fifteen minutes. Great work!
The winners were announced last Sunday but it isn’t published on the website. Oh well.. had a great time. Will certainly go next year as well.
Mini Projection by Aike Lütkemöller
Mini Projection by Aike Lütkemöller
Loom by Jan Willem Deiman
We Are Between You And Me, Pearls by Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen
Tim Scheidegger klei/gezichtsculptuur (from gerritrietveldacademie.nl)
Architectural Recalibration by Martha Benedikte Hjorth Jessen
Architectural Recalibration by Martha Benedikte Hjorth Jessen
Festival page: http://www.mediaartfriesland.nl/
3 comments
Oni Lee says:
Sep 15, 2009
De winnaars: Martha Benedikte Hjort Jessen (Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam), Femke Dijkstra (Minerva Academie Groningen) en Jan Merlin Marski (ArteZ Media Art Department, Enschede). Hun werk en dat van 18 andere pas afgestudeerden was tot en met zondag te zien in de Blokhuispoort in Leeuwarden. De publieksprijs ging ook naar Jan Merlin Marski.
Oni Lee says:
Sep 15, 2009
Wist je trouwens dat de klei gegooid werd door -ik geloof- een honkballer? Man wou op een gegeven moment ook niet meer gooien, maar hij moest doorgaan vd kunstenaar..
kitsa says:
Sep 16, 2009
Mooi stuk met mooie foto’s!
Het klopt inderdaad dat er door een honkballer werd gegooid. Bovendien was dit take3. Bij de eerste twee begon de kunstenaar te bloeden (tand door de lip en bloedneus), wat natuurlijk niet bevorderlijk was voor het beeld.