catalogue 2014

Catalogue DOGtime 2014

o r i g i n h e r e m e a n s t h a t f r o m a n d b y w h i c h s o m e t h i n g i s w h a t i t i s a n d a s i t i s w h a t s o m e t h i n g i s a s i t i s w e c a l l i t s e s s e n c e o r n a t u r e t h e o r i g i n o f s o m e t h i n g i s t h e s o u r c e o f i t s n a t u r e t h e q u e s t i o n c o n c e r n i n g t h e o r i g i n o f t h e w o r k o f a r t a s k s a b o u t t h e s o u r c e o f i t s n a t u r e o n t h e u s u a l v i e w t h e w o r k a r i s e s o u t o f a n d b y m e a n s o f t h e a c t i v i t y o f t h e a r t i s t b u t b y w h a t a n d w h e n c e i s t h e a r t i s t w h a t h e i s b y t h e w o r k f o r t o s a y t h a t t h e w o r k d o e s c r e d i t t o t h e m a s t e r m e a n s t h a t i t i s t h e w o r k t h a t f i r s t l e t s t h e a r t i s t e m e r g e a s a m a s t e r o f h i s a r t t h e a r t i s t i s t h e o r i g i n o f t h e w o r k t h e w o r k i s t h e o r i g i n o f t h e a r t i s t n e i t h e r i s w i t h o u t t h e o t h e r n e v e r t h e l e s s n e i t h e r i s t h e s o l o s u p p o r t o f t h e o t h e r i n t h e m s e l v e s a n d i n t h e i r i n t e r r e l a t i o n s a r t i s t a n d w o r k s a r e e a c h o f t h e m b y v i r t u e o f a t h i r d t h i n g w h i c h i s p r i o r t o b o t h n a m e l y t h a t w h i c h a l s o g i v e s a r t i s t a n d w o r k o f a r t t h e i r n a m e s a r t m a r t i n h e i d e g g e r t h e o r i g i n o f t h e w o r k o f a r t 1 9 3 5 o r i g i n # 6 m a n e l e s p a r b e i g a s c a a m s t e r d a m 2 0 1 4

With respect and admiration for all you have achieved.
It was an honour to have worked with you.

Manel Esparbé i Gasca
Head DOGtime Bachelor Programme
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

FA

Fine Arts

THEORY AS A ROADMOVIE (MY LIFE AS A SNAKE.)
For me, working on a thesis is an open construction. As is with teaching. There is no plan. There are no plans at all. There is just me and my student in this open construction without plans.
What are we going to do? We are going to improvise. Improvising as in real life.
It’s important to link study and art, and the study of art to real life. There’s no other subject.
I never know where my students and their thesis will end, and I am not interested in the end either. I’m interested in the ups and downs along the track, the good and wrong decisions, the insights, die Aha-Erlebnisse, the fuck-me’s & the fuck you’s, the joy of understanding, of mental freedom, the importance of research, the strength of words and the urge to be at the centre of your own mind. Of our own mind. Just to be in the centre of our own mind.
What is the essence of having an opinion? Do I have an opinion? What is the meaning of having an opinion? Am I able to catch my opinion in words? What are words good for? Does my thesis have an end? A start? Does a thesis need an end or a start? Who am I? What am I doing? Who’s this man in front of me?
Working on a thesis is a kind of roadmovie; a roadmovie without a script. The voyage is the script. I’m the coach on the couch. I’m my student’s best friend and best enemy. I’m a snake when I have to be, and if they think I’m a dog: I bark 🙂
No more classical teachers in this multiplying society, this wonderful schizophrenic era, please! We are the chameleons of the twenty-first century!
So here I am, next to my student, in a car and we don’t know where we are driving to, yet. We talk, we are silent, we smile, dream, we discuss the landscape, control the speed of the car, proclaim the supremacy of imagination and try to get as deep as possible into our temporary conspiracy.
Whatever the subject may be, we will come out with ‘something’, iets, something that grew out of the emptiness of our open construction without any plan.
It’s like making art. But from the other side. Exactly from the other side…

Q.S. Serafijn
Thesis lecturer DOGtime 5 Fine Arts

WARMER WHITE
somebody is walking with a bucket
something is ripped apart
a curse, fuck this
weight loss
windows
nothing is cleaned (in overalls)
a beamer light blows, fuck this
paint is mixed, spilled and splashed
baby’s made
a carpet could fly
things fall
a murder solved
penguins, pebble beach
arriving on horses, bikes and BMW’s
a heart close to exploding
red is preferable so is black tape, a better blue and a warmer white
The last months before the graduation show are a mix of energy, sacrifices, nerves,
failures, success, questions, big rushes, last decisions, hunger for improvement.
It’s a privilege to be amongst this feverish DOGTIME mix.

Pieter Kusters
Lecturer DOGtime 5 Fine Arts

Catalogus DOGtime 2014

o r i g i n h e r e m e a n s t h a t f r o m a n d b y w h i c h s o m e t h i n g i s w h a t i t i s a n d a s i t i s w h a t s o m e t h i n g i s a s i t i s w e c a l l i t s e s s e n c e o r n a t u r e t h e o r i g i n o f s o m e t h i n g i s t h e s o u r c e o f i t s n a t u r e t h e q u e s t i o n c o n c e r n i n g t h e o r i g i n o f t h e w o r k o f a r t a s k s a b o u t t h e s o u r c e o f i t s n a t u r e o n t h e u s u a l v i e w t h e w o r k a r i s e s o u t o f a n d b y m e a n s o f t h e a c t i v i t y o f t h e a r t i s t b u t b y w h a t a n d w h e n c e i s t h e a r t i s t w h a t h e i s b y t h e w o r k f o r t o s a y t h a t t h e w o r k d o e s c r e d i t t o t h e m a s t e r m e a n s t h a t i t i s t h e w o r k t h a t f i r s t l e t s t h e a r t i s t e m e r g e a s a m a s t e r o f h i s a r t t h e a r t i s t i s t h e o r i g i n o f t h e w o r k t h e w o r k i s t h e o r i g i n o f t h e a r t i s t n e i t h e r i s w i t h o u t t h e o t h e r n e v e r t h e l e s s n e i t h e r i s t h e s o l o s u p p o r t o f t h e o t h e r i n t h e m s e l v e s a n d i n t h e i r i n t e r r e l a t i o n s a r t i s t a n d w o r k s a r e e a c h o f t h e m b y v i r t u e o f a t h i r d t h i n g w h i c h i s p r i o r t o b o t h n a m e l y t h a t w h i c h a l s o g i v e s a r t i s t a n d w o r k o f a r t t h e i r n a m e s a r t m a r t i n h e i d e g g e r t h e o r i g i n o f t h e w o r k o f a r t 1 9 3 5 o r i g i n # 6 m a n e l e s p a r b e i g a s c a a m s t e r d a m 2 0 1 4

With respect and admiration for all you have achieved.
It was an honour to have worked with you.

Manel Esparbé i Gasca
Head DOGtime Bachelor Programme
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

FA

Fine Arts

THEORY AS A ROADMOVIE (MY LIFE AS A SNAKE.)
For me, working on a thesis is an open construction. As is with teaching. There is no plan. There are no plans at all. There is just me and my student in this open construction without plans.
What are we going to do? We are going to improvise. Improvising as in real life.
It’s important to link study and art, and the study of art to real life. There’s no other subject.
I never know where my students and their thesis will end, and I am not interested in the end either. I’m interested in the ups and downs along the track, the good and wrong decisions, the insights, die Aha-Erlebnisse, the fuck-me’s & the fuck you’s, the joy of understanding, of mental freedom, the importance of research, the strength of words and the urge to be at the centre of your own mind. Of our own mind. Just to be in the centre of our own mind.
What is the essence of having an opinion? Do I have an opinion? What is the meaning of having an opinion? Am I able to catch my opinion in words? What are words good for? Does my thesis have an end? A start? Does a thesis need an end or a start? Who am I? What am I doing? Who’s this man in front of me?
Working on a thesis is a kind of roadmovie; a roadmovie without a script. The voyage is the script. I’m the coach on the couch. I’m my student’s best friend and best enemy. I’m a snake when I have to be, and if they think I’m a dog: I bark 🙂
No more classical teachers in this multiplying society, this wonderful schizophrenic era, please! We are the chameleons of the twenty-first century!
So here I am, next to my student, in a car and we don’t know where we are driving to, yet. We talk, we are silent, we smile, dream, we discuss the landscape, control the speed of the car, proclaim the supremacy of imagination and try to get as deep as possible into our temporary conspiracy.
Whatever the subject may be, we will come out with ‘something’, iets, something that grew out of the emptiness of our open construction without any plan.
It’s like making art. But from the other side. Exactly from the other side…

Q.S. Serafijn
Thesis lecturer DOGtime 5 Fine Arts

WARMER WHITE
somebody is walking with a bucket
something is ripped apart
a curse, fuck this
weight loss
windows
nothing is cleaned (in overalls)
a beamer light blows, fuck this
paint is mixed, spilled and splashed
baby’s made
a carpet could fly
things fall
a murder solved
penguins, pebble beach
arriving on horses, bikes and BMW’s
a heart close to exploding
red is preferable so is black tape, a better blue and a warmer white
The last months before the graduation show are a mix of energy, sacrifices, nerves,
failures, success, questions, big rushes, last decisions, hunger for improvement.
It’s a privilege to be amongst this feverish DOGTIME mix.

Pieter Kusters
Lecturer DOGtime 5 Fine Arts