Website: www.nough.nl with thanks to Jacco

GOOM @ Kulter. #19 | 17<31 October 2010

Report No Grey Goom & Pictures: www.kulter.nl

View the videos on the livestream channel

Na Rather Whipped en SlagRoom presenteert Kunstenaarscollectief Nough nu Goom.
Een expositie met nieuwe en niet zo nieuwe media kunst. Een middag vol avontuur en experiment.

Een zeepfontein, analoge elektronica, visuele experimenten, live painting, live coding.

Voor elk project fungeert de ruimte samen met de gereedschappen als uitgangspunt.

Amber Bijl [installation], Evelien van Zonneveld [autodestructible soap fountain], Jacco de Jager [drawings], Constantin Duca [3D paintings], Ovidiu Opris [animation], Laurens van der Wee & Roel van Doorn [installation, electronics, live coding], Julie Dassaud [(live) window drawings] with guests: Jean-Philippe Rousset [video],  Pop Gabriel [painting] & Bjørn [/dress, music]

Open Thurs.-Sun., 13:00<18:00 & on appointment. Until 31.10.10

Location: Sanderijnstraat 21 - 1055 BN Amsterdam - www.kulter.nl
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Opening report 17.10.2010: No Grey Goom
Goo is the title to a Sonic Youth album, released in 1990. The epic black and white cover of the album relates very much to the works on display at Kulter last Sunday. French artist Jean-Philippe Rousset presents a video in which he paints himself black. The black paint is applied to the ceiling and drips back onto his white overall. The video is projected upside down, which gives the viewer the impression that the artist is painting the floor. Reversing an image is an old trick, but here it works.

The black and white drawings by Jacco de Jager work in the same way. It is an alternate view on newspaper and magazine photography in black and white.

Goom is the third exhibition, after Slagroom and Rather Whipped, presented by art collective Nough.

There is no general theme to the exhibitions as artist Julie Dassaud told me, before she started drawing black on white on the window, supported by computer images produced by live coding* by Laurens van der Wee en Roel van Doorn (making sound programmes on the spot). Together they created a new image in projection and sound. 

And since there is no theme, maybe your humble reporter may suggest one: How can black and white together avoid to ever be grey. Oh yeah, we have all studied philosophy sometime! But seriously; all works seem to look for extremes: either black or white. This art is about making no compromises, in a joyful way. Like the soap fountain of Evelien Zonneveld. The fountain melts by the water that makes it a fountain. Afterwards people were tuning the analog radio system hanging from the ceiling, hoping not ever to find a channel.

And so I left Kulter at about 8 o’clock, chanting in my head: No grey goom, no grey goom, no grey goom**.

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SLAGROOM @ De Kamers, Amersfoort | 29.08<30.09 2010

RATHER WHIPPED @ Setup, Utrecht | 26.06 2010

Opening 26.06.10 from 16:00  in het voormalige ABN AMRO gebouw

with met Amber Bijl, Amir Salfiti, Jacco de Jager, Evelien van Zonneveld, Roel van Doorn, Constantin Duca, Laurens van der Wee, Ovidiu Opris, Sylvain Vriens, Stijn & Julie Dassaud

WERK: Interferences Drawings, Entropy Photographs, Live mixed media installation

report: museumfuture.nl

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