First we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us
As live visual performers, we bring our tools, which are basically just a set of rules, a method which enables us to work live. (…) for me live a visual performance does not necessarily refer to video, so even when I find myself welding sculptures. For me, it feels all the same: Creating content, content to work with, live.
About
Visual artist
As a live visual performer Frouke approaches her set (her visuals and devices) as a musician approaches his instrument. She works with light to create installations and sculptures. The creates musical shapes and modular instalattions to make use of sculpture as a performative medium.
Her work has been shown at various galleries and Art festivals like Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Van Gogh Museum, Eye Film Institute, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, TodaysArt festival, Schemerlicht Festival, No Art Festival, Synergy, ADE-playground, en het international Rio mapping (Br), Fotonica (It), LPM-festival en art spaces zoals MU, Eindhoven, W139 Amsterdam, Schouwart Hengelo en Galerie Bart Nijmegen. And performed as VJ/Live AV at Amsterdam Dance Event, Lowlands, DTRH, Mystic Garden and Pinkpop among others.
Scenography and art direction
Ten Velden works as a (live) scenographer and art director for music, theater, and dance performances. Her work lies at the intersection of various artistic disciplines. Ten Velden has a background in the electronic music scene and collaborates with national and international composers, choreographers, and theater makers from diverse scenes. She maintains a sustainable partnership with ensemble FUSE, opera singer Tania Kross among othres, where she holds visual responsibility for live shows.
Besides her role as a maker and performer she annually provides masterclasses in performative installation and immersive theater at HkU Interactive Performance Design and Live Visual Performance and live visual perfomance & video-mapping at the Breitner Academy – Amsterdam school of Arts (AHK)
Frouke graduated at the Amsterdam Art Academy in 2009 and continued with a Bachelor in Art History and a Master degree Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam (in collaboration with Sandberg Institute)
