How intensely can you experience colour? Colour as a phenomenon which you donÂ’t just see, but which totally absorbsÂ… Spectrum is a spatial installation that makes colour tactile and tangible. Fall backwards into a black hole and reawaken in an infinite spectrum. An immersive experience which will give you a whole new perspective on the… Continue reading spectrum
field academy almere
Cocky Eek has previously hosted fieldwork programs for StrandLAB Almere with, among others, students of the Academy of Architecture (dep. landscape architecture with Thijs de Zeeuw) and the Rietveld Academy (dep. Jewellery Linking Bodies with Sonja Baumel) and the Artsciene Interfaculty. The summer sessions of the Field Academy is an open invitation for everybody who… Continue reading field academy almere
workshops
since 2009 Cocky Eek has been a staff-member and teacher at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Royal Arts Academy of The Hague (BA/MA), NL Besides this position she has been given workshops and teached at/for: Slow Research Lab , Tiznit-Morocco, HKU departments Fashion, Theatre Design and Scenography [MA], Academy for Theatre and… Continue reading workshops
manlifting kite
The Manlifting Kite // performance Cocky Eek has been hoisted in the air wearing a manageable 60-foot long dress and being hold up by 6 Conyne kites, made by Patrick de Koning. The kite itself is anchored by a small truck.The wind dictates among the hight and the duration of the flight. The dress likes… Continue reading manlifting kite
curve
CURVE // is an rite of passage, where light, space and sound melt together. Sucked in a tunnel, absorbed by its ganzfeld and on the cadence of ones own walking, the outside world goes adrift. Recent years Eek explored inflatable structures on an architectural scale, in which she discovered the enormous potential of the physical… Continue reading curve
sensing the shipyard
SONIC ACTS Academy 23.02 -25.-2 2018 Sensing the Shipyard was a student research project at Damen Shiprepair. Artist Cocky Eek, with several tutors, led this collaboration between ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK) and Sonic Acts Academy. The students were invited to think about different possibilities for sensing a place and to create maps based on their cognition… Continue reading sensing the shipyard
sensing the shipyard
SONIC ACTS Academy 23.02 -25.-2 2018 Sensing the Shipyard was a student research project at Damen Shiprepair. Artist Cocky Eek, with several tutors, led this collaboration between ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK) and Sonic Acts Academy. The students were invited to think about different possibilities for sensing a place and to create maps based on their cognition… Continue reading sensing the shipyard
tactile research lab
Eek led the Tactile Research Lab from 2009 till 2015 at the ArtScience Interfaculty (NL) The lab deals with all sorts of physical and lightweight structures. With a focus on topics as: manufactured and edible landscapes, wearables, lightweight structures and bio-grown matters. The aim is to find your own way in all of these processes… Continue reading tactile research lab
blaas
BLAAS In 2013 Cocky Eek created together with Boukje Schweigman, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Jochem van Tol the timeless piece BLAAS, which is still on the roll and called by the audience and press as wonderous, dazzling and life-affirming. Blaas is a production of Schweigman& credits // concept Boukje Schweigman, Cocky Eek en Ibelisse Guardia… Continue reading blaas
blobs
‘In space, man is small. In cell-space man is all’ Symbiont // 2008, Rotterdam, NLBeing emerged in white space, with no beginning and no end, with no point to focus on. Creating space out of space, vacuum, being lost in a space, where does rigidity stops and wobbliness starts, inside out, listen and stick your… Continue reading blobs