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This is my book that was published especially for the Feelgood festival, at Sexyland Amsterdam on the first of June. You can still purchase it, just drop a line at lies@storyshop.nl FEELGOOD tells the story of a girl named Emolie: a character - driven by a long list of motivational quotes, who, in search of the meaning of life ends up in one adventure after another. Sometimes she is successful, sometimes a failure. This tiny little novel is a typical coming of age drama. I reads as a collection of scenes from a chaotic life with raw details. |
These were the specially designed happy coins that were distributed at Feelgood festival - 1st of June in Sexyland, Amsterdam. This was a new manifestation in the serie Feelgood art works and a follow up to the Feelgood video, in which Eva was playing another role than was originally scripted for her in the original bible story. As an artist I try to rewrite history.... when I feel there's parts of it that need an update.
ExChAnGiNg tHe PeN fOr A PaInTBrUsH
As a writer I have interviewed and written portraits about people who work at the Van Gogh Museum last year. From curators, to marketing people, to HRM girls, to museumshop managers .... you name it. This was a huge commissioned assignment in 2018. But also autonomously I have portrayed many people from Amsterdam in my neighbourhood portrayal projects the last years.
After all these stories I wanted to exchange the pen for a pencil and a painting brush and I started portraying people in paint, charcoal or pastel this year and will continue to do so in 2019. As a more 3-Dimensional maker I started out being rubbish at it, but hopefully I'll be able to show something worth the look at the coming year.
It's a process. Continuously studying...
[La bella italiana, bored by posing]
[my first painted hands 2018]
[waiting for an escape possibility from the AZC 2018]
[the Scottish girl who used to be a rebel but now is a lady 2018]
After all these stories I wanted to exchange the pen for a pencil and a painting brush and I started portraying people in paint, charcoal or pastel this year and will continue to do so in 2019. As a more 3-Dimensional maker I started out being rubbish at it, but hopefully I'll be able to show something worth the look at the coming year.
It's a process. Continuously studying...
[La bella italiana, bored by posing]
[my first painted hands 2018]
[waiting for an escape possibility from the AZC 2018]
[the Scottish girl who used to be a rebel but now is a lady 2018]
In the midst of world despair, i offer you a feelgood movie!
Paradise is not far away, and nobody gets send away here....
Set pictures from Paradise Lost - the soon to be released feelgood film
In a couple of days - end of october - I am going to install the video work at the foyer of the PMB building at the Weesperzijde in Amsterdam. Introducing some characters from the movie and the setting now... tattarataaa THE CHARACTERS
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| [Paradise island installation at Sloterdijk Station] |
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| [detail paradise island] |
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| [At night - arriving at the empty station -where i built up paradise, and was being watched by clochards and night bus drivers] |
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| [Supergirl] |
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| [Eva] |
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| [Adam] |
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| [musician] |
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| [student and musician] |
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| Everybody happy in paradise: no one gets send away! |
Paradise preparations
I was preparing the shoot in september of Paradise Lost, my own feelgood video, that will form the 3d part of the trilogy expo. Luckily this summer i was hanging around in one of my favorite Caribbean paradise islands. I followed some juicy apples around and finally took a bite.
And what happened? I was send straight out of paradise back to ole nitty grey gritty Amsterdam.
2nd part of trilogy expo Paradise Lost: the first day of Superman (2012) by belit sağ
superman evoked reactions....
belit is a female Turkish artist. She finished the two year programm at Rijksakademie around the end of 2015. her work questions the thinkable and the unthinkable, that what we hear and that what is being hushed up, ethics and esthetics, distance and the frame in which images are being put into, and at the same time all that escapes the frame.
This way she also questions the role of the media and the way images being brought by the media manipulate the debates in societies. She is concerned about bigger political issues but tries to bring them under the attention in a small scale human way. This way the audience can relate to often complicated political issues. her camaera wanders of to small human details that might not fit real well in the bigger media story. The French writer Georges Perec says: “the only thing missing in
the daily news is the daily”. This sentence resonates with the work the first day of Superman.
It was made in 2012.
belit met Superman, a Rumanian immigrant trying his luck on Dam square. After some weeks Superman returned to Rumania. At Dam Square there was a whole community of disguised people and musicians from Bulgaria and Rumania. They used to lunch together at Dam square. Right after the shoot, the performing in disguise was being prohibited in an attempt to 'clean up the square'. The videowork shows the transition from a migrant to superman. The difficulties concerning this transition are of cause related to more than just his actual disguise.
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