In this interview with Afterall's Paula Barriobero, Jaio and van Gorkum discuss notions of communities, social and activist practices and some of their projects, as well as their recent experiences at Occupy Amsterdam.
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Afterall - Artists at Work: Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum Date published: 08/02/2012
Published in: Afterall Online
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Het Democratisch Experiment Date published: 14/12/2011
Published in: Vrij Nederland
'De hoorzittingen zijn een vergrootglas op het proces van democratisering. Je legt alles bloot, ook de pijnpunten. De Occupy’ers zijn positief over de gesprekken. Het heeft ook een therapeutische functie: mensen zijn moe en wij luisteren naar ze.' Uiteindelijk willen de kunstenaars een compilatie maken van de twintig gesprekken en die op internet zetten. 'We leven in een WikiLeaks-tijd: we willen mensen toegang geven tot de kennis... |
Trouw - Het protestkamp als een zich ontwikkelend kunstwerk Date published: 07/12/2011
Published in: Trouw
Vijf kunstenaars zijn sinds midden oktober gehuisvest in een grote tent in het Amsterdamse Occupy-kamp. Niet om hun werk te presenteren, maar om te onderzoeken wat kunst kan bijdragen aan de Occupy-beweging. - Milo Lambers |
The Resilient Artist Date published: 01/11/2011
Published in: Artez Fact No 3.
The Social Experiment collective (which comprises Wouter Osterholt, Elke Uitentuis, Klaas van Gorkum, Iratxe Jaio and Jonas Staal) organised a three-day experiment at the invitation of Studium Generale. To increase artists’ resilience, police academy lecturers held classes for participants at ArtEZ Enschede’s academy building. The aim here was to “break through passivity.” |
Metropolis M - Artists in Occupy Amsterdam Date published: 01/11/2011
Published in: Metropolis M
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La producción del valor y sus condiciones Date published: 17/05/2011
Published in: A*Magazine, la revista de A*DESK. Dedicada a la crítica y la reflexión sobre arte contemporaneo.
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... |
Monthly articles for Mugalari Date published: 22/02/2012
Published in: Mugalari, the cultural supplement of the Gara newspaper
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: |
Colectiva, a su pe(n)sar - Noticias de Álava Date published: 22/10/2009
Published in: Noticias de Álava
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Stay inside. Close windows and doors - Editorial Date published: 02/06/2009
Published in: Stay inside. Close windows and doors. Consumer society and the zombie apocalypse
The shopping mall is a caricature of the Greek agora, the classical space of democracy. It surrounds the citizens with an illusion of freedom of choice, while discouraging unpredictable behaviour, effectively turning them into passive consumers of their environment. Nevertheless, as other open and multifunctional spaces in the modern city are becoming obsolete, it may be the only site where public assembly still has a latent... |
Beatriz Herráez on "Meanwhile, in the living room..." Date published: 01/09/2008
Published in: Desde aquí hasta ahí
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First prize awarded to Film as Fossil in Made in Video Festival Date published: 01/09/2006
Published in: Jury report Made in Video Festival
Film as Fossil creates a visual and auditive play with distance and doubling of gazes. The distance between sound and image, present and future, private and public, black and white, questions and answers. To bridge the distance we are invited to read new meaning into the material. A Fossil - something experienced in the past is hidden and deposited in the film. The memory of the video artist becomes the memory of Holland’s colonial... |
Conversation with Leire Vergara about OpTV Date published: 01/06/2005
The purpose of OpTV is to act as a window on the transformations that Transvaal is going through, connecting experiences of daily life on the ground to developments in society, and placing them within a broader framework of changing political policies. The challenge is how to achieve this without getting caught up in the problems of misguided representation, given that we interpret Jack as a beautiful, but suspicious vehicle of... |
Objective mirages - Review Date published: 12/03/2005
Published in: Mugalari, the cultural supplement of the Gara newspaper
I couldn’t believe that anybody else could have the same story as me is the title of the exhibition by Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum at the Uhagon Kulturgunea of Markina. This phrase, drawn from the reflections of Camilla, a woman with South Korean origins adopted by Danish parents, on her childhood memories as a different girl, reveals how identity -taken here to its most narcissist and infantile extreme- is... |