User:Inge Hoonte/Notes Inge

Core Research Q

1.) Right now, I'm approaching the project from the angle of the Cabinet of Curiosities / Wunderkammer. My apartment looks a bit like this, but not as stacked to the brim. I tend to display my collection of findings and small belongings in windowsills, little alcoves, in the hallway, on the fridge, on the wall above my desk, etc. In any new dwelling, however briefly occupied, I create a feeling of home, belonging and friendship by surrounding myself with these items. They range from photographs I find on the street, newspaper clippings, reminders on post-it notes, to shells, little plastic figurines, porcelain dolls without a head, postcards, store-bought fawns, and once, a big stone crab. They come from specific places. I pick them up on a trip with a friend to the beach, a trip by myself to the beach, some lines of text that a friend sends me, at a thrift store, or on the street. Each time I move, I throw some things out, pack the rest up in a box, and assemble a new collage at the next place to impose a history with my own memories. The continuity is not how long I'm in a place, but how the assembled experiences (tied to a place, time, and person) together form my history. As with any collage, the placement of and relationship between the objects is very important.

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2.) I have a tendency to work on several smaller things at once, that sometimes end up being stand-alone pieces, and other times come together in a performance, video vignette, radio show, series of posters, or collection of writing. In 2006, I made "Anything is Inside Everything," an 11 minute video. Conceptually, I'd set out to play several independent clips on shuffle, but I ended up editing all scenes into a bit more of a linear narrative. I wrote a short play, and did a few more video pieces after that but they were mostly made over a shorter amount of time, and as I feel, were less intricate and carefully composed. I've mostly been writing short stories, performing in physical/dance type events... I did a couple of radio shows, and made little books with a collection of poems. More on commonalities below. I like composing several rhythms alongside of each other. Like a conversation.

1.) + 2.) = I seem to have a need to be in a constant dialog with people, even when I can't establish a connection. Saying this out loud makes me sad. But it seems to work for me. I love traveling in someone's personality, picking pieces from someone's character, draw them to me, make them part of me, carry them with me long after they're gone, in recomposing the experience we have together in getting to know each other, however briefly.

Quirks, being yourself. Insisting on some form of dialog. Knowledge that can be reconfigured. Relating. Then create a platform for transaction of experience.

Common Thread in Projects

My projects often function as methodologies to order information. In ordering the information, I devise systems for audience experience with settings for different interpretations for the same body of knowledge.

Research & Work Methodologies, Relation to Previous Work

Combine digital and physical in one space. Curiosity cabinet of storytelling, videography, computing, poetry, sound art, performance. Collection of moments and experiences.
Research on Visboeck
The Heart - Owner's Manual -> adapt existing texts to new context
11:11:11 = currently developing -> play with random input and database
Dear Philip E. Agre = letter, lecture -> relating, storytelling, connecting stories to theory
Collection of short poetry over past years
Rotterdam Waterway Squid -> erase the land, expose the water ways
xo -> composing with email content
Random Personalized Exhibition Experience v5.10.11 -> random connections

TO DO

Wrap up Agre.

Inspiration

Aedriaan Coenen's Visboeck & the man himself --> curiosity cabinet / collage of various bits of information and interests, contained in one form (in his case, the book) / collector of curiosities

Georges Perec --> Life, A User's Manual

Candice Breitz --> The Legend

OuLiPo

Vignettes

Aernout Mik

Spalding Gray

Disembodied Voices

"You have to tell stories, otherwise the people in it can't live on in your memory" (or something along these lines, Nullah character in Australia movie, 2008)

Gabriel Lester

Omer Fast

Elmgreen & Dragset

Biking

Parallel Narratives

Phil Niblock

Letters from friends, sending letters

Give & Receive

Ann Mertens

Look up

Six Stages of Grief