Madelon Hooykaas
Madelon Hooykaas (born September 28, 1942 in Maartensdijk , Utrecht Province ) is a Dutch pioneer of video art , installation artist and author .
life and work
Else Madelon Hooykaas grew up in Rotterdam and lives in Amsterdam . In 1966 she began studying photography and film at the Ealing School of Art, Design and Media in London . Hooykaas went to New York City in 1968 on a scholarship and worked as an assistant to Philippe Halsman and Bert Stern and took part in workshops with Garry Winogrand and Joel Meyerowitz . Hooykaas experimented with serial photography and Polaroid . On a trip to California, she met Alan Watts and began to grapple with Zen Buddhism . After returning to Amsterdam, Madelon Hooykaas began to write articles for the magazine "Foto". She traveled to Japan in 1970 and was the first female photographer to be allowed to take photos in a Japanese Zen monastery. The book “ Zazen ” was published in 1971 with texts by Bert Schierbeek .
Since 1972 she worked with the Scottish video artist Elsa Stansfield (1945-2004). The duo called themselves first "White Bird" and then "Stansfield / Hooykaas". The first joint film is "Een van die dagen / One of Those Days" (1973).
Stansfield / Hooykaas always experimented with the latest technology and the latest developments in the audiovisual field. The work plays with space and time: tides, seasons, natural physical elements, radio waves and magnetic fields. They use video and photography in combination with other materials like stone, aluminum, glass, phosphorus and water.
Hooykaas has been working under her and the Stansfield / Hooykaas name since 2004. In 2010 she brought out a second book about her stay in a Zen monastery with the title "Zazen nu / Zazen now".
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1982 Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
- 1981 Two sides of a story Stansfield / Hooykaas Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
literature
- Zazen Else Madelon Hooykaas, Bert Schierbeek, Omen Press, 1974 ISBN 978-0-91235-8-413
Web links
- Madelon Hooykaas website
- Madelon Hooykaas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ LUX Collection / Artists / Madelon Hooykaas ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 27, 2015.
- ↑ Madelon Hooykaas website , accessed on May 27, 2015 (English).
- ↑ digitizing contemporary art The digitization of media artworks by Elsa Stansfield and Madelon Hooykaas ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 27, 2015.
- ↑ De ketelfactory "Revealing the Invisible" Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 27, 2015.
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 318; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hooykaas, Madelon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hooykaas, Else Madelon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch video art pioneer, installation artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maartensdijk, today De Bilt , province of Utrecht |