International Space Station Assembly
A Collective Construction Site

Marjolijn Dijkman

My practice evolves around an ever-expanding investigation of gestures which are intensively recorded worldwide in the ongoing photographic research Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and investigated more closely in relation to specific subjects or contexts. I work in a variety of media and during the past years I have initiated several events, projects and exhibitions.

The works relate to the physical organisation of space aswell as to the way we perceive the world around us. Works involved for instance recorded traces of other people’s actions, rearranged mediated images or challenging gestures vis-ŕ-vis the actual situation. They question, rethink or counterbalance existing forms of representation or organisation, explore alternative ways of perceiving and relating to our surroundings from the past to the present and towards the future. What kind of traces or cultural objects are left behind after a moment of transition or will remain in the future? What is prohibited, overlooked, concealed, memorized or highlighted? My practice references other practices such as (human) geography, journalism, anthropology, politics, sociology, cartography, urbanism, ecology, futurism and history.

In 2005 together with  Maarten Vanden Eynde  I founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS). ERforS is an artist-run organization with a number of aims; to provide a workspace alongside established institutions; to explore critical positions for contemporary art in society; to create room for unexpected relations between official bodies and people working on location; to create a platform where investigations by individual participants in projects can overlap and lead to new collaborations. ERforS tries to act as freely as possible, always putting the context and the idea before the medium, challenging the barriers between different disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).