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; his tutors were Paul Slangen, Taco Stolk and Michael van Hoogenhuyze. He graduated in the summer of 2006 with the piece ‘tekst en uitleg’.
Up until 2007 Eric also studied at Leiden University, where he followed courses in literature, linguistics and epistomology.
At this moment Eric lives and works. He collaborates with the institutions Danslab, Zeebelt and Onomatopee.
His activities in 2008/2009 are funded in part by a Stroom Invest artist grant from Stroom The Hague. This is the same city where he has a studio in artist initiative DCR, and where he has recently become a lecturer in Interactive Media Design at the department of Graphic Design of the Royal Academy of Art.
Currently Eric is collaborating with Portugese choreographer Bruno Listopad. Het takes part in Listopad’s performance-installations, and performs in the theatre show ‘Spectatorship’ which is touring the Netherlands.
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.
I make images and diagrams and texts, and I do performances.
I want to open up my self to see what it is that is making truth. I want to extract the functions of truth and make them accessible to others.
In thinking about what I do, concepts from computer science and mathematics help me. In my work I combine them with the language of awesome, where the pants are tight and the cameras flash.
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