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Jouke Kleerebezem invites you for a working residency at his studio-away-from-the-studio
This quiet studio outpost allows for concentrated conceptual and creative work by individual artists and writers or by small collaborating teams. Writing, concept planning, image editing, video montage are obvious possibilities, but also material practices and crafts can be supported within the limitations of available (and imported) tools, equipment and space. As far as I am concerned, artistic and intellectual work can take any direction here.
The house can be reached by public transport as it is situated at only 3 minutes from the SNCF train and bus company’s Tannay stop. Place de l'Église is where you get off. All primary conveniences can be found at walking distance, including a fine bakery and butcher, a bookshop, pharmacy and supermarket. For local transport a bicycle is available. Two doors down the street is the Le Relais Fleuri hotel and restaurant. In case more people would be involved in a project they could be lodged here.
Spaces and facilities
The ancient house has two connected double bedroom-studies on the second floor. A very bright 16m2 landing serves as a working area, suitable for small scale crafts or photography. At split level is a bathroom-dressing. Descending a stone staircase to the first floor you will find a second toilet and a shower, separated by a passage hallway from the fully equipped kitchen with its open connection to the former bar room, now the house’s 46m2 main multipurpose room, with the compact sheltered garden outside the front door. The garden has a gate onto Tannay’s main street, Rue Sainte Agathe, where we are at number 5.
The studio is equipped with a broadband wifi Internet connection, a ceiling installed Samsung SP-M255 LCD data and video projector (VGA, video, HDMI/DVI, USB) and Bose Companion 20 speakers, both for AV or simple audio. Print copy can be modelled with the aid of an Epson WF-3540 all-in-one printer/scanner/copier. Small tools and equipment include a Manfrotto tripod with ball-head, office necessities, primary tools.
Also I have a small but topical library on publishing media, print and type, artists’ books and a collection of artist’s books and other special editions, plus an art and general interest, literature etc. collection.
Recreational gear includes a table tennis table, and pétanque sets, of course. Tannay has pétanque lanes, a crummy tennis court and equally bumpy football field. For swimming the Yonne river is at a fifteen minutes walk.
Cultural production, cultural capital
Café de Tannay Studio has no outlined program, nor a vested interest in any specific cultural niche. It is a space of experimentation. For the sake of the studio, residency proposals should bear upon current conditions of cultural production in a broad sense — artistically, economically, politically, socially — and apply to art making, art writing, critique and theory, in the disciplines of the fine arts, design, architecture, media but also in other humanities where artistic intervention could support emerging intelligence and knowledge.
Some of my personal special interests in publishing as a general concept with a great variety of expressions are described in the next column and can be read from my publications and ongoing projects, like ‘De Nieuwe Kunstwereld’ (the new art world). This project conducted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie focuses on changing conditions of aesthetic and social-political reception (and discussion) of the visual arts in an era of informatization and networked communication. In my opinion the epistemological changes go far beyond technological issues of interaction, scale, economics or democratization — to name just a few (yet important) to be over and again contextualized returning topics.
The ways in which developments in technology, economy and (their) politics are conceived, perceived and acknowledged has everything to do with the way in which they are visualized in everyday media and in the arts. Between the everyday, media and the institutionalized world, productivity is in a constant shift. The productivity of knowledge and value at any scale, from the individual and personal to the collective and political is driven by interaction, platform sharing, debate, infinite editing and publishing, with constant relocation of the demarcation lines between the private and the public.
If these areas is where (your) art operates, Café de Tannay can serve emerging interests and projects, as a place of concentration for you, just like it does for me.
Jouke Kleerebezem
I am a visual artist based in Amsterdam. My long-lasting interest is with a changing media environment in which art is produced, presented, distributed, consumed, documented, reviewed. How does a context facilitate both artist and art lover, how does it articulate artistic content and enhance interaction? Thematic interests are with instructional and representational imagery and text, memory, appropriation, representation.
My personal credo says “pay attention”. Attention is key. Artistic attention and attention for the artistic product, in every fine detail of its manifold and timely manifestations, runs through my body of work. Different projects over the years have engaged me in individual and collaborative projects and publications, exhibitions and educational work, both didactical as well as organizational, both in the Netherlands and abroad.
Café de Tannay Studio, Amsterdam/Tannay 2015
Coordinates
Address:
5, Rue Ste. Agathe
58190 Tannay
France
Correspondence address:
Brouwersgracht 615
1015 GJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telephone:
+31 (0)6 1351 6403
(Netherlands)
+33 (0)7 8145 0214
(France)
Email:
jouke.kleerebezem@gmail.com
Availability
The house is rented out commercially May through November at a weekly price of €500 and €600 for the low and high season respectively.
Your interest for a work residency at the café is welcomed at the reduced inclusive studio cost price of €150 per week for one person, an additional €30 for each next person, totalling up to €240 per week for the max capacity of four persons.
Residencies are by application. I have no application form for this purpose. Just write or mail me about the project/s that you are working on and why it/they would benefit from a stay at the café studio, for how many participants. Inform me on the preferred period and duration. Add portfolio material to your email or links to online presence of your work.
Outside the high season periods can be granted at any moment according to availability, during July and August artist residencies fill up the eventual gaps in the commercial schedule.
For more information and proposals, please email
jouke.kleerebezem@gmail.com
first bedroom-study
second bedroom-study
landing atelier
Canned Heat at Woodstock 1969, Youtube stream in the video projection
Special interests
Practice
(Publication) projects of any scope and scale, equally in their conceptual, preparatory, editorial or final production phase. Experimental and un-publishable publications. Text and image narratives. Hybrid media editions. ‘Museology’ in its contemporary diversity, with art works being on display in traditional institutions, fairs and biennials, in the media, at alternative venues, in educational contexts.
Reflection, critique, theory
Research into information structures that inform, reflect, evaluate, review or stretch contemporary ‘museology’, both as they are represented in the arts, and in their proper ecologies.
Research into what defines today’s (self) publishing. What are its topical themes, media, memory, readership and who are its authors, artists, publishers, producers, users? Which markets and media drive its production. Which cultural and media developments connect authors, artists and readers? Generally, to what extent does the reception of art inform its production? By which contacts, through which networks, at which occasions art production and reception are manifest beyond art market codes and economic politics?
Ancient spiral stone staircase
connecting the second bedroom
with the garden @Café de Tannay
