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special, Introducing the ArtistMomentum05:50, Color, Stereo, NL, 2003
 Martijn Veldhoen: Momentum To go is a verb that refers to a movement, without being specific about its nature. Walking, driving or floating, for example, are much clearer in this respect; they describe the movement as something that is connected to the body. In 'Momentum', as viewer, we go in one slow movement through a sequence of spaces. Through corridors, rooms, doors, over balustrades onto a patio, to the street, and then back inside through an open window. Having acquired the ability to take spatial barriers effortlessly, we seem to be losing our physical form. The disappearance of our body silently echoes in the total absence of people in the places we pass through. And perhaps also in the voice we hear, the voice that tells us about an undefined loss. (Why do I keep going) Forward06:00, Color, Stereo, NL, 2004
 Martijn Veldhoen: (...) Forward  Martijn Veldhoen: (...) Forward Going forward feels good. With the wind in your hair on the deck of a ship or the platform of a railway carriage - when the landscape begins to pass more and more quickly before your eyes, your body knows that you are heading for the future. But why does it feel so good to be moving forward? (Why do I keep going) Forward begins with this question, immediately linking the feeling of going forward with 'progress'. While images recorded from trains, boats and planes pass us by, we can hear someone thinking aloud; someone who is asking himself questions. Questions about our love of nature and of culture - as sources of harmony and civilization. Because, do nature and culture not obey the same laws as we apply to the economy? Public Spaces10:53, Color, Stereo, NL, 2006
 Martijn Veldhoen: Public Spaces  Martijn Veldhoen: Public Spaces Once 'public space' was a clear concept. It. was a kind democratic medium that could be accessed by everyone, safely and freely available for traffic between people. Now things have changed; thanks to mobile communication systems, we carry our personal space with us like an air bubble, and the public sphere has become a set of subsets. Everyone is always connected to something or someone else, so that the space between has taken on a virtual form of its own, which constantly changes with time. What is left over between the subsets has the characteristics of a vacuum; it generates forces. It sucks in a great many individuals who cannot or will not 'participate', or who do not have or do not want to have access to the means that link the individual bubbles. Veldhoen shows us how differently we now perceive public space, certainly not as a safe place any more. |
