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'NON' crowdfunding for book
'NON' crowdfunding for book

Non is a new book made during a stay in Paris. The book consists of a photo series and an audio transcript in which random passers-by give many new meanings to the word 'non' (no).

In order to print this book in the desired quality I need financial support. I hope to receive your help with this in the form of a pre-order, donation or excursion.

More info about the crowdfunding, See  --> news

2019contains 1 item

La Defense, the venturing gaze. Extract of 5 min 30 s
La Defense, the venturing gaze. Extract of 5 min 30 s

A 3-screen video installation.
Total lenght: 42 min 30 s

Nouveau Prix Decouverte 2018 at festival Rencontres d'Arles.

2018contains 1 item

schaduw
schaduw

Schaduw, Paris 2017

2017contains 1 item

Kapitalism, 2016, video HD, color, ‘6,15
Kapitalism, 2016, video HD, color, ‘6,15

If you look closely enough,even something mundane as morning exercises can convey a germ of political resistance.

2017contains 1 item

trailer new work 2016_2017
trailer new work 2016_20172017contains 1 item

Chair man, (2014), live performance, 40'
Chair man, (2014), live performance, 40'

Through a live edit of her own video footage, Paulien Oltheten
creates an associative narrative on the boundary between
observation and manipulation.

2015contains 5 items

A moment of slowing down, New York, 2013_2014
A moment of slowing down, New York, 2013_2014

In financial district NYC I noticed a man walking in slowmotion during the morning rush hour. Beautiful in contrast with the surroundings. I started filming him. He turned out to be a finance lawyer who deals with bankruptcy, which nowadays can be quite a stressful job. For that reason he started to do meditation, but he does not have much time for it. So when he gets off the bus he starts his walking meditation session, and it goes on until he arrives at his office on Broadway.

2016contains 6 items

The Artist Speaks
The Artist Speaks

Performance at Oude Kerk Amsterdam

2015contains 1 item

looking at photographs
looking at photographs2005contains 3 items

a sort of lecture
a sort of lecture

performed on several locations

2013contains 7 items

bellies
bellies

St Petersburg (RU) 

2010contains 1 item

hangend meisje, 1min46 sec
hangend meisje, 1min46 sec

Part of my graduation work on AKV/st Joost in 2004

2002contains 1 item

Folding a Newspaper, talk at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Folding a Newspaper, talk at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam2014contains 1 item

Stedelijk Museum Drawing lines of thought
Stedelijk Museum Drawing lines of thought2014contains 1 item

it's my imagination you know
it's my imagination you know

Rangoon (MM)

2012contains 2 items

selfies aan zee, video, 1 min
selfies aan zee, video, 1 min

This anthropological miniature provides ironic commentary on the phenomenon of the selfie: what’s meant to affirm existence ends in disappearance.

2018contains 1 item

lightened couple
lightened couple

Yokohama (JP)

2008contains 1 item

sunbeams
sunbeams

Charkov (UA)

2005contains 1 item

groups and rows
groups and rows

Concave and convex

"When different points of view on reality are put together in a dialectical way, I say: in the absence of a part of the images exists the presence of another part of the images. It is as with the going together of concave and convex: you can see them separately, but they can't exist without one other."

(Johan van der Keuken, Bewogen Beelden).

2008contains 2 items

trolley
trolley

A man is sitting crosswise on a trolley. Next to him a group is acting busily. The men pushes off with his foot and slowly rolls away from them.

2018contains 1 item

schoolclass and bags
schoolclass and bags

Nagasaki (JP)

2008contains 2 items

bikes birds and scooters
bikes birds and scooters

Kunming (CH)

2005contains 1 item

birds
birds2005contains 1 item

Reading the news
Reading the news

Paris, 2017

2017contains 1 item

corners
corners

Sharp corners = sharp photo

 

When I saw the paper corners hanging loosely like this I felt the need to fold them, make them sharp and clear.

2008contains 10 items

dancing in the crowd, photo (JP)
dancing in the crowd, photo (JP)

Leading someone through the crowd, like in a dance.

2008contains 2 items

dancing man, video, 1min22s
dancing man, video, 1min22s

Part of my graduation work on AKV/st Joost in 2004

2003contains 1 item

standing in a circle
standing in a circle

Yokohama (JP)

2009contains 1 item

watercircles, video, 2min20s
watercircles, video, 2min20s

De jongen die gehurkt zit aan de oever van dit meer is het centrum van de uitdijende watercirkels. Maakt hij ze zelf? Vloeibaar geluid, je kunt ze horen fluisteren. Wat deze eeuw ook zal brengen, mensen zullen altijd geneigd zijn dit soort meditatieve momenten te zoeken. Handen wassen en in een moeite door de geest reinigen.

 

Tijs Goldschmidt

2010contains 2 items

Line of leaves, Tokyo (JP)
Line of leaves, Tokyo (JP)

As part of video 11 fragments of Japan ( total lenght 20'28")

In ’11 fragments of Japan’ Oltheten really shows how she gets things done. She does this by asking people to re-enact the moment she has seen just before. The seemingly simple request to repeat something proves to be an impossible task.

2008contains 1 item

tracks and traces
tracks and traces

Istanbul (TK)

2008contains 16 items

Man and Dog, video, 3min37s
Man and Dog, video, 3min37s

Part of my graduation work on AKV/st Joost in 2004

 

A dance between a man and a dog. You see the tension inside their bodies. It is a play of forcing eachother to react, to move away, to communicate by turning around in a circle, while not losing contact.


2003contains 1 item

Manifesta 10 Parallel Program
Manifesta 10 Parallel Program

 

Documentation of the installation of Paulien Oltheten for the project Inventing everyday life part III / STREET that was part of Manifesta 10 Parallel program in st-Petersburg (RU) in September 2014.

This project is part of Inventing everyday life at The Local Library Window, July - October 2014

2014contains 1 item

shoe
shoe

Charkov (UA)

2005contains 2 items

men and women
men and women

Moscow (RU)

 

The men are at the other side.

2006contains 3 items

No title, photo (JP)
No title, photo (JP)

Maybe she has to turn arround as the man writes down her address.

2008contains 3 items

feet and bench (JP)
feet and bench (JP)

As part of video 11 fragments of Japan ( total lenght 20'28")

 

In ’11 fragments of Japan’ Oltheten really shows how she gets things done. She does this by asking people to re-enact the moment she has seen just before. The seemingly simple request to repeat something proves to be an impossible task.

2008contains 1 item

slanting bench
slanting bench

Xiamen (CN)

2006contains 1 item

bench in st petersburg
bench in st petersburg

St Petersburg (RU)

2013contains 4 items

stick (CHN)
stick (CHN)

Kunming (CN)

2005contains 1 item

walking sticks
walking sticks

In a split second I saw their postures, their walking sticks and the fence behind them with the same thin sticks. As if the walking sticks support the fencing. I makes the people almost disappear in the background, they become objects. In fact the background is going to belong more to the people. The colours of the clothing also participate in this.

2004contains 1 item

fight
fight

Tokyo (JP)

2013contains 1 item

father and son (MM)
father and son (MM)

Rangoon (MM)

2012contains 2 items

parallel pencil (IND)
parallel pencil (IND)

I tried to ask him if he wanted to keep his paintbrush parallel to the pencil behind his ear. At first I wanted him to do this while painting, but it didn't work. Then we tried it apart from the act.

2008contains 2 items

swaying umbrella's
swaying umbrella's2009contains 5 items

umbrella system 2
umbrella system 2

Brooklyn (USA)

2013contains 1 item

fisherman
fisherman

Moscow (RU)

2005contains 2 items

transparant sari
transparant sari

Bundi (I)

2008contains 3 items

pony tails
pony tails

Rangoon (MM)

2012contains 6 items

heads and hair
heads and hair

Moriya (JP)

2009contains 2 items

rolled up thought
rolled up thought

New Dehli (I)

2008contains 1 item

whirlpool
whirlpool2008contains 1 item

waterspots
waterspots2005contains 5 items

looking
looking

Vilnius (LI)

2007contains 3 items

hand
hand

Kiev (UA)

2005contains 1 item

Open your hand (JP)
Open your hand (JP)

As part of video 11 fragments of Japan ( total lenght 20'28")

 

In ’11 fragments of Japan’ Oltheten really shows how she gets things done. She does this by asking people to re-enact the moment she has seen just before. The seemingly simple request to repeat something proves to be an impossible task.

2008contains 1 item

man map bus
man map bus

Krasnoyarsk (RU)

2010contains 1 item

caress the bus, video, 1min48 s
caress the bus, video, 1min48 s

Burma, a country with a fast changing society. I capture daily life and sometimes intervenes in the choreography of everyday. Here we see a bus controller who hangs with his arm out of the broken window of the bus. But this time he caresses the bus, as if it concerns a body - almost sensual.

2011contains 9 items

fingertips
fingertips

London (UK)

2007contains 1 item

untitled
untitled

Charkov (UA)

2005contains 1 item

tangible objects
tangible objects

Tokyo (JP)

2008contains 12 items

11 fragments of Japan / Jacket
11 fragments of Japan / Jacket

Tokyo (JP)

As part of video 11 fragments of Japan ( total lenght 20'28")

2008contains 1 item

flying money, photo's and animation (MM)
flying money, photo's and animation (MM)

Bus conductors press bank notes 

between their fingers.

The shape they get this way 

resembles two wings.

 

Hanging out of the window with their arms,

they now and then make gestures

that are usually meant to slow down the traffic

 

But it could also be a first attempt 

to let the money fly away.

2012contains 3 items

roll of thought
roll of thought

Krasnoyarsk (RU)

 

Imagine the small roll around her finger being her thoughts.

 

Then they could along her finger 

just roll out of the window.

2013contains 1 item

dancing fingers, video, 31s
dancing fingers, video, 31s

Part of my graduation work on AKV/st Joost in 2004

2003contains 1 item

white hand
white hand2004contains 1 item