WHIRL Productions is a media production unit lead by Bouke Mekel, based in the city of Groningen (in the northern part of the Netherlands), inside the Puddingstudio, producing clips for artists and arts organisations; short and long documentaries and fiction films.

S t a t e m e n t

I think anything can be art and art is about anything. I agree with Marcel Duchamp asking himself a fundamental rhetorical question: "Peut-on faire des oeuvres qui ne soient pas d'art?" (“Can one make works that are not considered art?”). These oeuvres are cultural and increasingly becoming natural as well. Once we start representing in the name of the fundamental why-question we destruct or construct culture and nature: we manipulate until we leave it alone at some point in time, as our possibilities for (de-)culturalisation / (de-)naturalisation are endless.
I think we as humans inherently need and should eternally, moderately and radically be challenged by art.