The Snail Language translator Device was made during the Galichnik art residency in Macedonia.
During the 10 days of this residency I made several photo series and one sculpture, the above called device.
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Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Look Back: Snail Language Translator Device
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
LOOK BACK: 1985 (first spatial work)
LOOK BACK: 1985
Here is one of the first spatial works I made at the art academy in Arnhem (NL), back in 1985.
Curved metal and prepared cotton, about 3 meters high. For a photo I put it on the fountain within the Blue Waves (Blauwe Golven) art work in Arnhem, made by Peter Struycken in 1977.
While making this work I seriously injured my hand a week before. A wire of metal whipped as I bent and cut deep into the heel of my left hand, right through the glove. The scar is still there. I looked into deep white flesh, whereupon my legs went limp like chewing gum. I seem to have been knocked out for a moment, because when I opened my eyes I saw the workshop assistant busy with a bandage. A wet cloth lay on my forehead. He was also kind enough to drive me to the emergency room at the hospital. A whopper of a tetanus shot in my thigh and then I was out of 'mortal danger' again 😉.
LOOK BACK: some sculptures from 2020
Here's a look back at my first smaller sculptures (approx. 30 - 40 cm), made 3 years ago from ultra-light PLA thermoplastic material. They are handmade with a 3D pen with a clear nod to the 3D printer. The material PLA used comes from the ''3D printer'' as a filament (wire), but I apply this purely analogously, without the intervention of a computer, building line on line. At the moment I am working on larger sculptures. The material I used in 2020 is (semi) transparent. They are sculptures that can be illuminated, i.e. light that falls on them plays through the material.
An ancient Philips radio from 1948 with stunning ''hifi'' audio
Downteching / uptechning
It is a personal pleasure to mix old appliances with modern technology. I
hate the word obsolete when it comes to devices that once represented
the best of technology at the time and are now discarded on the rubbish
heap. Often there is more to find behind the label ''obsolete''.
I recently ran into a very nice tube radio from Philips, Dutch built from 1948,
completely surrounded by a near perfect bakelite cabinet. By making a
small technical adjustment, the radio now works on bluetooth and I can play my
Spotify playlists via my phone through a 70-year-old speaker!
And how beautiful that sounds! Nice high and clean to very low. All this comes from just one speaker. It is a strange thought that the radio only now shows, in terms of audio dynamics, what it was already capable of 70 years ago, were it not for the fact that the sound carriers at the time (records, radio) when this radio was sold did not have the dynamics that it has now. It is a wealth to have this ancient sound source in the studio!
Working on a new ''Turrim Plastoid'', a vertical sculpture made with thermoplastic material
Last week I began working on a ''Turrim Plastoid''. These are sculptures I make with PLA (Polylactic Acid), a substance coming from the 3D printing world. I use it with a 3D pen and build vertical sculptures with it, BY HAND!
“Entropie Membraan 1” glas-sculptuur in zonlicht!
Een paar maanden geleden maakte ik een 1 mm dikke glassculptuur op een raam in Arnhem. Met direct zonlicht komt deze “Entropie Membraan 1” (200 x 45 cm - 2023) het best tot zijn recht! Hier een paar details.
Monday, 3 April 2023
Sjabloon dessins 1984 - 1987
Ik ben bezig met oude negatieven en kwam onverwacht mijn jaren 80 sjabloon-druksels tegen op textiel. Meestal waren dit T-shirts die ik op straat in Arnhem of Amsterdam verkocht, wat toen nog mocht! Maar ik bedrukte ook stoffen voor modezaak Molotov, die destijds in de Nieuwstad in Arnhem gevestigd was. Zie hieronder wat voorbeelden.
Friday, 20 January 2023
Entropie Membraan 001 (Entropy Membrane 001), werk op locatie | Januari 2022
Monday, 16 January 2023
2022 - 2023 | Work in progress - The transformation of my workspace
Due to the end of all my storage places after the Covid period lots of works and material came back to the studio. So, during large parts of 2022 and beginning 2023 I had/have to renovate and reorganize my studio space. In order to meet my broad interest in techniques and media I decided to create many different ''working islands'' within the studio. Photography, video, animation, sculpture, painting, print and music can be performed in more or less designated rooms now, which is a real treat! It has become a personal eldorado I can say.
Work still has to be done on a little audio-isolated sound studio, in which I will be able to create audio pieces without hindering my neighbors.
Last but not least a second hand solar system will be placed on the roof of the studio to make it more or less energy neutral on the electricity side.
Will keep you informed in the months to come!
(c)2023
Jeroen Huisman. None of the photographs, writing and audiovisual
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Maart 2022 | ''Artists for Ukraine'' Kunstveiling | Eusebiuskerk Arnhem
In March 2022 was ik mede-organisator van de Artists for Ukraine veiling in Arnhem. Tientallen kunstenaars uit Arnhem en omgeving stelden werken ter beschikking. Op meerdere plekken in Nederland vonden destijds van dit soort veilingen plaats. Naast het organisatiewerk was ik webmaster van deze actie.
De zeer goed bezochte veiling vond plaats op 26 maart en bracht een mooie bedrag op. Maar liefst 28.712,00 euro werd opgehaald en ter beschikking gesteld voor humanitaire hulp aan Oekraïne!
Friday, 30 July 2021
flashback to september 4 till 10 2017 | STADTBESETZUNG / OCCUPIED CITY - Lünen (Germany)
STADTBESETZUNG / OCCUPIED CITY - Lünen
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The hall of a former steel trade company in the German city of Lünen becomes a meeting point for artists: Together they experiment and invite visitors to discover the artistic research work.
During 4 till 10 September 2017 I have been working on an in situ piece called ''Waterranden'' (water edges). Next to that the video installation ''Nature's Knife'' (2015) was shown. On the 10th of September the venue was opened for public.
Collaboration artists and musicians: Simone Prothmann / Siegfried Krüger / Markus Wengrzik / Daniel Stendera / Bernd Stahler / Jeroen Huisman
In situ work ''Waterranden'' (thermoplastic and water on concrete)
Frames of the video ''Nature's Knife'' (2015)
Some impressions of the building
Look Back: Snail Language Translator Device
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