Setting up the exhibition
left to right: Jessy Rahman, Geeske Harting,
Jacqueline Wassen, Wim van Egmond,
Sonja van Kerkhoff, Joke van Stuijvenberg,
and Tamatea.
The hanging pompoms are by Sarah Buist.
Emily Druiff, in those days, a London-based performance artist, created a performance art festival as part of the annual Bermondsey Carnival in Southwark Park, London, U.K., and invited me to participate.
InterAction evolved into a series of performances and installations by 25 European-based artists in and around the park and the Cafe Gallery over a five-day period in May 1999. (More about InterAction)
I invited a number of others to work with me because I was interested in creating a sense of community through performance, rather than an act made by one individual. All the artists lived together for one week where we workshopped and exchanged ideas and plans for our performance "The Living Creature" performed on days 6 and 7.
>> To an introduction about each of the artists on the exhibition webpage >>
Left to Right: work by, Geeske Harting (on the wall), Jessy Rahman
(hanging form), Jacqueline Wassen (black form on the floor), Sonja van
Kerkhoff (window), Sarah Buist (hanging pompoms), Jessy Rahman (red + green
hang forms), and Joke van Stuijvenberg (dress form on wall next to the
doorway and plaster pieces on the floor).
Sarah Buist hung about 30 huge pompoms from the ceiling.
Sonja hung her work Big Ones, two transparencies of larger than life-size children on the outside of the two windows. Underneath this Jacqueline made a black vinyl shadow on the floor in a form corresponding to one of the children in the window, but she reversed it so that it seemed as if the shadow was running out of the space in the opposite direction to the motionless child.
Left to right: work by, Geeske Harting (small figure shapes on the wall), Jacqueline
Wassen (black form on the floor), Wim van Egmond (on wall inside the doorway),
and Joke van Stuijvenberg (dress form on wall next to the doorway and
plaster pieces on the floor).
Click on this image for a better view of Jacqueline's work. Then click
the "x" on the top right to close that window.
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These were images of two children posed in action. The movements of the leaves and branches of the trees could be see through each captured gesture which create a play on background / foreground focus. Click to view two stills from a video of the moving foliage |
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Jessy makes paintings, installations
and performances with a connection to the processes and reactions that take
place within a cell or an organism. He hung two soft cloth forms based on
enlarged micro-organisms. He then painted colourful images of micro-organisms
onto white paper plates, 'Dishes in the kitchen'. These were hung along
the wall in the kitchenette around the clock and water heater. People had
to walk into the kitchen to get a closer look at these fine art 'dishes'
on throw away dinnerware. |
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