Be My Guest. I Prefer To Keep The Door Closed.

’Where is the frame to be found? Is it in our eyes? Is it part of the artwork? Inside or outside of it? Is it the wall? Where is our personal frame? Where do you stop to be you? Where does your private space becomes public?’ - Jannah Loontjens Three poets were invited by Freek Lomme, director and chief curator of Onomatopee, to invite an artist, curate the show, choose a graphic designer, take over PR and edit a book. First of all to unveil the poetic momentum within an individual artistic practice, for we may suppose poets are better at revealing this as pr-employees or curators. Second for we have to reise the hetronomy in the arts: the changing roles, expectations and blurring responsabilities in the arts. Finaly, for the worth of ’autonomous visual capacities’ and ’inherent value of art’ is still spread by its literal words. Many put it forth bluntly, like the city of Eindhoven who targets their artistic policy as of ’inherent value’ or the province art’s policy claiming ’autonomous visual capacities of art’ to be essential in their judgement. They are, evidentlkey, cherishing the sentiments attached or the aura it provides. #1: Poet Jannah Loontjens, artist Aam Solleveld & graphic designer Katja van Stiphout #2: Poet Erik Spinoy, artist Tamara Van San & graphic designer Remco van Bladel #3: Poet Maria Barnas, artist Amalia Pica & graphic designer Felix Weigand Meanwhile, the exact parameters of this notion, effectively the poetic momentum, has hardly been tested. Nor have these parameters’ politics been shared in-depth with the audience of art. Onomatopee believes that we need to reason with the voices of our visual culture, and considers creative practices to be design practices, since they revolve around motives and means.