And the winner of the Talent@ mr. Motley is...

Eva van Ooijen, her exibit was a picture of a boy how does automutilation. He shows his emotions literal on his body. And he shows this to the vieuwer, what makes this picture very intimate.


Eva van Ooijen

Talent@ mr. Motley

HKU Talent scouting

Assignment despriction
Mr. Motley is looking for talent inside the HKU. Do you want to make a change for a publication in the next item of mr. Motley? Thans end your own interpretation of the word emotion to talent@mistermotley.nl. You can do this in several manners, for example a Photo, a movie, a sound recording or a text. In this assignment creativity is the most important, and you are totally free to fill this in, any way you want.

The exhibits will be judged by 5 teachers from the various fucultys and the editorial staff of mr. Motley. The competitors are going to be invite don the Motley Live! evening in Pakhuis de Zwijger on the 9th of december, where also the winner will be annouced.

Beside winning a page in the Mister Motley, there will be 5 packages dispose among all the exhibits. This means that you will get the numbers 1 till 24 (with exception of the numbers 3 and 15, because these are sold out) including the most recent number!

Do you want to take a part of the Talent@mr. Motley? Let us know by sending an e-mail to talent@mistermotley.nl. The deadline is the 1th of december 2009.

This is not a book

Keri Smith, 2009

After the inspired book Wreck this journal, Keri Smith has come with a new book called, This is not a book. A odd title, especially when you have a book in your hands. The book is full of assignments that are most of all based on the book it self. But there are enough reasons to buy this book for inspiration! You can do sereval things like, make drawings, solve mysterys, and other readers of your own book mislead.
A numer of assignments you can fin don this website, under manuals. But it is even more amusing to buy the book and start.

For more pictures from the book you can go to www.kerismith.com. There you will find als a link to the site flickr, with pictures of the assignments made by other readers of the book.

One hundred and one things to do

Kessels and Kramer

101 things to do is a book that gives you new ideas from 30 different designers and thinkers about the current en future state of brands and that it also depends of what the end-user will do whit it.
Do is a brand that thinks that it is important to break through the standard image of brands. They want to show the diversity that brands have. This way they want that not only the designers but also the end-users will take the optimal of the brand. They want to bring back the creativity. This book is a beautiful visual documentation of all the things that are possible. It gives you ideas about how to make new forks, knives and spoons, by fixing a fork on a remote control. Or ten several options for what you can do with a t-shirt that’s ten sizes to big. And what to think about making jam while you are stuck in a traffic jam. This book is a real eye-opener, it forces you to make the impossible possible.

For more information you can go to www.dosurf.com en to order the book you can go to the next website; www.kesselkramerpublisching.com

Wreck this journal

Keri Smith, 2007

Wreck this journal is a curious book. At first you think that it is an ordinary dummy where you can explore your own creativity. Nothing less, the creativity comes by following the assignments in the book. It starts on the first page, where you're asked to write down your name in ten different ways. From that moment on the process of creativity starts. The assignments vary from taking the book with you into the shower, to documenting your dinner, literally. Very interesting, specially when you are a person who's used to documenting your own creativity in a very structured manner. That´s why you have to try this book! Personaly I think that by doing the assignments you can explore your creativity more, because it makes you do things against your own nature. For more information en books from Keri Smith go to; www.kerismith.com

Mapping the Studio, with Rob Pruitt a.o.

Venice Biënnale, 2009

A part of the collection of the super rich Francois Pinault (owner of Christie’s and the brand Yves Saint Laurent) has found a place in the Venice Biënnale.
The work of the most famous artists of this moment is shown at the exhibition Mapping the Studio. It is shown in the Palasso Grassie and also in an old customs building, which is converted to an hypermodern exhibition space by architect Tadao Ando. ‘The desire to possess - born at the moment I first came in contact with art - has been transformed into a profound need to share.’ says Pinault.

Rob Pruitt is one of the artists whose work is shown. Pruitt grow famous in the eighties with the artist-team Pruitt-Early. After years of absence, he made a comeback in the nineties with paintings of panda bears, a "Cocaine Buffet," and "101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself”. And these more than hundred ideas that everyone can do themselves are shown as work in the exhibition Mapping the Studio.
Some works are made on the spot, like music on a very high volume that makes half of the visitors protecting their ears, (art idea # 42 Make a mix tape), statues that got eyes (art idea #72 put googly eyes on things), and in the bookstore he wrote the idea of stealing books on the wall (art idea # 41 Shoplift).
You can find all the ideas at this website:

http://www.e-flux.com/projects/pruitt/index.php3

Yoko Ono, Instruction Pieces 1960-2009

Venice Biënnale, 2009

Avant-garde artist Yoko Ono was a member of the Fluxus art movement, established around 1960 by artist and architect George Maciunas.

Her work consists of performances, actions, music and ‘instructions pieces’, aimed at the experience of daily life.
Art and life had to define each other.

Yoko brings a basic act like breathing to the attention of the viewer, who can complete the work with only a thought or with an action.

Yoko Ono received the Golden Lion she was awarded for her career from Venice Mayor Massimo Cacciari during the inauguration ceremony of the 53rd Biennale International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, 2009.

You can visit the Biënnale till 22nd of November 2009.

Adam Rompel

Adam Rompel, project 'Often Better Thought About'
Installation art made by artist Adam Rompel, ideas in a cardholder system.

JET: It’s not a plane, it’s not a girl’s name, it’s a book about art

Witte de With publishers, 2009

A book about contemporary art, made by the Junior Editorial Team of art centre Witte de With in Rotterdam, for and by youthful people.
It contains amongst others interviews with contemporary artists and do-it-yourself tips from artists.

www.wdw.nl

Learning to love you more, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July

LTLYM, the art project of Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, was based on online manuals for artworks. The two artists wrote the manuals themselves, for others to be inspired and for users to be creative with someone else’s thoughts as starting point for your own creations.
People from all over the world, artists and non-artists made the assignments and the results got published on the website.
The site is still online to view, but since May 1st 2009 you can no longer submit works of art. It currently exists as an archive of the project.

The book provides the assignments and some of the results that were published on the site.
They vary from a picture of the sun, to someone’s life story, written in a day.

www.learningtoloveyoumore.com
www.mirandajuly.com
www.harrellfletcher.com


Mister Motley was inspired by this project in developing motleymanual.nl!
Please submit your artworks made after a motleyManual to info@motleymanual.nl

3rd place, A children’s colouring book, Richard Prince

Monsters, humans, robots, flowers, a nude, bearded guy with peace symbols for eyes, a mummy, and a female nude with a black pirate patch over one eye?
You can find it al in 3rd place, a colouring book full of black and white drawings, which is fun for grown-ups (and children) with a twisted sense of humour.

www.richardprinceart.com

123 ideas, Helmut Smits

123 readymade concept drawings for new works of art, some of the ideas are performed by the artist.
There is a short handwritten line of text and a small illustrational drawing on every page, explaining how to do it yourself.
123 ideas is a project of Onomatopee, Helmut Smits and Hans Gremmen.

www.helmutsmits.nl
www.onomatopee.net
www.hansgremmen.nl

Blaadje nr.4, Vonkstof

This edition of Blaadje is dedicated to the theme of inspiration; how to get it, how to hold on to it and how to eliminate ‘flow killers’.

www.blaadje.nl

Do it! Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Part manual, part cookbook, part a do-it-yourself book; ‘do it’ is the printed result of on ongoing project of ‘instruction art’.
Initiators of the project are the artists Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and writer Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Their project focused on the use of written instructions to make works of art in an effort to observe the effects of translation.
Artists from all over the world made contributions to this project.

www.e-flux.com/projects/do_it/homepage/do_it_home.html