Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

In the making, Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Installation view during Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2011 (Photo: Peter Tijhuis)

Instruction for garden solar light, archive of the artist

Installation view during The 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, 2009 (Photo: Elad Sarig)

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

A garden solar light is placed where its solar panel can collect the maximum amount of full, direct sunlight. During the day, the solar panel converts sunlight into electricity and recharges the battery. The more sunlight it receives; the more power can be stored for the light to use at nighttime. Once night falls, a sensor turns the light on automatically. The solar lights in Ongoing Collection are placed in a glass showcase illuminated by daylight temperature fluorescent lamps. Here, night never falls and the collection never sees daylight. This artificial light does not operate merely to make the collection visible but to incessantly energize it and consequently prevent the lights from turning on. Every time the work is exhibited, a new and varied combination of the growing solar light collection is presented.

Soul Seek, Internet Opera, slsk.nl (2012)
Customized installation, Persona, production of Studio Minailo, Grachtenfestival, Amsterdam, NL, (2011)
Storyboard edition, IBG2011: Ins Blickfeld geruckt, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, FR (2011)
Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2011)
Storyboard edition, Ins Blickfeld Geruck, Institut Francais, Berlin, DE (2010)
The 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL (2009)
Sun Shine Shine, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL (2008)

#installation #object #collection #light #sunlight #solarlamp #cycle #dependency #durationalobject #dayandnight #ongoing #oneofakind #series #Attachment

Everything Near Becomes Distant,

As Long As ~ Drawing,

Someday He’ll Come Along,

In Dependent
Video, sound, 5’43”
2006

Installation view during Attentifs Ensemble, Attitudes, Geneva, 2006

Video still

In Dependent
Video, sound, 5’43”
2006

Timpanists are commonly required to tune their instruments in the middle of a piece of music. They obtain a reference pitch from a note played by another instrument in the course of the performance and then use musical intervals to arrive at the desired note. IN DEPENDENT shows a timpanist performing a written symphony – the 4^thmovement of Tchaikovsky’s 4^thsymphony op. 36. No orchestra is visible or audible on the scene. Hence the context, the melody, is absent. The orchestra is playing merely in the timpanist’s head as she is performing her written role in the piece; fragments of pulses. The timpanist becomes the soloist.

Attentifs Ensemble, Attitudes, Geneva, CH (2006)

#video #performance #audio #erase #system #dependency

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,

Intervention,

Point of Reference,

Leaving Living,

Melody Card
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007

Detail, Installation view, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2007

Installation view, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2007

Flatten Sounds, Page spread, “The Book of Intensions”, R. David, Issue 4, Summer 2008

Melody Card
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007

The melody card module was originally used in greeting cards: a small six pin processor is programmed with a melody to be played back through a piezo speaker. A lithium button cell provides the power and a leaf switch closes when the card is opened turning the music on. Here, the module is installed in the corner of the gallery space at 90 degrees, resulting in an extract of the song Home, Sweet Home being played in a loop. This process will last until either the battery runs out or the walls of the space are no longer standing still.An outcome of the audio installation is FLATTEN SOUND made especially for The Book of Intensions, Issue 4 of F.R.David. Here, the melody card module is scanned and printed on a double spread – inspired by the image-editing software Photoshop’s term “flatten image” where the individual layers of an image are merged into one.

“The Book of Intensions”, R. David, de Appel Arts Centre, Issue 4, Amsterdam, (Summer 2008)
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL (2007)

#installation #audio #soundtrack #dependency #system #durationalobject #countdown #magazine #printedmatter

Someday He’ll Come Along,

Absolute Countdown,

Portmanteau,

White Lie
Light installation, vertical blinds, cellophane papers, daylight, daylight bulbs
Variable dimensions
2007

Installation view, daytime, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2007

Installation view, nighttime, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2007

White Lie
Light installation, vertical blinds, cellophane papers, daylight, daylight bulbs
Variable dimensions
2007

This work is based on a 24-hour cycle. Colour cellophane papers cover the window in a room and creates a full color spectrum on the nearby wall. As the daylight fades so does the spectrum until only the white light, coming from the daylight bulbs, remains.

De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL (2007)

#installation #sitespecific #light #lightbulb #sunlight #dependency #timebased #beforenightfalls #durationalart #duration #cycle

Still in Emotion,

Intervention,

As Long As ~ Drawing,

Point of Reference
Manipulated cuckoo clock
Variable dimensions (Cuckoo clock in the image: 45 x 35 x 18 cm)
2006 – 2008

Installation view during The Twin Paradox, Contributed, Studio for the Arts, Berlin, 2008

Point of Reference
Manipulated cuckoo clock
Variable dimensions (Cuckoo clock in the image: 45 x 35 x 18 cm)
2006 – 2008

The duration of the mechanism of this cuckoo clock is one day. Each day the chains must be pulled in order for the two weights to go up. The cuckoo calls once every half an hour as well as every hour, the appropriate number of times of the announced hour. Here, the cuckoo is delayed by ten minutes in real time; positioning the listener-user in another relation to the measuring of passing time.

The Twin Paradox, Contributed, Studio for the Arts, Berlin, DE (2009)
(1), Plan B Projects, Amsterdam, NL (2007)
Kaleidoscope, Galeries d’exposition ENSBA, Paris, FR (2006)

#object #intervention #analogue #audio #clock #dependency #timespecific #daily #cycle

NOON,

Intervention,

In Dependent,

Leaving Living
Video installation, 10’30” loop
Variable dimensions
2005

View of location during shooting

View of location, day-time

Installation view during Durational Boundaries, ICA, Philadelphia, 2014 (Photo: Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media)

Leaving Living
Video installation, 10’30” loop
Variable dimensions
2005

The film frames and follows a mise-en-scène I created: a structure – the façade of which is decorated by a light garland –, a carpet in front of the entrance door, and a white plastic fence that surrounds its territory, its non-existent garden. The structure is located on a one-way street. The string of lights turns on for few seconds each time a car approaches the structure. The illumination is short, lasting only for the duration of the passage of the car. Elsewhen, the scene is dark, quiet, with no indications for when the next illumination will occur. The car did not choose its role, nor is it informed as to the consequence of its act. It penetrates the zone controlled by a movement detector and thus forces the facade-house to turn on. From the vehicle’s point of view, the structure is always illuminated, always animated. The camera, which documents the scene, captures the full sequence of events. It is programmed on night-shot and on automatic focus. The image does not have colors and oscillates between focused and blurry, without any human control.

Durational Boundaries, ICA, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2014)
Grandfather Paradox, On-Off Artprojects, Hamburg, DE (2010)
Grandfather Paradox, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL (2010)
Who’s Missing, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2008)
Abstraction Surface Air, Le Georges, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR (2008)
La Fabrique du Dessin, Galeries d’exposition ENSBA, Paris, FR (2006)
Je Partage Votre Point de Vue, La Générale, Paris, FR (2005)
Stationary, Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris, FR (2005)

#video #performance #intervention #publicart #sitespecific #system #interactive #dependency #light #anticipation #lightbulb #DurationalBoundaries

Still Fata Morgana,

In Dependent,

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,

Absolute Countdown,

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Ongoing Collection Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm Ongoing (Since 2008)

Ongoing Collection Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm Ongoing (Since 2008)

In Dependent Video, sound, 5’43” 2006

In Dependent Video, sound, 5’43” 2006

Melody Card Sound installation, melody card module, space corner 9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations 2007

Melody Card Sound installation, melody card module, space corner 9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations 2007

White Lie Light installation, vertical blinds, cellophane papers, daylight, daylight bulbs Variable dimensions 2007

White Lie Light installation, vertical blinds, cellophane papers, daylight, daylight bulbs Variable dimensions 2007

Point of Reference Manipulated cuckoo clock Variable dimensions (Cuckoo clock in the image: 45 x 35 x 18 cm) 2006 – 2008

Point of Reference Manipulated cuckoo clock Variable dimensions (Cuckoo clock in the image: 45 x 35 x 18 cm) 2006 – 2008

Leaving Living Video installation, 10’30” loop Variable dimensions 2005

Leaving Living Video installation, 10’30” loop Variable dimensions 2005

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

Ongoing Collection
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)

In Dependent
Video, sound, 5’43”
2006

In Dependent
Video, sound, 5’43”
2006

Melody Card
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007

Melody Card
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007

White Lie
Light installation, vertical blinds, cellophane papers, daylight, daylight bulbs
Variable dimensions
2007

White Lie
Light installation, vertical blinds, cellophane papers, daylight, daylight bulbs
Variable dimensions
2007

Point of Reference
Manipulated cuckoo clock
Variable dimensions (Cuckoo clock in the image: 45 x 35 x 18 cm)
2006 – 2008

Point of Reference
Manipulated cuckoo clock
Variable dimensions (Cuckoo clock in the image: 45 x 35 x 18 cm)
2006 – 2008

Leaving Living
Video installation, 10’30” loop
Variable dimensions
2005

Leaving Living
Video installation, 10’30” loop
Variable dimensions
2005