bo stokkermans (1995) (the Hague) is of its time.
being one of many who was born into conditions (Goirle, NL) and who continuously tries to survive and (ex)change based on the performative makeabilty of living. in the third-year of the academy bo decided to quit to live and present its practice in public space from out a self-built cargo bike for a then unknown amount of time. after this 1.5 year performative gesture bo ‘returned’ to the world of art. embodying the research on how to use artisthood and its authorship as a method and condition for personal need and development. while still participating and giving back to the existing infrastructures of the arts.
currently bo mainly focuses on a practice where the performative interaction with materials techniques and machines such as glass, felting, oilpaint, cnc milling and 3d printing are experienced and believed as reciprocal, caring and meaningful relationships. often looking for crosspollination and influence between materials, methods and personal experience, this practice continues in the theoretical line of relational aesthetics by Nicholas Bourriaud and the object-oriented ontology by Graham Harman. As well as the historical line of practices such as Tehching Hsieh, the fluxus and cobra movement and SAEIO megawizzard. the imaginary coming forth out of this process often consists of shapes from an ever-changing library of gestures derived and deconstructed from (post)graffiti, graphic and (neo)ornamental shapes. the worlds are created by stacking, layering, blurring and abstracting these subjective figurative shapes into new intuitive and often semi-modular compositions. after their genesis the objects become a way of researching interaction. this journey is supported by ruby soho gallery (Den Bosch NL).
In recent years, you could have seen presentations at Stedelijk Museum (Breda NL), Jan Cunen museum (Oss NL) This art fair (Amsterdam NL), Ruby Soho (Den Bosch NL) among many other spaces. articles written by or about bo you could have read in the metropolis M, Mister motley. you could have also encountered bo as an interdisciplinary workshop adviser at Make (eindhoven NL) and HKU (Utrecht NL), find gestures such a websitetogether.com or experienced bo’s energy in a more indirect manner.
hope to meet you any day now.
