Biography
Johannes Bellinkx graduated from the Mime Course in Amsterdam in 2013. He was already a social geographer and worked nationally and internationally for various successful artists. In 2007 he joined Theater TUIG and in 2013 he played with Theater Group WAK. Johannes Bellinkx creates visual work that moves at the intersection of theatre, visual art and film. He ensures that form and content interact in a driving manner. In his work, Bellinkx radically opts for the concept and then looks for the disciplines that are most suitable. In 2014-2015 Bellinkx developed his first larger project Framing. This performance was at the Oerol festival on Terschelling in the summer of 2015 and at the Over Het IJ Festival in Amsterdam. Framing has been nominated by the Oerol Festival to the international network for European outdoor festivals IN-SITU. As a result, the work received international attention. In 2015-2016, Bellinkx will work as an artist-in-residence for a year in Amsterdam-Noord under the guidance of DasArts, Over het IJ festival and the NDSM foundation.
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In residentie Reverse
15.06.2018 – 15.06.2018
With Reverse, Johannes Bellinkx invites you to enter the world in a different way. You experience reality in reverse. Looking ahead makes way for looking back. The goal-oriented turns into the unforeseen. By literally reversing our direction, Johannes Bellinkx makes us aware in a confrontational way of how we navigate the world. A hypnotic soundtrack and the blending of fiction and reality makes Reverse a unique physical and mental experience. Johannes Bellinkx’s work balances on the border between theater, visual arts and film. Just like his previous performance Framing, this work is also about perception. And here too, your viewing and thinking frameworks are being challenged.
In residentie The Parcel Project
01.01.2023 – 01.01.2023
The Parcel Project is a collaboration of Johannes Bellinkx and Studio Daan Brinkmann. The project inhabits the new collaborative space that In Situ is creating with the UNCOMMON SPACES project the next four years. The idea is to expose the uncommon space that physically connects all the partners, artists and citizens through the perspective of a parcel. A parcel will be around in the network. It has four built-in candid camera’s and microphones that can stream the footage of the journey that its making.
The footage made while travelling will be shown in an installation which looks like a big parcel/crate that you can enter. Inside there will be screens on each wall and quadrophonic sound which enables you to become the parcel itself and inhabit the space that it travels through. The box will also move and vibrate so you will sense the movements of the parcel. In that way artists, citizens and partners could for example show their studio or other spaces they inhabit. It could also be used to send something around like a ‘chain letter’. Every receiver can take something out and or add something to the parcel.