In his art, Mike Ottink researches our perceptions and experiences in a
playful way. Intuitively he works towards a visual language in which the
translation from one sensory discipline to another is central. His current
paintings developed from his graphical drawings of musical scores. The
paintings are autonomous artworks relating to his ‘ephemeral’
installations and performances of sound and moving imagery. They are
an alternative to sound pictures or video recordings that in Ottinks
opinion, corrupt the moment of performance.
His work resonates with the ideas of David Bohm about ‘Quantum
coherence’: “We live within a holistic medium in which everything coexists.
The so-called ‘Implicate order’”. In striving to push the limits of our
perception, Ottink makes his own drawing and painting tools. In
cooperation with Brian McKenna he’s creating his own set of instruments
to make audiovisual performances and installations (VHSUHF). He
searches for a way to make ecstasy experienceable so as to express
the invisible and inaudible.