I am a dutch contemporary artist/researcher/listener based in Kampen/Zwolle in the Netherlands.  I work in a variety of media, from walks to maps, from photography to video, audio to compositions, from drawings to texts, from performances to installations.  I am involved in the world of sounds & deep listening. My artworks have often a social critical layer that is performed in a poetic way.  My work area consists The Human and Non-Human World, Local Natural Places, The Urban City and The Human Personal Environment. Underlying themes are the relation between The Makeable World, Space, Place, Language, Stillness, Identity en personal experiences.. As part of my work I quote or use phrases of poets, philosophers and writers in the fields of philosophy, geography, architecture, anthropology, science, spiritual ecology, mindfulness, the Wisdom of Silence and the Knowledge of Traditional Wisdoms. 

I studied Fine Arts at Minerva Academy Groningen, The PhotoAcademy Amsterdam & the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. I organize Listening Walks en Listening Workshops. My atelier is based  in (Co Zwolle) &  outside in nature/city. 

Het Kunstwerk 'Echoes of a Childhood" is een betoverende en intrigerende verbeelding van herinneringen en emoties uit het verleden. De titel alleen al roept een gevoel van nostalgie en reflectie op, en het kunstwerk doet recht aan deze belofte. De kunstenaar heeft op meesterlijke wijze verschillende elementen samengebracht om een diepgaande en evocatieve sfeer te creëren. De kleurenspel en de textuurkeuze zijn opvallend en zorgen voor een gevoel van gelaagdheid in de emoties die het kunstwerk oproept. De gebruikte techniek wekt de indruk van beweging en fluïditeit, waardoor de kijker wordt meegenomen op een reis door de tijd, terug naar die vervlogen kinderjaren. De subtiliteit van de compositie draagt bij aan de kracht van het werk. Het nodigt uit tot introspectie en brengt een gevoel van herkenning teweeg, zelfs bij degenen die het specifieke verhaal achter het werk niet kennen. De zorgvuldig geplaatste details lijken een universele taal te spreken, waardoor eenieder zijn eigen interpretatie kan vinden en een persoonlijke connectie kan maken.'Echoes of a Childhood' is niet alleen visueel prachtig, maar het roept ook een diepgaande emotionele resonantie op. Het is een meesterwerk dat erin slaagt om complexe gevoelens en herinneringen op een kunstzinnige manier te vangen en te presenteren. Dit werk verdient bewondering voor de manier waarop het een brug slaat tussen het verleden en het heden, en voor zijn vermogen om universele emoties op te roepen die resoneren bij het publiek.

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• Winner: IPA Honerable Mention Professional: Fine Art, Other_FA: Series 'A Perfect World' Zuidas Amsterdam 2017 
• Series: "A Perfect World". ‘Young, ambitious, and continuously looking for positive incentives. Routines are a bore and no day is the same. That’s why you choose to here, a unique hotspot. This is where life really begins.’ These texts give information about the new construction projects in the business district Zuidas-Amsterdam. The photos are made at the edge of the building site. The tarpaulin shows the artist impressions of the newly built apartments. These photos are images of ‘real’ people who are ‘living’ in a computer 3D impression. What is a dream and what is a reality? Is it possible to create a perfect world? 

'ik heb negen tv's"

"en vier waterkokers"

"10 koffieapparaat"

"en 2 magnetrons"

"ik heb nu 2 in de keuken"

"op dezelfde zender soms"

"naar het journaal"

"ik heb ook video's en dvd's

"heb ik allemaal"

"video en grammofoonplaten"

"en ik heb ook allemaal lp's, heb ik ook nog, wat jij zegt"

"weet je wat een nadeel is" 

" ze zeggen steeds van hier"

"je moet een meisje je van eigen leeftijd zoeken"

"maar dat lukt nooit"

"maar ik vind het niet gezellig"

"dan lig ik thuis om 7 uur altijd op bed"

'en dan is het zo moeilijk met mijn zusters, ik heb drie zusters"

de ene zus woont in Frankrijk, M. woont in H."

"dat mijn ouders overleden is"

"de kinderen van M. zegt, dat ze het niet een beetje eens zijn"

"omdat het huis van mijn vader en moeder te verkopen"

"mijn vader en moeder hebben zelf een huis gebouwd" op T.

"mijn moeder was 5 oktober 90 geworden"

"en toen na de kerst was zij overleden"

'ja"

"en toen papa na de kerst"

"verleden jaar"

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"distance" amsterdam 2016

publication Peer Paper Platform Amsterdam

text: Part of a Conversation/ boy / annemarie cilon

Ik bouw een muur om mijn huis

Ik laat er veel ruimte tussen

Als mijn nieuwe muur klaar is

Maak ik van mijn oude huis

Een Binnentuin

Text: Annemarie Cilon/Groningen 2002

the narrow road to the deep north

In 2014 I walked a part of the journey of Matsuo Basho 'Oku no Hosomichi' or Narrow Roads to the deep North. I put the lines of the original route of Basho on the map of Noord-Holland The Netherlands. 

This walking tour is an unfinished project. I walked in different stages from my residence in Amsterdam to the area of Hoorn. 

Basho was a Japanese poet and he lived from  1644-1694. He walked this journey from 1689-1691 from Edo to Hiraizumi (Island Honshu) and back through the Western side of the island  to Edo (Tokyo). The distance of this journey was 2400 km. 

In 2025 I will walk from Kampen to the north of the Netherlands on the lines of Basho's journey. On some stages of this walk I will invite artists for a walk & talk.The collection of these walks & talks I will collect in a publication. I will also add texts, maps, photo's and drawings. 

"Why Worry When The River is so Close' is a Long-Term project of Annemarie Cilon.

It is a personal journey to connect with the river The IJssel and her direct surroundings close to my home-place. With this project I also want to explore the values of Rivers in general. "Why Worry When the River is so close" is a translated expression from the traditional Yugambeh/Ugarapul language (Australia). In the traditional language the phrase is: "Minyahgu buyma balun bundagahl". This expression means:"The Rivers are all we need" or "Better than no water'. (Information from a staff member of the Yugambeh Museum Australia). In the mixed language Pidgin (English/Yugambeh) is the phrase: "Why Buyma when Balun close"." "Indigenous people understand water to be the sacred essence of life. All bodies of water are interconnected - rivers are the veins of the planet, drawing together different communities and ecosystems. Rivers, like all bodies of water, are living entities, and as such, are subjects rather than objects". (Quote From"The River as a Common Good:" Carolina Caycedo's Cosmotarrayas / ICA Boston 2020

"Clouds Clouds (...) We Knew Nothing" is made in Amsterdam by Annemarie Cilon in The Netherlands in 2011. 
The camera work is taken from inside my studio in Amsterdam-West in one shot from a static position, the moving parts of the film are the clouds, the smoke, the birds and the moving trees in the wind in an urban landscape. The sound is recorded (stereo) separately close near the coal-fired power station. (space/time). The smoke clouds are made by the coal-fired power station in Amsterdam (The Hemweg Centrale). The Hemwegcentrale is closed now since the end of december in 2019. The quote in the film told by a male voice is from the novel "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, written in 1719. The text is an excerpt from page 47: (..) We knew nothing where we were, or what country were we driven to, be it an island or the main road, inhabited or uninhabited (..) The film is made from a visionary view of the landscape that has changed over time. And not knowing where we have ended up in this world. Clouds are formed now by smoke, we can no longer tell the difference. The film touches on subjects such as 'the makeable world, time, change, industrialization, the ignorance of humans and the preservation of nature. The film was part of the september 2021 screening series at Acinema Milwaukee, Wisconsin VS. The Film; 'Clouds Clouds (...) We Knew Nothing' from 2011 is part of the september 2021 screening series 'A Broken Mirror Still Reflects" (season 6) at aCinema Milwaukee, Wisconsin  VS. aCinema is a monthly exhibition dedicated to the screening of works od moving image artists from around the globe. aCinema is a collaborative curatorial effort by Janelle VanderKelen and Takahiro Suzuki. It also was part of the Woodland Patter's 24 hour poetry marathon (Milwaukee VS) 29+30 january 2022. Youtube Woodlandpattern. 06:50:26 | 515 pm-6 pm: GENRE: URBAN ARTS (CURATED BY NAKEYSHA ROBERTS WASHINGTON)—Fatima Laster, Aysheh Manaei, Lyn Patterson, Shaunteri Skinner, Justin Johnson, Gwendalynn Roebke, Samihah Pargas, & Nakeysha Roberts Washington + FILM: Clouds Clouds [...] We Knew Nothing by Annemarie Cilon. Sponsored by Colectivo Coffee

THE MARS TRILOGY is a videowork about questioning Mars in relation to planet Earth. In february 2021 the NASA's Perseverance Rover landed on Red Mars. The Rover is monitoring environmental conditions to understand better how to protect future human explorers. In the 10 month since, the car-size rover has driven 1.8 miles (2.9 km), taken more than 100.000 images, and collected six samples of Martian rock and atmosphere that could eventually be brought to Earth for further study. In Wageningen University, the Netherlands, researchers plants tomatoes on Mars-like soil. is it possible to survive on Mars in the future? Can we see with clearly eyes what nature we (still) have on Earth and how special nature is on Earth? Can we protect our forests? Or is Mars our escape? Or can we plugged back in on planet Earth? 

The Mars trilogy is also a series of science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. The triology follows the colonization of Mars and later The entiteit solar system, complete with the technological, moral, social and politica evolution that accompanies it, spanning 200 years of future history. Red Mars: For centuries, the barren, desolate landschap of the red planet had beckoned to humankind. The three novels are: Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996). 

Annemarie Cilon March/December 2021

Sound used in The Mars Trilogy:

1. CNN female voice about Mars landing february 2021

2. CNN female voice about the hurricane in the Philippines february 2021

2. CNN man voice NASA february 2021

3. Song 'Plugged in' by Repeat Repeat,

4. Parts of Phanthom Pulse (album Secret Forest 2012) by Dai Fujikura.

5. Text Holzwege told by the Computer Voice of Google Translate in German & English.

6. Composition 'Numbers/Money' by Annemarie Cilon.

Images used in The Mars Trilogy:

1. Image made by Mars Perseverance Rover

2. Images of Mars (real and fake)

3. "Woodcutter in the Forest" Painting by Seker Ahmet Pasa (1841-1904)

4. Drawings by Annemarie Cilon (on IPAD)

5. Picture of the murdered indigenous Forestkeeper Paulo Paulino Guajajara (Kwahu Tenetehar) by illegal loggers/ Araiboia Reserve/Elmundo.es

6. Picture of deforestation Brazil Sao Paulo/july 2020/France24.com

7. Picture of ilegal logging of a tree in the Brazilian Amazon /Elmundo.es 02/11/2019

8. Plants Research Lab University Wageningen The Netherlands

9. Forestkeepers in Vietnam for 20 years: Njuen Manh & Ro Mah Kem/ Photo: Tienphong 2017

10.The Jungle, Vaupes 2020. Luis Angel defender of the Colombian Amazon / Opendemocracy.net

11.Picture "Father of the forest" /Andrew P.Hill/ Giant Sequoia/ Big Basin State Park VS 1900-1922/Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

12.Picture "Uncut forest lands, Big Basin" VS /Andrew P.Hill / Giant Sequoia /1900-1922 /Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

13.Picture Jet Propulson laboratory/ NASA Mission Control VS /February 2021

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