In his art, Mike Ottink researches our perception 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 Ottink's 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 his strive to push the limits of our perception, Ottink makes his own drawing and painting tools. In cooperation with Brian McKenna, he’s creating an 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.