User:Inge Hoonte
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 and an obsessive attention to 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.
Personal Sites
I was 28 in 1923, w/ Noe Kidder, Artist Book
Action Passing, w/Michelle Tupko, Performance Action Passing Dance Move on flickr
Bio
Inge Hoonte’s 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).
Inge received her 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. She lectured at the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, and is an active member on the board of labotanica, a Houston, TX, based project that intersects creativity and social transformation. She's currently pursuing a degree in Digital Communication: Networked Media, at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
Thematic Project Portfolio
- my first thematic project
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- my third thematic project
- my fourth thematic project
Essays
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