2023
The Body as Teacher II
Educational Performance Project
in collaboration with De Appel and Kentalis TOS Amsterdam
January - May 2023
Supported by Mocca
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Exhibition & Public Program by Nina Glockner and Sachi Miyachi together with researcher Lila Athanasiadou
December 18, 2022 to February 25, 2023
In the exhibition There is no Better Me, Nina Glockner and Sachi Miyachi bring together Japanese memorabilia, cultural artefacts, personal anecdotes, and architectural fragments from their Artist-in-residence period at Fukuroda Psychiatric Hospital in 2019. The title acts not only as a ‘note to self’, but also as a provocation, problematising our imperative for self-improvement and the ways behaviours that refuse to comply get pathologized. Simultaneously, There is no Better Me acts as a reminder to ground oneself in the present instead of being occupied by a nostalgic past or an idealised future.
The space of Beautiful Distress House in Amsterdam North is theatrically staged and ordered through a series of site-specific walls that echo the geological, architectural, cultural, mental and institutional boundaries encountered by the artists during their residency, interwoven with their experiences growing up in Japan and Germany, and currently living in the Netherlands. The work shows that what can be initially perceived as a boundary, has the capacity to transform into an interface and reveal ways of communication with oneself, the institution, the staff, the patients, the locals and the building itself. The audience is led through a series of proprioceptive encounters with the architecture as well as soundscapes and videos. Together these build an incomplete archive of the residency while resonating with Western contemporary discussions on mental health and self-improvement. The title, boldly covering the façade of the building, operates as an echo of the themes of the exhibition to the commuting crowds travelling through the city of Amsterdam.
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Image: Ayako Nishiboro
2020–
2021
Within the scope of this research fellowship, I explore how materiality is altered by subjective awareness, and develop a concrete spectrum of Scores as ‘exercises’ for that awareness. The interrelatedness between the processing subject and the processed material is a relevant aspect: to which degree can a change of the subject’s intention, attention, and (spatial) perceptiveness lead to a change of artistic process, action, and outcome?
In collaboration with students of the Ceramics Department and guests, and a practice-based research approach she explores how somatic and performative knowledge can be applied within contemporary art/design production, education, and beyond.
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Research Fellowship at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam in collaboration with the Ceramics Department, 2020-21.
Exhibition Fellows Exhibit '21 organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academie/LAPS and curated by Eva Hoonhout & Liza Prins, November 2021.
Thanks to: Louise Schouwenberg (advisor) & Ayumi Higuchi (external advisor)
Image: Nikola Lamburov
2021
Collective Voice Detector XXL
How can we create a situation where everyone involved has a voice and can temporarily undermine existing hierarchical structures? How can we facilitate a meeting while considering the participants’ different backgrounds, professional perspectives, rhetorical skills and power positions?
Collective Voice Detector XXL explores the boundaries between art & consultancy, spectator & player, and performance & game. During Playground Festival 2021, people who form a group in daily life have been invited as audience and as participants. By combining an aesthetic and sensory approach with verbal and non-verbal communication the groups are offered new ways to think, communicate and act – with each other instead of next to each other.
Participatory performance/Game
Playground Festival, STUK & M, Leuven, 2021
Performer: Nina Glockner, Mylan Hoezen
Concept, design: Nina Glockner
Production objects: Nina Glockner, Yelizaveta Strakhova
Advice design: Ayumi Higuchi
Co-produced by Playground/ STUK & M, Leuven,
Financially supported by Mondriaan Fund NL
Image: STUK/Joeri Thiery
2021
Being moved by what we move
As an ‘Open Score‘, specific body-related objects are the guiding medium between the audience and the performers. The given space, the objects, the audience members and the performers temporarily become part of an architectural structure, rehearsing togetherness under the terms of physical distancing. Can we -for a moment- establish a common experience of time and space?
Performance
Performer: Nina Glockner, audience
Performance programme curated by artist Caz Egelie, for exhibition 'Raum der Lusten', RAUM Utrecht, 2021.
Image: RAUM/Maarten Boswijk
2020
'Building as Opera' consists of a site-sensitive audiovisual performance, a text intervention on the windowfront, and a publication, all based on the Temple Tolstraat, a national monument located in Amsterdam Zuid.
In 1927 a building with the shape of a quarter of a circle was constructed as a new temple for the Theosophical Society. After only 10 years, the function of the building began to change frequently. Since then it has been used as a synagogue, cinema, mosque, public library, and temporary artist studio. Before it officially becomes a creative hub in 2021, I took this unique moment of transition, in which the building is temporary ‘out of function’ and brought together various voices from the past and the present. Based on my research around the history and the structure of the building, I used movement, voice, and sculptural elements for a live performance that echoed the important cultural and social consequences that the space has incorporated throughout its existence. In the context of a strong architectural environment and for the duration of a sunset, the audience was witnessing a space in transition and a moment of togetherness in distance.
A special booklet was published by n.k.g.publications for this occasion, including the essay ‘A Speaking Building’ by art historian Matisse Huiskens and designed by Koen Slothouber; it can be ordered here.
Performance and publication in collaboration with Justina Nekrasaite in the framework of "There is a Wall to be Crossed and I am the Wall".
Supported by Old School Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsdeel Zuid and Stichting Stokroos.
Opera singer: Persephone Abbott
Performer: Levi de Kleer, Nina Glockner
2020
Alphabet of Touch
A = Anus
A = Arm
A = Arm, upper
A = Atlas
B = Backbone
B = Belly
B = Bellybutton
B = Breast
B = Breastbone
B = Buttocks
C = Calf
C = Chin
C = Collarbone
C = Crown
C = Clitoris
C = Coronray artery
D = Diaphragm
E = Ear
E = Earlobe
E = Elbow
E = Eyes
E = Eyebrow
E = Eyelash
E = Eyelid
F = Face
F = Finger
F = Foot
F = Forearm
F = Forehead
F = Foreskin
F = Frenulum
G = Groin
G = Glans
H = Hamstring
H = Hand
H = Heart
H = Heel
H = Head
H = Hip
I = Indexfinger
I = Ilium
I = Ilio psoas
I = Iliac crest
I = Inner thigh
J = Jaw
K = Knee
K = Kidney
L = Leg
L = Lip
L = Lumbar (spine)
L = Lung
M = Mouth
N = Neck
N = Nipple
N = Nose
N = Nostril
O = Ovaries
O = Orbital bone
P = Palate
P = Palm
P = Pelvis
P = Penis
P = Pubic bone
Q = Quads
R = Rib
R = Ribcage
R = Rotary cuffs
S = Skin
S = Shinbone
S = Spine
S = Shoulder
S = Shoulder blade
S = Sternum
T = Trunk
T = Thigh
T = Tailbone
T = Thumb
T = Temporal bone
T = Temple
T = Tongue
U = Uterus
V = Vains
V = Vagina
W = Waist
W = Wrist
W = Womb
X =
Y =
Z =
Performance (not executed) commissened by LUMC Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum and the Amsterdam UMC for the opening of the exhibition 'Taboe of niet?–Controverses in openbare kunstcollecties' that should have been taking placing in March 6 2020. The opening was cancelled due to the Covid-19 measures implemented by the RIVM one day before the scheduled performance.
Image/Text: Nina Glockner
Performance: Nina Glockner, Levi de Kleer
2020
Spatial Score
1 ENTERING, WAITING
Transition from the Outside to the Inside
2 THE EAR
Talking – Listening
3 THE COLLECTION
Art as In-Between Medium
4 THE MIRROR
Vulnerability as the Blindfold of Senses
5 EXIT
Transition from the Inside to the Outside
Performance commissened by Hubert van Eyck Academy for 'Art & Medicine'.
A visual analysis of selected spatial characteristics of the doctor's practice Mediville (developed by Atelier van Lieshout) in relation to their functionality and manipulating power. Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
Image: Nina Glockner
2019
Exploring Betweenness
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Artist-in-Residency at Fukuroda Psychiatric Hospital, Japan, icw Sachi Miyachi. Organized by Beautiful Distress / Het Vijfde Seizoen, Fukuroda Hospital, D.AIR Daigo. Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Dutch Embassy Japan.
2019
A Serious Game - an edition
Commissioned by and developed in collaboration with Urban Planning Department of City of Maastricht and Van Eyck Mirror.
Concept: Nina Glockner, Design: Nina Glockner & Ayumi Higuchi, Production: Nina Glockner, Ayumi Higuchi, Snijlab.nl, Brown Cartonnages, Agia Grafische Afwerking; Thanks to Rebekka Straetmans, Tim van Wanrooij & Tima van der Linden, Gemeente Maastricht, Van Eyck Academie Maastricht. Images: Werner Mantz Lab
2019
Gardening Disorder
Performance / installation
'Smeared States',
by Lila Athanasiadou,
with Kévin Bray, Kerry Downey, Nina Glockner, Vytautas Kumža, Kari Robertson
Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, NL
2019
Inspired by the alchemy of fermentation – taking ingredients, adding salt, adding what’s in the air, adding time, and watching them transform – It Happens Anyway has been exploring the active participation of human and non-human forces feeding cycles to consume, digest, destroy and create.
Exhibition and Public Program – A collaboration between Sachi Miyachi, Natasha Rosling and Nina Glockner.
Participating artists: Antoine Bertin, Marika Groen, Nao Ishizaka, Kenzo Kusuda, Vilma Luostarinen, Ayako Nishibori, Nishiko, Alexandra Phillips, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Giorgi Tabatadze, Laura Wiedijk & Toon Fibbe, Guido Yannitto, Bernke Klein Zandvoort
Exhibition and Public Program – A collaboration between Sachi Miyachi, Natasha Rosling and Nina Glockner.
W139, Amsterdam, NL
Supported by AFK Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos
Image: Marika Groen
2019
How do you Spell Together?
'The mouth sits in the head, and the brain is inside the head. When I am scared, that happens in the eyes. And in the brain. When I am happy, in the mouth and in the brain.
When I am angry, eyes and mouth and brain, but not a lot of brain.'
'I can’t separate body and mind. They have both always demanded a kind of maximum of myself.
There have been situations in my life, in which I was only body.
This body was pain. Or the absence of pain. Or the regaining of movement. When I have a tooth ache, I become teeth until it is fixed again. Maybe that is also fine, that when I have something, I focus so much on the pain, until it eases away. It also works, that you own everything that happens to you or your body. Without making it bigger than it should be. There is an interaction between focus and bad visions.'
Performance / spatial intervention
'Open Studios', Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL Performance: Levi de Kleer, Nina Glockner
Text: Levi de Kleer, Sarah Leenders, Juri, Fabian, Christian
Text edit: Nina Glockner
Translation: Levi de Kleer
Image: Francy Finke
2017–
2019
Collective Voice Detector
Collective Voice Detector, commissioned by the urban planning department of the City of Maastricht, shows how the introduction of an open score can offer a possibility to 'move' a rigid system. Being confronted with a structural change of the welfare state organisation, the body politic aims to find new ways of interdisciplinary working methods, which should pro-actively deal with the participation of citizens. Based on my intense research of protocols, specific language, witnessing internal meetings and a series of one-on-one conversations with civil servants, I searched for a way to implement an 'active monument' that would keep stretching the mind of all people involved. I developed a 'serious game' that on one hand pragmatically functions as a tool for more democratic, empathic and target-oriented team conversations, and on the other hand reveals in an accessible and interactive manner how systems operate, and which role the involved agents want, can or must fulfil.
Research / ‘Serious Game’
Commissioned by urban planning department of City of Maastricht, in collaboration with Van Eyck Mirror
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2019
Portrait of a Collective Body [Sarah, Levi, Anand]
With my ongoing video work / research ‘Portrait of a Collective Body’ I question how the human body is being determined; e.g. how it relates to the space and architecture that surrounds it, how it interacts with the other, and how external power or discipline affects internal structures - and vice versa. In what respects are these influences visible or legible?
When a singular body raises its voice, we become aware of its personal and public narrative, and how it constitutes a particular relationship towards external structures. Establishing intimate connections and thereafter transmitting the identity of an individual helps to tell stories of imaginable lives, where the subjective can enter the public discourse as a collectively recognizable narrative.
Video installation,
'Open Studios',
Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
2 projections, 1 monitor, wood, curtains
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2019
Portrait of a Collective Body [Anand]
In 'Portrait of a Collective Body (Anand)', a 4-year-old boy moves through an urban landscape: an architectural lost-glory of 70s-utopia in Paris but first and foremost the place where he is growing up. By physically relating to specific architectural elements based on his personal score, he directs the camera and embodies the potentiality of seemingly unchangeable public structures.
Video (part of ongoing research), 12 min.
Performance: Anand
Sound editing & mixing: Francesco Cimino
Colour grading: Guillaume Souren
Production / distribution by Video Power Maastricht
Supported by Provincie Limburg
2019
Portrait of a Collective Body [Levi]
While hearing one person reflecting on his own body parts in 'Portrait of a Collective Body (Levi)', the camera depicts a subtle intimate choreography of an unconscious body language. Being an active dancer aware of his own physicality, and in transition from woman to man, change and limitations of a body are articulated.
Video (part of ongoing research), 17.40 min, English
Performance & text: Levi de Kleer
Sound editing & mixing: Francesco Cimino
Colour grading: Guillaume Souren
Production / distribution by Video Power Maastricht
Supported by Provincie Limburg
2019
Under, with, through, off
In ‘Under, with, through, off’ I capture the movements of a dancer improvising a choreography of the body in relation to a grid-like structure attached to her body. This structure impedes but at the same time provokes her movements and determines their form. The dancer’s well-trained suppleness with which she accommodates her ballast contrasts with her audible reflections, a self-scan of her body: she articulates pain, effort and a constant self-evaluation.
Video (part of ongoing research), 11 min, Dutch language, English subtitles
Performance & text: Sarah Leenders
Translation & subtitles: Levi de Kleer
Sound editing & mixing: Francesco Cimino
Colour grading: Guillaume Souren
Supported by Video Power Maastricht and Provincie Limburg
2018
there where I am not
In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not […]; I am over there, […], a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent. […] From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed toward me, […] I come back toward myself; I begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where I am. (Michel Foucault, Des Espaces Autres, 1967)
Performance / installation
'Stralen & Reflecteren'
Concept & organisation: Morgane de Klerk
With Boris de Beijer, Dovilė Bernadišuite, Liesbet Bussche, Benedikt Fischer, Jantje Fleischhut, Mio Fujimaki, Jing He, Morgane de Klerk, Lucy Sarneel, Julia Walter and Eline Willemarck.
Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Sachi Miyachi
2018
Site-specific installation and 1.004 pages tabloid size book, printed in inkjet as 1:1 depiction of the studio space
'Open Studios', Van Eyck Academy Maastricht, NL
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2018
Hints at actions yet to come / How do you spell together?
‘A window has certain dimensions.
You know the lines, your relationship to them.
But if you coulored the window, copied it, loosened it from its vertical plane, and laid it right beside you, you would suddenly relate completely differently.
It makes the instability of the lines visible, a set of parameters we orient ourselves in the world. Continuously we imagine the ground under our feet as a solid plane so that we don’t have to realise that its stability is made out of sand.’
(edit by Bernke Klein Zandvoort)
Installation / performance
'Point–Loops–Blooming', curated by Bernke Klein Zandvoort and Rodrigo R. Sandoval
Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht NL
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2018
Building as Body, or: How to Defenestrate Gender by Doubling it
Artists Nina Glockner and Levi de Kleer met in August 2018 to discuss 'Building as Body, or: How to Defenestrate Gender by Doubling it'.
Based on their own experiences, they draw connections between self and institution, body and building, fiction and reality–thus providing a perspective on the politics of naming and gender that synthesises the personal and the public. An intricate illustration by artist Sachi Miyachi mirrors these thoughts on a visual level.' (Hagen Verleger)
Nina Glockner with Levi de Kleer, illustration by Sachi Miyachi as a contribution to 'Margaret van Eyck – Renaming an Institution, a Case Study (Volume Two: Comments, Contexts, and Connections)' by Hagen Verleger
Published by Peradam Press, New York
2017
Talk to the ones you don't know –12 hours of conversation
Conversations with Laurent Marissal, Juan Pablo Plazas, Hélène Bernard&Dominique Lohlé, Léa Mayer, Michael Kral, Christophe Votron, Chad Keveny, Manon Cunha, Catherine Xu, Cécile Ibarra, Piero Bisello and Guillaume Clermont.
12 Conversations and 12 Drawings
Curated by Guillaume Clermont
n.w.w.n.n.l.n.o., Brussels, B
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2017
Voice of Atlantis
Hello.
The suicide of Atlantis
was the suicide of Buddha.
Shall we become a Siamese twin?
Greetings to the guitar.
Because the doctor thought
I was an ugly sheep.
7 space travel uniforms
for a kassandra
to throw it into the psychiatrists eye
bye bye talent'
(excerpt of diary by S., patient of
psychiatric institution Altrecht, Den Dolder)
Performance 'Manifestatie van de Waanzin', Beautiful Distress / Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
2017
there where I am not
In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not […]; I am over there, […], a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent. […] From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed toward me, […] I come back toward myself; I begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where I am. (Michel Foucault, Des Espaces Autres,1967)
Things can shine, seduce, disguise. Things evoke an impression of being nothing but servants for potential user. Yet things imply an intrinsic power: they operate human actions and – as being the opposing other – consequently reflect and unveil the self. Things– in relation to certain human actions – can in turn act themselves as mediators and confront/connect the self with another self, the other, eventually uncovering existing social formations.
Performance / installation
'Stralen & Reflecteren'
Concept & organisation: Morgane de Klerk
With Boris de Beijer, Dovilė Bernadišuite, Liesbet Bussche, Benedikt Fischer, Jantje Fleischhut, Mio Fujimaki, Jing He, Morgane de Klerk, Lucy Sarneel, Julia Walter and Eline Willemarck.
Atelier Néerlandais / Parcours Bijoux, Paris, F
Image: Matthieu Gauchet
2017
Scripted Formations
[...] Language is not.
Language is not just how we speak
but how we think
how we feel
how we see the world.
This language is completely irrelevant to the situation.
Doubt language. Language doubts.
We need to renew language.
We are left without.
We are left without a strong language.
We are left without a strong language to oppose.
Communication is sharing hallucinations.
(How to create a shared imagination?)
You react by how you are programmed by memory.
Putting something into language means fragmentation.
You are disembodied.
You don't exist.
Violent fear.
Violent fear of falling.
While you are falling, you feel like floating.
Where is the potential of this floating?
Maybe we.
Maybe we don't need a ground. [...]'
This work comprises text fragments and notes from the ‘Incomplete Reading Group’ recordings and a series of forms based on one of the characteristic architectural elements of Goleb’s Project Space. During the performance, forms, sound and the very presence of the audience contribute to unfolding a moment-in-transition, in which spatial and temporal coordinates become a tangible collective experience.
Performance based on the 'Inclompete Reading Group',
'Tales of Incompleteness', Curated / organized by Alejandro Ramirez & Lore Gablier.
La Cocina@Goleb, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Humble is not
[...] But is it a choice? Modesty is the death.
Can you afford it? You are part of something;
Part of time.
‘The Museum of Modesty’
is a huge building. It is an obstacle on the way,
for everyone.
Golden doors and light switches. A marble floor, cleaned everyday.
It is completely empty.
It is relational. It exists but it doesn’t help
to move through the world.
[...]'
Performance and interviews with participating artists Sayaka Abe, Vika Mitrichenko, Eva Soierenburg, Hans Arsman, Jay Tan and Kim van Erven. 'Humble', curated by Hanne Hagenaars en Heske ten Cate
Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
Image: Jan de Groen
2016
Revisited Identities
REFLECT DEFLECT ANIMATE CIRCULATE PERSIST INSPIRE INCREASE RECLINE CONSULT ASSUME HESITATE ACCESS STAY CONFRONT CONTINUE CONTRACT CONDITION CONDUCT CONSENT IMPART ATTEND PLAY BACK EXCHANGE EFFACE FORGET READ WRITE MANAGE CUT SHORT SHUFFLE PLAY STOP
(Edit list of verbs in Michael Gibbs' oeuvre. Gibbs (1949-2009) was artist, writer, poet and publicist. Starting point for this performance was his concrete poetry 'Identities 1 & 2' published in Kontexts in 1975.)
Performance based on Michael Gibbs archive
'Michael Gibbs–Let it keep secrets / de-re-construction (or fuck the alphabeth)'
Performance event with Lot Meijers, Mariana Lanari, Ivan Cheng
WG Kunst / Studio Gibbs, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Gert-Jan van Rooij
2016
As Part of a Kind of
Performance / installation
'The Black Box Theory', with Alexandre Jimenez, Hanan Klei, Frédéric Liver, Hannes Waldschütz, Piero Bisello, Jakub Vrba, Guillaume Clermont, curated by Fiona Darbon van Maercke
BB15, Linz, A
Image: F. D. van Maercke
2016
As Part of a Kind of
Performance Performance event with Nina Wijnmaalen and Milan Hoezen Suikerfabriek, Groningen, NL
Image: Tom van Huisstede
2016
Choreographed by the Other
X: We are going to pray together and thank God for the good he wants to give us. We thank God that there is a place for us to exist. [...] Is there anything we can pray for?
B: I cannot stand it anymore.
X: We pray for you.
B: My pain is beyond the threshold of pain.
X: We pray for you that this may stop. We pray for you for strength.
A: Okay.
X: And we pray for you that you may feel the close presence of Jesus.
A: Alright.
X: Anyone else?
D: That I only have fear and problems, great despair. I am so much in trouble with myself.
X: Fear and despair —
D: — Yes —
X: — For that they finally know that they may leave you, that they shall no longer harass you. We pray for you. [...] And what do you want?
F: Being happy — I want that my father and mother care for me and protect me.
X: We pray that your father and mother shall care for you. And that you all are happy with it.
G: Let us pray for my boy, that he shall not bleed anymore, and that his fear will be taken away.
X: We pray for the blood to stop — luckily it has stopped already — and for it to stay away.
F: And that I never have to go to the hospital again.
X: And may you never need to go to a hospital again. And may you lose your fear. And may your trust in God become greater and greater and greater. And may the fear disappear.
A: Okay.
Performance / launch publication
'Another Place, My Life', Beautiful Distress at Casco / FOTODOK, Utrecht, NL
Image: Maarten Nauw
Choreographed by the Other
2016
Publication based on Artist-in-Residence period at Het Vijfde Seizoen, psychiatric institution Willem Arntsz Hoeve, Den Dolder, NL
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Text: Nina Glockner
Graphic Design: Ayumi Higuchi
Proofreading: Marianna Maruyama
Published by
n.k.g. publications & Stichting Kunstenaarsverblijf Het Vijfde Seizoen
2016
Choreographed by the Other
How do we relate to the other, stigmatized by and excluded of society? By positioning the other outside of our common social playground we try to banish their significant features as phenomena also from inside ourselves.
Based on intense encounters with several patients during my residency period in a psychiatric institution I create a score of actions linked to a specific set of objects: A research on the communicating potential of a performative practice to establish a dialogue with the other, captured in movement, words and images.
Performance
'FLAM VI', curated by Rose Akras
Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Thomas Lenden
2015
Choreographed by the Other – Session 1
These video sequences are excerpts of a performative collaboration that has taken place in Het Vijfde Seizoen, a residence for artists on the grounds of the psychiatric institution the Willem Arntsz Hoeve in Den Dolder, the Netherlands.
The improvised sessions form an attempt to develop a dialogue with one patient by using performative tools and stressing the triangular relationship between word, human and object. The formal actions empower the objects and open up a common space beyond shyness, prejudices and predefined power positions.
Video performance, 5.12 min.
Performance: Alver, Nina Glockner
Camera, translation & subtitles: Nina Glockner
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
2015
Choreographed by the Other – Session 2
Video performance, 6.12 min.
Performance: Alver, Nina Glockner
Camera,translation & subtitles: Nina Glockner
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
2015
Choreographed by the Other – volcano water tree human embrace
Video performance, 1.11 min
Performance: Alver, Nina Glockner
Camera, translation & subtitles: Nina Glockner
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
2015
Choreographed by the Other
Performance
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
Image: Francis van Boxtel
2015
The other side is more promising
Dear Enemy,
The image of you seemed to get all blurry, almost disappearing.
But after such long, long time of waiting (in standstill) you have grown. You have become a clear form, a structure entangled in all my fibres. You are me and I am you. Locked in myself are you and I am locked in this space. Here, we are together and cannot escape,
And, if I could escape, I only could escape with you. The other side is more promising.
More seems to be there than here and now.
But I stay with you, here. Within this space – controlled by myself – our togetherness guarantees safety.
I have installed you, my enemy, within myself, and we are waiting together. You make me to be what I am (inside here).
While waiting, we have to have a conversation to analyse our relationship, and discover that we have become symbiotic. Our dialogue is a bipolar monologue. Our common prison is a shelter of security, of a sense of well-being. We cannot harm each other; we are attuned to one another.
You give me strength, Identity, the right to exist. I fear the moment when I have to go out and would have to encounter emptiness;
the emptiness remaining when I ‘d have to let you go.
So I stay, I better stay. And you, you ought to stay with me, my enemy, as my comrade, as the only constant element I can hold on to. In liberty I ´d be forced to be alone.
Sincerely,
Your Enemy
Installation
'Gimme Shelter-Forten en Ficties in Laagland', curated by Lucette ter Borg and Sacha Bronwasser
Kunstfort Asperen, NL
Image: Nina Glockner
2015
Attack the Escape
Performance
Tekenvereniging Pictura, Dordrecht, NL
Image: Jules van Iperen
2015
Not[e] the other
Performance
'Luna Park Project: Chapitre IV', curated by Guillaume Clermont
B93, Enschede NL
Image: Guillaume Clermont
2014
Voice related, passing now
Performance / installation
'Uchinokoto', CBK, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Ayako Nishibori
2014
Untitled (actions)
Performance
'Seven days of happenings'
Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, NL
Image: Joe-ann van Deventer
2014
ignore/adore/leave/move
Performance / installation
'Network Clay', curated by Bastienne Kramer, Anningahof, Zwolle, NL
Image: Steven van Welle
2014
Later is too late
Performance
'Verbo Performance Art Festival', Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, BR
Image: Rafael Cañas
2014
No One Is
Performance / installation
'Uchinokoto', 3331 Arts Chiyoda Akiba Tamabi 21 Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2014
I am too tired to be radical
Performance
'PAE kort #14',
curated by Ieke Trinks & Nina Boas, Wolfart Project Space, Rotterdam, NL
Image: Anjes Gesink
2014
Inappropriate Field Study II
Performance
'FLAM V', curated by Rose Akras
Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Bart Majoor
2014
Inappropriate Field Study
Performance / installation
'SUCCES', curated by Jacqueline Overberg, circa... dit, Arnhem, NL
Image: Sachi Miyachi
2014
A study of chromatic organisation
Performance
Studium Generale ArtEZ, Rozet, Arnhem, NL
Image: Giorgi Tabatadze
2013
Endless songs about missing birds
Installation
'All is giving', Groningen, NL
2013
I might as well want to leave
Performance
'Auditions', curated by Gandt & Fleur van Muiswinkel, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Sanne Beemsterboer
2013
Action Replay
Performance
'The rise and fall of the continuous cycle', curated by Arik Visser,
De Service Garage, Amsterdam, NL
2023
The Body as Teacher II
Educational Performance Project
in collaboration with De Appel and Kentalis TOS Amsterdam
January - May 2023
Supported by Mocca
(to be updated)
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2020–
2021
Within the scope of this research fellowship, I explore how materiality is altered by subjective awareness, and develop a concrete spectrum of Scores as ‘exercises’ for that awareness. The interrelatedness between the processing subject and the processed material is a relevant aspect: to which degree can a change of the subject’s intention, attention, and (spatial) perceptiveness lead to a change of artistic process, action, and outcome?
In collaboration with students of the Ceramics Department and guests, and a practice-based research approach she explores how somatic and performative knowledge can be applied within contemporary art/design production, education, and beyond.
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Research Fellowship at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam in collaboration with the Ceramics Department, 2020-21.
Exhibition Fellows Exhibit '21 organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academie/LAPS and curated by Eva Hoonhout & Liza Prins, November 2021.
Thanks to: Louise Schouwenberg (advisor) & Ayumi Higuchi (external advisor)
Image: Nikola Lamburov
2021
Collective Voice Detector XXL
How can we create a situation where everyone involved has a voice and can temporarily undermine existing hierarchical structures? How can we facilitate a meeting while considering the participants’ different backgrounds, professional perspectives, rhetorical skills and power positions?
Collective Voice Detector XXL explores the boundaries between art & consultancy, spectator & player, and performance & game. During Playground Festival 2021, people who form a group in daily life have been invited as audience and as participants. By combining an aesthetic and sensory approach with verbal and non-verbal communication the groups are offered new ways to think, communicate and act – with each other instead of next to each other.
Participatory performance/Game
Playground Festival, STUK & M, Leuven, 2021
Performer: Nina Glockner, Mylan Hoezen
Concept, design: Nina Glockner
Production objects: Nina Glockner, Yelizaveta Strakhova
Advice design: Ayumi Higuchi
Co-produced by Playground/ STUK & M, Leuven,
Financially supported by Mondriaan Fund NL
Image: STUK/Joeri Thiry
2021
Being moved by what we move
As an ‘Open Score‘, specific body-related objects are the guiding medium between the audience and the performers. The given space, the objects, the audience members and the performers temporarily become part of an architectural structure, rehearsing togetherness under the terms of physical distancing. Can we -for a moment- establish a common experience of time and space?
Performance
Performer: Nina Glockner, audience
Performance programme curated by artist Caz Egelie, for exhibition 'Raum der Lusten', RAUM Utrecht, 2021.
Image: RAUM/Maarten Boswijk
2020
'Building as Opera' consists of a site-sensitive audiovisual performance, a text intervention on the windowfront, and a publication, all based on the Temple Tolstraat, a national monument located in Amsterdam Zuid.
In 1927 a building with the shape of a quarter of a circle was constructed as a new temple for the Theosophical Society. After only 10 years, the function of the building began to change frequently. Since then it has been used as a synagogue, cinema, mosque, public library, and temporary artist studio. Before it officially becomes a creative hub in 2021, I took this unique moment of transition, in which the building is temporary ‘out of function’ and brought together various voices from the past and the present. Based on my research around the history and the structure of the building, I used movement, voice, and sculptural elements for a live performance that echoed the important cultural and social consequences that the space has incorporated throughout its existence. In the context of a strong architectural environment and for the duration of a sunset, the audience was witnessing a space in transition and a moment of togetherness in distance.
A special booklet was published by n.k.g.publications for this occasion, including the essay ‘A Speaking Building’ by art historian Matisse Huiskens and designed by Koen Slothouber; it can be ordered here.
Performance and publication in collaboration with Justina Nekrasaite in the framework of "There is a Wall to be Crossed and I am the Wall".
Supported by Old School Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsdeel Zuid and Stichting Stokroos.
2020
Alphabet of Touch
A = Anus
A = Arm
A = Arm, upper
A = Atlas
B = Backbone
B = Belly
B = Bellybutton
B = Breast
B = Breastbone
B = Buttocks
C = Calf
C = Chin
C = Collarbone
C = Crown
C = Clitoris
C = Coronray artery
D = Diaphragm
E = Ear
E = Earlobe
E = Elbow
E = Eyes
E = Eyebrow
E = Eyelash
E = Eyelid
F = Face
F = Finger
F = Foot
F = Forearm
F = Forehead
F = Foreskin
F = Frenulum
G = Groin
G = (Glans- head of the penis)
H = Hamstring
H = Hand
H = Heart
H = Heel
H = Head
H = Hip
I = Indexfinger
I = Ilium
I = Ilio psoas
I = Iliac crest
I = Inner thigh
J = Jaw
K = Knee
K = Kidney
L = Leg
L = Lip
L = Lumbar (spine)
L = Lung
M = Mouth
N = Neck
N = Nipple
N = Nose
N = Nostril
O = Ovaries
O = Orbital bone
P = Palate (Roof of the mouth)
P = Palm
P = Pelvis
P = Penis
P = Pubic bone
Q = Quads
R = Rib
R = Ribcage
R = Rotary cuffs
S = Skin
S = Shinbone
S = Spine
S = Shoulder
S = Shoulder blade
S = Sternum
T = Trunk
T = Thigh
T = Tailbone
T = Thumb
T = Temporal bone
T = Temple
T = Tongue
U = Uterus
V = Vains
V = Vagina
W = Waist
W = Wrist
W = Womb
X =
Y =
Z =
Performance (not executed) commissened by LUMC Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum and the Amsterdam UMC for the opening of the exhibition 'Taboe of niet?–Controverses in openbare kunstcollecties' that should have been taking placing in March 6 2020. The opening was cancelled due to the Covid-19 measures implemented by the RIVM one day before the scheduled performance.
Image/Text: Nina Glockner
Performance: Nina Glockner, Levi de Kleer
2020
Spatial Score
1 ENTERING, WAITING
Transition from the Outside to the Inside
2 THE EAR
Talking – Listening
3 THE COLLECTION
Art as In-Between Medium
4 THE MIRROR
Vulnerability as the Blindfold of Senses
5 EXIT
Transition from the Inside to the Outside
Performance commissened by Hubert van Eyck Academy for 'Art & Medicine'.
A visual analysis of selected spatial characteristics of the doctor's practice Mediville (developed by Atelier van Lieshout) in relation to their functionality and manipulating power. Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
Image: Nina Glockner
2019
Exploring Betweenness
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Artist-in-Residency at Fukuroda Psychiatric Hospital, Japan, icw Sachi Miyachi. Organized by Beautiful Distress / Het Vijfde Seizoen, Fukuroda Hospital, D.AIR Daigo. Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Dutch Embassy Japan.
2019
A Serious Game - an edition
Commissioned by and developed in collaboration with Urban Planning Department of City of Maastricht and Van Eyck Mirror.
Serious Game, 2019
Commissioned by urban planning department of City of Maastricht, in collaboration with Van Eyck Mirror / Concept by Nina Glockner, Design by Nina Glockner & Ayumi Higuchi, Produced by Nina Glockner, Ayumi Higuchi, Snijlab.nl, Brown Cartonnages, Agia Grafische Afwerking, Thanks to Rebekka Straetmans (Van Eyck Mirror), Tim van Wanrooij & Tima van der Linden (Gemeente Maastricht), Van Eyck Academie Maastricht
Images: Werner Mantz Lab
2019
Gardening Disorder
Performance / installation
'Smeared States',
by Lila Athanasiadou,
with Kévin Bray, Kerry Downey, Nina Glockner, Vytautas Kumža, Kari Robertson
Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, NL
2019
Inspired by the alchemy of fermentation – taking ingredients, adding salt, adding what’s in the air, adding time, and watching them transform – It Happens Anyway has been exploring the active participation of human and non-human forces feeding cycles to consume, digest, destroy and create.
Exhibition and Public Program – A collaboration between Sachi Miyachi, Natasha Rosling and Nina Glockner.
W139, Amsterdam, NL
Supported by AFK Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos
Image: Marika Groen
2019
How do you Spell Together?
'The mouth sits in the head, and the brain is inside the head. When I am scared, that happens in the eyes. And in the brain. When I am happy, in the mouth and in the brain.
When I am angry, eyes and mouth and brain, but not a lot of brain.'
'I can’t separate body and mind. They have both always demanded a kind of maximum of myself.
There have been situations in my life, in which I was only body.
This body was pain. Or the absence of pain. Or the regaining of movement. When I have a tooth ache, I become teeth until it is fixed again. Maybe that is also fine, that when I have something, I focus so much on the pain, until it eases away. It also works, that you own everything that happens to you or your body. Without making it bigger than it should be. There is an interaction between focus and bad visions.'
Performance / spatial intervention
'Open Studios', Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL Performance: Levi de Kleer, Nina Glockner
Text: Levi de Kleer, Sarah Leenders, Juri, Fabian, Christian
Text edit: Nina Glockner
Translation: Levi de Kleer
Image: Francy Finke
2017–
2019
Collective Voice Detector
Collective Voice Detector, commissioned by the urban planning department of the City of Maastricht, shows how the introduction of an open score can offer a possibility to 'move' a rigid system. Being confronted with a structural change of the welfare state organisation, the body politic aims to find new ways of interdisciplinary working methods, which should pro-actively deal with the participation of citizens. Based on my intense research of protocols, specific language, witnessing internal meetings and a series of one-on-one conversations with civil servants, I searched for a way to implement an 'active monument' that would keep stretching the mind of all people involved. I developed a 'serious game' that on one hand pragmatically functions as a tool for more democratic, empathic and target-oriented team conversations, and on the other hand reveals in an accessible and interactive manner how systems operate, and which role the involved agents want, can or must fulfil.
Research / ‘Serious Game’
Commissioned by urban planning department of City of Maastricht, in collaboration with Van Eyck Mirror
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2019
Portrait of a Collective Body [Sarah, Levi, Anand]
With my ongoing video work / research ‘Portrait of a Collective Body’ I question how the human body is being determined; e.g. how it relates to the space and architecture that surrounds it, how it interacts with the other, and how external power or discipline affects internal structures - and vice versa. In what respects are these influences visible or legible?
When a singular body raises its voice, we become aware of its personal and public narrative, and how it constitutes a particular relationship towards external structures. Establishing intimate connections and thereafter transmitting the identity of an individual helps to tell stories of imaginable lives, where the subjective can enter the public discourse as a collectively recognizable narrative.
Video installation,
'Open Studios',
Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
2 projections, 1 monitor, wood, curtains
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2019
Portrait of a Collective Body [Anand]
In 'Portrait of a Collective Body (Anand)', a 4-year-old boy moves through an urban landscape: an architectural lost-glory of 70s-utopia in Paris but first and foremost the place where he is growing up. By physically relating to specific architectural elements based on his personal score, he directs the camera and embodies the potentiality of seemingly unchangeable public structures.
Video (part of ongoing research), 12 min.
Performance: Anand
Sound editing & mixing: Francesco Cimino
Colour grading: Guillaume Souren
Production / distribution by Video Power Maastricht
Supported by Provincie Limburg
2019
Portrait of a Collective Body [Levi]
While hearing one person reflecting on his own body parts in 'Portrait of a Collective Body (Levi)', the camera depicts a subtle intimate choreography of an unconscious body language. Being an active dancer aware of his own physicality, and in transition from woman to man, change and limitations of a body are articulated.
Video (part of ongoing research), 17.40 min, English
Performance & text: Levi de Kleer
Sound editing & mixing: Francesco Cimino
Colour grading: Guillaume Souren
Production / distribution by Video Power Maastricht
Supported by Provincie Limburg
2019
Under, with, through, off
In ‘Under, with, through, off’ I capture the movements of a dancer improvising a choreography of the body in relation to a grid-like structure attached to her body. This structure impedes but at the same time provokes her movements and determines their form. The dancer’s well-trained suppleness with which she accommodates her ballast contrasts with her audible reflections, a self-scan of her body: she articulates pain, effort and a constant self-evaluation.
Video (part of ongoing research), 11 min, Dutch language, English subtitles
Performance & text: Sarah Leenders
Translation & subtitles: Levi de Kleer
Sound editing & mixing: Francesco Cimino
Colour grading: Guillaume Souren
Supported by Video Power Maastricht and Provincie Limburg
2018
there where I am not
In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not […]; I am over there, […], a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent. […] From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed toward me, […] I come back toward myself; I begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where I am. (Michel Foucault, Des Espaces Autres, 1967)
Performance / installation
'Stralen & Reflecteren'
Concept & organisation: Morgane de Klerk
With Boris de Beijer, Dovilė Bernadišuite, Liesbet Bussche, Benedikt Fischer, Jantje Fleischhut, Mio Fujimaki, Jing He, Morgane de Klerk, Lucy Sarneel, Julia Walter and Eline Willemarck.
Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Sachi Miyachi
2018
Site-specific installation and 1.004 pages tabloid size book, printed in inkjet as 1:1 depiction of the studio space
'Open Studios', Van Eyck Academy Maastricht, NL
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2018
Hints at actions yet to come / How do you spell together?
‘A window has certain dimensions.
You know the lines, your relationship to them.
But if you coulored the window, copied it, loosened it from its vertical plane, and laid it right beside you, you would suddenly relate completely differently.
It makes the instability of the lines visible, a set of parameters we orient ourselves in the world. Continuously we imagine the ground under our feet as a solid plane so that we don’t have to realise that its stability is made out of sand.’
(edit by Bernke Klein Zandvoort)
Installation / performance
'Point–Loops–Blooming', curated by Bernke Klein Zandvoort and Rodrigo R. Sandoval
Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht NL
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2018
Building as Body, or: How to Defenestrate Gender by Doubling it
Artists Nina Glockner and Levi de Kleer met in August 2018 to discuss 'Building as Body, or: How to Defenestrate Gender by Doubling it'.
Based on their own experiences, they draw connections between self and institution, body and building, fiction and reality–thus providing a perspective on the politics of naming and gender that synthesises the personal and the public. An intricate illustration by artist Sachi Miyachi mirrors these thoughts on a visual level.' (Hagen Verleger)
Nina Glockner with Levi de Kleer, illustration by Sachi Miyachi as a contribution to 'Margaret van Eyck – Renaming an Institution, a Case Study (Volume Two: Comments, Contexts, and Connections)' by Hagen Verleger
Published by Peradam Press, New York
2017
Talk to the ones you don't know –12 hours of conversation
Conversations with Laurent Marissal, Juan Pablo Plazas, Hélène Bernard&Dominique Lohlé, Léa Mayer, Michael Kral, Christophe Votron, Chad Keveny, Manon Cunha, Catherine Xu, Cécile Ibarra, Piero Bisello and Guillaume Clermont.
12 Conversations and 12 Drawings
Curated by Guillaume Clermont
n.w.w.n.n.l.n.o., Brussels, B
Image: Werner Mantz Lab
2017
Voice of Atlantis
Hello.
The suicide of Atlantis
was the suicide of Buddha.
Shall we become a Siamese twin?
Greetings to the guitar.
Because the doctor thought
I was an ugly sheep.
7 space travel uniforms
for a kassandra
to throw it into the psychiatrists eye
bye bye talent'
(excerpt of diary by S., patient of
psychiatric institution Altrecht, Den Dolder)
Performance 'Manifestatie van de Waanzin', Beautiful Distress / Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
2017
there where I am not
In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not […]; I am over there, […], a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent. […] From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze that is, as it were, directed toward me, […] I come back toward myself; I begin again to direct my eyes toward myself and to reconstitute myself there where I am. (Michel Foucault, Des Espaces Autres,1967)
Things can shine, seduce, disguise. Things evoke an impression of being nothing but servants for potential user. Yet things imply an intrinsic power: they operate human actions and – as being the opposing other – consequently reflect and unveil the self. Things– in relation to certain human actions – can in turn act themselves as mediators and confront/connect the self with another self, the other, eventually uncovering existing social formations.
Performance / installation
'Stralen & Reflecteren'
Concept & organisation: Morgane de Klerk
With Boris de Beijer, Dovilė Bernadišuite, Liesbet Bussche, Benedikt Fischer, Jantje Fleischhut, Mio Fujimaki, Jing He, Morgane de Klerk, Lucy Sarneel, Julia Walter and Eline Willemarck.
Atelier Néerlandais / Parcours Bijoux, Paris, F
Image: Matthieu Gauchet
2017
Scripted Formations
[...] Language is not.
Language is not just how we speak
but how we think
how we feel
how we see the world.
This language is completely irrelevant to the situation.
Doubt language. Language doubts.
We need to renew language.
We are left without.
We are left without a strong language.
We are left without a strong language to oppose.
Communication is sharing hallucinations.
(How to create a shared imagination?)
You react by how you are programmed by memory.
Putting something into language means fragmentation.
You are disembodied.
You don't exist.
Violent fear.
Violent fear of falling.
While you are falling, you feel like floating.
Where is the potential of this floating?
Maybe we.
Maybe we don't need a ground. [...]'
This work comprises text fragments and notes from the ‘Incomplete Reading Group’ recordings and a series of forms based on one of the characteristic architectural elements of Goleb’s Project Space. During the performance, forms, sound and the very presence of the audience contribute to unfolding a moment-in-transition, in which spatial and temporal coordinates become a tangible collective experience.
Performance based on the 'Inclompete Reading Group',
'Tales of Incompleteness', Curated / organized by Alejandro Ramirez & Lore Gablier.
La Cocina@Goleb, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Humble is not
[...] But is it a choice? Modesty is the death.
Can you afford it? You are part of something;
Part of time.
‘The Museum of Modesty’
is a huge building. It is an obstacle on the way,
for everyone.
Golden doors and light switches. A marble floor, cleaned everyday.
It is completely empty.
It is relational. It exists but it doesn’t help
to move through the world.
[...]'
Performance and interviews with participating artists Sayaka Abe, Vika Mitrichenko, Eva Soierenburg, Hans Arsman, Jay Tan and Kim van Erven. 'Humble', curated by Hanne Hagenaars en Heske ten Cate
Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
Image: Jan de Groen
2016
Revisited Identities
REFLECT DEFLECT ANIMATE CIRCULATE PERSIST INSPIRE INCREASE RECLINE CONSULT ASSUME HESITATE ACCESS STAY CONFRONT CONTINUE CONTRACT CONDITION CONDUCT CONSENT IMPART ATTEND PLAY BACK EXCHANGE EFFACE FORGET READ WRITE MANAGE CUT SHORT SHUFFLE PLAY STOP
(Edit list of verbs in Michael Gibbs' oeuvre. Gibbs (1949-2009) was artist, writer, poet and publicist. Starting point for this performance was his concrete poetry 'Identities 1 & 2' published in Kontexts in 1975.)
Performance based on Michael Gibbs archive
'Michael Gibbs–Let it keep secrets / de-re-construction (or fuck the alphabeth)'
Performance event with Lot Meijers, Mariana Lanari, Ivan Cheng
WG Kunst / Studio Gibbs, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Gert-Jan van Rooij
2016
As Part of a Kind of
Performance / installation
'The Black Box Theory', with Alexandre Jimenez, Hanan Klei, Frédéric Liver, Hannes Waldschütz, Piero Bisello, Jakub Vrba, Guillaume Clermont, curated by Fiona Darbon van Maercke
BB15, Linz, A
Image: F. D. van Maercke
2016
As Part of a Kind of
Performance Performance event with Nina Wijnmaalen and Milan Hoezen Suikerfabriek, Groningen, NL
Image: Tom van Huisstede
2016
Choreographed by the Other
X: We are going to pray together and thank God for the good he wants to give us. We thank God that there is a place for us to exist. [...] Is there anything we can pray for?
B: I cannot stand it anymore.
X: We pray for you.
B: My pain is beyond the threshold of pain.
X: We pray for you that this may stop. We pray for you for strength.
A: Okay.
X: And we pray for you that you may feel the close presence of Jesus.
A: Alright.
X: Anyone else?
D: That I only have fear and problems, great despair. I am so much in trouble with myself.
X: Fear and despair —
D: — Yes —
X: — For that they finally know that they may leave you, that they shall no longer harass you. We pray for you. [...] And what do you want?
F: Being happy — I want that my father and mother care for me and protect me.
X: We pray that your father and mother shall care for you. And that you all are happy with it.
G: Let us pray for my boy, that he shall not bleed anymore, and that his fear will be taken away.
X: We pray for the blood to stop — luckily it has stopped already — and for it to stay away.
F: And that I never have to go to the hospital again.
X: And may you never need to go to a hospital again. And may you lose your fear. And may your trust in God become greater and greater and greater. And may the fear disappear.
A: Okay.
Performance / launch publication
'Another Place, My Life', Beautiful Distress at Casco / FOTODOK, Utrecht, NL
Image: Maarten Nauw
Choreographed by the Other
2016
Publication based on Artist-in-Residence period at Het Vijfde Seizoen, psychiatric institution Willem Arntsz Hoeve, Den Dolder, NL
more info & order
Text: Nina Glockner
Graphic Design: Ayumi Higuchi
Proofreading: Marianna Maruyama
Published by
n.k.g. publications & Stichting Kunstenaarsverblijf Het Vijfde Seizoen
2016
Choreographed by the Other
How do we relate to the other, stigmatized by and excluded of society? By positioning the other outside of our common social playground we try to banish their significant features as phenomena also from inside ourselves.
Based on intense encounters with several patients during my residency period in a psychiatric institution I create a score of actions linked to a specific set of objects: A research on the communicating potential of a performative practice to establish a dialogue with the other, captured in movement, words and images.
Performance
'FLAM VI', curated by Rose Akras
Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Thomas Lenden
2015
Choreographed by the Other – Session 1
These video sequences are excerpts of a performative collaboration that has taken place in Het Vijfde Seizoen, a residence for artists on the grounds of the psychiatric institution the Willem Arntsz Hoeve in Den Dolder, the Netherlands.
The improvised sessions form an attempt to develop a dialogue with one patient by using performative tools and stressing the triangular relationship between word, human and object. The formal actions empower the objects and open up a common space beyond shyness, prejudices and predefined power positions.
Video performance, 5.12 min.
Performance: Alver, Nina Glockner
Camera, translation & subtitles: Nina Glockner
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
2015
Choreographed by the Other – Session 2
Video performance, 6.12 min.
Performance: Alver, Nina Glockner
Camera,translation & subtitles: Nina Glockner
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
2015
Choreographed by the Other – volcano water tree human embrace
Video performance, 1.11 min
Performance: Alver, Nina Glockner
Camera, translation & subtitles: Nina Glockner
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
2015
Choreographed by the Other
Performance
Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL
Image: Francis van Boxtel
2015
The other side is more promising
Dear Enemy,
The image of you seemed to get all blurry, almost disappearing.
But after such long, long time of waiting (in standstill) you have grown. You have become a clear form, a structure entangled in all my fibres. You are me and I am you. Locked in myself are you and I am locked in this space. Here, we are together and cannot escape,
And, if I could escape, I only could escape with you. The other side is more promising.
More seems to be there than here and now.
But I stay with you, here. Within this space – controlled by myself – our togetherness guarantees safety.
I have installed you, my enemy, within myself, and we are waiting together. You make me to be what I am (inside here).
While waiting, we have to have a conversation to analyse our relationship, and discover that we have become symbiotic. Our dialogue is a bipolar monologue. Our common prison is a shelter of security, of a sense of well-being. We cannot harm each other; we are attuned to one another.
You give me strength, Identity, the right to exist. I fear the moment when I have to go out and would have to encounter emptiness;
the emptiness remaining when I ‘d have to let you go.
So I stay, I better stay. And you, you ought to stay with me, my enemy, as my comrade, as the only constant element I can hold on to. In liberty I ´d be forced to be alone.
Sincerely,
Your Enemy
Installation
'Gimme Shelter-Forten en Ficties in Laagland', curated by Lucette ter Borg and Sacha Bronwasser
Kunstfort Asperen, NL
Image: Nina Glockner
2015
Attack the Escape
Performance
Tekenvereniging Pictura, Dordrecht, NL
Image: Jules van Iperen
2015
Not[e] the other
Performance
'Luna Park Project: Chapitre IV', curated by Guillaume Clermont
B93, Enschede NL
Image: Guillaume Clermont
2014
Voice related, passing now
Performance / installation
'Uchinokoto', CBK, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Ayako Nishibori
Voice related, passing now (Uchinokoto Publication)
2015
In ‘Voice related, passing now’ fragments of collective memories are revealed by focussing on the relationship between ‘the acting/the instructed’ human being and (daily) objects in the course of time. By developing and executing a certain score of actions which involves specific objects, I construct a home-like / sacred area, inscribe the borders of a territory and share it with a public who is ̶ partly ̶ forced to be involved.
2014
Untitled (actions)
Performance
'Seven days of happenings'
Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, NL
Image: Joe-ann van Deventer
2014
ignore/adore/leave/move
Performance / installation
'Network Clay', curated by Bastienne Kramer, Anningahof, Zwolle, NL
Image: Steven van Welle
2014
Later is too late
Performance
'Verbo Performance Art Festival', Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, BR
Image: Rafael Cañas
2014
No One Is
Performance / installation
'Uchinokoto', 3331 Arts Chiyoda Akiba Tamabi 21 Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2014
I am too tired to be radical
Performance
'PAE kort #14',
curated by Ieke Trinks & Nina Boas, Wolfart Project Space, Rotterdam, NL
Image: Anjes Gesink
2014
Inappropriate Field Study II
Performance
'FLAM V', curated by Rose Akras
Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Bart Majoor
2014
Inappropriate Field Study
Performance / installation
'SUCCES', curated by Jacqueline Overberg, circa... dit, Arnhem, NL
Image: Sachi Miyachi
2014
A study of chromatic organisation
Performance
Studium Generale ArtEZ, Rozet, Arnhem, NL
Image: Giorgi Tabatadze
2013
Endless songs about missing birds
Installation
'All is giving', Groningen, NL
2013
I might as well want to leave
Performance
'Auditions', curated by Gandt & Fleur van Muiswinkel, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
Image: Sanne Beemsterboer
2013
Action Replay
Performance
'The rise and fall of the continuous cycle', curated by Arik Visser,
De Service Garage, Amsterdam, NL