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In this special program, in collaboration with EYE, we spotlight the work of visual artist Johan Rijpma. In his work Rijpma often uses simple objects from his daily surroundings in an experimental and playful way, for which video, animation, and photography are his primary weapons of choice. In his presentation, Johan will show a selection of his films and other examples, and shed light on his creative process, demonstrating how he engages in a creative collaboration with inanimate objects and materials — not shying away from the unpredictable, but consciously trying to integrate it in his creative process.
A cylinder shaped cup falls and breaks into pieces. Every frame of this recorded movement is then manually translated into a ceramic layer that is made of the original remains of the cup. All the layers are then arranged vertically and glued together, forming a new object that visualizes the destructive moment.
Groeien (Grow) is a thought-provoking reflection on the theme of genetics and the effects that human intervention can have on the natural world. The natural growing movement of the plants are progressively accentuated until they become highly unnatural. Eventually they transform into ''living'', moving paper organisms, as though heralding a genetic alteration of these same plants.
Primary colored dots are expanding into tiny complex structures as a reaction to increasing pressure. When different colors overlap new colors emerge that consist of two or more primary layers and therefore have more strength to resist the high pressure.
Sinus Aestum (Bay of Billows) is a dark lunar plain articulated by threads of white dust, like tips of flowing and silent waves. Drawing from this image, the sound and image composition Sinus Aestum presents one sound-synthesis process and nearly 12,000 individual points, which are continually transformed and warped, restrained and released, to form compound, multi-dimensional waves of activity.
A balloon goes on a journey.
Film of Johan Rijpma
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