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We humans - with a family resemblance to the stars we're made of - all are part of a whirling loop in which everything is continuously constructed and deconstructed. A white fountain is connected to a black hole and we are situated somewhere in between, moving towards the black hole into the white fountain again. We humans and our objects go through different interconnected stages which further evolution and devolution. The graph gets steeper and steeper as our culture and nature evolves and devolves towards a post-human entity relating in a radically different way to their surroundings. Unlike in the past - where complex cosmologies were drawn into the sand or carved in cave walls and believed in - we are now in a more secular culture in which we make more of a distinction between fiction and reality. Four major cultures were created through interaction and crashes, with pop culture dominating, absorbing elements of the other three cultures. My goal would be to follow the latest developments in all four cultures, and bring these to the fore in a more balanced way, in both film and theatre. This way I hope to broaden people's awareness of the meaning of that equally mysterious and logical cosmos that surrounds us.
WHIRL
Productions is a professionally
equipped media production unit led by director/producer Bouke Mekel.
This freelance company was founded in 2009 and is housed in the Puddingstudio in the city of
Groningen near central station. WHIRL engages in producing clips and portraits for artists and arts
organisations, short and long documentaries and fiction films, and multimedia performances. These
productions entail the editing and fine-tuning of self-/co-created
poetry/scripts, visual art/photography/cinematography, sound
design/music and choreographies. Each of these services can be
provided, separately or fused with one another.
S t a t e m e n t / M o
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I think anything can be art and
art is about anything. I agree with Marcel Duchamp, who asked himself
the following fundamental rhetorical question: "Peut-on faire des oeuvres qui ne soient
pas d'art?"
(“Can one make works that are not considered art?”). Once we start
creating objects in the name of the fundamental why-question, we
destruct or construct culture and nature. The resulting oeuvres are
cultural and increasingly natural as well. That is to say, we're now on
the verge of creating intriguing, beyond credible, verisimilar
cavernous valleys and carnal dolls. Our possibilities for
(de-)culturalisation / (de-)naturalisation are seemingly endless until
we consider a work finished and take our hands off it, and/or otherwise
until the black hole(s) have deconstructed all of creation, with white
fountain(s) emitting star dust once again.
I think until then, we as humans and emerging post-human entities will
continue to have an inherent need to be challenged by art, moderately
and
radically.
As time progresses, the eye of
my personal whirl moves through the real and fictional world and
absorbs all it encounters. It whirls reality into fiction and fiction
into reality. The world is a theatre that is increasingly mediatised,
with more and more opportunities for multi- and transmedia
storytelling. On the basis of the eye of my whirl's voyages, the works
are created and exposed to the public,
who proceed to interpret it and, thereby, finish the artwork.