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Toine Horvers moving - writing 2020
The book, that started four years ago as a possible form in which my ephemeral works could live on, gradually developed into an intensive writing project about movement and the imaginative power of language. It exists of two chapters:

1  works in space and time
brief descriptions of my movement performances- and installations since 1979
Each of the 120 selected works has been translated in the most concise way possible into words and sentences.
editing and text advice: Kathrin Wolkowicz / Dick van Teylingen
translation into English: Simon Benson

2  moving and writing in texts by others
with contributions by: Marcus Bergner  Hannes Böhringer  Florian Cramer  Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen  Nell Donkers  Tim Etchells  Ger Groot  Geert Koevoets Thomas Körtvelyessy  Dom H. van der Laan  Dick Raaijmakers  Jan Laurens Siesling  Sandra Smets  Hans Stevens  ieke Trinks  Samuel Vriezen  Ciel Werts - Emilie Gallier
editorial advice: Kathrin Wolkowicz
translations: Simon Benson, Maaike Trimbach, Samuel Vriezen, Helen Adkins, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei 

graphic design: Koos Siep
published in-house with Suburban Foundation
Edition: 2 x 250 copies
Number of pages: 192
print: Drukkerij GB 't Hooft Rotterdam
moving - writing appears in a Dutch and English edition
financial support: Jaap Hartenfonds Fd. Volkskracht Fd. and individual sponsors
ISBN: English edition 9789083003849   Dutch edition 9789083003832
price 25 € + postage (In the Netherlands 4,40 € international 9 €)

Distribution and retail: Walgenbach Art & Books, Tent, Underbelly, Bosch & De Jong and Books@rib in Rotterdam, Boekie woekie, San Serriffe, Perdu en Johan Deumens in Amsterdam,  Page Not Found in Den Haag, LADA (Live Art Department Agency) in London, Rile in Brussels
The book can also be ordered by sending an email to toine@toinehorvers.nl
Payment via bank or Paypal
For general information about my books see: www.toinehorvers.nl/works/writings - editions

Below are some examples of descriptions of 120 of my performance-works:

I move in a steady tempo with small sideways jumps back and forth between the two ends of the space, accompanied by the sounds of my breathing and the pounding of my feet on the floor.

after Wall 1 1985

Standing wide-legged at the corners of the square we each hold a long steel plate upright with both hands. The plates extend to the middle of the square.
Our hands are at chest level on the upper edge of the plates.
The weight of the plates allows our hands to make only small movements

Balance 3 1983

I place the stone, on which I have marked the four wind directions, in the hands of inhabitants of the rock island and ask them to give an oral description of its shape, relief, colour gradation and surface structure.

Limestone 2003

Being tightly connected to the top of the tree, I am moved by the tree that is moved by the wind.

Balance 6 1985

I rotate slowly on my axis, calling out the names of the four wind directions at the moment I pass them.
During following rotations I gradually lengthen the vowels of the words while raising the tone of my voice and at the same time lowering its strength.
I rotate on my axis in silence.

Rotation 1 2015

I walk with a varying pace in different directions while calling out the word wind in various languages.

Wind 2019

At a distance from each other, we are scattered among the visitors of the event.
One of us writes, and at the same time speaks, the first sentence of my text about the movements of the clouds.
One by one we all start writing and pronouncing the same text at a writing pace.
Independantly of each other we repeatedly write/speak the text.
One by one our voices fall silent.

Movements of clouds 2022 Literature festival Night of Words Rotterdam

 

year	2020
photography	Koos Siep