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Nina Wijnmaalen: I take myself as an example in my work, in directing and analyzing behavior. I am determined to use my body and imagination and I aspire to take this life as an opportunity to form and model myself, as being a work in progress. I never stop making stamps of my psyche but the form constantly changes. A hunt for existence.
I represent you what is left. Isolation and insanity, and how we deal with this. Loneliness, little failure. Taking it too seriously. Could be masturbating instead, watching television, playing on the internet, smoking, or quitting. I start talking to myself. I am addicted. Candy-cuddling-talking-thinking. I bump heads against the wall. In the belly there is war. It all feels weird. Laughing, crying. Rush. Ready to go outside. I hate showering, it is a dirty waste. I’d rather dance. Now I feel better. Ready to encounter. We forget our masks. Glue in my moustache. Please. People. Forget this face. Go back inside. Closed curtains. Release tension in secret ways. Salvation without every possible religion. I open the curtains. I am alone. I exist like this. It never stops.
www.salonsurplus.org
videostill: Nina Wijnmaalen
Maurice Meewisse: Physical labor is disappearing and with it, the image of the ‘hard manual laborer’. The disappearance of hard labor is not problematic in itself. I am occupied with the disappearance of the mentality, which derives from it: the willingness to self-sacrifice that characterizes people who carry out extreme forms of work. In my work I look to portray the worker and the image of uncompromising strength and suffering. A heroic man who is willing to sacrifice himself out of a necessity, just like the hard manual laborers of the past.
www.mauricemeewisse.com
photo: Casper Rila
Jolanda Jansen: My work consist out of three forms of represen-ting. The first are performative video’s. I stage myself in front of a camera and perform in solitude. The second are live performances directly in front of an audience. The third are video’s made at specific locations in which I perform in relation to the environment.
I express myself with the same intimacy as I do in my privet atmosphere.
I determine what I show within my concept, but I also reveal my personal intimacy.
When I stage a performance directly in front of an audience I carry out my concept of the performance, I step into my own physical and mental construction, during the process I just ‘become’. In the performance Perseverance #2 I take my breath and sight away, by which I experience and create an even bigger presence of me.
Media are the promises of reality. “I am filming Myself with my Camera. My Camera is connected to the Beamer. The Beamer is projecting an image on the Wall. The Wall is watched by You. You are looking at Me.”
photo: José Krijnen
Nina Boas: 1980 Saumur/France. Grew up in Amsterdam. She studied sculpture at the AKI in Enshede in the Netherlands(1999-2003) she now lives in Rotterdam. After her studies she obtained a stipendium for one year from the BKVB. She has been active as a performance artist for several years and has shown her work in China, Finland, Spain, in different performance events. She has made performances in collaboration with choreographs, musicians and dancers. Next to her practice as a performance artist she organizes a yearly performance event called PAE set in Rotterdam.
Sometimes a giant, and sometimes a very small girl. She draws big houses and puts her audience in small boxes, serves them tea from very big cups. Her world is a world where the archetypical construction relating to gender and class are not spoken about, but played with through video projections, live drawings, environmental reconstructions and theatrical expressions, and the audience forgets their parallels through laughter and then reflection.
www.ninaboas.nl
photo: Lotte stekelenburg
Ieke Trinks: Lives and works in Rotterdam. During my Masters studies in Fine Arts I started to focus on performance art. My recent works contain language in the form of observations and instructions, next to live performed actions reacting on text. In my performances I often concentrate on the sequence of daily routines. I have the urge to decompose, to separate things and actions into components or basic elements. It’s a way to reveal how one thing leads to the other and to take a closer look at our social norms because I think it’s full of absurdities.
In the past years I attended several group shows in and outside the Netherlands. I performed on several performance art festivals and venues in Germany, Finland, Spain, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile.
Alongside my solo practice I’m part of the collective Trickster, which focuses on improvisation in performance art. Since 2009 I am the co-producer of PAE (Performance Art Event) in Rotterdam.
www.ieketrinks.nl
photo: Hester Draycott