Janneke Janssen

The residency project of the artist Matt Mullican - Work in residence - opened in a specially designed projectspace in the St. Nicolaasstraat 2, Maastricht. At the invitation of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Edmond Hustinx foundation and Hedah Mullican provided a year of several presentations, with his performances under hypnosis act as a starting point. Matt Mullican made his first performance under hypnosis in 1981 at The Kitchen in New York. Since then numerous performances followed under hypnosis, throughout the world, most of which are also on video recorded. My project within Work in residence included the collection of the videos and the inventory of all the ‘gestures’ Mullican made from second to second - sing, sleep, drink, paint ... - during the performances (29). On the basis of these various parameters a compilation of videos was created (for every gesture one), which are exhibit in several shows of Mullican. Specifications: Mediaplayer 3TB ± 60 hours, 29 compilations