A publication visualizing the embodiment of fear & love and pain & pleasure.This book tells the story of the female and the beauty of a multilayered identity. With this project we like to inspire you to discover the aesthetics of imperfection, and show how amazing it is to live your own empire.
We want to give you the chance to support our work by becoming one of the 80 Queendom Benefactors and receive a numbered Queendom art book. At the day of the Booklaunch, you will receive your personal copy. This limited edition will include 80 pages with a lot of full colour images and several texts and comments. Every single copy will have a cover with handmade patches of beatgold.
Concept and Design Jonmar van Vlijmen (NL)
With the Artwork by Katharina D. Martin (D)
Including texts by
Dr. Marta Zarzycka (PL)
Assistant Professor for Genderstudies
Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko (PL)
Philosophic Writer
Marina Abramovic (SERB)
Performance Artist
Including 2 exclusviv for
Queendom made illustrations by
Han Hoogerbrugge
www.Hoogerbrugge.com
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Divas In Control
are the Artist and Designer Jonmar van Vlijmen
and the Performance and Video Artist Katharina D. Martin.
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JONMAR VAN VLIJMEN
IDENTITY = COMPLEXITY = WEALTH
Knowing your identity is currently becoming more and more important Identity is being expressed in uniform codes, so it has become effortless creating and expanding your own identity. Identity seems to be an cumulation of applications, that can coexist in several different worlds. Uniqueness is lost and makes place for uniformness.
This transformation is my motive for a ‘re-tooling’ of the practice of a visual artist.
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KATHARINA D. MARTIN
My life and the Philosophy are the source of my inspiration. I feel like Narziß and Goldmund in the Novel from Herman Hesse or like Nietzesche’s Apollonian and Dionysian.
There is the wildness and passion which I feel. There is this need to be risky and the restlessness which drives me repeatedly in new Experiences of pain but also pleasure. After these intense moments which could always become my “Untergang” (“my going down”) I look for possible ways to learn.
These both sides the Logos and the Eros I want to fusion. Sometimes it feels like a battle. This fragile balance of the Dionysian and Apollonian is taking place in my art. I do not separate them and allow them to coexist in my work.
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