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 and durational events. This expanded drawing practice inquires into the relationships between the spatial dynamics of human thought and movement, phenomena and the forces in nature.
The work is informed by, and contributes to, the paradigms of ecopoetics 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.
Recent projects include: Drawing Horizon, Satellietgroep, The Netherlands 2010; Drawing Field Transmissions, Drawing Out, Federation Square, RMIT University, University of the Arts London 2010; Drawing Tectonic, Italy 2010; Data Ecologies, Foton collaboration, FoAM, Brussels 2009; Drawing Tide #06, Open Art International Art Festival, Beijing, China 2009; Drawing Field #02, La Chambre Blanche In-situ Artist residency 2009, Quebec; 90 Degrees Equatorial Project, 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 2009; Art and Cartography International Symposium, Vienna 2008, Experimental Art Foundation 2007; Psychogeography, Periphery, Project Space, Melbourne 2009; Line Drawing, Interdisciplinary installation 2008; Drawing Inland Sea, Living/Being in Between, Symposium, The American University, Girne, Cyprus, Tract, video installation, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2008; 24th International Conference (SAHANZ) 2008, Artesian, an experimental film funded by the Australian Film Commission 24Hour Art Darwin 2008. Limbo, Luminosity commissioned by ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) and Adelaide City Council 2007, Federation Square as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008.
