Jouke Kleerebezem

Resumé

The primary source of this information is Shadow Play

(Drukwerk) De Zaak
1979-1989, with Ton Mars and Hans Scholten, he directed artists' space De Zaak in Groningen and edited, designed and published Drukwerk De Zaak, issues #1-39. (Drukwerk) De Zaak presented among others Pidder Auberger, Thom Puckey, the Capital Gains group, Arno van der Mark, Hermann Pitz, Mirjam de Zeeuw, Floor van Keulen, Dorit Cypis, Rini Hurkmans, Joke Robaard, Maarten de Reus, Ton van Summeren, John Blake and many others -- through disciplines including video, performance and installation art, and a special focus on contemporary photography during the mid eighties (the Cum Suis presentation, and e.g. Pidder Auberger, Lon Robbé, Hans Scholten, John Schlesinger).

Curatorial
In 1992 he curated the international 'Allocations, Art for a Natural and Artificial Environment' public art exhibition and edited the book with the same title. Participants were e.g. Dennis Adams, Vito Acconci, Fortuyn/O'Brien, Matt Mullican, Q.S. Serafijn, Jan van Grunsven, Peter Fend, Rob Scholte, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paul Perry. Late 1993 he conceived Intelligence Years 1994-2014, a project developed to commemorate the Groningen University's 4th centennial. The project was already abandoned 1995 when the University's board could not deal with its contemporary qualities, conceived to feature on line and on site works of art, design and architecture. In 1994 he co-organized with Mediamatic and the Dutch Design Institute the second Doors of Perception Conference, `@Home'. He stayed with the Doors team off and on to date, in different positions, best summarized as 'editor at large'.

The Tribal Media project was conceived 1995. Tribal Media, due to present at the SOHO Arts Festival in NYC, almost reached World Wide Web laboratory site status, maintained at the Dutch VPRO public broadcasting corporation, when it was abandoned for lack of support and funds with the American partners.

Presentations, projects, positions
The work of Jouke Kleerebezem was presented in personal and group exhibitions, among others at the van Abbe Museum, The Irremediable Narrative (Eindhoven NL 1990), the Vleeshal, Middelburg NL and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam NL, Le Magazin Grenoble F (Temporary Autonomous Zoo II, III, and IV, 1994-1995 with Paul Perry), the Progetto Civitella d'Agliano IT (Customized Communities, 1994) and the Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius LT (Temporary Autonomous Zoo V, 1995) and at many different occasions in galleries and institutions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy.

Other projects include increasing-to-exclusive Internet and WWW activity since 1994. 1995-1996 his original Shadow Play site was a main outlet for research, production and communication of new work, updates on previous projects, and to catalogue, extend, exploit and critique his ideas. It was followed up 1996-1999 by ciw.net for Cultural Intelligence Works (an individual OCI, Office for Cultural Intelligence, continuation) when finally since 1999 nqpaofu.com hosts the Notes Quotes Provocations and Other Fair Use portal to a weblog (since 22 March 1998), Innovation and Design for Information Empowerment (idie.net) and lemoulindumerle.com, the 'dotcom estate' which he works from since 1999: Le Moulin du Merle in the Nièvre department, France.

At the Netherlands Design Institute (aka 'Vormgevingsinstituut', discontinued since 1999) he had joined, through Doors of Perception, its web production team (consisting of NDI staff and VanRiet Consulting, Kristi van Riet's old company) in 1997, to operate as Commissioning Editor for the Internet outlet of the institute's activities, including the Doors of Perception conferences 1-6. The Vormgevingsinstituut website was meant to shift its attention from publishing the institute's information, to developing the site as a research tool and goal -- aiming at customizing information access and retrieval, constructing supportive environments for special interest groups, web mediated database access, etc. The site was discontinued with the institute, which lacked political support and suffered board incompetence.

Further interests included the 'Ketelmeer Sludge Deposit' project, which proposed to increase the informational density of a major ecological and hydrological engineering work in one of the Netherlands' most popular recreational/natural areas, and the Zapscapes conference, on 'computer aided analysis, design and visualization in landscape architecture', at the Hogeschool Larenstein.

Since 2001 Jouke Kleerebezem is Advising Researcher at the design department of the Jan van Eyck Academie institute for research and production in Maastricht NL, where he commutes from Le Moulin du Merle in France, which he acquired with Gilberthe Akkermans in 1999.

Publications
Jouke Kleerebezem published in e.g. Drukwerk De Zaak, Mediamatic, Archis, Metropolis M, De Witte Raaf, Kunst en Museumjournaal, Flash Art, and issued several independent publications. Also he contributed essays to peers' catalogues (Joke Robaard, Q.S. Serafijn, Andrea Blum), which he occasionally designed.

Teachings
He taught drawing and composition to undergraduate students at the Minerva School for the Arts (1983-1984), installation and three dimensional work at the AKI School for the Arts in Enschede NL (1986-1987), public art to post-graduates at the European Masters of Landscape Architecture (1994-1997) and did workshops and lectures at e.g. the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy, the Arnhem School for the Arts, the Minerva School for the Arts, and the Jan van Eyck Academy.