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Hotel Insomnia Publications 2011
Soda
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Suite
H e y, p s s t ‌
Get up.
Gently shut the door and tiptoe over the morning-lawn, walk down the street, up the hill & past the banana forest.
There.
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Heidi Vogels
Thinking of a garden
“It is 16 hours, 45. Should I have described Juliette or the leaves? It was really impossible anyways to describe both... so let us just say that the leaves and Juliette fluttered gently in that late October afternoon.� 1
Thinking of a city garden, I think of many gardens. I think of the botanical garden with its special collection of palm trees and of lingering summer evenings on a friend’s roof terrace. I also think of that beautiful apartment I once stayed, with high ceilings, Art Nouveau tiles and very affordable. Each room had double doors. They were open all the time, as if they were escorting you from one space to another. In the heart of summer, when it was too hot to do anything, you could just sit there and enjoy an entrancing cooling breeze coming through. Footsteps changing pace, noisy traffic whistling past your window at night, the cracks in the concrete pavement and the enchanting names of unknown streets: they serve as a focal point when you enter some place new. In series of brief encounters, however fleeting, they depict the space in a few seconds, just as you found it, in its own unique set of circumstances. A space in which all elements are interrelated, giving access to the small histories, countless enclosures through which one can situate an inside and outside, layer by layer and place one self. These moments remind me of a garden because the gaze with which you encounter a new
space, welcomes capturing fragments of this reality and rearranging them. The gaze frames, includes and excludes, places the elements it captures. Within the gaze the program of a garden manifests itself. A garden is an ‘other space’ 2 . It is a site that both belongs to and at the same time exists outside of our society. The garden encapsulates a multiple, sometimes seemingly opposing points of view and alludes to dreaming, to creating, to exploring, and to remembering. Trees, flowers, plants are quartered and sorted or arranged in deliberate chaos. In all their abundance and simplification the limited space of a garden is re-imagined into another landscape. Enclosed and open, outside and indoors, functional and as a dreamed or desired object, the garden comprises many spaces. Whether it is a forgotten plant archive in boxes covered in dust or a flowering oleander tree out on the porch. Whether it is Juliette or leaves moving gently in the wind. Whether spaces are quartered or not, within these spaces the actuality of our lived reality flows together with the illusion of an ideal image of a landscape that we keep and cherish at that moment in time. These are the gardens of the city. Enclosed within walls or within the spaces they circumscribe, these gardens grant us to take a look beyond its parameters.
1. Jean-Luc Godard , 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) 2. Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967)
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This artist book is published to coincide with the exhibition ‘soda palm suite’ by Lotte Geeven, April 2011 at Heden. Heden’s mission is to bring contemporary visual arts and people together. Exhibitions, art rental, art education, and projects at home and abroad are its central tasks.‘There’ is the residency program of Heden. HotWave is a residency program organized by Cemeti Art House in collaboration with Heden and Asialink. This program is supported by Heden, Hivos – Jakarta, The Culture and Development Program of the Royal Netherlands Embassy – Jakarta, Asialink – Australia, Arts Queensland – Australia, and Australia Indonesia Institute. Lotte Geeven lived and worked in Yogyakarta for three months in 2010. Through the HotWave residency program, Cemeti Art House intends to focus on the importance of art practice with an emphasis on the art processes and social, innovative experiences. For three months, three artists from three countries: Indonesia, The Netherlands and Australia were given the opportunity to concentrate on work, experiment and interact with other artists, professionals and the community. Different models were explored in order to work on critical discourse and diverse forms of visual art. Editors Lotte Geeven Karen van de Kraats Adriaan Mellegers Design Karen van de Kraats & Adriaan Mellegers Support and advise Jeffrey Mouthaan
Thank you Jeffrey Mouthaan Adriaan Mellegers & Karen van de Kraats Maria Sibylla Merian (Neues Blumenbuch) Nindityo Adipurnomo & Mella Jaarsma (supervisors residency program) Linda Mayasari & Theodora Agni (Cemeti) Sita Sari Trikusumawardhani (project manager residency program) Ican Harem, Blangkon Priyadhani, Dessy Zahara Angelina (artist assistants) Rob Knijn & Jacko Brinkman (Heden) Heidi Vogels (text) Kirsten Leenaars (translation) Tim Woodward Restu Ratnaningtyas Sanne Oorthuizen Marjolijn de Wit Susan Gloudemans Sharon Houkema Dominique Teufen Maarten van Maanen Willem Moeselaar Anna van Leeuwen Veronica Ditting Yeb Wiersma Han van der Ven Wim Geeven Fonds BKVB Heden Biology Museum, Yogyakarta Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Kunstbeeld The great Trans Artists team (www.transartists.com) © 2011 Lotte Geeven (www.geeven.nl)
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Printing & lithography robstolk® Binding Callenbach Edition 300 Typeface Akzidenz Grotesk Paper Munken Pure Rough (Antalis) Maxi Silk (Igepa) Pioneer Offset (Antalis) Coloraction Forest (Antalis) Wibalin Buckram (Winter&Company) Sponsors Fonds BKVB Heden Publisher Lotte Geeven & Heden
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing the publishers. ISBN/EAN 978-90-78203-22-3
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