Edwin Stolk Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/Edwin_Stolk Installation work by Edwin Stolk at People You May Know | PYMK| 2009 Curated by Hester Scheurwater 29 August - 17 Oktober 2009 http://www.galeriedeschool.nl/ http://www.edwinstolk.nl/ http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Identity-2_0-as-a-neologism-by-Edwin-Stolk-(2009)/356722 Installation work by Edwin Stolk at People You May Know | PYMK| 2009 Curated by Hester Scheurwater 29 August - 17 Oktober 2009 http://www.galeriedeschool.nl/ http://www.edwinstolk.nl/ http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Identity-2_0-as-a-neologism-by-Edwin-Stolk-(2009)/356722 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:34:19 -0600 The artist becomes an Omega-level mutant; a prototype of the contemporary traveller whos passage through signs and formats refers to a contemporary experience of what I call rhizomatic-mobility. The contemporary traveller could also been seen as a subjective- terrorist. When you critically study the work, a new type of form is appearing, the journey-form, made of lines drawn both in space and time, materialising trajectories rather than destinations. The form of the video performance expresses a course, a wandering, rather than a fixed space-time. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Omega-level-mutant-by-Edwin-Stolk-(2009)/356731 The artist becomes an Omega-level mutant; a prototype of the contemporary traveller whos passage through signs and formats refers to a contemporary experience of what I call rhizomatic-mobility. The contemporary traveller could also been seen as a subjective- terrorist. When you critically study the work, a new type of form is appearing, the journey-form, made of lines drawn both in space and time, materialising trajectories rather than destinations. The form of the video performance expresses a course, a wandering, rather than a fixed space-time. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Omega-level-mutant-by-Edwin-Stolk-(2009)/356731 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:43:05 -0600 Installation: Persuasion (idea, Attitude, or action) by Edwin Stolk 2009 on show till 27nd of June 2009 at BuroDijkstra ArtGallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. About the work: Following its accession to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Bulgaria has been represented in the European Commission with one Commissioner. Existentialism is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, took the human subject â€" not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual and his or her conditions of existence â€" as a starting point for philosophical thought. Existential philosophy is characterized by what has been called the "explicit conceptual manifestation of an existential attitude" that begins with a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience. Mühl's 1964 "Material Action Manifesto" offers some theoretical framework for understanding this: ...material action is painting that has spread beyond the picture surface. The human body, a laid table or a room becomes the picture surface. Time is added to the dimension of the body and space. A 1967 revision of the same manifesto Mühl wrote: ... material action promises the direct pleasures of the table. Material action satiates. Far more important than baking bread is the urge to take dough-beating to the extreme. Brus and Mühl participated in the "Kunst und Revolution" (Art and Revolution) event in Vienna, June 1968, issuing the following proclamation: ... our assimilatory democracy maintains art as a safety valve for enemies of the state ... the consumer state drives a wave of "art" before itself; it attempts to bribe the "artist" and thus to rehabilitate his revolutionising "art" as an art that supports the state. But "art" is not art. "Art" is politics that has created new styles of communication. Guilty- guilt is an affective state in which one experiences conflict at having done something that one believes one should not have done (or conversely, having not done something one believes one should have done). http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Installation-Persuasion-by-Edwin-Stolk-2009/220689 Installation: Persuasion (idea, Attitude, or action) by Edwin Stolk 2009 on show till 27nd of June 2009 at BuroDijkstra ArtGallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. About the work: Following its accession to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Bulgaria has been represented in the European Commission with one Commissioner. Existentialism is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, took the human subject â€" not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual and his or her conditions of existence â€" as a starting point for philosophical thought. Existential philosophy is characterized by what has been called the "explicit conceptual manifestation of an existential attitude" that begins with a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience. Mühl's 1964 "Material Action Manifesto" offers some theoretical framework for understanding this: ...material action is painting that has spread beyond the picture surface. The human body, a laid table or a room becomes the picture surface. Time is added to the dimension of the body and space. A 1967 revision of the same manifesto Mühl wrote: ... material action promises the direct pleasures of the table. Material action satiates. Far more important than baking bread is the urge to take dough-beating to the extreme. Brus and Mühl participated in the "Kunst und Revolution" (Art and Revolution) event in Vienna, June 1968, issuing the following proclamation: ... our assimilatory democracy maintains art as a safety valve for enemies of the state ... the consumer state drives a wave of "art" before itself; it attempts to bribe the "artist" and thus to rehabilitate his revolutionising "art" as an art that supports the state. But "art" is not art. "Art" is politics that has created new styles of communication. Guilty- guilt is an affective state in which one experiences conflict at having done something that one believes one should not have done (or conversely, having not done something one believes one should have done). http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Installation-Persuasion-by-Edwin-Stolk-2009/220689 Mon, 04 May 2009 03:52:34 -0500 Installation: Q-Fever (2008) by Edwin Stolk at Exhibition Jong Land as part of Kunstzomer Anna Paulowna location Breezand the Netherlands. Q-fever is a disease caused by infection that affects both humans and animals. Exhibition text: It seems Edwin Stolk wants to create chaos by arranging 'trash'. His installation works may look as if you've entered the brain of a confused young man. But by ordering things intuitively, the artist seeks an subjective reality. www.edwinstolk.nl http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Installation-Q-Fever-by-Edwin-Stolk-2008/118358 Installation: Q-Fever (2008) by Edwin Stolk at Exhibition Jong Land as part of Kunstzomer Anna Paulowna location Breezand the Netherlands. Q-fever is a disease caused by infection that affects both humans and animals. Exhibition text: It seems Edwin Stolk wants to create chaos by arranging 'trash'. His installation works may look as if you've entered the brain of a confused young man. But by ordering things intuitively, the artist seeks an subjective reality. www.edwinstolk.nl http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Installation-Q-Fever-by-Edwin-Stolk-2008/118358 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:10:57 -0500 Subjective Terrorism by Edwin Stolk, presented by PLANETART at Kunstvlaai A.P.I. 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. www.edwinstolk.nl http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Subjective-Terrorism-by-Edwin-Stolk-(2008)/94889 Subjective Terrorism by Edwin Stolk, presented by PLANETART at Kunstvlaai A.P.I. 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. www.edwinstolk.nl http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Subjective-Terrorism-by-Edwin-Stolk-(2008)/94889 Mon, 26 May 2008 10:16:35 -0500 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Installation-Denial-(2007)/88479 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Installation-Denial-(2007)/88479 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:01:52 -0500