Joost Rekveld
Joost Rekveld (1970) is a Dutch filmmaker and artist based in Amsterdam. Since 2017 he is affiliated to the School of Arts, University College Ghent as an artistic researcher.
In his work, he explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. These systems combine temporary dogma’s in the form of procedures or code, with more open-ended elements such as material processes or networks of interactions that are too complex to predict. His films, installations and performances are composed documentaries of the worlds opened by such systems. In their sensuality they are an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world.
His abstract films have been shown worldwide in festivals and venues for experimental film, animation or other kinds of moving image, such as the ICA, Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Most of his recent films had their premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and he had retrospectives at the Barbican in London and the Ann Arbor film festival amongst others. His film #11, Marey <-> Moire was the first Dutch film to be ever shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
He has realized several installations and was involved in many collaborative projects involving composers, music ensembles, theatre companies, dance companies and artist’s labs. These included dance company Emio Greco | PC (Amsterdam / Marseille), music theatre ensemble De Veenfabriek (Leiden), contemporary music ensembles such as ASKO / Schonberg (Amsterdam) and ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), Opera North (Leeds) and The Royal Opera (London) and electronic art and music laboratories such as IRCAM (Paris), STEIM (Amsterdam) and the V2) Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam).
He has also put together many film programmes about the history of abstract animation and light art since 1990, curated several exhibitions and published a number of essays. He has been giving lectures since 1993, teaching since 1996, and from 2008 to 2014 he was the course director of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He is a board member of Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) and of the Centre for Visual Music (Los Angeles).
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