Video-artist Kim Engelen

Netherlands, Week 2, 2012

Amartya Sen I am down with you. My current mosaic: culture lover, world citizen, daughter, European, Occidental, Swedish resident, student, autonomous artist, Dutchman, friend, language-lover, individualist, thinker, secularist, ex-drugs user, democrat, woman with modern tendencies and conservatively set, liberal minded, progressive, interest in Humanism and Sufi, cosmopolitan, transcendental meditater, sportive; ex-Taekwondo, -swimmer, -jogger, -ballet, -dancer, email addict with a roman catholic background, forgiver, believer in God and unbeliever of religions, believer of love and freedom, third wave feminist supporter, defender of the rights of liberty, Human! 

• Current screening/exposition:
• Fonlad - the On Line Festival for Digital Arts, presents at the Non Biennale twelve videos hand made by phones, my video ‘I am in your Hands’, curator: José Vieira, view»

• Coming up:
• 22 Jan 2012: BOYB, stpln:s lokaler, producers Lina Linde and Kristian Nihlén, Malmö/Sweden

• Read:
  
• Dirk Verhofstadt, De derde feministische golf (The 3rd feminist wave), 2006 
• George Orwell, The Freedom of the Press, Orwell’s Proposed Preface to ‘Animal Farm’, 1972, read online»

• Video:   
• Theo van Gogh, Submission, 200, watch online»
  

• Email feedback:   
• “Art” heeft niet (en nooit) het monopolie op vrijheid (gehad). Wél het raken van het hart en het prikkelen van de geest. Je teksten zijn kado’s aan anderen. En aan hen deze te consumeren. Ik vind je berichten rijk, soms overweldigend, aan informatie t.a.v. je studie. Indrukwekkend, dus. Wellicht daardoor voor anderen reden om vooral te lezen en stil te zijn…
• “Art” has not (and never has) a monopoly on freedom. As well touching the heart and stimulating the mind. Your texts are gifts to others. And to them to consume those. I think your posts are rich, sometimes overwhelming, information-wise regarding your MFA. Thus, impressive. Perhaps because of this to others reason to namely read and be quit…

Kim Engelen, [Bridges] Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge), 2010