ericschrijver.nl studio for text & context. fltr: merel junge (violin), taco stolk (education), eric schrijver (artistic director), barend beekhuizen (semiotics). made possible by gsus sindustries.
This is the website of Eric Schrijver, a Dutch visual artist and design educator, who is trying to take the joke at the core of truths seriously.
Eric makes installations, performances and publications in which he employs photography, graphic design and (spoken) words. He teaches design for new media at the KABK.
about eric
Eric Schrijver was born in Amsterdam in 1984.
From 2002 until 2006 he studied autonomous interdisciplinary art at the Interfaculty Image and Sound of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Up until 2007 Eric also studied at Leiden University, where he followed courses in literature, linguistics and epistemology.
Since then he has been working as a visual and performance artist based in The Hague. Eric has a studio in artist initiative DCR and he has been funded by Stroom. His work has been shown at group shows, among others at Van Kranendonk Gallery.
He has received commissions by Kunstgebouw, Onomatopee, Zeebelt and Danslab. The latter leading to an intensive collaboration with Portugese choreographer Bruno Listopad; both in his performance installations in gallery spaces and in his recent theatre piece ‘Spectatorship’.
Eric teaches Interactive Media Design at the department of Graphic Design of the Royal Academy of Art. He seeks to make design for the web more accessible to visual professionals, and investigates the role which open source tools can play in design education and practice.
For new work, Eric is currently collaborating with Johan Nieuwenhuize, producing portraits and diagrams, working with models in two senses of the word.
Artist statement:
At times I feel like I understand everything. It is surprising how little good that does in itself. I become enclosed in my self: truth is smaller than reality.
Images and diagrams and texts, and performances:
Opening up my self to see what it is that is making truth. Extracting the functions of truth and making them accessible to others.
Models, really. Featuring me as a model.
A model in a model.
One model driven by concepts from computer science and mathematics. The other model needing the language of awesome, where the pants are tight and the cameras flash.
Or: I like tight pants and mathematics.
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