Category: projects
Interview with RTV Oost about my art and the tapestry that’s now part of the collection of Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
YES, MUSEUM DE FUNDATIE HAS BOUGHT MY LARGE RED TAPESTRY!!
I’m a veeerrrryyy happy panda!!
In other news, RTV Oost dropped by for their weekly bulletin Spunck!, portraying young artists and their artistic practice. The programme also pays attention to the exhibition of John Heartfield at Museum de Fundatie, and the HKU group show ‘Van wie is de wereld?’ (also at Museum de Fundatie).
Did I already mention Museum de Fundatie in this post..?
>Click here to go to the RTV Oost web page to watch the interview< (link opens in new window)
Alleen op een Landgoed @ Bergarde Galleries
For the exhibition project PLAYGROUND at Bergarde Galleries, Heerjansdam I made a remake of the 1971 radioproject Alleen op een Eiland.
Between the 3rd and 7th of April I camped at Landgoed het Buitenland to find out what happens at the estate when people are not around. During my stay I recorded an audio documentary, which can be listened to below:
More info about the project can be found here for now: https://bergarde.com/nieuws/kunstenaar-op-het-landgoed/
My personal portfolio website will be updated with this project soon.
The new tapestry @ Willem Twee, Den Bosch
Yes, I’ve finished a new tapestry! Based on one of the street photos I took during my visit to Tehran, Iran.
The tapestry and photos from a brand new photo series (‘Men of Quality’) will be on view until the 26th of May. Below you can also see the banner I made in Iran which was used to take photos on the streets with passersby. The banner is made entirely by hand, its letters exist out of beadwork. All fabrics used for the banner were purchased in Tehran, Iran.
https://www.willem-twee.nl/event/joyce-overheul/
Artist in residence at Bergarde Galleries for the new exhibition PLAYGROUND
Above: the campsite during the evening at Landgoed Het Buitenland
I’m a bit off the radar this year. First I stayed in Iran for a month, then I went into hiding in a tent at Bergarde Galleries.
Read more about my camp trip and the project in general over here: https://bergarde.com/nieuws/kunstenaar-op-het-landgoed/
Artist in Residence at the Aria Residency, Tehran, Iran
It’s been awfully quiet on this blog. But don’t worry, I haven’t died, my work hasn’t died, everything and everyone is okay. (:
Something I could not really post up front about is me being an artist in residence at the Aria Residency, as part of the Aria Gallery in Tehran, Iran. I stayed at the research residency site for four weeks in January 2019. An artist talk and exhibition followed, and more than a hundred people visited my open studio exhibition event at the end of my stay.
More info about the residency can be found here: aria-residency.com
Some photos of the open studio can be found here: http://aria-residency.com/open-studio-joyce-overheul/
More info about the works I made over there will be online soon, as soon as I’ve updated my website. I also continue in The Netherlands to make more works as a follow-up on the residency, more about that will be online too as soon as I’ve finished those projects.
LOOKING FOR MODELS! If you have a nice bum and identify as male, email me.
I still need 3-4 models to take photos of their bums for my project BUM REVISITED. (Yes, I’m recreating that 2009 bum photo, just because I can.) So, male bum owners, email me!
New work ‘Korean Promises’ at CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE @ In de Ruimte, Ghent
Oh look at that! This new baby will be on my portfolio website soon.
More info:
Ancient recap no3: the first community art tree-things have been installed!
Yay! That’s the only thing I’m going to say about it at this point. Four more tree sculptures will follow during the next two months.
Stay tuned for more information, you could also follow the Rijtuigenbuurt’s Facebook page.
Yes, these objects look very different compared to the ones I normally make. Since this is a community art project, actually all objects have been made by residents of the Rijtuigenbuurt area in Nieuwegein themselves under my guidance.
Ancient recap no2: I can finally reveal what I made for We Like Art’s Secret Postcard Sale!
Well, I could have done that way earlier but as you could read in the previous blog post, I had some hiccups getting things done…
So, here it is: that bottom right thing is mine! Well, it was mine actually since it sold during the exhibition… It’s a pincushion, it even includes an embroidered autograph.
Artist-in-residence at Kunsthal45, Den Helder: new work!
It’s been awfully quiet on this blog for the last couple months…. but fear not! There’s no reason to worry. I’ve just been awfully busy.
Today I finished an artist-in-residence project at Kunsthal45 in Den Helder (NL) where I made an entirely new work, a naval mine made from transparent organza as part of my soft series. The project will be on view until the 13th of August at the Kunsthal.
Lots of events are coming up meanwhile and after this exhibition, among which:
– Nasty Women Exhibition in Mexico at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City,
– Utrecht Down Under in (of course) Utrecht,
– And my work will be part of the annual Fotoroute at Windkracht 13 Gallery, Den Helder.
For an extensive overview of all my future plans, please see my >website<
For now, here are some photos of the freshly finished naval mine. The results are really nice, the colours look different from every angle.
My work online @ We Like Art!
New project @ Vijandschap Exhibition @ Fort Maarsseveen
Opening tomorrow: the exhibition VijandSchap at Fort Maarsseveen (near Utrecht, NL).
Over there I will present a new research project on lying, liespotting and designing your truth. Hope to see you there, the opening starts tomorrow at 17hr sharp! The exhibition will run during opening hours of the venue until the 14th of May.
Have a look at http://www.c-fordt.nl for more info about the exhibition and side program,
Have a look at http://www.rondleidingbijhetfort.nl (Dutch only at this moment) for a sneak peek of my latest project.
Aanstormend talent bij MIJ, Musuem IJsselstein
From the 11th of March until the 28th of May, my project 1000 CRANES will be part of the exhibition Aanstormend talent bij MIJ (upcoming talent bij MIJ/”ME”) at Museum IJsselstein, located in (well duh) IJsselstein, The Netherlands.
For the Dutchies among you, here’s some more info about the opening and exhibition in general: http://www.museumijsselstein.nl/activiteiten/uitnodiging-opening-aanstormend-talent-bij-mij
On the 30th of April and 6th of May I will host a workshop about the Japanese tradition of Senbazuru and on the 18th of May there will be an artist talk (incl me of course) about the entire project.
More info about this project can be found on my website: http://joyceoverheul.com/works/cranes.html
Hope to see you there!
Horror Workshop @ WDKA, Rotterdam
Michiel (one of the regular performers of my The Gaze performance series) approached me to host a workshop for Willem de Kooning Academie’s 24 hours of lessons. Because my workshop would initially start at 12 at night (the witch hour) and we would be located in a creepy and vacant building, I decided it would be fun to organize a workshop about horror films.
And fun we had!
Below you can see some photos of the evening and the results of what the students of DBKV (the fine art & design teacher department) made:
Suus, Robert and Marisa made these three photos instead of a video:
Recap: New Atlantis | Digital Dark Age
Thanks everyone for giving the opportunity to present my work to you, I’ve had a wonderful evening!
The Gaze: Them
Last Saturday I finished shooting documentation material in The Hague for my website and a new performance video.
I’d like to thank all the amazing performers and their efforts, without them it would be impossible to make the documentation of the performance itself a success!!
The video of the performance will be shown for the first time at the BYOB (next Thursday in Utrecht, see this blog post).
For now, here’s a sneak peek!
Special thanks goes to: Jowi Kemper, Heekyung Ryu, Giovanni Maisto Ferreira, Michiel Tollig, Mandy Chaigneau, Ilona Schipper, Marisa Conde, Vincent Baeza Parra, Ken Bridgen, Jolanda Jansen, Sarah Atzori, Alessandro, Herwin Zweers
1000 CRANES @ Hutspot, Utrecht!
As part of the BYOB and Dutch Film Festival, an excerpt of my 1000 CRANES performance video is currently on view at Hutspot, Utrecht!
Upcoming Thursday the annual BYOB will be held in Utrecht at the old post office at Neude square, I will be showing a new work that evening. Hope to see you there!
PERFORMERS WANTED!
Pictures or it didn’t happen: The World’s Most Exclusive Membership @ Apple Store Exhibition
Another quite late update on this blog: my browser-based project The World’s Most Exclusive Membership was shown at a guerilla exhibition at the Amsterdam Apple Store.
Pictures (and curated) by Sjef van Beers!
Pictures or it didn’t happen: Dr. Pill @ De Aanschouw
It took a while for me to update this blog again, so here are some photos of my work at De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, NL!
(photos are made by Jeroen Arians, http://www.jeroenarians.com)
The Gaze @ Unnoticed Art Festival
Photo by Petra Laaper
I made a new performance piece for the Unnoticed Art Festival 2016, titled The Gaze. More info soon on my website!
Hooray! New work for Unnoticed Art Festival
I’m happy to announce I’ll be making a new work for the Unnoticed Art Festival.
Unfortunately for you my dear, this will remain secret until the festival has taken place.
Here’s some more info about the festival:
The Unnoticed Art Festival returns for a second edition this summer, following the first Unnoticed Art Festival in 2014 and the subsequent publication of the book Unnoticed Art.
On June 24/25 the Unnoticed Art Festival will take place in an undisclosed city in the Netherlands.
Hundreds of artists worldwide have responded to an Open Call for performance concepts. From these submissions, a performance program has been compiled by a committee of five artists. The Unnoticed Art performances are to be realized in the public space, on the street, with no explanation and with no fore-warning. The objective is to go by unnoticed. Taking place in everyday settings, these performances involve hiding the unusual within the usual. Passersby may perceive these actions, but will not recognize them as performance art.
A group of thirty participants will perform the Festival’s program. These participants need not be artists. No performance experience is required. All that matters is an interest in the nature of the festival, and a willingness to experiment. These participants have a double role: they will perform the selected works whilst simultaneously acting as the only audience to the event. Since the festival is not announced, these participants are the only ones ‘in the know’ – hence, they are the only audience that is aware of being an audience.
A book will be compiled following the second edition of the Festival. This book will include all the concepts from the program, in addition to presenting the personal experiences of all the participants, as both actors and audience.
The program of this year will include works of:
Alice Vogler (US)
Andrew McNiven (GB)
Bucky Miller (US)
Chris Wildrick (US)
Connor Frew (US)
Edwin Stolk (NL)
Elia Torrecilla (ES)
Florence Jung (FR)
Frans van Lent (NL)
Heath Schultz (US)
Heinrich Obst (BE/DE)
Ieke Trinks (NL)
Ienke kastelein (NL)
Irina Danilova & Hiram Levy (US)
Isaac Chong (DE/HK)
Jeanette Joy Harris (US)
Jonathon Keats (US/IT)
Josh Schwebel (CAN)
Joyce Overheul (NL)
Julia Dahee Hong (CAN)
Lee Nutbean (GB)
Liam Herne (GB)
Marika & Leopard (RU/DE)
Mark F Beasley (US)
Mathias Will (DE)
Maureen Bachaus (NL)
Mikio Saito (JP)
naakita feldman-kiss & Roby provost Blanchard (CAN)
Nanne Muskens (BR)
Nico Parlevliet (NL)
Paul Money (GB)
Paul Shortt (US)
Peter Christenson (US)
Raluca Croitoru (RO)
Roekoe M (NL)
Royce Allen Hobbs (US)
Simon Farid (GB)
Tamar Banai (IL)
Thomas Geiger (AT)
Thomas Tajo (IN)
Vladimir Ivanov (BG)
Yvo van der Vat (NL)
Go support them on >Indiegogo< or (if you’re Dutch) on >Voordekunst<!
New work teaser for There is Absolutely No Cause for Alarm @ De Punt
You could have guessed… yes, this work is made possible with funding from the Mondriaan Fonds. And a very special thanks also goes to WifiProfs!
Project Rogier @ Crypto Design Salon XL
Tomorrow I’ll be having an artist talk at MOTI (Museum of the Image), Breda about the Rogier project.
There will be lots of other interesting guests as well, so feel free to drop by if you happen to be around Breda tomorrow evening.
The event starts at 19:30hr, entrance is free of charge.
1000 cranes – update!
So I’m currently working on a performance where I’ll fold 1000 cranes according to the Japanese tradition, and I just wanted to share some pictures with you. Things are going steady, and with 4 days of folding/working I already made the railing system to keep all birds up, and folded 172 birds. This might not seem like an awful lot, but the first birds went reeealllly slow, haha.
Keep track of my progress online via Instagram: @joyce1000cranes
Or drop by at Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht on Wednesdays ’til Sundays from 12 until 18hr!
New work for ‘Diep Gaan’
I’m currently working on a new performance piece for the ‘Diep Gaan’ exhibition, organized by LUCY in de lucht (click here to go to their website). I was wondering, since the theme of the exhibition is ‘going deep’, how it would feel to commit myself to something quite enduring, and probably also very boring from time to time. I’ve never done something like that before. (No, knitting a sweater doesn’t count.)
So that’s why I decided I’m going to fold 1000 origami cranes during the Diep Gaan exhibition at Galerie Sanaa (Utrecht, NL), which will be opening on Sunday the 7th of July!
Above you can see a photo of an unfolded crane, one of the first cranes I ever made, and below’s the logo of the exhibition project:
The exhibtion project is quite huge: there will be lectures, talk shows, live performances and film screenings next to the exhibition at Galerie Sanaa! Hope to see you there!
Go to the website of LUCY to find more info on this subject.
Meanwhile in the studio….
…headaches, backaches, any possible aches… long days, short nights…. (and ugly photoshop, as you can see above.)
But the new sculptural piece for the AK47 exhibition is ALMOST finished! Whoohoo!
It’s going to be an extended, kinda over the top version of the Walther Plush5 I made in 2013 for Festival de Basis in Soesterberg (NL). The Kalashnikov-themed exhibiition will be held at Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven (NL), opening on the 29th of May.
Yesterday I almost tore the entire thing apart when I started to stuff it, which brought me on the verge of a mental breakdown, but luckily it didn’t come this far… The pink satin is a real bitch to work with, but it’s going to look very pretty in the end! The rifle is stuffed with roasted sesame seeds (don’t ask..).
Sad, depressed rifle.
Coming up: DocuDinsdag // DPRK
My DPRK film will be screened at NEST (Utrecht Science Park venue) on the 14th of April!
16:00 sharp, be there!
Afterwards we’ll have a chat/discussion/etc about the film and there will be snacks and drinks.
Last weekend’s things… SWOOF x DPRK lamp at NEST HC!
Last weekend was the presentation of the SWOOF x DPRK lamp by Yudo Design!
Yudo Design has created an interactive led table lamp which you can operate with hand movements. They often collaborate with artists and designers to create new skins, the replaceable outer part of the lamp, so lamp owners can easily change the appearance of their lamps themselves. This weekend the lamp will also be on display (and for sale) at NEST at the Hoog Catharijne shopping mall, at the Seats2Meet venue.
Here’s a video on how the SWOOF design works:
SWOOF by YUDO design from 5GRADENOOST on Vimeo.
Unnoticed Art Festival – book
Yesterday I received a copy of the book Unnoticed Art, featuring an essay by Frans van Lent, and many descriptions of the performances performed at the festival itself.
The IT series of performances where part of the festival as well. In the book you can read a brief description on how to perform the work, and the written down experiences of two performers.
I really like the way the title is printed onto the cover of the book, as you can see in the pictures above.
Go to the >Unnoticed Art Festival website< to order a copy of the book.
Working on my new video project..
Today I started working on a new video project! More info on this new work will follow soon.
Feel free to follow me on Instagram ( @joyceoverheul ) to follow my progress.
Meanwhile at Pecha Kucha Night #16 in Utrecht…
…I’m eating a microphone while talking about my DPRK art project at Het Huis, Utrecht…
11th December: Pecha Kucha Night @ Het Huis, Utrecht
Upcoming Thursday I’ll be having a chat about the DPRK project at Pecha Kucha Night at Het Huis, Utrecht!
The idea of a Pecha Kucha presentation is that you have 20 images and only talk for 20sec about each of them, so I tweaked the idea a bit and I’m going to show you 20 short clips of 20sec each of the video I made when I was in North Korea!
Above you can see a film still of one of the shots that will be included in the presentation. 🙂
Check out the Pecha Kucha website over >here<, there’s also a Facebook event. In preparation to this presentation, the DPRK project page on my portfolio website will be updated tomorrow, so I’ll also drop a link over here once I’ve finished working on that.
Hope to see you on Thursday!!
Coming up: Bring Your Own Beamer at MOTI, Breda (NL)
Coming up! Another Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) at MOTI (Museum of the Image) in Breda, The Netherlands!! –> Friday the 29th of November, starting at eight o’ clock.
Two projects of mine will be on view that night, DPRK and Untitled (for utopia). Above you can see a film still of Untitled (for utopia), video no.3, “Ger”. Click >here< to watch the entire video.
Interview/online exhibition @ HP/De Tijd Expo
Special thanks goes to Nick Muller for giving me this opportunity to showcase my work online.
Click >here< to read the interview. Also, you will be able to watch my DPRK film on that web page!
The film will be online somewhere in the next two weeks on my personal portfolio website as well.
Interview with LUCY
An online interview with LUCY (roaming platform for the arts in Utrecht) about my trip to the DPRK can be found >here<.
For those of you who are interested in the video installation I made about my journey, please feel free to visit the Urban Paradise exhibition.
Exhibition: Urban Paradise. 10th of October-2nd of November
Upcoming exhibition at City Campus MAX: Urban Paradise
Opening: 10th of October, 19:00hr. On view until the 2nd of November (only open on weekends from 13:00-17:00hr).
Participating artists: Thera Clazing, Daniëlle Frenken, Ivor Helberg, Joyce Overheul, Robert Roest, Yentl van Stokkum, Mayke Verhoeven.
This will be the first exhibition featuring my DPRK video project, and also the 4 videos I made for the exhibition at Collectief Derde Wal.
Hope to see you there! 🙂
26th of September: Bring Your Own Beamer – Eyes Everywhere
https://www.facebook.com/events/323835694459125/
Tomorrow the video I made about the DPRK will be on view for the first time ever at the Bring Your Own Beamer event, hosted by SETUP MediaLab at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht (NL).
The fun starts at 19:30hr, so be there..!
SETUP also made a video about me and the DPRK project, which you can watch >over here<.
In case you wonder: yes, I do own an awful lot of scratching posts, and yes, that is a picture which has an Instagram… If you’re on Instagram, feel free to follow me, by the way. (:
Recap: The Big Draw Nijmegen 2014
The Big Draw 2014 at the Valkhof Museum
The Big Draw 2014 at De Dromaai
So in the end I made drawings at the Valkhof Museum (theme: Pyongyang) and at De Dromaai (theme: cats).
The cat drawings turned out to be a huge success! I overheard people talking about them at a place which wasn’t even close to the actual drawings, so that’s great. I didn’t really get any further responses from the Valkhof Museum about the drawings about whether they liked them or not, except from the maintenance guys (who, luckily, thought they were pretty neat).
Click on ‘read more’ to see some more pictures!
20th of September: Artist talk at Vechtclub XL
Soon: Bring Your Own Beamer, 26th of September
Well allright… I won’t bring my own beamer since I don’t own one, but luckily a friend of mine was so kind to lend me his. The idea is that artists can sign up for this event and show their work during one evening, as long as they bring their own beamer. Nice, right?
Setup Medialab, located in Utrecht, The Netherlands, was so kind to make a promo video about me and the work I will be showing at this BYOB at TivoliVreedenburg on the 26th:
The work I’ll be presenting there will be the DPRK project. Some shots are included in the video below, among which a short part of the little kid’s performance which was shown to us at an after school care facility.
Thanks goes to Anna Berlis (website) for shooting the video. I really like it!
The Big Draw Nijmegen 2014
This week I’m a participating artist at The Big Draw in Nijmegen (NL), a festival about drawing.
I’ll be drawing shit at two locations this week; today I made a small series of drawings at the Valkhof Museum, since the drawing over there had to be finished before the festival starts (which is tomorrow), and from tomorrow until Sunday I’ll draw something on the window of the Dromaai.
Today I made some drawings about my trip to the DPRK. I still have to take decent photos, so until that point you’ll have to look at my wacky phone photos…
Click on ‘continue reading’ for some more pictures.
DPRK: 3 film stills to still your hunger
I started working on editing the videos I shot in the DPRK for my new video installation. Here are 3 film stills of scenes I really like.
And look at how clean and neat Pyongyang looks in the bottom still! North Korea may have a terrible reputation internationally, but in the centre of Pyongyang everything was ridiculously clean and looked really, really nice…
Back from the DPRK! Now it’s time for a new project
Hey y’all! I’m back from the DPRK! Safe and sound.
I can say it was the most peculiar trip I ever went on…!
One of the most noticeable things: the food we got on the Air Koryo plane from Beijing to Pyongyang was a hamburger, lol.
I can also say I was there for a reason: I was there to shot new footage for a new video installation project! More about that next week, but for now, above you can see Pyongyang at night. Below you can see a huge drawing I just started, Pyongyang school girls, it’s going to be approx. 300x150cm in size.
The book about Rogier now has its own ISBN
…and is officially registered as a publication from now on!
So funny, I also had to register as an official publisher before I could request an ISBN.
Click >here< to read more about the Rogier project on my portfolio website.
You can still order your very own copy of the book for only €15,-. Feel free to contact me of you’re interested in obtaining one.
The Unnoticed Art Festival…
…took place last weekend!
The location remained secret until the very last moment, but in the end the festival took place in the city of Haarlem, The Netherlands.
My IT performances were re-enacted at the festival by a group of performers.
Click >here< for more information about the UAF.
One more week: Rogier at De Kijkdoos
Rogier, De Kijkdoos, Amsterdam (NL), 2014
On view until the 4th of May: project Rogier at De Kijkdoos, Amsterdam!
Click >here< to read more about project Rogier.
This afternoon: artist talk at Kunstenlab, Deventer
Merging Spaces and Rogier at Kunstenlab, Deventer, 2014
This afternoon I’ll be giving an artist talk-lecture-thing about my Rogier project at Kunstenlab, Deventer (NL). Start: 15:00hr. It’s also the last day the exhibition is open for public, so if you’re around, feel free to go and have a look!
De Torenkamer – end
It was a busy, busy week in Amsterdam. The presentation of the games in the live radio show was quite successful. Video documentation was made, also quite successfully. I’m a happy camper!
More material will be online soon.
Click on ‘read more’ for a shitload of pictures.
De Torenkamer – Monday, day 1
Today’s the first day I’m an artist-in-residence of De Torenkamer, a studio of Dutch radio show Opium op 4, where every week a new artist is invited over to make a new work or study a subject for five days.
Today I started working on a new project called ‘Funny Games’ (yes, named after the Austrian horror movie), where I want to make an x-amount of small games where abnormal ‘game behaviour’ is encouraged. This Friday some of the games (if I manage to invent more than one successful game, otherwise it will be just one), will be presented and tested on live radio during the evening.
Here are some images of the game I’ve worked on today:
The working title of this game is: 1. Boast and Trust, and the game can be played with 3 to 6 players. It’s all about collecting matching pieces by exchanging them with other players, and most of all preventing other players collect matching sets as well. Anything goes, there are no rules but one: it’s not allowed to say out loud what pieces you’ve received after exchanging them with a fellow player. Next to that, everything is allowed. Lying, scamming, making terrible deals, etc. And best: all this has to happen in as little time as possible, preferably 5 or 10 minutes. The first player to collect a matching set of five, wins the game. The blank parts you see in the picture above are just there to piss people off, they’re only used for exchanging pieces in the game, you won’t win if you collect five of those…
As you can see, this first ‘funny game’ is made to bring out the best in people.
Click >here< to go to the Torenkamer blog on the Opium website, where I’ll blog as well (in Dutch) about this week.
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