SPOTTED at ArtEZ Studium Generale: Katrijn Westland, alumna Design Art Technology, on her graduation work Morphling
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Katrijn Westland graduated from the Design Art Technology course in 2021 with Morphling: a canvas made of beetroot powder, which is edible, breathes, smells, discolours, ages and invites the viewer to enter through its partially open structure. For ArtEZ Studium Generale, Rinke Fierinck, a Fine Art and Design in Education student, interviewed Katrijn about the theme 'The body and (un)power'.
Morphling is an interactive installation, covered by biodegradable lick-licking beet 'skin' that breathes, smells, moves and ages. It's a physical elaboration of the idea of our body as an open system. The installation is constantly inhabited and kept in motion by different performers and each of these residents gives a different 'movement character' to the work. For Katrijn, it was a conscious choice to ask as diverse a group of people as possible to perform her work, not only because Katrijn likes to work interdisciplinary, but especially because you come to richer insights and experience together. She approaches knowledge, but also the body, as open and divisible.
What if we see the world as an ultimate source of knowledge, full of knowledge bodies.
In conversation with ArtEZ alumna Katrijn Westland
Read the full interview with Katrijn on ArtEZ Studium Generale's website.