poncho design by : Sophie & Henriette.
logo design by : Rufus Ketting & Suus Allewelt.
crane-screen installation.
hay-stacks to sit on.
The weather was beautiful throughout the 2 day drive-in event at Niew Vennep. As dusk lingers, our short film ’round and round‘ premiered.
Photo : Lise Duclaux
H O K O has been invited to take part in the Design Biennial in Liege, Belgium. We will be choreographing an installation alongside a film and book based on the theme of “arrangement”.
Opening:
27th September 2008
Exposition:
28th September - 19th October 2008.
Venue:
Gallerie Les Drapiers
68 rue Hors Chateaux
4000 Liege, Belgium
Poster design: Rufus Ketting & Suus Allewelt
H O K O will be screening the video ‘ROUND AND ROUND’ during the movie drive-in event at Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands on the 29th and 30th of August 2008. The event will feature public installations and performances choreographed by invited artists and designers.
Choreography by Sophie Krier.
The current state of arrangement; of placing and positioning objects within our living space, has given rise and form to an unintended existence of obscured and leftover space.the space behind my ear, never presenting…
“there is a monster under your bed,behind the closet, above the bookshelf, lurking quietly, sniffing out spaces you forget, deep in darkness while you while away…”
H O K O has always loved making things with their hands.
they dream of having a little web-shop one day, where they can sell their hand made porcelain keys, buttons, windchimes and mobiles of musical notes ♫♩♬ …
that is why H O K O is finally working very hard to fulfill this little dream.
lets close our eyes and wish for an un-broken key!
‘Conceptual Design in Context’ - Design Academy Masters Graduation 2008.
This is a brief documentation on the exhibition for Clara’s graduation work in july.
The result is the brand P O M O , a medium that advocates the potentials of ‘arrangement’ as a consideration in the designing process, developing new design language and experiences.
more info on :http://masters.designacademy.nl/2008.htm
PROJECT:
Film made in conjunction with the presentation of ‘Recorder One’ machine by Tomas Traxler at the Design Academy Eindhoven and Droog Design, Amsterdam.
2008
video
2 mins 56 secs
PROJECT:
video installation for the temporary museum shop at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
a record of the moving process that happened within the museum, video and project done in collaboration with Sophie Krier(Netherlands).
2008
video
7 mins 19 secs
OPENING NARRATIVE:
“It is within the trivialities of everyday, that i find the aesthetics of nothingness.”
“the void, the absence, the space in between co-existing among the common objects.”
“the invisible is much more present than the visible”
“we just have to look beyond the thing-ness of things”
PROJECT:
“For, we have lived among thing-ness for so long, that we forget there is nothing…”
The aesthetic of nothingness carries a materiality that consists not in its technique or material base, but in how it succeeds in transforming the place of thing-ness in our everyday.This exteriority of things gives form and directs our experience of the immaterial.
Through the writing of a novel that expounds on the banal everyday, words and images are drawn in reference to the normalcy of our interior dwelling. The experience of the absence, the void and the obscured that defines the non-being of Objects is raised towards a renewed awareness, placing the intrinsic function and physical presence of Objects as indicative and of no importance.
The invisible is always much more present than the visible, and nothingness remains close to us, we just have to look beyond the thing-ness of things.
This project is a realization of a Master’s research thesis at the Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2007
video, 3 screen installation.
cast: Yasuhito Hirose (Japan), Clara Koh (Singapore)
8 mins 06 secs
music by Aphex Twin, Penty Harmonium from the album, Drukqs
designed by Kitchen.
