Deventer Post: Video-art for the National Books-week-final the tower of the Lebuinus church (2012) Leo Polhuys
Video art for Book Week final on tower Lebuïnuskerk
Deventer Post March 13th 2012
By: Leo Polhuys
DEVENTER – When on March 24th the closing party of the national Book Week is in progress, in the Lebuïnus Church, a very special spectacle is projected on the church tower. It is a projection of the Deventer video artist Elise van der Linden.
Elise has been asked by the Kunstenlab (Art-lab) to provide the projection. Kunstenlab in turn was asked by the organization of the Book Week to give shape to the book week theme ‘Friendship and other inconveniences’. “It’s nice that they’ve thought about me,” says Elise, who has had her studio in the harbor quarter for a few years.
Elise studied at the art academy and specialized in video art. “I’ve always had something with moving images and like to project images into spaces. An example of this was the exhibition in Het Nijenhuis at Heino in 2008, where I projected moving sea water onto floorboards within the framework of the theme of Forgetfulness. “During Deventer op Stelten (Deventer on stilts) last year, Elise held an exhibition in the Kunstenlab together with others. Her subject was the river and nature and together with other artists she produced a fifteen-meter print on the lowered Wellepad (a street by the river) with the same subject. The images with the videos are often without sound. Elise: “I only use sound when they amplify images. The images often speak for themselves. A lot of sound does not fit my style either, because I like to make work where people dream away and where they can come up with their own story. ”
Back to the projection on the tower. This is shown when it starts to be quite dark and lasts until the end of the closing party of the Book Week. The projection must be visible from a great distance, including from the A1 (distant motorway). In the context of friendship, Elise has devised a projection in which two people communicate with each other. The characters are behind a door. Communication is done via paper airplanes, symbolizing the mutually spoken words. Sometimes a door closes, sometimes it opens. A question to Elise: what does friendship – after all, the theme of the Book Week – mean for you personally? “It is cliché, friendship has to come from two sides, it is giving and taking. You should also not be afraid to stand up for yourself and argue “The next question: what do you have with reading? – it is the Book Week.” Elise: “I am not a book reader at least not thick books and long stories, I am more of a short story reader.”
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