Urban Scores with a Daily Body

Performance Workshop for Jewellery-Linking Bodies department by Mariken Overdijk 

5.11.2024

We will work with the body as a tool. 

Warming it up in various ways.  

Creating awareness of the physicality of the body in relation to space. 

How this body transports us through the architecture of our surroundings. 

How our internal body is guided by different impulses: 

The feeling body. 

The fluid body. 

The physical body. 

We will work on small scale performative interventions, instant compositions and mimographies of daily gestures. 

Preferable unspectacular. 

We will explore your own workspace (daily surrounding) as a gesture-archive to compose short-scores. 

Available: a Body. 

Direction: Where to where from. 

Materials to Bring: 

*If you have a camera, bring it along for documenting the work.  

*Bring some nice clothes and shoes (comfortable). 

* Pencil & notebook with some emptiness. 

Mariken Overdijk is a performance artist with a focus on Urban Choreography & Autopsychogeography. Her work mainly takes place in public spaces through various performative interventions. As a poetic explorer, Mariken Overdijk connects with the everyday environment through individual and collaborative walks-in-and-around-the-block, as described in the recent publication: The City as an Anthology: Movements at the Margins of Public Space (2024 ArtEZpress). She is trained in mime (BA), visual art (BFA) and performance art (MA). In addition to her own practice, she works as a coordinator & teaches performance at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, in the VAV-moving image department. 

Mariken OverDijk 

Performance Art, Urban Choreography, Psychogeography, Urban Canvas Anthologies & more 

W: https://marikenoverdijk.com   M: +31-(0)6-48462468  E: marikenoverdijk@hotmail.com 

  

All photos are taken by Mariken Overdijk

Jewellery – Linking Bodies students excursion to the Dutch Design Week 2024 and Van Abbemuseum

on October 23rd 2024 the students of the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department have embarked on a day trip to Eindhoven to visit the Body exhibition as part of the DDW24 and the exhibition Soils at the Van Abbemuseum. The excursion was initiated by our theory tutor Angela Jerardi and accompanied by our guest tutor Gitte Nygaard.

The Body Project as part of the Dutch Design week 2024 is an ongoing dialogue between different makers, their work and its focus on the body and to re-contextualize the context of jewelry by examining the relationship with the body as a framework and questioning the relationship between the body and the object.

Soils at the Van Abbemuseum explores a renewed connection with our soils as the foundation of our lives. It is where our ancestors once lived and where future generations will build an existence. It is the link between past, present and future. The source that feeds us. But the relationship between human and earth is also often strained. From land depletion and overproduction to land grabbing and (labour) exploitation. How can we re-ground ourselves in our environment? And how does that help us reconnect with each other? The group exhibition Soils addresses these questions. International artists, designers, farmers and activists work towards more empathy for our soils.