For the national exhibition Young talent all the 11 Dutch art academies were visited, to bring you the best graduates of 2007. If you would like to meet the students and see their work then come to Pitch on 21 september
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Laurence Aëgerter
GRAC Amsterdam
In the hospitality of strangers
10 people alphabetically listed above and below the artist were called. They were asked to sing a French song (from her birthplace of Marseille) and to have it recorded. Her argument in doing so was dat because their names were only centimetres apart from each other in the telephone register, they could also be close to each other in a physical and mental way. |
Klaas Bijl
KABK Den Haag
Performance 01
A naked person lies on a floor with pigmented powder. As he starts to move more, the pigment sticks to his body and he becomes one with the ground. |
Pascale De Backer (1981)
GRAC Amsterdam
Sensing Space
A space in which people can retreat. Feelings are influenced by colour, sound and shapes. With every colour and sound people experience a different feeling. |
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Dennis de Bel
WdKA Rotterdam
Streetplayer, Sewingtable and Nutduster
Household appliances are remodelled into musical inventions. Listen to the ‘streetplayer’, ‘sewingtable’ and ‘nutduster’. |
Annabel Garriga Coma
HKU Utrecht
Fathers and sisters
The project is based on photo and video images from the childhood of the artist's father. The video images are dated from around 1945. |
Maarten Gisbertz
GRAC Amsterdam
Dover Etretat (21 mei 2007)
Confrontation with the sunrise in Dover and the sunset in Entretat on the same day.
Stanza
a poetic collage of a man in a black world. Smoking a cigarette and holding a gun. A waiter serves while a march sets in. |
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Nina Katharina Glockner
Minerva Academie Groningen
Nutcase, Plantcare
Objects next too each other automatically evoke an action, imply performing a deed whatever the cause or result. The image continuously transforms, the action is repeated, the human functions. |
Viola Groenhart
GRAC Amsterdam
Passage
For no apparent reason aman runs through the forest. Initially we follow him closely. As he increasingly moves out of reach, he leaves behind new planes of concentration. |
Yoko Heiligers
CABK Zwolle
Hospital animals wall
Strange hospital animals as interactive cuddling wall. For example, enjoy the bust of real fur with a heating element. |
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Mette Hekelaar
WdKA Rotterdam
Switchbox
Answer for the one-way traffic of Second Life in which physical visitors experience a virtual life. Switchbox lets visitors of the virtual world enter our physical world. |
Mark Vincent Houston
GRAC Amsterdam
Photographical series Homecoming #1 and portrait study. Tautology or Waves: five 8mm film based on characters in an urban environment. |
Jaime Leonard Ibanez
Minerva Academie Groningen
Untitles
A space installation with an electronic train with which a person moves in the landscape. |
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Stephane Kaas
GRAC Amsterdam
Turkish Pride
"Ne mutlu t?diyene" is a Turkish saying that means “Happy is he who can call himself a Turk”… |
Erik Klein Wolterink
My kitchen - My back neighbour’s kitchen
Your own kitchen at full size on your wall. Or would you rather have your neighbours’ kitchen? |
Kim Laugs
KABK
3D2
A composition for 8 speakers, in which the emphasis is place don the acoustic experience of the space. |
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Sonja Magnusdottir
GRAC Amsterdam
Lagoona
In a dark and cool space large object occur made out off many layers of very thin, semi see through, plastic material. |
Astrid Nobel
Minerva Academie Groningen
Variation on 2906071640
A hidden place in which a selection of categorised events, lost an found objects and films have been brought together into a fragmented unison. |
Alexandra Werlich & Matthijs Rensman
KABKAlexandra
ChewingMuM
Narcism is a habit that doesn’t suit a child, but in ChewingMum an 11 year old has the lead role; a character that suffers from narcism.
Death(bed)
A child says goodbye to its family members. The line between being in the play and falling out of it is highlighted. |
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Anami Schrijvers
GRAC Amsterdam
Entwertete Sammlung: oder wie mein Vater arklärte dass, die Eimer sich nicht ändern werden.
Basic principles from a mainly autobiographical past. Losing the ground (reason for existence) and the immersion of a (seemingly) incoherence with an eventually coherent language. |
Erga Sonnenberg
GRAC Amsterdam
the Envelope
What is the relationship between use of space and place of individuality within a jurisdictional system? How are psychological aspects of social change translated into image? |
Edwin Stolk
KABK Den Haag
Denial
An existentialist (movement in time) installation. Observations from the mass media and ‘pre-scientifical’ publications are expressed. |
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Michiel van de Weerthof
St.Joost Den Bosch
Arrangement for myselfs
Four similar people form a visual orchestra in a choreography for image and sound. |
Xavier van Delft
Minerva Academie Groningen
Shine & Arouse
Documentary about the search for ORF (IRF: Independent Republic of Friesland); A terrorist cell that pleads for the independence of Friesland from the rest of the Netherlands. |
Noor van Horick
St. Joost Den Bosch
Iron3chloride, Macrovase, 5 X The mystical world of nature. Installation in which the evolution of iron chloride forms an artwork in its own right. |
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Steef van Lent
WdKA Rotterdam
Amicitia in room 4e
As artist in residence, he researches the Amicitia building. Probing and feeling, his camera registrates the physical aspect of the space. |
Levi van Veluw
AHA Arnhem
Blocks
This photographic series deals with reorganizing elements. Combining forms or lines on the context my head. Details are getting really important. |
Wynolt Visser
Minerva Academie Groningen
Room
Underground hideaways, graffiti and violence have an undisputable sensory pulling force in this installation. The closer you get, you see that there is more going on. The piece visualises the strains between childhood and adulthood. |
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Rein Vollenga
St.Joost Breda
Untitled
A fascinations for and a complaint against the generally accepted norms of society and the unfathomable choices of the human brain and the many contradictions this entails.
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