Fucking Good Art also known as FGA held a launch event at WORM for a small publication featuring various artists who have gardens in the city of Rotterdam – our volkstuin at SNV was featured when it was entirely flooded due to weeks of heavy rain. By the way, take a good look at the…
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The Nettime mailing list was always a bit of a thorn in my side due to the prevalence if not dominance of male voices. That said, I’ve met people through the list that I would have never encountered otherwise. In the mid-nineties, Nettime was my primer to net(worked)-culture, a school of hard knocks. Through it,…
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Soft, air, stone, hands embrace that space in between. Thanks for highlighting the intensity of the senses, and all that’s beyond words.
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Spalding Gray, humorist, actor, ragingly manic troubadour. Your critical wit is sorely missed in these glib-tongued times of endless fear mongering. Although they found you in the East River, I will always imagine you’re still swimming to Cambodia. Thanks for endlessly monologuing.
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For this installation at the Tongerlohuys in Roosendaal, De Geuzen gathered thirteen portraits of unknown women. Important enough to be painted but not significant enough to be remembered, the installation aimed at giving these women a sense of solidarity in their loss of name. Beginning with two portraits from the Tongerlohuys collection, other portraits were…
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Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, a domestic viral construction, first built in Hanover, later re-invented in Norway and then in Britain. None of the originals exist today, it’s now a project of old blurry images and hearsay. It’s an interior skin filled with public and private obsessions. Thanks for bringing together the epic and provisional.
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(Written in 2006 ) Launching my browser I’m greeted by the words: Google. Sometimes decorated with spiders for Halloween, holly at Christmas and clovers on St. Patrick’s day, whatever fripperies adorn it, Google has ooched its way into being my preferred portal to the world wide web. It’s difficult to imagine a time without the…
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Taking place at the Impact Festival in Utrecht (2003), the idea for this De Geuzen project started when a well-known president declared an infamous divide: “YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US” This made us wonder about how such polemics could be cracked apart and possibly subverted to create more flexible alliances. We were…
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The Phenomenology of Licorice and Other Dutch Myths, Renée Turner, Ordinary Marvel, YYZ Books, 2003 Susan Kealey was a friend. In the early nineties we were at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and both grappled with being displaced North Americans in the heart of the Lowlands. Sometimes we coped with laughter and other times we had…
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Made in 2001, Frivolity and Folly was the second De Geuzen Uniform and was originally exhibited at the Bienal de Valencia (Spain.) Tailored to the idiosyncrasies of our very different body shapes, the De Geuzen uniforms are a collection of handmade garments playing with female identity. Frivolity and Folly is the most elaborate of the…
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