Jan van Eyck / Hubert van Eyck Academie
Onderzoeker beeldende kunst / Researcher Fine Art
01.01.12 – 31.12.12
info [at] esmevalk [dot] com
Movement is a central notion within my practice. I have used a multidisciplinary approach for researching social choreography; a term I understand as connecting social processes and movement in a spatial environment and culturally specific place and time. I’m interested in the decision-making processes involved and the extent to which our environment influences the behaviour of subjects.
For my next project I will look into methods of ‘open staging’ and how a seemingly static stage or staged situation can also be in movement. One part of the research will consist of studying formal elements and working methods to create open stages, such as how traces left through daily use and movement alter a scene from a designed space to one that contains accidental elements that equally make up the staged image. A second part of the research will focus on the role people take on in staged situations. For the open stage I’m interested in situations where someone’s role shifts during the same event. The current role can shift between onlooker, participant, audience member and agent. Here it will be useful to investigate Baroque forms of outdoor staging, in which guests continuously rearranged roles and places.
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