BIOGRAPHY
James Geurts 2010
My
work is based on an expanded drawing practice that emerges through
diverse forms of installation, video, land-art, kinetic sculpture, light
works, sensor-drawing, photography, living-monochromes, sound,
durational events and research. This expanded drawing practice
is based on an inquiry into the relationships between land/place and thought/movement. It addresses the processes through which landscape,
and its forms, are internalised in conceptual space, and the ways in
which conceptual frameworks are projected outwards onto the landscape.
The
work is informed by, and contributes to, the paradigms of eco-poetics
and psychogeography. Both of these paradigms engage with the relationships between the physical world and the human experience of space and time. Combining the two through my practice creates
a view of the environment and the human as two interdependent
circulatory systems. Bodies of water/weather cycles/conceptual systems/the
human as a water-body, these are subjects in my work as much as the
sense of circulation comes through methodologically and aesthetically in the actual making and form of my expanded drawings.
This art practice uses process in particular way as a primary making methodology – it is continually invented given the situation/circumstances. My overall practice has taken drawing as the base from which to work. It has in the past appeared in my work deeply mixed into other image formations. The works are conceptual and combinational. They are multi-layered and connective, they carry with them the traces of their making, and the human quality of the process.
Selected recent projects include: 2010; Drawing Faultline, land-art project, Italy, 2009; Drawing Tide #06, duration drawing installation based on the tide times of the Bo Hai Sea, Open International Performance Art Festival Beijing, Psychogeography, weather based photographic project, Periphery, Project Space Melbourne; 90 Degrees Equatorial Project, which took place at four points, equally
spaced 90 degrees apart on the equator, six hours apart, Sumatra, Gabon, Ecuador,
Kirribatti (Pacific); The Alternative Space and Beyond, ARTspace, New Media, CAA Los Angeles; 2008; Drawing Field #02, La Chambre Blanche, In-situ Artist Residency and exhibition, Quebec; Drawing Inland Sea, split-screen video work based on the intervention of water at the Coroong, Living/Being in Between, Symposium, The American University, Girne, Cyprus; Line Drawing, SASA Gallery, Adelaide; Artesian, multi-screen video project, 24 Hour Art, Darwin, funded by the Australian Film Commission and the Australian Council for the Arts; Art and Cartography International Symposium, Vienna, 2007; Bridge Drawing Water, There Forever Public Ephemeral Art Commission, a Draw Bridge opens for a row boat, live-feed aqua microphones on the oars projected to a public space via radio; 2006; Tidemark #02, Amsterdam, a spatial drawing made of images positioned around Amsterdam at a common height of sea level ; Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam.
