Oscar Peters' Creepo Peepers / Cease and Desist explores the duality of life. To every yin their yang, to every right a wrong, but the simplistic good guy/bad guy mindset was ditched a long time ago. What's left is the ambiguous grey space in between. A yin yin, a win win, or rather a lose lose. Like the Compulsive Gamblers sing 'Two wrongs don't make a right, but two rights don't make a shit, I think I'm in it.' Where does one find redemption? To every cease its desist.

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The Ping Pong session (explained)

Oma Fanny Okwuchi is a new found friend, my upstairs neighbour and an elderly stylish lady, originally from Nigeria, who recently fell in love with drawing and art. She had heard that I was teaching art and asked me if I could help her. After some more classical drawing lessons about things such as: 'the weight of the line', 'central perspective', 'anatomy' and 'working with different speeds' we quickly skipped the teacher/student model and just started to draw together as two equal passionados who both loves to draw and who has different set of skills and powers and who complements each other. I am jealous of her freedom, imagination and storytelling powers, and I on the other hand have been busy with art and drawing my whole life, together we are a strong team. Technically it goes like this: We listen to music, both of us starts to draw, each with our own paper, after 2 songs or so, we switch papers and continues on the other ones drawing, this routine can repeat itself numerous times (hence the name, the Ping Pong session). When we are both happy with a drawing, it is considered finished and we sign them. We draw together at least once a week, but also sometimes takes drawings home and continues there solo, until we meet again.

Warm greetings Jonas

Since 2015 Maarten Schuurman and Esther Brakenhoff occasionally work together besides their own artistic practise. When collaborating both artists act as individual players working together as a team questioning authorship. These cooperations are not a simple add up of individual input but rather an exercise in communication with each other, co-working artists and the audience. 

Exhibition 09 July - 24 July, 2022
ENTRANCE : Ringdijk 5, Amsterdam

ps. K_o_t_ invites Vincka Struben to investigate the properties of the exhibition space. She presents a room-filling installation that turns all directions around. As a consequence the installation can only be entered by a transitional detour via the neighbouring Ringdijk 5. 

“Finally the architectural ideal is a room in black marble, in which light enters only through orifices so well bent, that nothing on the outside can be seen through them, yet they illuminate or color the decor of a pure inside.”
(Gilles Deleuze, The Fold : Leibniz and the Baroque, 1988)

The installation uses baroque architecture as a guideline, with light as an essential building element. The many curls, folds and shadows mark the transition from physical reality and materiality to an imagined space or even a vision. A frame is both a boundary and a connecting element between two worlds that normally do not touch each other. Are we looking at an Art Deco theatre decor, a lace embroidery, a micro-organism, a whale’s eye, Discomedusa, a ghost or the heavenly vault?

Exhibition 19 June - 1 July, 2022

Ringdijk 4, Amsterdam

As the driving force behind De Apotheek and formerly De Servicegarage, Thijs Rhijnsburger has created a stage for many art and artists. With O.T. ps. K_o_t_ returns the favor and offers the stage for the work by Thijs Rhijnsburger himself.

Thijs Rhijnsburger composes his paintings with elements from cityscape visual culture, which he depicts in landscape abstractions. His physical and intuitive painting process arises from (visual) observations that display structures such as movement, composition and space. This exhibition shows new paintings and works of the last two years.

Myspace Yourwaves

Saturday June 11, 2022 / 12:00 - 17:00

Ringdijk 4, Amsterdam

Saturday June 11th ps. K_o_t_ is celebrating the opening of the new location with a happening. On this occasion Farida Sedoc is invited to react on the value and position of the artist run project space, Blodfet & DJ Lonely will be transmitting sounds and power while ps. K_o_t_ is (re-)(screen-) printing the Artist's reserved rights transfer and sale agreement by Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky.

This happening will kickoff the (dis)course of ps. K_o_t_ and present the upcoming exhibition program at the new location.

Maarten Schuurman, All the things you could be by now (Square Dance Revolution), 2021

Out of office and into the studio - Maarten Schuurman

October 22 - October 30, 2021

On the occasion of the exhibition Bruce Nauman held at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ps. K_o_t_ presents All the things you could be by now (Square Dance Revolution). In line with the series of performances and experiments done by Bruce Nauman in his studio ps. K_o_t_ moves out of office and into the studio of Maarten Schuurman in the center of Amsterdam.

All the things you could be by now (Square Dance Revolution) explores the ritual of reenacting. In order to perform Bruce Nauman's 1967 Square Dance (Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square) Schuurman translated Nauman's movements to machine code and built an arcade machine to conduct his movements. Not only the initial set of rules but also the execution by Nauman was adapted resulting in an almost indecipherable logic. While in use the machine orchestrates and monitors the operator, step-by-step, move-by-move. Correct moves are rewarded with a continuing of the performance while wrong moves result in a Game Over.

VIDEOS:

Bruce Nauman - Square Dance (Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square)

Maarten Schuurman - All the things you could be by now (Square Dance Revolution)

Ps. Kot is honored that AMS - TOK / EXPORT > IMPORT is selected by the student jury for the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021. The student selection will also be part of the annual exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam this autumn (2022).

The book is published on the occasion of the exchange project and exhibition with the same title. The publication is a collection of documents that build up towards the finishing of the project. The book contains the e-mail communication between the artists as well as a photo documentation of the build up of the exhibitions translated to a flip-book.

This project is made possible by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan.