MIJN BUITEN, ONS BINNEN | Lotte Beets
About this activity.
In the months of May and June, Lotte Beets will be artist-in-residence at the Bierumer School. On Saturday 28 June, the exhibition MIJN BUITEN, ONS BINNEN will open.
Lotte Beets does not consider the body as a separate object that perceives the world, but rather as an instrument that enables us to experience the outside world. We are our body, and we always exist in relation to our environment. Our body is always present in a world that is not outside of us, but also within us. We are part of, rather than looking at.
In recent years, her work has focused on the body as a sensor of perception. How do you experience art not only with your eyes, but with your entire body? How does the body register a landscape? What changes when you sit on the same bench but listen to classical music one time and blues the next?
Lotte Beets: “When I walk along the dike, through the meadows or along the mudflats, I see many things that I find very impressive, the lines of the horizon or how the grain moves in the wind. Suddenly, wind becomes a visual thing and I no longer pass a moving tree without seeing the touch of the wind in it. I am fascinated by the moment when the world imposes itself on the body – inevitably and intensely. Here in the North, that happens almost automatically. The grandeur of the surroundings diminishes me, brings me back into my body. You are not a spectator of the world, you are the world. The wind is not just something you feel; your skin, your balance, your breathing – they react without thinking. The surroundings are not a background, but a direct experience.”
If you are where you have been so often before, but the colour of the sky is not what you expect… could you then also look at the ground beneath your feet again? If your body has been the same height for years, but you see the biggest mountain you have ever seen… do you become smaller?
What needs to happen to really see what is already there? By changing your posture, an old bus shelter becomes beautiful or an industrial estate becomes a fantastic place for a walk.
ou are where you have been so often before, but the colour of the sky is not what you expect… could you then also look at the ground beneath your feet again? If your body has been the same height for years, but you see the biggest mountain you have ever seen… do you become smaller?
What needs to happen to really see what is already there? By changing your posture, an old bus shelter becomes beautiful or an industrial estate becomes a fantastic place for a walk.
The opening of the exhibition MIJN BUITEN, ONS BINNEN will take place on Saturday 28 June from 14:00 - 17:00. That afternoon, Paula Biemans will talk to Lotte Beets about her work in the Bierumer School. The exhibition will then run until 26 July.
Bierumer School offers artists space for production and presentation and is open to the public every Friday and Saturday from 14:00 - 17:00. Bierumer School, Hereweg 12, 9906 PE Bierum www.bierumerschool.nl.
will take place on Saturday 28 June from 14:00 - 17:00. That afternoon, Paula Biemans will talk to Lotte Beets about her work in the Bierumer School. The exhibition will then run until 26 July.
Bierumer School offers artists space for production and presentation and is open to the public every Friday and Saturday from 14:00 - 17:00. Bierumer School, Hereweg 12, 9906 PE Bierum www.bierumerschool.nl.
Bierumer School.
Bierumer School biedt kunstenaars ruimte voor productie en presentatie.
Location.
Bierumer School
Hereweg 12
9906PE Bierum
www.bierumerschool.nl/