Is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. Set up by Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring and (un)usual fascinations at a certain point in time. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between
concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa.
Serious play or playful seriousness.
Schmilblique derived from Schmilblick
The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 1950s. It is absolutely useless, and can therefore be used for anything, being rigorously entire. Pierre Dac himself credits the brothers Jules and Raphaël Fauderche with its invention.
The word quickly became very popular in French language and was sometimes used as a synonym for thing or stuff, or something designating a strange or unknown object. Nowadays, this word is frequently used to refer to some limited help provided by someone to solve a difficult problem. The idiom is actually 'Faire avancer le schmilblick' (To make the schmilblick move/get ahead, literally). Also, advancing a subject.
Ouvroir | Faire avancer le schmilblick
is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring, the (un)usual. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa. Serious play or playful seriousness.
Set up by Karin Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice.
Website in Process
This project started for Karin as a quest to broaden her artistic practice beyond what was considered the framework and scope of contemporary jewellery. By shifting her perspective and role she expanded her artistic practice. It shifted towards artistic research surpassing the creation of contemporary jewellery pieces into new paths to be investigated with a focus on storytelling and process.
The research and interest engrossed Karin in the non material side of jewellery. This resulted in a fascination for the "negative space" of jewellery and objects. By mapping her chance encounters in public space, she investigated the role of urban space, social interaction with strangers, the element of chance and the gift in relation to the expanded field of contemporary jewellery. Karin went on to play with the "negative space" of jewellery and objects in an attempt to create new narratives and meaning around lost and found pieces. Those works often come into being in public space and through social media channels.
The distilled work that came from her artistic research consists of a narrative performance with supporting visuals.
See also Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor. (thesis)
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor. performance, Rietveld Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Below excerpts of
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor.
