Open call Digital Dialogue with Frank Koolen on 22 or 29 May 2020
Stroom initiates Digital Dialogues for artists in The Hague, a new program of online conversations (via Skype of Zoom) with an interesting artist or curator.
The Hague artists can now sign up for the first Digital Dialogue with visual artist Frank Koolen on Friday 22 or 29 May 2020.
"I think there is always space for more links between elements before unlinked.
Art is a great platform for that.
It reaches out to everything else and creates paths between the personal and the universal.
If you decide to be part of its context you can decide what this context does for you and how you want to add to it.
Take this very seriously and please try to see the relativity of things and take that very serious too!
And I'm interested in a good story. Doesn't matter what it is about, how it looks or what it does.
A story can be a word, a gesture, a moment, a painting, a video, an idea.
And I like things.
And I like to collaborate.
But only if people take a collaboration deadly serious.
And are not afraid to improvise in a good spirited way.
And see the fun in that.
So let's talk..:) "
Sign up until Friday 15 May 2020
15:00 hrs at the latest
15:00 hrs at the latest
If you are interested in an online conversation about your art and art practice with Frank Koolen, you can sign up until Friday 15 May, 15:00 hrs via the following link:
https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/digitaldialogue2020 Please include a brief motivation. All entries will be sent to Frank Koolen, along with a few suggestions from Stroom. Please note that there is limited availability for these dialogues, the conversations will take place through Skype or Zoo. You will only receive notice if you have been selected for a Digital Dialogue.
Short biography Frank Koolen
Frank Koolen (1978) is a visual artist. He studied visual art at the HKU in Utrecht and was a resident at De Ateliers and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. His way of working is characterized by sudden promptings and associations related to a place, an encounter, a question or an idea, which are then translated as directly as possible into an image, installation, film, performance, audio work, or text. An ongoing and context-related search for unexpected logic and everyday magic. In recent years, Koolen has developed a versatile practice as an artist, teacher, course leader, writer and curator with a boundless playing field ranging from galleries to public space. Recently he built a temporary Karaoke Pavilion for psychiatric patients, he made an audio tour in the public spaces of Maastricht and Tilburg, created a monument for the unknown pizza courier in the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp and a permanent Monument for Future Happiness in Drachten.
www.frankkoolen.com
About Digital Dialogues
On a regular basis Stroom invites curators, artists and critics from The Netherlands and abroad to visit the studios of artists in The Hague. These studio vistis offer an opportunity for artists to present their work and receive contructive feedback on their practice. The program also aims is to strengthen and broaden the artists' network.
The studio visiting program has been paused, because traveling and physical encounters are temporarily discouraged due to the outbreak of Coronavirus. As an alternative Stroom initiates a series of Digital Dialogues.
