Choreographies of (Be)longing

Choreographies of (be)longing - Art Utopia Politics - 2024. Live performance 4 min, during performance event Dreaming in the Dark | 2min video excerpt

Location: BAK, Basis Actuele Kunst, Utrecht

Dreaming in the Dark was part of the Art Utopia Politics sessions held at BAK from 3-5th of July 2025.  The sessions brought together a diverse group of artist-researcher-practitioners who are actively experimenting with the role of creative and artistic practices in cultivating radical collective imagination and alternative forms of politics—be they disruptive, emancipatory, agonistic, speculative, or prefigurative.

Watch video excerpt: here

Reception at BAK Utrecht with sculpture by artist Marijke de Pous

Performative sculpture

Featured in collaborative philosophical video essay (23min) | 2022
Original live performance 30 min
Location: ISVW grounds in Leusden, the Netherlands

As part of Tim de Mey’s fellowship with the International School of Philosophy, I was commissioned to create an artwork that would feature in a philosophical video essay on truth. The video essay If truth was a witch… she would always rise to the surface, is a joint production of Tim de Mey, Annelies Verbeke, Saartje van Camp, myself and filmmaker Stefan de Graaff.

In edition to the performative sculpture, Saartje van Camp and I worked together to create the closing theme. Inspired by my initial video sketches and the content of the essay Saartje composed and recorded the song and I created the music video. The video is composed of several layers of drawings, the forest and the three artist that feature in the video essay.

Watch excerpt: here

Etalage Performance

Performatieve sculptuur in etalage Marijke de Pous afstudeerwerk / graduation work performance by Marijke de Pous videostill

40 min live performance, 22 minute video registration & C-print on dibond | 2004
Location: Oudegracht shop Window, Utrecht, the Netherlands

The registration of this performance piece was one of the works in my graduation show from the HKU. As with my other graduation projects, I purposefully chose the registration to be the final work to be presented to a larger audience. In this case a 22min videoloop and a printed photo. At exhibits a second layer of spectators - walking by or standing still to look at the scene- became part of the work. Watch an excerpt below.

Untitled (2004)

C-print on dibond | 2004
Location: binnenterrein HKU studio’s, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Materials sculpture: Plaster, red bricks, mortar

This performative sculpture was one of the works in my graduation show for the HKU. As with my other graduation projects, I purposefully chose the registration to be the final work. In this case a full colour photo print.

Afstudeerwerk beeldend kunstenaar Marijke de Pous. Nominatie PUG prijs, KM prijs voor innovatief materiaal gebruik.

Exhibition view

Work in progress

Performative sculpture (2005)

Video still of performance (no audience) | 2005
Location: Oudegracht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Materials sculpture: Cement, plaster, styrofoam

This still and one other where printed and framed in a hand made, stand alone cement frame (edition 1/3) . Dimensions: C-print mounted on Dibond 14 x 18cm, cement block 30 x 40 x 8 cm

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