This issue explores the relationship of skin to language.
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De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research
Screenshot of preparations for “Aesthetic Strategies As Critical Interventions”
Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011: Aesthetic strategies as critical interventions. Works presented by JR Carpenter, Renée Turner, Andreas Jacobs and Simon Biggs. Panel hosted by Rita Raley. Location: Perdu Theater, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam. I talked briefly about De Geuzen’s work the Global Anxiety Monitor, which ran from 2007 until October 2011. Operating through the browser, the…
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Mappamundi
Mappamundi assembled artists who, over the past 40 years, have worked on maps and who have questioned cartographical representation in ways to better move or provoke us.
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View by Thread
View By Thread took place at STUK, Leuven, Belgium. The solo exhibition showcased De Geuzen’s work from 1996 to 2010. Mixing printed matter, textiles, and digital pieces, the exhibition wove together different thematic threads running throughout their practice.
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Map Fest @ Mediamatic
Map Fest took place at Mediamatic Bank on July 6, 8 and 9. The second evening of Map Fest was dedicated to Mapping for Clarity. Guests were Richard Rogers, Catalogtree and De Geuzen. Urban sociologist and researcher Merijn Oudenampsen moderated the evening. Our talk was titled: Cartographies and Patterns: a view from the ladder For…
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The Global Anxiety Monitor @ STUK
In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents. As Sven Spieker notes, “Archives are less concerned with memory than with the necessity to discard, erase, eliminate.”
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Archived: Feed to Read
At the event Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice (Bergen, NO), Feed to Read was collectively written with the audience. Click below to see the archived Feed to Read.
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Homage to an Unknown Woman
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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Fripperies and Trimmings: Meaning Arises Through Use
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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De Geuzen Uniform: Frivolity and Folly
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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