Distribution of the Sensible (Blind Mix)



DOTS (Blind Mix) is an experiment in the form of a long-term collaboration between seven artists. At the invitation of De Fabriek Eindhoven to arrange five small, experimental public moments I collected six artists to engage in a long-term cooperation. Participating artists are: Geert Cooijmans, Germen Zoer Gilly van Zanten, Max van den Hout, Remy Neumann, Toni van Tiel and myself. The project is in response to the text 'The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible "by Jacques Ranciere divided into five phases: #1 Take Me To The River: The Joke / The Game, #2 This Must Be The Place: The Collection, #3 Stay Hungry: The Invitation / The Encounter, #4 Stop Making Sense: The Mystery and #5 The Good Thing: Consensus. All correspondence between the artists and more information can be found on the blog.

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The joke is the connection of heterogeneous elements presented as a voltage of antagonistic elements, designate one or the other secret. The dialectical tension is reduced to a game which is played with just the indistinguishability of the procedures onsluieren the secrets of power, and the ordinary procedures of delegitimization that are part of the new forms of power domination -the procedures of delegitimization produced by power itself (by the media, entertainment or commercial advertising). playing with the undecidability mocking the current hierarchical distribution debordiaanse the idea of "play" as the opposite of 'spectacle' - Streetview quiz - Photograph yourself with your favorite outlet - A poem about a lecture on the importance of blacklight in discotheques. - Talk about Joe perry - Find the differences - Sign 243 frogs - Meeting at the office at IKEA - Interventions and performances in the park, on the bus, in the pet Inevitably raises public on its opposite: the movement to make something public is connected to a counter movement that some areas off from what is seen, heard, or can be perceived in the public forum. An exhibition boasts hierarchy itself; an assumption that there is a difference between inside and outside, between the participant and the spectator. This mime hisses exhibition is an attempt our basic attitude (call it nihilistic) nothing than to let his. No explanation, no accountability, no action, no activity. Only aesthetic choices out of sheer boredom. The reaction of the public to clean up on the opening night of the exhibition indicates a total rightly or wrongly social refusal to let his this attitude. (at least within this art bastion) Blaming as boredom, laziness, pretension, theft, lack of explanation, lack of accountability, lack of artistic quality, lack of commitment, mutual reproaches both dedication, commitment and lack of quality. Apologies if lack of time, lack of interest and lack of artistic quality of the Other include results of a nihilistic exhibition. "If we get away with this?" It is not dada, it's contemporary.

Heterogeneous elements continue to be brought together, albeit not to provoke a critical collision from even to play with the undecidability of their critical ability (# 1 Joke / Game). So gather as a positive act, as an attempt to collect. Traces and testimonies of a common world and history Collecting is remember. pieces of art, the equality of all objects, private photographs, utensils, advertisements, commercial videos, enzovoorts- is thus the equality of the archives of the life of a community. About bringing together uncompromising things that have nothing to do / with each other do not belong together / that you would not expect. In one sentence About making (insane) connections. houseplants & Sausage Ranciere & carnival Dolphin & watermelon frogs everywhere Smurfs & explosions a chess game and someone who jumps over a line on the floor an inflatable pool, Christmas tree lights, a golden retriever, etc. etc. about why we like to do that. and why it works better than the other one. aesthetic choices / creating equality / visualization of the rules of a time / lifting limits / .... About overcoming cynicism by something you might call? 'Absurd' need for unexpected, illogical or non-hierarchical. Over the total does not feel guilty about not being able to redeem the political promise.

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        DOTS (Blind Mix) #1, De Fabriek Eindhoven, 2014

        DOTS (Blind Mix) #2, De Fabriek Eindhoven, 2014

        DOTS (Blind Mix) #3, De Fabriek Eindhoven, 2014

Of No Interest

Of No Interest is a two-time outdoor continuous long durational performance program in between different sculptures. Performed once at Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch during Point de Vue, and once at Sectie C in Eindhoven during Wild-C. This programme initiated by me commissioned by CBK 's-Hertogenbosch is executed by different artists including myself, different performers, dog-owners, animals, plants and the audience. The program consists of the performance 'Of No Interest' by me where two synchronized swimmers sit on different sculptures to eat a plate of spaghetti while an audio fragment is played of an american student interviewing Joseph Beuys about sensation in art, followed by the song 'Sonne Statt Reagan' by Joseph Beuys. In a party tent I give a PowerPoint presentation on art and ideology. Trijnie Nanninga gives a fashion show performance in animal costumes, a group of dog owners let's their dogs run over, jump on, sit on, and underneeth the sculptures. The audience executes different 'readymade performances' and 'one minute scultpures' presented like paper wad snacks on tables. And there is a doggy dance performance. With sculptures by Luuk van den Broek and Bob Schiller, Willem Claassen, Paul Geelen, Tim Hoefnagels, Theodora Kotsi, Sil Krol, Diego Sindbert & Robert Lombarts, Florian de Visser and Germen Zoer. The program Of No Interest exposes the diffuse and unnecessary separation between nature and culture -that Wild-C cites- but mostly questions the role of the autonomous artist when he is asked to organize an event. An art work disguised as an event, commissioned by the CBK 's-Hertogenbosch.