onomatopee

AGENDA JANUARY - FEBRUARY

New exhibits:

Opening Friday January 20th, 20:00

21-1-2012 to 26-2-2012
Open Thursday-Sunday 13:00- 17:00

Onomatopee 73: Research Project
The revelation of the concealed
Politics (in)form: Freedom of Information Act results
By Renée Ridgway

Onomatopee 74: Cabinet Project
(random but in order) flow and drift and perform and sit
Spatial narratives with a purifying effect
By Jeroen Doorenweerd

NEW FAIRS:

Onomatopee @ JustMad art fair Madrid
Showing: Esther Tielemans and Yasser Ballemans
and...books
February 16 - 19

 Representative: Freek Lomme and Ellen Zoete

Onomatopee @ Wildeboekenmarkt during Art Rotterdam
February 10 - 12
With: books!

Onomatopee 50.5-50.8: NEST 2011
Comfort Zone & Disillusion:
Group show, talk and book launch

Presented by Onomatopee in collaboration with The Royal College of Arts Critical Writing in Arts and Design programme, hosted by So Far the Future

Where comfortable experiences usher our lives beyond comfort zones!

Onomatopee Projects presents Eindhoven’s top design and art talents and reflects on currents in their practice in collaboration with the RCA’s Critical Writing in Art and Design course!

24-26 February
Talk, launch and opening: Friday 24th of February, 20:00
25-26 February 12-6pm

Location:
www.so-far-the-future.co.uk
44 Emerald Street 
London, WC1N 3LH

At So Far The Future, Onomatopee stages a group exhibition of the 2011 series entitled Comfort Zone & Disillusion and launches the box-set with the 4 publications plus a textual compendium — in collaboration with the Royal College of Art’s Critical Writing in Art and Design course — which deepens this year’s theme using the artists variables and beyond. The Nest 2011 “unsolicited advisers” are DIY event stylists heyheyhey, surreal architect Willem Claassen, hedonistic ecologist Nacho Cabonell and bottom-up urban-carthographer Jozua Zaagman.

Our age is characterised by the cumulative establishment of “comfort zones” in which we feel at home. We surround ourselves with objects like furniture and various accessories, with social events such as festivals, high teas, or visits to cinema that suits our disposition: that enable us to “get away from it all” and offer “a necessary time to relax”, to be with each other or “to live the family domestics”. This comfort zone is the cultural denominator for a very narrow understanding of what is private, both in a mental as a spatial perspective.

In recent decades the idea of the “wellbeing” has become strongly embedded in our cultural expectation: we now simply expect increasingly good healthcare, spare time, holidays and trips, domestic luxury and so on. This expectation used to commensurate with increased purchasing power. Meanwhile, the Wall collapsed and the free market became free for the world at large, making the rich West’s competitive position, an illusion. Despite the warning of the credit crisis, a culture of greed has remained submerged within the ashes. There is increasing support for a policy that the leftist desire for mercy and the right’s desire to reduce taxes unifies: a policy that effectively feeds off all of its own excesses…

Cultural and economic innovation stems precisely from progressive attitudes: from progressive qualities of “innovative thinking”. Effectively this means that we, you and I, should overcome our primal urge to “the comfortable”. We need to dare to acknowledge our assumed reality as an illusion and dare to experience this illusion. The disposition of disillusion, the ability to rethink and reposition your desires and character, are pious positions in a spoiled culture.

With:
heyheyhey
Willem Claassen
Nacho Carbonell
Jozua Zaagman

Featuring textual reflections by:
Arie Altena, Michiel Huijben, Freek Lomme, Andreas Müller, Julie Taraska, Marco Tobasso, Gerben Willers, Ellen Zoete.

And contributions of students of the London Royal College of Art’s Critical Writing in Art & Design course: John Dummett, Peter Maxwell and David Morris.

Curator / managing director / chief editor: Freek Lomme
Project manager/ final editor: Ellen Zoete
Assistance: Maartje van der Schoot
Graphic design: Raw Color
Made possible thanks to: BKKC/province of Noord-Brabant and Municipality of Eindhoven

Onomatopee
Bleekstraat 23
5611VB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
onomatopee.net

Programme

Onomatopee 73: Research Project
The revelation of the concealed
Politics (in)form: Freedom of Information
Act results
By Renée Ridgway

Freedom has its limitations. While a visual culture of revealing liberties is in the forefront, concealed images barely draw any public interest: simply because their subject is hidden and their existence is non-existent in the public eye. But who is concerned with the ‘redaction’ of concealed documents and why is this so important? Since 1980 anyone in the Netherlands can request disclosure of information and documents controlled by the government institutions with the WOB (The Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA). The WOB makes public access possible to government records, archives and documents, in the form of paper records; not all files are digitalized yet.

Artist Renée Ridgway searched the archives of Buro Jansen & Janssen, an investigation agency that critically follows the police, judiciary and intelligence services and uses the WOB as one of its research tools. Taking a critical stance on governmental policies and actions, Ridgway selected various files to be turned into readymades of political aesthetics. These A4s are palimpsest, remnant texts merging into newly created and visually poetic images.

This project pragmatically explores the actual conduct of these redacted documents. In diverse reflections, Freek Lomme, Renée Ridgway and Simon Ferdinando trace the capacity and relevance of this artistic turnover whilst Rick van Amersfoort of Buro Jansen & Janssen positions the practical implications of the WOB.

To uncover the politics involved in communication requires a game of hide and seek. The revelation of concealed data might very well both acknowledge and extend our understanding of rights and wrongs, leading us to an image of the political. As a counterpart to this power, this display allows a possibility to not only reveal the concealed but to reaccess its implications.

Links:
reneeridgway.net
onomatopee.net
openbaarheid.nl

Curator: Freek Lomme
Editors: Freek Lomme and Renée Ridgway
Graphic design publication: Eric de Haas
Made possible thanks to: Mondriaan Fonds, Municipality of Eindhoven, Buro Jansen & Janssen

Onomatopee 74: Cabinet Project
(random but in order) flow and drift and perform and sit
Spatial narratives with a purifying effect
By Jeroen Doorenweerd

motionless, the giraffe in the open country overseeing the panorama ... or is it a meerkat, cheeky and sneaky, spying on something that is emerging from the grass... this exhibition brings together recent works by spatial narrator Jeroen Doorenweerd and offers you the opportunity to enter into a travelogue of field arrangements – observing the contemporary adventures that we endure in nature and culture, and fulfilled by those potential experiences. As the coordinates on our compass point us in set directions, we can pick up the binoculars and undergo the purifying effects that the scene can have on our vision.

Curator: Freek Lomme
Editors: Freek Lomme and Jeroen Doorenweerd
Graphic design publication: Ingo Oszkinat
Made possible thanks to: Municipality of Tilburg

out now

Download the book for free HERE

Onomatopee 63: Cabinet project
Closed Architecture
Editors: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Urok Shirhan
Texts: Jonas Staal
Graphic design: Eric de Haas
Supported by Mondriaan Foundation, BKKC/Province of North Brabant, Eindhoven City Council, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Kunsthal Extra City Antwerpen and Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam.

Onomatopee 71: Research project
The voice of...
Curator/editor: Freek Lomme
Graphic design: Drawswords (Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen)
Text: various writers

Onomatopee 70: Research project
Copy Nature
Editors: Ellen Zoete, Freek Lomme
Graphic design: Raw Color
Text: Frederik Baas, Simone de Waard, Ellen Zoete & Freek Lomme
Partner organisation: Beeldenstorm
Supported by: Eindhoven City Council and SNS REAAL fund

Onomatopee 62: Research project
KRAK
Curators/editors: Freek Lomme and Ranti Tjan
Text: Freek Lomme, Ilse van Rijn, Ranti Tjan, Michael Kroeger and Johanna Drucker
Graphic design: Remco van Bladel
Supported by Mondriaan Foundation and municipality of Eindhoven

Onomatopee 50.6: Nest #7
Spatial Rupture
Willem Claassen
Managing director, curator and editor: Freek Lomme
Graphic design publication: Raw Color
Text by: Michiel Huijben, Gerben Willers and Freek Lomme
Supported by: City of Eindhoven and BKKC

Onomatopee 50.7: Nest #8
What is (still) natural in an experience economy?
Nacho Carbonell
Managing director, curator and editor: Freek Lomme and Ellen Zoete
Graphic design publication: Raw Color
Text by: Ellen Zoete, Julie Taraska, Freek Lomme and Marco Tabasso
Supported by: City of Eindhoven and BKKC

Onomatopee 60: Research Project
Onomato>re>action
Curator/editor: Freek Lomme
Texts: various
Graphic design: Eric de Haas
Partner organisation: Van Abbemuseum
Supported by: Mondriaan Stichting, BKKC/Province of North Brabant and Eindhoven City Council.
Sponsor: Lecturis Printers