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After Image / After Language
Press Release
RE: Vision
Tentoonstelling Dick de
Bruijn - Contemporary Art - Middelburg
Boeddhistische Omroep
Stichting - Haiku, de kunst van het nu
de essentie van een haiku in
beeld, tekst en geluid
Uitzenddatum: Zondag 2-12-2007 12:55 - 13:25 nederland 2
Herhaling: Zaterdag 8-12-2007 08:43 - 09:13 nederland 2
Boeddhist
Madelon Hooykaas is geïnspireerd op een pelgrimstocht te voet, zoals beschreven
in het beroemde boek Een smalle weg naar het hoge noorden door de Japanse haiku
dichter en Zen- Boeddhist Matsuo Basho (1644-1694).
Een
haiku is een gedicht met een ritme van 5-7-5 lettergrepen en refereert direct
of indirect aan de vier jaargetijden. Binnen deze strak afgemeten vorm wordt
een ervaring of waarneming, meestal in de natuur, tot expressie gebracht. Geen
uitvoerige beschrijvingen maar met een enkele pennenstreek de essentie
meedelen. Zichzelf vergeten in de waarneming van de natuur, meeklinken met de
natuur en in een directe, spontane uiting haar wezen weergeven: dat is de
grondslag van haiku. En dat gebeurt in het moment, in het nu. Basho stelt, dat
haiku als vanzelfsprekend, op geheel natuurlijke wijze, uit het object moet
oprijzen. En dat kan alleen als dichter en object één geworden zijn.
Haiku,
de kunst van het nu toont de essentie van een haiku in beeld, tekst en geluid.
Men ziet als het ware door de ogen van de pelgrim, loopt met hem mee, houdt met
hem stil....kijkt en luistert. Enkele woorden slechts, verwondering, een
uitroep, een vraag. Wat heeft hem in vervoering gebracht?
De
muziek voor deze film is gemaakt door de Nederlandse klarinettist en saxofonist
Ab Baars. Hij bespeelt de shakuhachi, een authentiek Japans blaasinstrument.
Een film
van Hooykaas/Stansfield
productie, camera, geluid,
montage: Madelon Hooykaas
on line montage, geluidsmixage:
Geert Braam
muziek: shakuhachi improvisatie:
Ab Baars
stem: Yoshi Kazama
eindredactie, uitvoerend
producent: Babeth M.VanLoo
speciale dank: Chantal duPont,
Myung Feyen, Dorothea Frank, Iris Haeck,
Eri Kokubo, Elsa Stansfield
(1945-2004)
© 2007 BOS
Haiku - the art of the
present moment in Amsterdam
The
2nd International Buddhist Film Festival Europe from September 9 till 11, 2007
in Studio K, Timorplein 62 , Amsterdam, the Netherlands will witness this new
video installation by Hooykaas/Stansfield.
The point of departure for the installation is the classic book The narrow road
to the deep North and other travel sketches by Basho, a well-known Japanese
haiku poet (1644-1694). The form of the haiku shows the influence of Zen
Buddhism.
On a sculpture – in the form of an enormous open book – video images are
simultaneously projected of a summer sequence and a winter sequence, combined
with Basho’s haikus in spoken Japanese and written in English. The combination
of image, text and sound constantly varies. Part of the soundtrack has been
specially composed with music on the shakuhachi, a woodwind instrument made of
bamboo, played and improvised on for the occasion by the Dutch clarinetist and
saxophonist Ab Baars.
Madelon
Hooykaas’ interest in haikus’ stems from the time she was permitted in 1970 to
stay in a Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan as a first Western woman. At a later
stage, she was also allowed to photograph there. This resulted in a unique
series of photographs on the life of the monks in this temple. These photos,
supplemented by diary entries, were published in the Netherlands in 1971 under
the title Zazen, with an introduction by Bert Schierbeek. The book subsequently
appeared in Germany and USA.
In
1983 and 1984, Hooykaas returned to Japan – by this time she was already
cooperating with Elsa Stansfield – where she showed video works and made new
video recordings, also in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This led to a series of video
installations under the title: From the Museum of Memory, I to VII (1985-1988).
Two of these installations were bought by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Other
work by Hooykaas/Stansfield has been on show at the Documenta in Kassel, the
Sydney Biennale and also in Canada, Korea and Japan. Since the death of Elsa
Stansfield in 2004, Madelon Hooykaas has continued to develop their range of
ideas.
More information www.ibff-europe.eu
The video installation can be
experienced at the Podiumbar on Sunday the 9th of September from 14 hours till
23 hours.
On Monday 10th from 16 hours till
23 hours and Tuesday 11th from 16 hours till 21 hours.
The Buddhist Broadcasting
Foundation has financially supported Haiku, the art of the present moment. The
TV version of this project will be broadcast by the BOS in winter 2007.
With special thanks to Chantal
duPont (Montreal), Dorothea Franck, Frans Hooykaas, Geert Braam, Iris Haeck,
Marc Thelosen and Yoshi Kazama.
Haiku - the art of the present moment
in Rotterdam
The
38th Poetry International Festival from June 16 till 22 2007 in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands will witness the premiere of this video installation, specially
created for the festival, by Hooykaas/Stansfield.
The
point of departure for the installation is the classic book The narrow road to the deep North and other
travel sketches by Basho, a well-known Japanese haiku poet
(1644-1694). The form of the haiku shows the influence of Zen Buddhism.
On
a sculpture – in the form of an enormous open book – video images are
simultaneously projected of a summer sequence and a winter sequence, combined
with Basho’s haikus in spoken Japanese and written in English. The combination
of image, text and sound constantly varies. Part of the soundtrack has been
specially composed with music on the shakuhachi, a woodwind instrument made of
bamboo, played and improvised on for the occasion by the Dutch clarinetist and
saxophonist Ab Baars.
Madelon
Hooykaas’ interest in haikus’ stems from the time she was permitted in 1970 to
stay in a Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan as a first Western woman. At a later
stage, she was also allowed to photograph there. This resulted in a unique
series of photographs on the life of the monks in this temple. These photos,
supplemented by diary entries, were published in the Netherlands in 1971 under
the title Zazen, with an introduction by Bert Schierbeek. The book subsequently
appeared in Germany and USA.
In
1983 and 1984, Hooykaas returned to Japan – by this time she was already
cooperating with Elsa Stansfield – where she showed video works and made new
video recordings, also in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This led to a series of video
installations under the title: From the Museum of Memory, I to VII (1985-1988).
Two of these installations were bought by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Other
work by Hooykaas/Stansfield has been on show at the Documenta in Kassel, the
Sydney Biennale and also in Canada, Korea and Japan.
Since
the death of Elsa Stansfield in 2004, Madelon Hooykaas has continued to develop
their range of ideas.
Throughout the festival week in the upper foyer of the Rotterdam City
Theatre. Free entree between 15.30 and 17.30 hrs.
The Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation has financially supported Haiku, the
art of the present moment. The TV version of this project will be broadcast by
the BOS in autumn 2007.
With special thanks to Chantal duPont (Montreal), Dorothea Franck, Frans
Hooykaas, Geert Braam, Iris Haeck, Marc Thelosen and Yoshi Kazama.
Stichting
KiK nodigt u uit voor de opening van de expositie reis door mijn kamer. Het
resultaat van een aantal artist-in-residencies in de maanden mei t/m september
in de voormalige zuivelfabriek _De Venen' te Kolderveen. Deelnemers: Harry
Cock, Ronald de Ceuster, Robbie Cornelissen, Wia van Dijk, Frank Halmans, Loes
Heebink, Hooykaas/Stansfield, Seet van Hout, Lambert Kamps, Krijn de Koning,
Dirk Lansink, Erik Odijk, Willem Speekenbrink, Anne-Marie van Sprang, Peter
Vink en Marten Winters.
Opening zaterdag 16 september 2006, 16.00 uur
Henk Weggemans, gedeputeerde provincie Drenthe opent de tentoonstelling.Ter
gelegenheid van deze expositie verschijnt een begeleidende catalogus,
uitgegeven door stichting kik.
Expositie 16-09-2006 t/m 29-10-2006
Openingstijden: vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag van 13.00 tot 17.00 uur en verder
op afspraak.
Stichting KiK
Kolderveen 26
7948 NJ Nijeveen
website: www.kik-site.nl
email: stichtingkik@planet.nl
Deze expositie is mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Provincie Drenthe, vsb bank,
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Gemeente Meppel, Stichting Burgerweeshuisfonds en
het Waarborgfonds.
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AFTER IMAGE / AFTER LANGUAGE
Hooykaas/Stansfield & duPont
à la mémoire de / to the memory of Elsa
Stansfield
1-17 SEPTEMBRE 2006 EN GALERIE
: INSTALLATION merc:12-18h00 jeu|ven:12-21h00
sam|dim:12-17h00 EN VITRINE :
PROJECTION VIDÉO de 19h30 à 4h00
6-10 SEPTEMBRE 2006 AU PARC LA
FONTAINE : INSTALLATION AUDIO/VIDÉO IN SITU de 19h30 à 23h00
JEUDI 7 SEPTEMBRE VERNISSAGE :18H
à LA CENTRALE; 20H au PARC LA FONTAINE
SAMEDI 9 SEPTEMBRE RENCONTRE
AVEC LES ARTISTES :18H à LA CENTRALE
AFTER IMAGE / AFTER LANGUAGE is an audio and video intervention conceived by
Madelon Hooykaas, the late Elsa Stansfield and Chantal duPont specifically for
the urban landscape of Montreal. The intervention, realised by Hooykaas and
duPont, has two sites within walking distance of each other, the lake in Parc
La Fontaine and the storefront window and gallery of La Centrale on
Saint-Laurent Boulevard. The artists' work is informed by concepts of 'fluid geography'
first proposed by R. Buckminster Fuller. A third site of intervention is thus
implied, that of Buckminster Fuller's largest existing geodesic dome, the
Biosphere, a short metro ride away on Île Sainte-Hélène.
At La Centrale, inside the gallery, is a sculpture inspired by Buckminster
Fuller's Dynamaxion World Map. Buckminster Fuller created the Dynamaxion map in
1943 as a means of visualising and understanding new global relationships that
were not represented by the commonly used Mercator maps. The flattened
hexagonal form of the map went on to become the basis for many of his ideas and
designs including his geodesic domes. One of Buckminster Fuller's findings
through the development of the Dynamaxion map was that the Earth's geography
could be understood as a unified large body of water surrounding several
landmasses (or continents). Buckminster Fuller's idea that the planet is
constituted of water, an essential conduit and life support for its
inhabitants, is the leitmotiv of Hooykaas/Stansfield's and duPont's project.
With After Image/After Language ,
the artists pursue Buckminster Fuller's quest for finding unexpected (fluid)
geographical connections. Their video sequences, shown after sundown in Parc La
Fontaine, are projected on a hexagonal screen anchored in the lake. With the
unique form of the screen and its placement in the lake, the artists link it to
the geodesic structure of the Biosphere and to its island setting. Likewise, by
placing one pole of their intervention in a storefront on Saint-Laurent
Boulevard and the other in the lake of a park, they boldly link a busy urban
thoroughfare to a peaceful natural oasis.
After dark, in La Centrale's storefront window, the artists rear-project images
of flowing water that refer to and connect to the water of Parc La Fontaine as
well as to the water in the Saint-Laurent River that flows past and services
Montreal. Visually, the projection is an 'after image', a residual view, a
collective memory of the water surrounding the city. During the day, recordings
of birdsongs played outside the gallery also link the boulevard with the park.
The sound of the birds is a reminder of the ongoing presence of nature in the
urban environment, and, as the songs are more of a resonance than a presence
and not processed intellectually, they are perceived beyond thinking, 'after
language'.
Buckminster Fuller, considered time as a relative observation, a series of
sequences of experiences, of 'after images' formed in our minds, a kind of
spontaneous reaction caused by memory. With After
Image/After Language , Madelon Hooykaas, Elsa Stansfield and
Chantal duPont have conceived a project using complex yet elegant combinations
of sound, image in unexpected settings to trigger our perception and our
memories in the city, to make us aware of the flux of our surroundings and of
our fluid connections to our natural and social environment.
Paul Landon, artist and art critic, 2006
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RE:
VOIR LA COLLABORATION
Hooykaas / Stansfield
on Tuesday 4 October at 20.00 and Wednesday 5 October at 19.30 2005
Goethe Institute 418 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Two programmes of videos.
Madelon Hooykaas will be present
Curators: Chantal duPont and Paul Landon
Organised by Espace Videographe. http://www.videographe.qc.ca
Gongju
International Art Fair, South Korea.
October 14- November 7 2005
Limlip Art Museum
791-1 Gisan-ri, Gyeryong-myeon, Gongju, Chungcheongnamdo
theme: ‘A Forest Rises”
Madelon Hooykaas is representing the Netherlands with the work of Hooykaas /
Stansfield.
‘Wishing Tree’ interactive website
‘Deep Looking’ 30 min video
http://www.giaf.net
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RE: VISION
30 min. videotape, worktitle 'Revision' for the BOS (Buddhist Broadcasting
Corporation)
UITZENDING OP ZONDAG 25 SEPTEMBER 2005 OM 14.00 OP NED1
HERHALING OP ZATERDAG 1 OKTOBER 2005 OM 09.30 OP NED1
Realisatie: Madelon Hooykaas / Elsa Stansfield
Geinspireerd door een tekst van Thich Nhat Hanh/ Lengte: 30 minuten
We zijn mensen, maar we zijn meer dan mensen,
ben je slechts een mens? of ook tegelijkertijd een boom en een rots?
Je hoeft alleen dieper te kijken om te ontdekken
dat je een mens bent en tegelijkertijd een rots en een boom.
Dit
fragment uit een tekst van de zenmonnik Thich Nhat Hanh is het begin van een
filmisch speurtocht naar de intieme en eindeloze afhankelijkheid van de dingen
in het bestaan. De camera leidt de kijker langs de woekerende wortels en takken
van een grote boom, als een oefening in aandacht. Momenten bundelen zich tot
stilstaan en dingen vallen uiteen tot een nieuwe samenstelling.
De
muziek voor deze kunstzinnige BOS-produktie werd gecomponeerd door
Frances-Marie Uitti. Samen met de poëtische beelden van kleurrijke elementen
uit de natuur, ontstaat een levend voorbeeld van de leer van het inter-zijn‚.
De boom dient hierbij als leitmotief van eenheid in verscheidenheid. Hij lijkt
de wereld te omvatten, maar toch wordt de boom langzaam maar zeker door de
kijker in zichzelf gedragen.
http://www.boeddhistischeomroep.nl
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