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Nerve research at OT301
The work of Iris Woutera (1991) consists of spatial material, which stimulates a sensory experience. This results in (interactive) performances, installations, videos, photography, drawings and workshops. The ‘moving’ aspect is leading in her work.
‘Nerve’ research
An observation of how people, objects and natural materials move through the landscape. Exploring the countless forms in which people interact with the landscape and the landscape’s influence on people.
The landscape of the home, the neighbourhood, the city, the country and the world. What is the influence of scale on our perception?
How do we distinguish between what we perceive as ‘nature’ and what as ‘our own human-made structures’?
In what way do architecture, walls, borders, and roads shape our experience? Visualise the ‘construction’ of landscapes like parks, forests, dunes or the free flow of the Dutch tidal landscape. Some suggest there is no original primaeval landscape. Did all landscape as we know it become as it is today by human interaction?
Artist in residence OT301
During three months, I was artist in residence at OT301. I used this period to make a video work in which two performers explore several landscapes through their senses. From busy city streets to parks (like the Vondelpark), forests, dunes, construction sites to our closest environment - the ‘home’.
Searching for similarities between architecture and our body. Balancing between new possibilities and existing expectations hidden in the landscape.
Based on these ‘landscape experiences’, the project is situated back into 4Bid gallery in OT301, where I re-use materials I find in the urban landscape and in nature.
In April 2021, I completed the first Nerve sculpture, made out of metal, rubber and recycled wood. This space-filling sculpture moves in dialogue with the physical movement of the performers, accompanied by the sound emanating from the material. Inspired by architecture in contact with the human spine.
The project will continue at Den Helder, LekArt (Werk aan het speol - Culemborg) and at Door Creative Studio (Hembrugterrein - Zaandaam). Where Woutera will develop more sculptural landscapes as extended ‘nerves’ of the human body. Read on about the project at www.iriswoutera.com.
Collaborations
Performers Bryan Atmopawiro, Kim Hoogterp Videographer Veerle Boekestijn
Tekst editor Kim Hoogterp
Photo credit
Title Nerve, material steel, rubber, recycled wood, artist/ photographer Iris Woutera, performers Bryan Atmopawiro, Kim Hoogterp, location 4Bid gallery OT301, Amsterdam.