June 2011

Langs de Lijn in het Chabot Museum

published by Klaas on 19 June, 2011 - 13:16

From 19 June to 11 September 2011 the video "Langs de Lijn" we made for Jeanne van Heeswijk, will be exhibited in her retrospective at the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam.

The exhibition includes works Jeanne made in collaboration with: Mindaugas Arlinskas, Yun Bao, inhabitants Werthacker, Frank de Bruijn, Maurits de Bruijn, Benny Busborg, Yane Calvoski, Linas Citvaras, Floor Cornelisse, Rolf Engelen, Klaas van Gorkum, Ali Al Harbi, Iratxe Jaio, Huda Al Kazwine, Thijs Kelder, Wenying Liao, François Lombarts, Marcel van der Meijs, Jeroen Musch, Sonya Schönberger, Pia Sigmund, Paul Sixta, employees SUS, Roger Teeuwen, Siebe Thissen, Joke Tjalsma, Pieter Vandermeer, Frans Vermeer, Anique Weve and Marten Winters.

Colectiva, a su pe(n)sar - Noticias de Álava

El germinado por la dupla artística Iratxe Jaio&Klaas van Gorkum se mueve en la difusa relación entre lo público y lo privado, encuadrando las subjetividades colectivas como generadoras de espacio y prácticas sociales. Plagada de referencias cinematográficas, su propuesta documenta desde varias perspectivas la marcha zombie realizada el año pasado en Barakaldo.

Date published: 
Thu, 10/22/2009

The woodturning lathe

published by Klaas on 18 June, 2011 - 14:39

The woodturning lathe that Jos van Gorkum used, was welded together in the weeks prior to his retirement in 1976 by his colleagues at the Lips Propeller factory. It was assembled from bits of scrap metal, during the friday evening "hobby hours", when employees were allowed to use some of the factory's equipment for their personal projects.

Lips Propeller Factory

published by Klaas on 18 June, 2011 - 14:26

The Lips Propeller factory where Jos van Gorkum worked was founded in 1939, in Drunen, the Netherlands. In 1998 it was acquired by TI Group, continuing as John Crane Lips for four years, before being taken over by the Finnish corporation Wärtsilä. In 2010 Wärtsilä shut down the factory and moved production to China.

Scanning

published by Klaas on 18 June, 2011 - 13:24


Jos van Gorkum kept a metal cigar box, in which he collected magazine clippings, sketches and blueprints of different objects made by turning wood, as well as a number of price lists from mail order catalogs, in order to keep track of the value of the things he made. He left this box to his son (Klaas' father), before passing away in 1996, with the idea that it might come in handy one day.

On the project exhibited in the Amikejo cycle at Laboratorio 987, MUSAC

published by Klaas on 12 June, 2011 - 17:32

The Laboratorio 987 will host until 12 June 2011 a specific project by artists Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum: a conceptual and reflexive exploration of the notion of artistic production departing from common cultural heritage. The show is part of Amikejo, a series of four exhibitions curated by the independent curatorial office Latitudes [Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa], structured around relational and spatial twinning.

La producción del valor y sus condiciones

En última instancia, la obra consiste precisamente en la iluminación y el cuestionamiento de una serie de procesos productivos, y no en la glorificación del resultado concreto de tales procesos. Frente a la estetización de lo político que esto supondría, Jaio y van Gorkum proponen una politización de lo estético, que no discurre por el fácil camino de la soflama ideológica, sino a través de una reflexión crítica sobre las condiciones de la propia actividad. Revelan así una vía fructífera para deslindar el arte de la lógica espectacular y fantasmagórica de la mercancía. Pocos empeños parecen más necesarios en la situación actual del mundo del arte.
- Jaime Cuenca sobre Klaas van Gorkum e Iratxe Jaio en el Laboratorio 987 del MUSAC, León
Date published: 
Tue, 05/17/2011

Monthly articles for Mugalari

Between April 2010 and January 2011 we have been writing a monthly article on poltics, art and culture, for Mugalari, the cultural supplement of Basque newspaper Gara. A selection of articles can now be read online, at our new website: http://postpolitikak.org:

Date published: 
Wed, 02/22/2012

Hareng Saur: Ensor and contemporary art.

published by Klaas on 11 June, 2011 - 12:25

30 october - 27 february, SMAK and the Museum of Fine Art in Ghent

A video of the project "Stay inside. Close windows and doors" has been selected for the exhibition Hareng Saur: Ensor and contemprary art, to be shown in Contemporary Art Museum SMAK in Ghent.

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