Hooykaas, Madelon / Stansfield, Elsa
Madelon Hooykaas was born in 1942 in Maartensdijk, Holland.
From 1960 to 1964 she studied and worked in photography. She attended Ealing School of Art & Design in London in 1966. In 1970 she travelled throughout the world and stayed for several months in Japan.
Elsa Stansfield was born in 1945 in Glasgow. From 1962-1965 she studied at Glasgow School of Art. Stansfield then went on to study photography and film at Ealing School of Art & Design, London and Film studies at the Slade, University College London. In 1980 the artist moved to The Netherlands where she became head of the department Time Based Media at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht until 1991.
Hooykaas and Stansfield worked together from 1972 until the year of Stansfield’s death in 2004, the artists were based in Amsterdam and London during their collaborative years. In 1975 the artists began collaboratively making video-environments, from 1980 to the early 1990Ìs Hooykaas and Stansfield were producing videotapes, video-installations, video-sculptures and sound sculptures and in the last decade of their collaborative practice they realized interactive installations and outdoor sculptural works.
In 1996 Stansfield and Hooykaas were awarded the Judith Leyster Oeuvreprize for their body of work, and in 1999 the their CDROM ‘Person to Person’ was awarded the Grand Prix for New Media at the Split Film Festival.
Hooykaas currently lives and works in Amsterdam.
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Interview of Madelon Hooykaas
View the interview transcript here
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Videography:
1975 What’s It to You?
1975 Moving
1976 Journeys
1976 The Road
1977 Just Like That
1977 Generations
1977 Horizontal Flow I
1977 Horizontal Flow II
1977 Memory Window I
1977 Memory Window II
1978 Continuing Lines I
1978 Continuing Lines II
1978 Labyrinth of Lines I
1978 Labyrinth of Lines II
1978 Moving Lines
1978 Sea of Light
1978 See Through Lines
1978 Videoveranderingen / Video Changes
1978 Videovijver / Video Pond
1979 Audeo Video I
1979 Audeo Video II
1979 Running Time I
1979 Running Time II
1979 Split Seconds I
1979 Split Seconds II
1979 Tidal Flow I
1979 Tidal Flow II
1979 Transitions,
1980 Eye Level
1980 Time Piece
1980 Video Void I
1980 Video Void II
1980 Void
1981 2 Sides of a Story I
1981 2 Sides of a Story II
1981 A Piece for the 4 Wind
1981 Cutting Piece, 1981
1982 Continuing Story
1982 Flying Time I
1982 Flying Time II
1982 Magnetic North
1982 Video Performance
1982 Wind Direction site n°6
1982 Wind Direction site n°7
1982 Wind Direction site n°8
1982 Wind Sound, site n°9
1982/2003 Outside / Inside
1983 Following Directions
1983 Out of Reach I
1983 Out of Reach II
1983 Vi Deo
1983 Wind Installation
1984 Compass
1984 The Force Behind its Movement
1985 … From the Museum of Memory I
1985 Stein und Wasser / Stone and Water, including Song for a Stone
1985 Video Volente
1986 Shadow Pictures…from the Museum of Memory II
1986 Point of Orientation…from the Museum of Memory III
1986 Point of Orientation
1986 From the museum of Memory IV
1987 Boat Piece…from the Museum of Memory VI
1987 Dialoog / Dialogue
1987 Phosphor…from the Museum of Memory V
1987 Point in Time
1987 Landscape
1988 A Personal Observatory
1988 Compass 4 Studies
1988 From the Museum of Memory VII
1988 Point in Time I
1988 Radiant
1989 Observatory I, II, III, IV
1989 Solstice
1990 Offerings
1990 Point of Reference I
1990 Point of Reference II
1991-92 True North
1991 Echo… from the Personal Observatory
1991 Intermittent Signals
1991 Liquid Crystal
1991 Out of Reach…from the Personal Observatory
1991 Personal Observatory II
1992 A Living Tree in the Archive
1992 In the Eye of the Storm
1993 Vanishing Point
1994 Do You See What I See?
1994 Summer Solstice
1994 Table of Orientation
1994 Watchman
1995 Points of Orientation
1995 Re:search
1995 Turning Point
1995 V
1996 As Far as Japan
1997 Inside a Portrait
1997 On Either Side of the Meridian
1998 Person to Person
1998 Re:vision, Towards a Field Free Space
1998 Table of Re-orientation
1999 Re:location
2000 Day For Night
2001 Day For Night I
2001 Day for Night II
2002 Viewfinder
2003 Day for Night III
2003 Deep Looking
2004 Day for Night
2005 Re:vision
2005-7 Madelon’s Sundog Dance (with Sandra Semchuk)
2006 After Image / After Language I (with Chantal DuPont)
2006 After Image / After Language II
2006 Winter Solstice
2007 Haiku, The Art of the Present Moment
2009 Zazen Now
2010 The Path -
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Quotes:
"In Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield's installation Compass (1984), exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, a 'live' video camera mounted on a wind vane on the roof of the gallery influenced the changes to images displayed on four monitors arranged on the four cardinal points of the compass. The images on monitors in the gallery were directly affected by the direction of the wind, providing an experience of the relationship between past and present, with natural forces as an active particiapnt in the creation of the work."
Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video Art, The Development of Form and Function. Berg, 2006.