Inge Hoonte
writer, sound and performance artist
Based in Rotterdam, NL
ihoonte at gmail dot com
Inge Hoonte (1979, NL) works across writing, performance, video, sound and public projects, to orchestrate and document how privacy, identity, and behavioral routines shape the tension between reaching out and keeping one's distance in interpersonal communication and physicality. She has an MA in Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her writing has been featured by Mute Magazine, Requited Journal, Curbside Quotidian, Armchair/Shotgun, Polvo Magazine, and Meeting at the Crossroads Conference. The artist book A Voyage of Discovery has been acquired by the National Library in Dublin, Ireland, and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous projects were hosted by National Public Radio, Neighborhood Public Radio at the Whitney Biennial, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn/NYC; Columbia College A+D Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; labotanica, Houston; 321 Colton School, New Orleans; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Toronto Free Gallery; aceartinc, Winnipeg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; OCW, Suburban, TENT, Rotterdam; Artefact, Leuven, Belgium; UpStage and EyesEverywhere (online).
She was a guest lecturer and visiting critic at the Cleveland Institute of Art, assisted in public programs at the Center for Architecture in NYC, and has taught workshops through MagicBox Productions, NYC, ArtCity Winnipeg, Canada, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Academy for Architecture, Amsterdam. As a curator and project organizer, she has worked with Suburban PS, Noordkaap, V2_ and SingerSweatShop.
As a copy writer and translator her clients include Piet Zwart Institute, Suburban PS, Gallery MAMA, Impakt Festival, Bolidt, Connexys, JanseJanse Landscape Architecture, Conform Real Estate, and Bureau Venhuizen, office for culture-based planning.