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Erolife 1994-1996

From 1994-1997 I participated in the Erolife fair with a couple of projects with an erotic connotation to see if a different audience could be reached.

Vingerbad /  Finger(s)bath 1994

In 1994 I had a stand at the Erolife fair together with Jan Bouma. He presented his statue ‘The King’ and I showed the ‘Vingerbad’.

De Jas / the Coat 1995

In 1995 Jan Bouma and I had another stand at the Erolife fair. This time Jan presented his statue ‘the Soldier’ and I ‘the Coat’. The Coat was not only presented as a statue but was worn by a performer who walked all over the grounds of the fair showing ‘his goods’ to all who were willing and un-willing.

The Coat has also been performed at two other erotic fairs in Belgium.

Jongeheerzepen / Willie soaps 1996-‘97

In 1996 the Jongeheerzepen project was presented for the first time at Erolife’96 taking place at the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht.

In 1997 the Jongeheerzepen had a presentation in Galerie Liter, Boekhorststraat, Den Haag.

Jongeheerzepen at Erolife’96

December 1996, Jaarbeurs, Utrecht

The Jongeheerzepen had a large stand that showed the soaps and formed the base for a continuously running performance during the 4 day of the fair.

The Jongeheer-promotion team consisted of:

Dr. Rebecca Rosenboom, Professor Swartjes, his (or her) assistant & the three promo girls.

The promo girls asked the Erolife visitors to fill in an inquiry form. The results of this enquiry were showed a large ‘score-board’ that Dr. Rosenboom kept updated. She meant to find out what the most popular soap was. Unfortunately for her was that the promo girls were very biased and tried their utmost best to persuade people to vote for their favourite. Professor Swartjes (who re-invented the soaps) thought the therapeutic side of the soaps utter nonsense, but, the soap itself was naturally the very best of the best.

In 1997 Jongeheerzepen had a small selling stand without the performance.

Jongeheerzepen at Galerie Liter

May1997, at Galerie liter, Boekhorststraat, Den haag

The Jongeheer promo team also opened the exhibition at Galerie Liter.

After the opening the large shop window of the gallery functioned as a giant viewing box. From the street one could see inside the Jongeheer stand with the promo team in the form of life sized painted cardboard dolls.

The sex-shop on the other side of the street advertised the Jongeheer soaps in its window and you could go and watch the Jongeheer commercials in one of their porn movie booths.

You can watch the 3 commercials here:

Erolife '94, Vingerbad & the King (by Jan Bouma)
Vingerbad at Erolife'94
close-up Vingerbad, 1994
scetches for the Coat, 1995
the front of de Jas, photo by Pieter Lemmers
the back of de Jas, photo by Pieter Lemmers
De Jas in action, 1995
De Jas in the window of Hot Red Lokaal, 2002
the Jongeheerzepen promo team at Erolife'96
Jongeheerzepen at Erolife'96
Jongeheerzepen at Erolife'96
the inquiery form, Jongeheerzepen, 1996, by Stikvoort
still commercial 'Comfort', Jongeheerzepen, 1996
still commercial', 3 friends', Jongeheerzepen, 1996
still commercial 'Goodbye', Jongeheerzepen, 1996

Tagged With: costume, performance, portrait, statue, textiles

Energies – In the woods

A performance with 3 costume statues. Deep in the woods 3 very different energies are manifesting themselves. They seem to be closed off from each other; each in their own little world. But is this right? Don’t they belong together and form a whole? Based on the Chakra energies. videorealisation: André Bijma assistance & light: William Pennings performers: Ingetje Wielenga, Yanaika Holle, Ilse Versluijs music: Davide Bellotta. Presented at Ververs gallery, Amsterdam in 2011. Exhibition of drawings of the Freaks series, the silkscreen print (the back piece) ‘In the woods’ and 3 statue costumes. The performance took place during the opening. The videorealisation was done separately.

2011

Tagged With: costume, drawings, performance, portrait, silkscreen, statue, textiles

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