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Onderweg naar hier heb ik hem verteld over enkele trends die ik ontwaar binnen de hedendaagse fotografie en waarover ik mijn ergernis steeds slechter kan wegstoppen; al is ergeren eigenlijk niet het juiste woord. Ik ben voor 'vrijheid blijheid' en voor iedereen is er een plek onder de zon. Maar als te veel vogels hetzelfde liedje zingen, dan slaat de verveling toe. Helemaal vervelend wordt het wanneer die liedjes ook nog eens begeleid worden door pompeuze teksten die als enig doel hebben een werk te omringen met het parfum van intellectualiteit. Zo blijft men maar in de weer met 'deconstrueren' en visueel 'representeren' en mag een beeld nooit eens gewoon 'beeld' zijn.

Maarten Dings - citaat uit ‘Kick Out the Jams’ gelezen in FOMU’s EXTRA 23

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http://lernertandsander.com/rath-doodeheefver/

Lernert and Sander

Het Nieuwe Instituut- Rath & Doodeheefver

HD video, C-prints,  2014

Het Nieuwe Instituut commissioned us to design a spatial installation based on the wallpaper collection of the manufacturer Rath & Doodeheefver. We took 100 original Rath & Doodeheefver designs from every year of its 100 year existence and wallpapered it all to one thick physical timeline. During the Salone del Mobile we removed it layer by layer.

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Luuk Schröder - Self Portrait as a Photographer ----------------------------------------------------------- een zoektocht naar het onzekere of naar het oncontroleerbare

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We zien jou in het water vallen terwijl je de camera naar beneden richt en een foto maakt van je reflectie. Het werk toont echter enkel deze actie door iemand anders gefotografeerd, niet de foto die je op dat moment zelf maakt.

https://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/gesprek-met-kunstenaar-luuk-schr%C3%B6der

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Jeroen Eisinga - 40-44-PG (1993)

16 mm-film to SD-Video, color, sound, 3 min, 01 sec

The Volkswagen Beetle in this film belonged to my twin brother Bart. The license plate is the title of the film. The location is our hometown Waspik, a small village in the South of the Netherlands. We used to drive around in this car for many years, and during our year of shared unemployment we occasionally did this stunt to spice up our long days. It was our own version of train surfing or Russian roulette. The car drove around in circles with no driver in it. The wheel was tied with a rope and there was a brick on the pedal. One of us would walk around blindfolded, trying to dodge the car and trying not to get run over. The other one would watch and cheer; ‘to the left’; or ‘to the right’; ‘move on’, or ‘watch out!’ I decided to reenact this pastime or rite of passage. In this performance I did the walking and Bart filmed it, enabling me to see what I could not see with my own eyes.

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Ana Mendieta - Siluetas

In Ana Mendieta’s photographic works made in the seventies and eighties we can distinguish the contours of a human body in the soil, or the process of a body merging with its ecological environment. This is a residue of a person, where the subject’s idea of selfhood seems to be dissolving, adapting completely, as a means of depersonalization. As a refugee who came from Cuba to the U.S. at a young age, Mendieta was an outsider in the white-dominated towns of the Mid-West. But instead of a reactionary quest for her bloodline, the artist explores the nature of alienation as an inherent human feature by transforming herself into a mediating device between herself and her environment. She becomes her environment and challenges traditional borders of race, gender, and man versus nature, in witty forms of metamorphosis, in order to understand these divisions as only human-made ideas.

Source: https://outline.jetzt/anything-makes-sense-4-copy.html

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Martin Parr - The Artificial beach inside the Ocean Dome.

Japan. Miyazaki. From 'Small World'. 1996.

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DARREN HARVEY REGAN.

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Maurizio Cattelan - A Perfect Day (1999)

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Suburo Murakami, Passing Through, 1956

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Michael Heizer - Negative Megalith #5 source: https://www.diaart.org/program/exhibitions-projects/michael-heizer-collection-display Cutting into the landscape, Heizer developed the concept of a “negative sculpture,” where the presence of the work of art is made palpable precisely through its material absence.

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The greatest effort is to be really where you are, contemporary with yourself, in your life, giving full attention to the world. That’s what a writer does. I’m against the solipsistic idea that you find it all in your head. You don’t.

Susan Sontag, from an interview conducted c. October 1979 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Leos Carax - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf / The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)

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Ger van Elk – Replacement Piece

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The Well Polished Floor Sculpture (2010) by Ger Van Elk

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Ger van Elk, 'The Flattening of the brook's surface', 1972-2002

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