Application project METAMORPHOSIS curated by Geert Vermeire Ienke Kastelein (Dutch) van der Mondestraat 45, 3515BB Utrecht the Netherlands +31 6 1328 2205 16-04-1956 www.ienkekastelein.nl Proposal for METAMORPHOSIS Everything flows, nothing stands still. Heraclitus

(H)EAR (T)HERE A proposition for a seminar or practice on connecting you and me, here and there, silence and a mobile-phone. I would like to explore our ability to connect to one and other and to the places we’re in in silence, by focusing on being together with one and other and by using our capacity to listen. A group of people will gather in a room blindfolded and listen to the sound of the space. A guide will take them on a virtual walk outside using a mobile-phone to transmit the sounds he’s encountering. Ienke Kastelein, January 2017

Proposal and technicalities (H)EAR (T)HERE A proposition for a seminar or practice on connecting you and me, here and there, silence and a mobile-phone. The last decade we have become used to being connected to each other all the time by internet and mobile-phones; spoken words and moving images are predominant. I would like to explore our ability to connect to one and other and to the places we’re in in silence, by focusing on being together with one and other and by using our capacity to listen. Place: A room in a building, maybe an empty gallery in a museum. Silence. Only very few exterior sounds are coming in. In the room there are different objects that can be used to make noise or sounds in space by dropping or squeezing, by touching the walls or the floor. A group of people (5-8) is walked around the gallery and escorted into the middle of the room with their eyes closed and offered a seat; than they are blindfolded and will be offered a scarf or a blanket. Than the guide(s) will start walking around the gallery in order to make the space tangible to the people in the middle. Without sound people feel more or less lost in space. By making the sounds the space will no longer be empty but instead become present. After a while one of the guides will leave the gallery for a walk outside. This guide will make a call to a telephone that is in the middle of the room. While the guide is walking outside people remain seated but by their concentration and the sound of the phone of the walker they will stay in touch with the guide and make a virtual walk with him. When the guide returns, everyone will open his eyes and be still for a few moments. Than everyone will write down how he has experienced the Hear Here practice. The notes will be read out loud by someone else in the group. This will be the end. Technical demands one silent room ( gallery inside a building ) good functioning phone/internet connection Assistants /Participants 8 -15 Props : Sponges pingpongballs water highhield shoes wooden sticks metal spoons etc 8-10 Chairs, 2 mobile phones, speaker

"Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears" Pauline Oliveros

Bio Ienke Kastelein Ienke Kastelein is interested in perception and the senses. She is engaged in context and habitat. Hence walking and sitting have become essential research methods as well as performances practices. Public space is conceived as the studio and walking is approached as a performance in which participants are the audience. Passers-by merely become actors on a stage. Her approach can be perceived as scenography or dramaturgy of the street. She embraces the lightness of playing. Her whole body of work is a research and a reflection on being present and presence itself. Ienke Kastelein (Assen, 1956) holds a BA in History of Art (Utrecht University) and studied photography at Studio Götze in Haarlem. She is a teacher in art and photography, and a guest lecturer at Master in Education ARTeZ, Pécs University Faculty of Art, Winterlab ARTeZ . In 2013 she was awarded the Boellaard prize. She lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands. During a residency in ‘het Vijfde Seizoen’ at a Psychiatric Hospital in Den Dolder (NL) she worked on the relation between clients and their habitat, on sitting and being. In 2014 she participated in AiOP FREE! 2014 in New York with the participatory performance Have a seat on the sidewalk. In May 2014 she created the walk Very Very Slow in the footsteps of Ursula for New Habits at CasCo Utrecht (NL). She participated in the Unnoticed Art Festival 2014 and 2016 (NL). Her walking practice Walking with chairs has been performed internationally in New York, Maastricht, Oslo, Pécs and in the symposium Made of Walking curated by Geert Vermeire in Delphi. It was part of Walking, a program by Lydia Matthews at Parsons, Fine Art, New York. In 2016 she participated in the exhibition Hacking Habitat Utrecht NL. She contributed to the book Unmaking or How to rethink Urban Narratives 2016 a project of Expodium, Utrecht NL. During a residency she developed Tholos in Pécsbagota, a project on connecting memory, place and people in a rural community in Hungary. She participated in AiOP PLAY 2016 in Orlando, Florida with Dancing with chairs.

Ienke Kastelein sound workshops and projects

Soundprint (2000 )

Project/workshop in which sounds give an impression of space ; people are blindfolded sitting still or moving

around in a room space.Performed on several occasions ao in a church in Haringhuizen during the

exhibiton introspection,during Radio Arte Jump, Centraal Museum Utrecht and symposium about links

between creative therapy and art practice

Shown here: two stills from videoregistration

“Rain has a way of bringing out the contours of everything; it throws a coloured blanket over previously invisible things;

instead of an intermittent and thus fragmented world, the steadily falling rain creates continuity of acoustic

experience…. Usually, when I open my front door, there are various broken sounds spread across a nothingness. I

know that when I take the next step I will encounter the path, and that to the right my shoe will meet the lawn…. I know

all these things are there, but I know them from memory…. The rain presents the fullness of an entire situation all at

once, not merely remembered, not in anticipation, but actually and now. The rain gives a sense of perspective and of

the actual relationships of one part of the world to another…. I feel as if the world, which is veiled until I touch it, has

suddenly disclosed itself to me.”

“Is it true that the blind live in their bodies rather than in the world? I am aware of my body just as I am aware of the

rain. My body is similarly made up of many patterns, many different regularities and irregularities, extended in space

from down there to up here. These dimensions and details reveal themselves more and more as I concentrate my

attention upon them. Nothing corresponds visually to this realization. Instead of having an image of my body, as being

in what we call the 'human form', I apprehend it now as these arrangements of sensitivities, a conscious space

comparable to the patterns of falling rain... “

John M. Hull: Touching The Rock. SPCK, Great Britain,1990.

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Ienke Kastelein multimedia projects and commissions BLINDDATE WWWDOTHEREANDNOW (2002) Plywood, video stills on cibachrome, light, etched glass, mirror and sound, stools. Commissioned by the provincial art-lending library in Utrecht, in connection with the project Vette Kunst ( Cool Art). Shown here: a general view of a cabinet containing videostills, text, a mirror and sound

Twelve young people came to visit the studio on May 24 and 28, 2002. They followed a workshop on sensory perception, titled Blind date wwwpunthierennu (wwwdothereandnow). This was an exploration of the meaning of being ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere’ at the same time. They listened to their favorite music, smelled unidentified scents and walked blindfolded through the streets of Utrecht. Memories came to the surface: of the past, of Africa. The day was recorded on video- and audio-tapes. This led to a collection called ‘traces of the day’. Images, texts and sounds were distilled from this and adapted for three ‘listening booths’. www.ienkekastelein.nl +31(0)302730791 ikastelein@planet.nl

Ienke Kastelein work in context > sound commissions and installations

SOUND WINDOWS (2005-6)

Work of art for the waiting room of the “Raad voor de Kinderbescherming” (Council of Child Protection) in

Roermond. Commission of the “Rijksbouwmeester “( Royal Architect )

From two build-in speakers as soundwindows and a headset transformed into soundphone sounds from

two cd’s fill the waiting room

Shown here : soundphone and soundwindow

Only after announcing oneself twice by intercom one can enter the waiting room of the Council of Child

Protection. The space is small and deep; by a slow turn it is divided in two. In the first part there is

a children’s corner with toys. In the center part between two pillars there is a large table. Behind

these are the entrances to the consulting-rooms. Only behind the glass wall of the counter the

outside world is slightly present. The silence is uncanny and makes one feel uneasy.

The concept of the work of art was to break through the uneasy silence of the closed room and inspire thechildren who come in for counseling.Within the given room two speakers are built in to function as soundwindows , so that sounds from theworld outside can penetrate the waiting room. The sounds are soft but well perceptible.One can bask oneself in its natural presence or lose oneself in it by active listening. By eavesdropping onehears the sounds more distinctive.One soundwindow is placed opposite the other one. One is opened to the outside world ( street noise,children playing, trains passing etc.), the other one to the interior world of home ( water from the tap, coffeemachine etc.)It is light in nature and atmosphere.The speakers are covered with a glossy brass plate, with wholes that make the word “HOOR’ (HEAR)The sounds are recorded on location. From the collection of sounds two selections are edited intosoundscapes,for the soundwindows, anotherone is edited especially, though strongly related to the other ones for thesoundphone. The soundphone is constructed in shiny brass shelves; the two can be used separately.Like that two people (for instance a child and his parent ) can listen together at the same and share what theyhear.

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Ienke Kastelein inspiration sound time and space Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Terry Day and especially Pauline Oliveros inspired me to listen and engage in sound and awareness of body and mind in space and time.

Distant Feelings #3 is part of a series of online performances by Lisa Parra in New York, USA,Daniel Pinheiro in Porto, Portugal and Annie Abrahams in Montpellier, France focusing how it feels to share an interface with eyes closed and no talking. I was a participant. It was an interesting experience to share time and space like this; sound kept me aware of myself and others.

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RESUME Ienke Kastelein (from 2002) PROJECTS/PERFORMANCES/WALKING PRACTICES 2016 Walking with Chairs, at Parsons University, NY, curated by Lydia Matthews 2016 Dancing with Chairs, installation and participative performance, Art in Odd Places PLAY Orlando, Florida 2016 Tholos in Pécsbagota, installation and participative performance, Pécsbagota, Hungary 2016 Made of Walking, symposium curated by Geerte Vermeire, Delphi, Greece 2016 Oslo Flaneur Festival, curated by Stahl Stenslie, Oslo, Norway 2016 Unnoticed Art Festival #2, NL curated by Frans van Lent 2016 Roundabout Capucijnengang, Walking Performance Kunsttour, Maastricht, NL curated by Joep Vossebeld 2016 A Scene #5B, performance with Frans van Lent, Rotterdam, NL 2016 Tracing Seedlings, A choreographed walk, Hacking Habitat, Utrecht, NL 2016 The Parallel Show with Frans van Lent, Ieke Trinks, Peter van Baren ( ongoing) 2015 Walking with Chairs/ Wolfshouse Variations, Wolfshuis, curated by Wanda Reiff 2015 The Parallel Show with Frans van Lent, Ieke Trinks, Peter van Baren and others( ongoing) 2014 Walking with Chairs ( at night) solo performance, Utrecht 2014 Lower East Side Drift#1, Walking with Chairs, Lu Magnus Art Laboratory and Salon, New York, USA 2014 INTON’ACTION #4, Solo Performance for Annie Abrahams, Angouleme, France 2014 Have a seat on the sidewalk /Walking with Chairs, Festival Art in Odd Places Free! New York USA 2014 Walking Practices, a workshop in/on walking, coproduction with CasCo Utrecht, Utrecht NL 2014 Walking as Performance, Unnoticed Art Festival, Dordrecht,NL* 2014 Walking with chairs, Unnoticed Art Festival, curated by Frans van Lent, NL 2014 Very Very Slow In the footsteps of Ursula, a participatory walk, CASCO, Utrecht,NL* 2013 Eine Kleinigkeit, a performance with two performers and a soundpiece, de Bilt,NL 2012 Walking as performance/ Forest as memoryplace, Amelisweerd, Utrecht,NL 2011-13 Angry Women, internetperformance, with Annie Abrahams (online) 2010 White Chairs, the Glass Pavillion Amstelpark, Zetfoundation Amsterdam, with Alphons Laudyschool

Amsterdam,NL 2005 Walking with Chairs, performance practice at Het Vijfde Seizoen, Psychiatric Hospital Den Dolder, NL 2005 Dancing with chairs, performance practice at Het Vijfde Seizoen, Psychiatric Hospital Den Dolder, NL 2005 Dreamhouse, Building project, in Almere Poort Bouwrai, Almere, NL 2004 Sitting, blindfolded, Soundwork Almost Real, RadioArteJump, Centraal Museum Utrecht NL 2004 Tubs and Bowls, Wind and waterworks, Kumulus Maastricht,NL 2003 Tentstories, childrens artproject, Kumulus Maastricht,NL 2002 Cool Art, workshop sensory perception and memory, with students of the Leidserijncollege, Utrecht,NL 2002 Sound(im)print, symposium Art and Art Therapy, Zutphen,NL EXHIBITIONS * GROUP SHOW 2016 CRIMP, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark * 2016 Tracing Seedlings ( with Hans van Lunteren ), Hacking Habitat, Utrecht, the Netherlands 2015 Pixxelpoint, Nova Curica, Slovenia, curated by Igor Stromajer* 2015 Howling wolves/doing time installation/performance Utrecht Down Under, Under Control NL 2015 Urban Images, KUUB, Utrecht, NL * 2015 The Place The Space, installation, Circadit Arnhem, NL 2014-15 LOCKED, MIKC, Delden, NL * 2014 Locked, installation, MICK, Delden, NL* 2014 Point de Vue, The last rose of summer, Plateau van Margraten, Wanda Reiff Gallery , Bemelen,NL* 2014 In the footsteps of Ursula and Artist Studio as Habitat New Habits/Artist at Work, CASCO, Utrecht,NL* 2013 On Bridge, video installation, Museum van Zuilen, Utrecht,NL* 2013 Space and its double, installation video / sound, Utrecht Down Under, Utrecht NL 2013 Waiting Room, installation, Galerie de INKIJK, Metrostation Weesperplein, Amsterdam,NL 2013 Eine Kleinigkeit, performance/intervention in situ, de Bilt,NL 2012-13 The Place,the Space, two installations, Borrowed Spaces, Deventer NL 2012-13 IK@CM, installation, Centraal Museum, Utrecht,NL 2012 Thinking of Boogbrug Vianen, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam NL 2012 Walking as Performance / Forest as Memorypalace, Amelisweerd, Bunnik,NL 2012 Space and its double, Living Room, Montpellier,France 2011 CBKU / de Loods, Utrecht*,NL 2011 Green Ways and Water, Genootschap Kunstliefde, Utrecht*,NL 2011 Early Works, SVB, Amstelveen,NL 2011 de Loods, Utrecht*NL 2010 Mirror Me installation Zetfoundation, Het Glazen Huis, Amsterdam NL 2010 Tribute to the bridge, Kunstvlaai, Boogbrug Vianen, Amsterdam NL 2010 Timebrake, installatie, tentoonstelling SlowArt, Schutterspark, Brunssum NL 2010 Luggage, Perron 1, Delden* NL 2010 Try out, installation, Sophies AL, Utrecht,NL 2008 RC De Ruimte, installation, Ijmuiden,NL 2008 De Salon, CBKU, curator Robbert Roos, Utrecht,NL 2007 Moving Still(s), doing dishes, Mediacafé ’t Hoogt, Utrecht NL 2007 Splinters of Paradise, Artoll, Bedburg-Hau ( Duitsland) NL 2006 Point de Vue Huis Doorn, Doorn NL 2006 GuestRoom #4, Atelier Rijksbouwmeeester*, het Domein, Sittard, NL 2005 Nature, nature, Galerie Esca, Milhaud, France* 2005 Interactiv, Evora Portugal, NL 2004/5 Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, NL 2004 Still(s), CBK-Utrecht, Amersfoort ( publicatie ) NL 2003 There was a man who was gone, Rijkswaterstaat, Maastricht NL 2002 BLINDDATE wwwdothereandnow, Uitleencentrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Utrecht *NL 2002 4e Salon for Utrecht based Artists, Central Museum Utrecht on location * (cat) NL Winner Boellaardprize 2013

COMMISSIONS 2016 Werkspoor, walking and mapping the in between, for Unmaking The Netherlands, Expodium, Utrecht, NL published in the book Unmaking or How to Rethink Urban Narratives 2016 Tracing Seedlings, Enwalled Space/ a Free zone, with Hans van Lunteren, in Hacking Habitat

commissioned by Ine Gevers, curator at former prison Wolvenplein, Utrecht, NL supported by Mondriaanfonds

2014 Celestial blue, proposition for an art / sound installation at Dominicuskerk, Utrecht,NL 2014 It’s never finished, txt and photography for Eric de Leeuw and DAAD Architects, NL 2012-13 NOOTGROEN Community Art / public space/ green with Hans van Lunteren en PJ

RoggebandPijnacker/Nootdorp 2010-11 Proposition for a community space for people suffering from Alzheimer Disease, Sutfene, Zutphen 2010 Sweet Memories in Overvecht (Draft),Sophia, Utrecht,NL 2010 Seeview, draft for Stekje, iov Keunstwurk, Leeuwarden,NL 2008-9 research Bovenlanden, CBKU, Utrecht,NL 2008 research Perception of a Square, Burgemeester van Grunsvenplein, Heerlen NL 2008 research Delden Diepenheim Koningstocht, commissioned by Hof van Twente 2006 research Rijn-Gouwe Lightrail landscape, commsioned by Kunstgebouw, with Hans van Lunteren 2006 HEAR, soundpiece Waiting Room, Raad voor de Kinderbescherming, Roermond (Rijksbouwmeester) 2006 Point de Vue, Provincie Utrecht, related to Lustwarandes, Doorn,NL 2005 Draft for Waiting Room Raad voor de Kinderbescherming, Roermond ( Rijksbouwmeester ) 2005 Draft for Broekpolder, Heemskerk,NL 2004 Wind and waterwork, tubs and bowls videoproject , Kumulus Maastricht,NL 2003 Tentstories, childrens artproject, Kumulus Maastricht,NL 2001 Cool Art , de Provinciale Kunstuitleen, Utrecht,NL COLLABORATIONS 2016 Unmaking the Netherlands, research in Urban Narratives, with Hans van Lunteren,Utrecht (publication) 2015-16 Walled Ground Seedlings for Hacking Habitat, with Hans van Lunteren ( 2014 – ongoing ) 2014 LES Drift #1 Catherine Grau, for Lu Magnus New York, USA 2012-13 NOOTGROEN, with Hans van Lunteren en PJ Roggeband Community Art / public ( green) space 2012 Space and its double, residency LivingRoom, Montpellier with Ronald de Ceuster 2011-12 Angry Women performance/net work with Annie Abrahams http://www.bram.org/angry/women/ 2010 1001 Tranquillizers vol.2 video with composer Wiel Conen 2007-09 DigitalKidz ( with Kitty de Graaf ) workshops for children

(Digigraffiti : ontwerp je eigen wereld wereld en zet hem op het web, Digimagica: een animatie van Digitale Sprookjes en Toverkunsten Dromen en nachterries,Virtueel Zelfportret )

2009 research art and territory Delden Diepenheim Koningstocht, Hof van Twente NL 2009 de Bovenlanden, commissioned by CBKU, Utrecht NL 2005 with Hans van Lunteren , visual art research on visual and artistic qualities of public space (art and environment qualities Rijn-Gouwe lijn ( Lightrail under construction), commission Kunstgebouw ADDITIONAL ACITIVITIES Research group Walking Practices with Nikos Doulos and Mariska Gewald and others 2014-ongoing Curator lectures on photography at UCK Utrecht, (1998 - 2014) Chairman Foundation Hollandse Verbeelding 2010-2014 Tutor in Art / Concept / Photography 2009 - MKSTART, fulltime pre-education in Art, Amsterdam 2006 - MK24 Amsterdam ( since 2006 ), 1995 - 2014 AVS-Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten (UCK) art and photography, Utrecht 1997 - 2008 UCK Digital Media, Utrecht ( 1997 tot 2008) 1990 - 1999 CREA, Amsterdam (1990 tot 1999), 1987 - 1990 de Nieuwe Academie, Art School, Utrecht (1987-1990) Visiting Lecturer 2017 ARTeZ Winterlab 2016 University of Pécs 2011-12 Master Art Education (Interdisciplinary), Artez Zwolle 2010 ARTeZ Bachelor Art Education Fine Arts Zwolle 2008 HKU Hilversum ( video installation in situ ) Study tour: Athens (2016), Brussels (2016) Prague, Berlin ( 2015 ), New York (2014), Istanbul (2010), Portugal (2006), Kenya (2001), Nepal (1987), Artist in Residence Pécsbagota, Hungary ( 2016 ), Montpellier France (2012), Bedburg Hau, Germany (2007), Evora Portugal (2006), het Vijfde Seizoen, den Dolder (winter 2004 – 2005) Video/DVD Moving Stills, Ienke Kastelein/editing Jan Ketelaars 2004 Golfje, 2004 Dancing with chairs 2005, Het Vijfde Seizoen, 2005, Moving Stills 2 (Afwas), 2007 CdRom Artsavers, published by Tuesday Multimedia 1996 Books Still(s), published by CBK Utrecht/Ienke Kastelein TEXT by Flos Wildschut funded by City Council Utrecht 2004. Ik zit in Den Dolder®, published by Stichting het Vijfde Seizoen/ Ienke Kastelein TEXT by Meta Knol 2006 EDUCATION New Media Studies UCK 1996-97 Education in Photography Studio’s Hans Götze, Haarlem, 1979 -1980 History of Art, University of Utrecht , Utrecht ,NL 1975 -1979 (± BA) 1980-1983 (± MA unfinished ) French Language and Literature, University of Avignon, Avignon France 1974-75 Ienke Kastelein lives and works in Utrecht, NL ienkekastelein@xs4all.nl /mob +31 6 1328 2205 Website www.ienkekastelein.nl by flinkevent Jan 2017