Buro jan-ZE houdt zich bezig
met de vraag: Hoe lang is een gedachte?
Buro jan-ZE is een netwerk van wissellendevormensamenstelling
BJ is initiated by the artist Irene Janze in 1999
Ruimte is een verschijnsel wat door vele actoren wordt geproduceerd.
Door ondergrondse en bovengrondse actoren, door toeval, hiaten,
aaneengeregen of in staccato.
Het doet zich voor in allerlei soorten en maten: gevouwen, opgerold, uitgestrekt, gebogen en verknipt.
Ruimtelijke grammatica
vertaalt in (stedelijke) landschappen. Hoe beinvloeden die
landschappen ons en ons dagelijks leven?
concerns itself with the question "how long is a thought".
Artist statement: Through research and interventions I am investigating
the performative dimension of (semi)public places and I try to
develop tools to enforce human agencies entangled in that particular
place, not least that of my own, Irene Janze.
How do (urban) landscapes affect our perception of ourselves
and the world around us? Do they shape the way we move through our daily
lives? Installations and workshops are constructed by weaving information into a complex,
associative scape or matterealities. Buro jan-ZE initiates
and monitors projects and routes. Cityscapeeast is a project
about changes in the public domain of urban landscapes. Blueprint the
Netherlands are interventions in (semi)public spaces or events.
Projects of Buro jan-ZE are executed by a network of multidisciplinary
professionals, e.g. visual artists, sound artists, architects, writers,
poets, radiomakers, scientists and lay people. They work closely
together without loss of their own specific skills and methodology.
Look at Radio Orbino, a light - and sound sculpture along the N242
or the realization of a pocketvest parc at the Soembawastraat in
Amsterdam. And what to think of Logolength Zuidas, a mathematical,
artistic research about logos on the Zuidas in Amsterdam.
The course of Buro jan-ZE is not completely mapped out. What Buro jan-ZE
does
is provided for by what is happening around us and what everybody finds
important in his or her own life on the moment of collaboration.
Through
its reflectivity it tries to create a transformation in already
existing (semi)
public spaces. The catalogues, booklets, articles and lectures of Buro
jan-ZE
want to contribute towards consistence and continuity, offering a
structure
of continuous information. Products of Buro jan-ZE are in between
outcomes.