Jolien van Schagen

“We are soft bodies and we are eating them too” (2017) is a collaboration of Jolien van Schagen & Sinead O’Dwyer, where they explore their relationship to their bodies through food, object & performance in a series of experiments recorded on film.

The process of creation – the physical liberation & personal transformation through movement and exchange – is more important than the eventual end and its possible consequences.

The experiments are a response to van Schagen’s earlier series of dinner happenings “All That Goes It All Becomes”, that merges the elements of food, crafted objects and guests into a moving still-life. It consists of a large table in which to intertwine people, objects, substances & materials. The happenings are a gathering and a space to connect & exchange personally and collectively. 

“Crumple, drape, erase” (2017) is part of a series of body casts where I map the physical as well as my physical perception of the body as felt from within, as a means of affirmation and an attempt to understand it.