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a mix of things… some images from my graphic design work, drawings, photos of my travels, some small (visual) interventions I've been trying to do in public spaces.
to gain understanding of the rethorics of images, to keep developing an awareness and sensitivity for them, seems to be politically quite important in the kind of culture we live in nowadays. the technologies seem to become more democratized (at least cameras and computers are cheaper and more accesible), but that doesn't guarantee a critical reading of the discourses of photo and video. producing images is a way of learning to read images.
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In one of my coreographies, 'The Factbook' (a.k.a 'New work', a.k.a 'A stencil with...', a.k.a. 'New York'), I worked with Stencils as an aesthetic but also as a productive process. besides other elements, I used the production of stencils as an excuse to think about the rethorics of image and the rethorics of politics, and the affective aspect of politics. during the creative process we invested a lot of time in observing and creating images, leaving aside the question of wether those images would have an immediate application in the performance.
when my sister's first son, Seito, was born, it wasn't possible for me to visit him, so I sent him welcome presents. the stenciled portraits on the baby clothes are of Salvador Allende and Paulo Freire.
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fotos from Tokyo, September-October 2008. I was in Japan for two months, visiting, sightseeing, teaching movement improvisation classes and making a coreography with students of the Ochanomizu University Dance Club. we premiered the piece 'Japón' on the 17th of October 2008, in the Bunkyo Civic Center, Tokyo.
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some of my drawings and a couple of posters I made as a goodbye present for my friends who graduated from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam - the place where I am studying) in July 2008.
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I am fascinated with the idea of small interventions in the public space, both in the form of performances or the placement of small visual elements. I am interested in ambiguous activities or images that don't completely belong to the public space but that are also not completely ordinary. I like the idea of creating the potential for very small, intimate surprises: placing a poem, or an ambiguous 'slogan' in a rare and difficult place. I hope it can create a nice small experience for whoever finds it.
next to that, I like the idea of appropriating the strategies of publicity and public communication in order to make them ambiguous. I think publicity (capitalism - consumerism?) has been making a very clever use of deconstruction and post-modern discourses, and I wonder if it is possible to subvert that - maybe by means of reappropriating the same tools. that is what my fake publicities project is about, using those rethorics for ambiguous or bizarre messages, hoping to trigger some sense of suspicion and distrust.
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a few more fotos from Tokyo, and my first visits to Amsterdam and Frankfurt (back in 2005, when I auditioned for the SNDO).
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and a few science fiction landscapes from the Dutch polders. a few photos taken from the train in the very very cold January of 2010.