Depend on Me

BOOK LAUNCH
Professional Amateur
Please join us for our final celebration of our research Depend on Me. Thanks to our partner Framer Framed for hosting the event!

https://framerframed.nl/projecten/boekpresentatie-professional-amateur/

Come look at, pick up or buy our beautiful publication, designed by Lotte Lara Schröder. Edited by Maite Vanhellemont and Marieke Zwart and made possible by 100 donations via Voordekunst.

Thanks everybody for coming to our show in puntWG these last 10 days. It has been very alive and full of people coming from many different contexts and generations. WE LOVED IT!
In April we have our long expected Book Launch at Framer Framed.
Keep you posted.

Thank you Ilya Rabinovich for the photographs!

https://puntwg.nl/professional-amateur

Almost at 50%!!! Voordekunst

Thanks Framer Framed for booking workshops and ordering books!

please support our upcoming publication an exhibition, two more weeks to go!
https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/13076-depend-on-me-expositie-en-publicatie-1

DEPEND ON ME, Expositie en Publicatie De crowdfundingcampagne DEPEND ON ME, Expositie en Publicatie staat op voordekunst.nl. Doneer nu en maak dit project van depend on me mogelijk!

Thanks Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten for sharing!

Amsterdam-based research programme Depend on Me - initiated by alum Marieke Zwart - facilitates artistic collaborations between professional and non-professional artists. The research programme explores how engaged collaborative practices can be built, creating interdependence, co-authorship, inspiring exchanges and a future perspective on collaborative art practices. As a group, the participants try to redefine the boundaries between professional and amateur artists and show that a certain degree of dependence within an artistic process can also be powerful and serve as a source of inspiration.

Depend on Me recently started a crowdfunding campaign to make a publication and exhibition in 2022. All results of their research will be brought together in a DIY book, filled with artists contributions, results of the artistic investigations, collaboration tips etc. You can find more information on

https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/13076-depend-on-me-expositie-en-publicatie-1

More information on Depend on Me: https://dependonme.org/

In samenwerking met galerie Beeldend Gesproken organiseert Onderzoeksgroep Depend on Me de workshop PIJLTJES van kunstenaar Noortje van Kamer.
Depend On Me onderzoekt mogelijke artistieke werkvormen tussen professionele kunstenaars en niet-professionele kunstenaars door middel van artistieke samenwerkingen en het organiseren van workshops. Kunstenaars van verschillende disciplines en generaties werken samen aan vijf kunstwerken en delen hun artistieke praktijk met elkaar en een deelnemend publiek tijdens tien workshops.
Noortje van Kamer is autodidact en begon in 2005 sculpturen te maken van papieren pijltjes.
In deze workshop werken de deelnemers mee aan een nieuw werk van Noortje van Kamer.
De workshop PIJLTJES vindt plaats op 18 november 2021 tussen 14:00 uur en 17:00 uur bij Galerie Beeldend Gesproken, Hannie Dankbaarpassage 23, 1053 RT Amsterdam, De Hallen Amsterdam. Deelnamekosten zijn 5 euro.
Aanmelden kan via email: [email protected]

Today HF van Steensel gave a great workshop for Depend on Me: The Art of Making Ugly Art. After a sharp and funny introduction (of more than 30 minutes!) the participants collaged, ripped, build and painted small pieces that HF thereafter subjectively classified as ugly or too beautiful.
In the context of our research project Depend on Me, where we build a research program partly based on a trajectory of workshops, it was good to hear HF state the following:
"Welcome everyone. In this workshop 'The art of making ugly art'. Without wishing to offend you, I must confess that 'my own person' is not very fond of workshops. Workshops are basically intended for amateurs. Because if you have already mastered what is offered in a workshop, then you no longer have to do the workshop. In addition, a workshop is full of other beginners. I'd rather be an amateur on my own. There is really is nothing wrong with being an amateur at something. Anyway, if I wanted to get really good at something, I would have done it already. My problem is that very quickly I am good at something, and the more I add to that, the less time I have for all things in itself, and the faster time goes by, and the more I get the scorching feeling that I am running behind, life say."

In March 2022 HF will do the workshop again in puntWG.

Thanks kunstuitleen | galerie Beeldend Gesproken for collaborating!

Meet our research participants! This is Aram Lee. Lee was born in Seoul and lives and works in Amsterdam. As an artist, her research-driven practice revolves around reinterpreting materials found within institutions, often seeking to relocate their role and purpose through performative events, film and video installations. She co-initiated When site lost the plot in Amsterdam where a narrative is growing from a trajectory of presentations. For Depend on Me, Lee collaborates with ‘Tonmeister’ Jörn Nettingsmeier on a research into sound and memory.

https://leearam.com/

Meet our research participants! This is Jacquelien Gosschalk de Leeuw.

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"Ik maak, onder andere, po**en en kunstjassen. Voor mij is het een manier van praten en nadenken en luisteren enzo. Mensen noemen dit wel eens kunst. Maar voor mij is het gewoon een levensbehoefte , een soort van voeding."

Jacquelien Gosschalk de Leeuw werkt samen met Carmen Schabracq aan twee nieuwe werken.

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I am Jacquelien Gosschalk de Leeuw. I make, amongst other things, dolls and art coats. For me it is a way to talk, think and listen etc. People like to call this art. But for me it's just a necessity of life, a kind of nourishment.

Jacquelien Gosschalk de Leeuw is collaborating with Carmen Schabracq on two new works.
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Meet the research participants! This is H.F. van Steensel.

"I graduated in Dutch language and literature, then I started writing, painting, building, photographing, filming and collaborating in cultural and social projects. I am very interested in the matter of 'boundaries and limitations', in language, images, maps and politics, in art and identity. The amateur/professional duo serves this interest gratefully."

Van Steensel is represented by kunstuitleen | galerie Beeldend Gesproken in Amsterdam. And she is writing short stories during her collaboration with PJ Bruyniks. Together they work on a project around 'classification'.

Meet the reserach participants! This is Lotte Lara Schröder. Schröder is working together with Nulu Nakalema, a friend whom she met through Stichting De Regenboog. To help figure out a way to be busy with other things besides surviving (Nulu is awaiting her asylum application), Lotte invited her to start working on a series of drawings together. Taking the shape of an empty room, Lotte & Nulu hope to make as many individually and together as possible and show them all together at the end of the project in March 2022.

The work of Amsterdam-based artist Lotte Lara Schröder (Amsterdam, 1988) revolves around friction: between objective and subjective realities, between scientific and poetic idioms, and between the pace and rhythm of the natural world and the pace and rhythm of subjective, embodied experience. She works across different media such as drawing, painting, printed matter and sound. In all these forms of expression her work is characterized by a strong graphic quality, informed by her background in design.
www.termsofcircumstance.org.

Meet the researchers! This is PJ Bruyniks. “The felt, supposed boundaries between the different worlds (of amateur and professional artists) inspire me to participate in the research group Depend on Me. In my work I want to discuss the values that are given to these worlds along with the associated classification systems.

As a child I played with all kinds of objects, making temporary structures. After wanderings in painting, business and an education at the Rietveld Academy, I actually feel just like that child again. I gave myself the title “constructor of things”.

Meet our research participants! This is Frederike Bruijn Frederike Bruijn - “The strange thing is if a baker does not work for a number of years, it remains a baker, but if a graduated singer "disappears" for a while and wants to pick it up again, he/she is then labeled as an amateur. (...) Shouldn’t we say that it is not the training that determines whether you are a professional or an amateur (or the salary) but the public? “ -
The alto/mezzo Frederike Bruijn studied singing at the Arnhem Conservatory and the Conservatory of Rotterdam. After the conservatory she also became proficient in acting. She played several roles at the Dutch Opera Studio in recent seasons such as “Klytamnestra” Elektra by R Strauss.
Before she worked at the mime theater of Rob van Reijn, among others. Bruijn played in different productions from musical to modern music theatre. And she also developed several productions herself including “Songs of the Roof”, Jewish orchestra songs by D. Shostakowitch arranged for string quartet, soprano alto and tenor by Ron Fort directed by Dick Hauser.
For several years she has also been making short films, for which she combines film with singing.
For Depend on Me Bruijn is collaborating with Marieke Zwart on a video piece about a recurring dream she had when she was young. Images from her work ‘Lied van de Aarde 2021’

Meet the research participants! This is Marieke Zwart - In 2021 Zwart founded Depend on me, a collaborative research group for both professional as non-professional artists in Amsterdam 2021. “I am a socially engaged artist because my works never really start in the studio, but in the relations I make with people, residencies and social contexts that intrigue me. I have initiated this research group to facilitate five artist-collaborations, including my collaboration with , between people that work in different art fields and with different levels of professionalism. With the current interest in social practice in the Contemporary Art field, I feel it is important to explore new working relations between the so-called in- and outside of the professional art world, questioning the possibility of a shared artistic authority and equal interdependence – creating a future perspective on collaborative art practices.”

Marieke Zwart (1987, NL) is an artist based in Amsterdam. Her drawings and installations stem from a collaborative and socially informed practice. Zwart is interested in definitions of empowerment and independence, the Dutch colonial past and personal narratives. After BA/Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2009) and MA/Artistic Research at the KABK (2015), she was a resident at the Rijksakademie (2017-18). Zwart worked with mental health care clients in residencies Het Vijfde Seizoen (Den Dolder, NL) and IBB (Curacao) and collaborated with Buurtzorg for a series of Visiting Nurses in the Netherlands.

Meet the research participants!
This is Carmen Schabracq
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“I participate in the artistic research Depend on Me because I find it an interesting question what exactly is the difference between the practice of an 'outsider' artist and an 'insider' artist. I am often drawn to outsider art, folk art and children's work. I have a hard time classifying all those different forms of art because it seems like there's a value judgment attached to it. And I see many similarities with my own work and would like to explore that further. For this I work together with the outsider artist Jacquelien Gosschalk. There are many similarities between her and my work, both in form and content. I have been linked to her by artist Jan Hoek and after our research period for Depend on Me, We will continue our collaboration and make an exhibition together at Outsider Land (Amsterdam)."

Carmen Schabracq, born in Amsterdam (1988), obtained her BFA visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2012) and her MFA theater costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2015). Her work consists of paintings, masks, performance and sculptural installations.

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"Ik werk mee aan het artistiek onderzoek Depend on Me omdat ik het een interessante vraag vind wat precies het verschil is tussen de praktijk van een ‘outsider’ kunstenaar en een ‘insider’ kunstenaar. Ook omdat ik vaak ben aangetrokken tot outsider kunst, volks kunst en werk van kinderen. Ik heb moeite met het classificeren van al die verschillende vormen van kunst, omdat het lijkt alsof er een waarde oordeel aan wordt verbonden. En ik zie veel raakvlakken met mijn eigen werk en zou dat graag verder onderzoeken. Daarvoor werk ik samen met de outsider kunstenaar Jacquelien Gosschalk, er zijn veel overeenkomsten tussen haar en mijn werk, zowel in vorm als in inhoudelijk. Ik ben aan haar gekoppeld door Jan Hoek en ik zal na onze onderzoek periode binnen Depend on Me onze samenwerking voortzetten en een tentoonstelling met haar maken bij Outsider Land.”

Carmen Schabracq geboren in Amsterdam (1988) behaalde haar BFA beeldende kunst aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2012) en haar MFA theater kostuum ontwerp aan de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen (2015). Haar werk bestaat uit schilderijen, maskers, performance en sculpturale installaties.

Thanks for setting up our website 1.0
During our research project we will develop this website into a research archive and useful reference for future collaborations.

http://www.dependonme.org/

Depend on me 'Depend on Me' is a research program, initiated by artist Marieke Zwart, that facilitates artistic collaborations between professional and non-professional artists, funded by AFK. Over the course of 7 months, 10 artists from professional, semi-professional and amateur art-practices will create a new...

Last week was the first public collaboration of .on.me.2021 with 10 different artists and artworkers. gave a workshop mask making, based on a technique she learned in Mexico. Participants were asked to make a mask of an identity they wish to embody. The masks are made of paper marché, tape and silver foil and can be finished/painted at home.

DEPEND ON ME is a new collaborative research project in Amsterdam. 5 artist collaborations are facilitated through materials and discussions. Research participants are invited to work together on a new work, while researching how to collaborate as amateur and professional artist; the program includes several workshops, artist talks and feedback sessions. In november we present 5 artworks, a publication and a website.