Past - Artist in Residence Jan Hendrickse
Artist in Residence Jan Hendrickse
To view Jan 's collaboative performance with members of our team as part of his residency at John Jones click here
John Jones and ACME Studios worked together earlier this year to initiate an Artist in Residence project for an ACME artist onsite at John Jones
As a sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Jan spent time at John Jones, recording and analysing the sounds of production around our workshops, creating bespoke instruments that explored the materials and surfaces that we use.
Jan experimented with ways of using paper and aluminium in conjunction with loudspeakers to create resonating surfaces. Other experimental approaches included building a pyrophone, which is an instrument played using fire.
Jan's site-specific installation for the John Jones project space was composed of several different elements that responded to the space itself and the low frequency vibration that pervaded the John Jones buildings which Jan recorded and reconfigured to make three new interrelated pieces Sound Structures, Particle and Sound Field .
The tubes that make up the three sound structures are designed to function as instruments to be played by John Jones staff. They also function as acoustic chambers, through which I have made recordings of the buildings and machinery during production. These recordings produce very low-pitched resonant drones, which have been recomposed and played back into the space through materials used on the site. Contact microphone recordings of the building vibrations have been combined with sinetones to produce very low frequency vibrations, which are felt rather than heard. Jan Hendrickse
Jan documented his residency through a series of entries of images and text on Arthuddle - John Jones Forum for Contemporary Art, posting regular updates on his experiences and the development of his project. Click here to visit Arthuddle
‘The idea behind this approach would be to somehow use sound to expose the ‘invisible’ art that goes into presenting art works. The production facility itself is full of interesting sound and vibration. It will be interesting to use contact microphones on machinery and extraction units to create a soundscape that is the product of listening creatively to the sounds of the production process. These sounds might then be used to activate the prepared surfaces.’ Jan Hendrickse
Jan has now begun his two-year studio residency at Acme Studios in their new building in Leven Road, Poplar, E14.
The Acme's residency is aimed at artists involved with socially-engaged practice and includes a rent-free studio worth £7,000 for two years and a grant of £10,000 per year. Jan intends to develop his own practice and explore the acoustic ecology of East London with local residents and community groups
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