The work of visual artist/composer Pé Okx incorporates plastic art and contemporary music. It includes contemplative film and video installations, soundscapes as well as theatrical voyages in carefully chosen sites.
His projects have a poetical strain and play with the viewer’s perspective in an intriguing way. By deconstructing the relationship between object and action, motion and stillness, silence and sound, Okx builds an alternative reality. He combines the abstract language of music with provocative images to create a new kind of experience, what he calls “the place in between.”
Projects to date:
2011
Moments of Clarity
Video-installation during soundfestival Jekerpoort on location in Maastricht for Intro/ InSitu.
2010
Westfriese Omloop (Westfrisian Ringdike Walk)
During theaterfestival the movie is presented accompanied by live music at locations near the Westfrisian Ringdike.
In september the movie is showed in Kingston, New York ath the Maritime Museum and the Kingston Art Society.
Sung Glass
Video-installation during Glasrijk Tubbergen, an international glass manifestation
2009
Kijk op de Dijk
At theaterfestival Karavaan a movie by Andras Hamelberg is showed about the making of Westfriese Omloop (Westfrisian Ringdike Walk).
Kunst tot de Nacht
Opening of the cultural season in Alkmaar. In the garden of the future art-center Yxie the video-installation Vallicht is showed.
New York 400
Artist in residence during the quadracentennial festivities in Kingston, New York. The installations Vallicht an Boezemland were showed and new work developed.
2008
Vallicht
Exhibition in KunstEyssen, centre for contemporary art, North-Holland.
Reservoir land
Group exhibition for the Roland Holst Fund in Bergen.
Scratching Waves
Installation on location during the Mijzen Festival.
Moon Diving
Video installation during the manifestation 'Beek als Bron' in Beverwijk(Nl).
Waterworks
Presentations with the mixed choir Good Company, 2 percussionists and
video installations on location in Alkmaar.
2007
Vallicht
- Video installation: premiere in april La Laboral, Gijon, (Spain).
- In june during Terschellings Oerol Festival (Nl).
2006
Reservoir land
Video installation during the manifestation Kunst & Koningsduin'. Walking tour through the dunes and woods in Bakkum (Nl).
Sung Glass Live
Installation with a singer/performer for the manifestation 'Back to the Lichtenberg' in Maastricht (Nl).
2005
Reservoir land
Double exhibition with Esther van Waalwijk in Breda (Nl). Video installations wherein the (Dutch) landscape is visualised in a personal way.
Scratching Waves
Installation during the festival 'La vie n'est pas une chocolat' in Enschede (Nl).
Film under Influence
Installation in the Liquor Museum in Schiedam (Nl) during the festival 'Screen'.
Argonautica
Installation during 'Festival aan de Werf' in Utrecht.
2004
Sung Glass
Part of a walking tour through the dunes and woods of Castricum (Nl.) Presentation of different forms of art.
Scratching Waves (Krassende Golven)
Part of the exhibit 'Local Art' in the (Big) St. Laurens Church in Alkmaar (Nl) during the summer in connection with 'City of Alkmaar 750 years'.
The Man with Two Ears (De Man met Twee Oren)
Performance with installations, live music and dance, presented during:
-Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht (Nl). Co-production with Huis aan de Werf. Location is the 'Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement'.
-International Street/ Theatre Festival in Gent (B). On location in the medieval ruin of the Abbey of St. Baafs.
-Part of the performance is exhibited during 'Festival Internacional de Teatre Visual i Titelles' in Barcelona (Sp)
Sung Glass and Within the Surface (new work) during festival Escena Contemporánea in Madrid (Sp).
2003
<<GLASSLAG>>
A new version of GlasslaG commissioned by Plaza Futura in which the special location in the bell tower of the Philips complex Strijp S in Eindhoven (Nl) served as inspiration.
Presentation of work (in progress) for the opening of “Northwestsix”, centre for architecture and design, in the former Water Tower of Alkmaar.
Sung Glass (Gezongen Glas)
Part of the exhibit "Vensters" in the St. Laurens Church in Alkmaar.
2002
GlasslaG
A multi-disciplinary project on location with installations, live music and dance, performed in co-operation with visual artist Kees Lesuis during Festival Terschellings Oerol in June, with Dansateliers.
Scratching Waves
Installation with video and glass, presented during:
-The visual arts show “Senses” in the Theatertún in Rijs (Friesland).
-During the exhibition "City/ Sound/ Movement” in the ENCI cement factory along the Maas River near Maastricht. Organised by Intro/In Situ Foundation Maastricht.
2001
Go To The Start
Exhibit with various installations during Etcetera 2001 Festival in Amersfoort.
Sung Glass
Video-installation, presented at:
-Theatre Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch.
The “Visual and Auditory Arts” exhibition in Vliek Castle in Ulestraten, by Intro/In Situ Foundation Maastricht.
2000
Sung Glass
Installation for "Sonor Décor" during Etcetera 2000 Festival in Amersfoort.
1998
Discovery (Vondst)
Dance performance, part of “Historical Work Locations” in Leiden.
Horse thirst (Paardendorst)
Sound/ form composition, part of "Machomet 2" Winter Sound Garden on the
Altembrouck estate in Belgium. Organised by Intro/In Situ Foundation, Maastricht.
1995
Production of CD Opus Mud with music from the performance of the same title and other works.
1994
Opus Mud (Opus Bagger)
Sound/ form composition for a mud dredger and musicians, during the travelling theatre festival “Karavaan” in North-Holland.
1992
A hand-stand between solid and liquid (Handstand tussen Vast en Vloeibaar)
Sound/ form performance in the Tilburg Water Tower, commissioned by the City Theatre of Tilburg.
1991
Three point fourteen Bahr (Drie Komma Veertien Bahr)
Sound/ form compositions for the Alkmaar Water Tower.
Work by order
2007
Waterworks, composition for mixed choir Good Company, percussion instruments and tape.
2005
1815 AC, by order of de city of Alkmaar and Pro Rail, for the reorganisation of the main Trainstation area. Composing music and soundtracks for a cd.
2004
Frigid Fair (Koude Kermis), designing a refrigerator as a soundmachine for a mobile exhibition by order of Geert Jonkers from 'Odd Enginears' .
Compositions, music, soundscapes for various theatre groups.
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