Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum
artistiek onderzoek - conceptueel - geschiedenis - installatie - video
Jaio and van Gorkum have been working as an artist’s duo since 2001. In their practice they analyse and question commonplace notions of authorship, cultural identity and labour relations. They look at the world as through the glasses of an anthropologist, and frequently point that gaze back onto our own performance: What are the circumstances under which cultural products come into being? And what is their fate once they leave the hands of their makers?
An important guideline in projects which depend on the complicity of others, or which are based on shared authorship, is to explore and redefine the relation between artist and society. That is how we assess not only the contribution we might make to reflections on current societal developments, but also the influence of those developments on the meaning and value of art itself.
