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For the residence in ARCUS
I'm looking forward to wander around with my camera in the streets of Ibaraki and Tokyo and its environment, allowing my curiosity free rein. Capturing those moments of people, and objects; how they stand, hang around, stagger, lean, slouch, push and pull in the world around them. It will be a sort of sociological/ anthropological research, but from my own point of interest. I think that the Japanese culture, the traditional and the modern, will be extremely inspiring and will have a positive influence on my way of seeing things. |
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Paulien Oltheten is an artist who works mainly on photography and video. She collects and analyzes a number of anonymous people’s daily gestures and actions. From this archive of gestures, one can find the differences among cultures and structure of the society. She herself describes her way of approach as anthropologist rather than artist.
During the stay in ARCUS, Oltheten is planning to create series of photography and video with recording people’s daily life. During the open studio, she is going to have lecture/performance.
“Through photographs and video the artist presents an investigative approach: identifying idiosyncratic moments, gestures, and unintentional performances of people in public-space and without instrumentalizing or limiting the meaning(s) of the resulting works.
The carefully selected collection of found performances point to the subtleties of social mores and unconscious physical or situational communication. Supporting these findings with a lecture and contextual exploration, the artist unfolds the process and reads the images as a performance of her own.”
Joseph Del Pesco