User:Inge Hoonte

Study Log 2010-2011

Build, Break & Broadcast

Sniff, Scrape, Crawl

History Will Repeat Itself

Essay: The Machines Are Restless Tonight...

Essay: The Machines Are Restless Tonight...

"The act of programming a computer invokes a set of reading practices both in the literary and cultural sense."
-- Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Will the real body please stand up?, 1991

Assembled Writing: For Language to Program to Speak to Write

Prototyping

class notes

Electronics & Stocking

Digital Media Theory

Workshop Notes

Selection Previous Projects

I'll Miss You, Postcard (2010)

Art City Public Library (2010)

I was 28 in 1923, w/ Noe Kidder, Artist Book (2009)

Action Passing, w/Michelle Tupko, Performance (2008)
Action Passing Dance Move on flickr

Walkmandisco (2001/2002) is one of my earliest performance pieces.

Artist Statement

Last night, I pressed the PAUSE button. I froze time for a split second.
I wandered through streets and living rooms, passing neighbors dozing off
on their stoop, future lovers right before their first kiss, a spark in
someone’s eye, and a little boy carrying a dog his own size around the
supermarket. I zoomed in to register the smallest detail. I guessed words
on lips and formed sentences of unfinished thoughts hanging in mid air.
I studied, I memorized, I remembered. I bit my lip, smiled, and looked away.
Then I pressed PLAY.

Combining real and imagined narratives, I document human interaction through observational writing, performance, photography, video, and sound. I investigate the space between people, and the attempt to connect with one another across this undetermined terrain: a constantly changing landscape amid physical, emotional, sociopolitical, and psychogeographical boundaries, among many other. Examining the play between reaching out and keeping one’s distance in both intimate and everyday relationships, I require myself, as well as participants and audience, to be playful and vulnerable, while embracing the unknown outcome when our paths collide.

Aiming to capture and elongate these rapid, fleeting intimate encounters, I am a dreamlike storyteller with a sense for timing, detail and architectural setting. Alongside a rigorous editing process, I carefully collage seemingly disparate information into a dense and rich construction, leaving space for the audience to insert themselves and form their own associative experience.

Bio

My work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial through Neighborhood Public Radio, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, FiveMyles, 3rd Ward (Brooklyn/NYC); Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami); 321 Colton School (New Orleans); NPR Radio, Columbia College A+D Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); Southern Exposure (San Francisco); labotanica (Houston); Saskatchewan Communications Network, Toronto Free Gallery, aceartinc (Toronto/Winnipeg/CAN); Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, FIN); Consortium (Amsterdam), and TENT (Rotterdam, NL).

I received my MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a BFA in Visual Art and Public Space from the School of the Arts Arnhem, NL. I have taught various workshops, most recently at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, and ArtCity, inc, Winnipeg, Canada. I'm an active member on the board of labotanica, a Houston, TX, based project that intersects creativity and social transformation. As a Creative Consultant, I freelance for Noordkaap Foundation, a Dordrecht based artist-run organization that researches the rise of populism in Europe in its 2011-2013 program.