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We humans - with a family resemblance to the stars we're made of - all are part of a whirling loop in which everything is continuously constructed and deconstructed. A white fountain is connected to a black hole and we are situated somewhere in between, moving towards the black hole into the white fountain again. We humans and our objects go through different interconnected stages which further evolution and devolution. The graph gets steeper and steeper as our culture and nature evolves and devolves towards a post-human entity relating in a radically different way to their surroundings. Unlike in the past - where complex kosmologies were drawn into the sand or carved in cave walls and believed in - we are now in a more secular culture in which we make more of a distinction between fiction and reality. Four major cultures were created through interaction and crashes, with pop culture dominating, randomly absorbing elements from the four underground cultures. My goal would be to follow the latest developments in all four cultures, and bring these to the fore in a more balanced way, in both film and theatre. This way I hope to broaden people's awareness of the meaning of that equally mysterious and logical kosmos that surrounds us.
WHIRL
Productions
is an independent freelance company which aims at
creating films, theatre and games that help bring
about a whirl of positive change: we initiate and
collaborate on artistic and educational projects
that are rooted in deep ecology and
transdisciplinary inquiry, developing a mindset that
results in better-informed life decisions and
relatively more equality in our kosmos and world.
WHIRL was founded in 2009 by director/producer Bouke Mekel
and is currently housed in De
Biotoop bordering the city of Groningen.
WHIRL mainly works with artists and educators and
engages in creating media for clips, portraits and
scapes,
documentaries and fiction films, multimedia
performances
and games.
These productions generally entail the editing and
fine-tuning of self-/co-created
scripts/prose/poetry, visual
art/photography/cinematography, music/sound and
choreographies. Each of these services can be
provided, separately or fused with one another.
S t a t
e m e n t / M o d u s--O
p e r a n d i
1. Art
We think anything
can be art and art is about anything. We agree with
Marcel Duchamp, who asked himself the following
fundamental rhetorical question: "Peut-on faire des
oeuvres qui ne soient pas d'art?" (“Can one make works
that are not considered art?”). Once we start creating
objects in the name of the fundamental why-question,
we destruct or construct culture and nature. The
resulting oeuvres are cultural and increasingly
natural as well. That is to say, we're now on the
verge of creating intriguing, beyond credible,
verisimilar cavernous valleys and carnal dolls. Our
possibilities for (de-)culturalisation /
(de-)naturalisation are seemingly endless until we
consider a work finished and take our hands off it,
and/or otherwise until the black hole(s) have
deconstructed all of creation, with white fountain(s)
emitting star dust once again.
We think until then, we as humans and emerging
post-human entities will continue to have an inherent
need to be challenged by art, moderately and
radically.
2. What Happened
In Real Life (W.H.I.R.L.)
As time progresses,
the eye of our personal whirls move through the real
world and fictional kosmos and rec•rds
all it encounters. It whirls reality into
fiction and fiction into reality. The world is a
theatre that is increasingly mediatised, with more and
more opportunities for tragicomical (docu)fictional
uni-, multi-, inter- and transmedia storytelling. On
the basis of the raw edges of the eye of WHIRL's
voyages, works are created and exposed
to public members of society, who proceed to interpret
them and, thereby, finish the artworks and integrate
them into the(ir) view of the kosmos and world.