THE ART OF LISA JEANNIN & ROLF SCHUURMANS

PYRAMID

2012-02-21T05:05:00.002-08:00

We are working on a new film that will be part of an installation.

Here is some of our rawmaterial starring the amazing Per-henrik Fredrikson.

It is shot at Stjärneborg, the grave of the eccentric Malte Stierngranat, close to where we live in the deep forest of Småland!

Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans - αlpha Ωmega

2012-02-14T09:00:00.000-08:00

EXHIBITION AT 1646, DEN HAAG
10/2 - 17/3 2012
"WHITE WOODS", video and wallpaintings
"HOKUS POKUS", 2-channel viseo and pentagram
photos by Nico Feragnoli

http://1646.nl/projects/alpha-omega

WHITE WOODS

2012-01-21T00:26:00.000-08:00

this is WHITE WOODS
a new film by Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
(go to youtube to see it better, I still don´t know how to fit widescreen-videos on the blog!)

HELSINGBORG

2012-01-15T12:53:00.000-08:00

LE SOUS-MARIN

HOKUS POKUS

THE VISITORS

We were part of an event called Smack Bang where 5 artists showed their work in the harbour of Helsingborg the 4/12-2011. It was a storm and the waves were rolling over the screen of Le Sous-Marin. In the background you can see Denmark and there were ships passing by. It was the perfect setting for this work.

LE SOUS-MARIN

2011-11-22T04:27:00.001-08:00

Le Sous-Marin

A film by

Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans

2011

BUiLDiNG UP

2011-11-20T11:38:00.000-08:00

building up the exhibition at Base Alpha Gallery in Antwerpen , october 2011

Thanks to our assistant the talented mr Miljan Vukicevic http://miljanvukicevic.blogspot.com/

And thanks to guestpainter Danilo Stankovic http://danilo-stankovic.blogspot.com/

Base Alpha Gallery

2011-11-19T16:31:00.000-08:00

Hokus Pokus

Base Alpha Gallery in Antwerpen, Belgium

26 october - 17 december 2011

http://aragant.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/alpha-base-gallery-antwerp/

A WALK THROUGH THE EXHIBITION

2011-11-19T02:21:00.000-08:00

http://devierdewand.blogspot.com/2011/12/about-nothing-and-everything_02.html

REHERSAL WITH VILHELM

2011-10-13T13:44:00.000-07:00

We are rehersling with Vilhelm.
The video is cutted on the side here on the blog, go to youtube to see it better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2QNbn_IwPw

HANDCOLORED PHOTOS

2011-08-26T03:07:00.000-07:00

Handcolored photographs 42 X 31 cm

They are frames from super-8 material that are part of our videos "HOKUS POKUS" and "ENTER THE WILD"

LE SOUS-MARIN in Göteborg

2011-07-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

LE SOUS-MARIN

(video, 10 min, 2011 - see older post for stills)

will be part of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

showed at Röda Sten

september 10-november 13 2011

http://goteborg.biennal.org/en/

MOON

2011-07-10T02:19:00.000-07:00

Rolf Schuurmans & Lisa Jeannin

Antwerpen

2006

part of installation

HOKUS POKUS

2011-06-29T02:16:00.000-07:00

Rolf Schuurmans & Lisa Jeannin at Luleå Art Biennial ,"Hokus Pokus"

2 channel videoinstallation, pentagram, uv-lights

TO KNOW

2011-05-22T14:13:00.000-07:00

"TO KNOW"

part of the videoinstallation "HOKUS POKUS"
Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans , 2011

text and narration by Sören Gérard

SÖRENS TExT

2011-05-17T17:40:00.000-07:00

Sören Gérard wrote and read this text for the video-installation HOKUS POKUS by me and Rolf Schuurmans:

att veta att man inget vet sägs många vise sagt på mångahanda språk
att veta att man inget vet är värt att veta rentav värdast utav allt
att veta att man inget vet all annan visdom lik ett väsen jagandes sin svans
ett osynligt väsen som inte ens finns med svansen likadant
men jakten då finns inte heller den eller pågår den nån annanstans?

att inte veta att allt vi vet en dröm vi alla bär
att veta att allt vi vet
en kruka guld där nyss var tomt
en kruka guld av ingenting en kruka lika fullt
en krukas väsen med sin svans
fullt av tomhet aldrig still

********

know that you do not know
many wise men said
know that you do not know
that is knowledge worth to know
worthiest of ´em all

to know that you nothing know
that is knowledge
worth knowing
to know that you nothing know
like all knowledge
is a beast
a beast chasing it´s tail
an invisible beast
that does not even exist
and it´s tail is just the same

but the hunt?
the chase?
does it take place?
it doesn´t even exist!
the chase? doesn´t that exist?
or does it just take place
somewhere else?

not knowing that you everything allready know
is a dream we all dream
not knowing that we everything allready know
is a pot of gold
of nothingness
pot of gold
or nothingness
is a pot just the same
the beast of a pot
with it´s tail
of emptiness full and never still

ALLA VÅRA VÄRLDAR

2011-05-14T08:21:00.000-07:00

Alla våra världar

Konstnärerna Lisa Jeannin och Rolf Schuurmans träffades i Belgien där de en tid levde och arbetade tillsammans. De har sitt gemensamma ursprung i en ort belägen någonstans mellan Holland, Sverige, Frankrike, det kända kosmos och de fria associationernas gränsuppluckrande stat. Nu har samlivet och samarbetet flyttat med dem till Småland, där de långsamt och envetet bygger ut sin publiks möjligheter att tänka friare på sina liv, att dela annars svårkommunicerade, kanske språklösa erfarenheter.

Det händer lika märkliga som självklara saker i Lisa Jeannins och Rolf Schuurmans överlappande konstnärskap: Speglar förvillar och löser upp – kring en lugn och iakttagande gorilla. Ett par älskar, små, så små, vid jätteblad och jättegräs i en trädgård. Ett skelett går omkring med sitt svetsaggregat i en skottkärra. Någons huvud blir ett salladshuvud. Saker försvinner, går förlorade, men finns ändå kvar, som något annat, i ständig förvandling. En spindel spelar bas och röker, drömmer om en film och förverkligar den. En mångarmad gudinna och magikunniga penntroll lockar fram växtlighet och pånyttfödelse. En husfasad faller men dörren står kvar.

Alternativa verkligheter öppnar sig för den som kanske behöver ett vidare liv bortom uppenbara strukturer och normer.

Besvärjelsen som formprincip blandad med den allvarliga, extatiska leken löper energirik genom konstnärsparets gemensamma verksamhet. Genom att i drömmande, symbolisk form sammanställa och arrangera element från en yttre verklighet de flesta känner igen (allt från glada leksaker och trygga vardagsföremål till diffusa hot och apokalyptiskt mörker) ger de sin publik nya sätt att förändra och omvärdera; där finns också krävande uppmaning, smärta. Med lite tur och en smula arbete blir livet sig aldrig riktigt likt igen.

Besvärjelsen manar på de ur en mer ordningsam synvinkel irrationella krafter, som bor strax under och mellan tankarna. Dessa krafter ekar som gemensam insikt och förståelse i de människor vi möter, en förståelse som håller oss mänskliga även när vi inte vill det. Men det är inte svårt eller tungrott att hålla sig öppen inför Jeannins och Schuurmans perspektivförslag: alla är hjärtligt välkomna och människornas kreativa delaktighet är självklar. Deltagandet är dock inte riskfritt.

Det finns ett starkt subversivt drag i detta, en sorts pågående revolution via trolleri och transubstantialitet. Revolutionen är generös och omfattar de tankevärldar där den är ett uns välkommen; det gäller nyfikenhet, fantasifull upptäckarglädje, men också ilska, destruktivitet, förändringens möjlighet.

Och sorg. Allt är förlust och lidande, allt är nyskapelse och glädje. Omkastningarna och besvärjandet gäller också som tröst, som den vaggande, rytmiska, halvsjungna sagan. Människans mångskiktade och motsägelsefulla känsloberättelser tas för vad de är, och i denna konstnärliga omgivning är det varken hyckleri eller psykisk sjukdom att vara väldigt glad och väldigt ledsen samtidigt.

Besvärjelsen sluter ibland en cirkel – och omfamnar. Tillvarons återkommande förfalls- och skapelseperioder, dessa obevekliga och hoppfulla cykliska rörelser, cirkulära eller spiraliska, understryks via loopad animering; konstvideons överenskomna begränsningar kan alltså berätta något även de. Men det återkommande är i Jeannins och Schuurmans många verkligheter (som också är våra, allas) aldrig statiskt, aldrig oföränderligt.

Allt lever och lär sig.

/Leif Holmstrand

HOKUS POKUS

2011-05-04T15:01:00.000-07:00

Teaser for HOKUS POKUS

a film by Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans

****starring****

Charlotte Koopman

Rolf Schuurmans

Max Soneryd
Ole Brolin
Nicholas Ramsey

text and narration: Sören Gérard

Luleå Konsthall* june 22-september 14

Luleå Art Biennial

Galleri Thomas Wallner * september 9-october 14

Simris

Base Alpha gallery * october-november

Antwerpen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(magic)

TEXT FROM CATALOGUE LAB-11

2011-03-14T03:39:00.001-07:00

Lisa Jeannin and Rolf Schuurman’s work consists out of drawings, sculptures, animations installations and sound. They fuse reality and art experience in a series of disconcerting imaginative modulations. All elements are equal. Every element performs on its own level and empathizes with its part in creating a magic game in which they're given life. It's about animating. The animated characters perform as figures out of a fable. The daily life of a spider can be a metaphor for human existence. The animated universe is connected to sequences introducing real people or animals. Those become part of their mythology by for example acting in a homemade zombie film set in a deserted industrial area or transforming into an eight-armed goddess in space. The tortoises make special appearances as musicians, ghosts or humanitarian workers. Often there are films within the films. Several layers of presence characterize their pieces. They want to find that, which cannot be expressed with the language, that which is beyond our consciousness. Lisa and Rolf often work with symbols as these allows you to cross borders into the unconscious mind and give the viewer a possibility to discover things they normally don’t see or feel. In the cracks of reality, the hidden, the indescribable, is where the mystery happens.

http://www.kilenartgroup.org/#post/wordpress/1057/1092

LE SOUS-MARIN

2011-03-06T08:20:00.001-08:00

LE SOUS-MARIN
a film by Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
story and storyteller
Bernard Jeannin
starring
Linn Gustavsson & Miljan Vukicevic
10 minutes
2011

http://www.kuriren.nu/kultur/default.aspx?articleid=5807432

BEYOND THE SEA

2011-03-06T06:48:00.001-08:00

EXHIBITION AT MALMÖ ARTMUSEUM SEPT-DEC 2010

http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article7859422.ab

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konstrecensioner/lisa-jeannin-feat-rolf-schuurmanns-pa-malmo-konstmuseum

http://konsten.net/?p=3864

http://www.omkonst.com/10-jeannin-schuurmans.shtml

VISITORS

2010-07-20T08:14:00.000-07:00

VISITORS

sculptures and a film at Kulturhuset, Stockholm , made by me and Rolf , march-june 2010
within the exhibition "TA PLATS!" (take place!)

http://www.taplats.info/

BEYOND THE SEA-BEYOND THE SEE

2010-06-20T13:00:00.000-07:00

Planning and working with my and Rolf Schuurmans soloexhibition "Beyond the sea" at Malmö Konstmuseum. It opens september 5:th and closes december 5:th 2010
Opening

GHOSTS

2010-03-01T05:10:00.000-08:00

SPÖKEN / GHOSTS
Public art for Gävle Gasverk (a theatre)
made in collaboration with Rolf Schuurmans in 2009
bronze

THE VISITORS

2010-01-13T12:25:00.001-08:00

Photos from a film by Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
"THE VISITORS"
7 minutes
2010

A TORTOISE AND A TRAVELER

2009-11-28T10:05:00.000-08:00

stills from "A TORTOISE AND A TRAVELER"
by Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
video 5 min, 2009

HOBO AND HARP

2009-09-06T23:26:00.000-07:00

HOBO
Tegenaria agrestis

Luffar-spindeln är en art som luffar runt i världen, tjuvåker på båtar och tåg etc. Den har ganska nyligen anlänt till Sverige:

Skulpturen är en offentlig utsmyckning för Beckombergaskolan på uppdrag från Stockholms Konstråd. Det finns en skulptur till , ett munspel som spindeln har glömt i skogen som hör till dagiset som ligger jämte Beckombergaskolan. Spindeln själv ligger på låg och mellanstadiets skolgård under ett träd. Skulpturen är gjuten på Maiale Konstgjuteri i Malmö.

The hobo spider (Tegenaria agrestis) is a member of the genus of spiders known colloquially as funnel web spiders. The Hobo and the harp are bronze-sculptures I made in 2008-2009 for the public school and kindergarden of Beckomberga. The work was commisioned by Stockholms Konstråd. The harp is in the kindergarden and the Hobo is on the schoolyard. They were casted at Maiale Konstgjuteri in Malmö.

SMALL HOBO

2009-08-31T00:13:00.000-07:00

HOBO Tegenaria agrestis, 2009
350 x 150 x 120 cm, bronze

BREAKING THE LAW

2009-08-29T00:55:00.001-07:00

catalogue text "Mörkrets Hjärta" , Göteborgs Konsthall

"BREAKING THE LAW"
2-channel videoinstallation 3 min X 2
installationview Göteborgs Konsthall 2004-2005.
A wall of 4 meter X 5 meter was standing diagonally in the room and on each side there was a projection.

It is an alchemical gangsterdrama where it is unclear who is the good or bad guy.

UBÅT / SUBMARINE

2009-08-26T02:21:00.000-07:00

In 1996 I built this submarine. It does not travel by water neither by land but via drawings. The visitor was driven around in a dark room viewing 100 drawings through the periscope that had a light on it. The trip somewhat resembeld a primitive animated film.
foto: Sören Gérard

GGG & G

2009-08-07T08:13:00.000-07:00

installationview at Museum Felix de Boeck, Drogenbos (BE), 2007

GGG & G is a 3-channel videoinstallation by
Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
6 min 30 sec X 3
2007

GORILLA GODDESS GANGSTER AND THE GOBLINS

A video myth by Lisa Jeannin and Rolf Schuurmans

G G G & G is a story with multiple space and time facets, in which the fragments are so charged and communicative that the interlaced entity paradoxically becomes natural and self-evident.

G G G & G is about mental spaces, models of projection for questions with regard to reality’s chaos and the complicated obviousnesses of life. From time to time a hall of mirrors is described in which identity is questioned and the monument of reality collapses. Here an inquisitive gorilla can discover herself in thousands versions with the aid of her filming camera eye; or it is also possible that a frustrated and lonely gangster shoots the mirrors into pieces, maybe to keep his enigmatic nature intact. But soon the looping restores this hall of mirrors.

G G G & G is about the coming into existence from magical rituals performed by small colourful trolls, about the loneliness of the gangster in a world revealing its built-in fiction, about the green goddess’s lust for creation and destruction in front of a sterile civilization, about positive identity solutions as a strategy to welcome and form a larger reality, about the return to nature and the green and about the spider’s fantasy and the public’s fantasy and fantasy as a subversive force aimed against order and reason who threaten humour and human dignity with death.

Leif Holmstrand

stills from GGG & G

preview:

THE CROSSING

2009-07-21T05:34:00.000-07:00

installationview at Moderna Museet , "Moderna utställningen" , Stockholm 2006
2-channel video installation and a sign made from mdf, lighttube and lightbulbs

preview "the crossing"
.

"black master red master blue master"
the film within "the crossing"
when it is showed alone it has a different soundtrack

NO HOME LIKE SPACE

2009-07-21T04:53:00.000-07:00

installationview Sint-Lukas galerij, Brussels "Digital Poetics" , 2008

THE SPIDER AND HER WEB

No home like space. That is the message with a hidden meaning from Lisa Jeannin’s video with the same name which is also the title. A spider moves through her self woven web while doing household activities such as cooking, grating cheese, watering a plant, watching television, making music and typing texts. Pendulous objects are being moved and manipulated. We recognize among other things a guitar and an amplifier, a watering pot, a cooking pot, a rasp, pieces of cheese and a compass. The use of animation techniques makes these activities seem fairy-like simple but with Jeannin each and every one of them is a metaphor for a broader reference framework in time and space. The second message with a hidden meaning that has been typed in reads after all “Lately I have been travelling in time”. There is more going on here than just the story of a sympathetic spider.

The painting, the guitar, the typewriter and the musicians on television refer to the artist’s position as does the web that the insect itself is weaving. The cobweb can be spun out endlessly; all the same it is a territory. The fanciful walking pattern of the animal is no stranger to the web architecture. The spider draws inspiration from other spaces and times. The stratification of the threads is put consciously on the screen. The cobweb has a nomadic structure that can be moved to other places and can take up other positions. Its female inhabitant contemplates the world from a pendulous position. That other dimension produces a profoundly different look on the same reality, of which a normal two-footer has little understanding. Because of this experiencing time and space happens in a completely different way. At the same time, the spider is caught in her own web and she is part of the events she herself disentangles. This temporary lodging shows itself as a very vulnerable structure constantly subject to changes.

The medium animation not only maintains a distance from the activities but also draws the maker (and the viewer) into the narrative structure. The graphic style strongly resembles the naïve atmosphere of the early movies. Clownish musicians from days long gone parade on the television screen, the typewriter seems just as archaic. The spider herself watches her stories on television and provides them with philosophic comments on the typewriter. In between she plunks the guitar with the soundtrack for the movie while the pendulous painting reflects the environment. The animation brings into vision the daily life of a spider/artist, her need for food and a shelter. No home like space is an emblematic work representing Jeannin’s position as an artist. In her video installations she usually wields different levels of observation both on and of screen which makes the steady position of not only viewer and artist but also of the subjects waver. The different themes and media, the production process and the observer’s position are all interwoven as in one big cobweb.

Filip Luyckx

ENTER THE WILD

2009-07-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

stills from "ENTER THE WILD"

by Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans, 2009
videoinstallation