Nok And T Art

Dutch female artists duo Theme Bannenberg & Nok Snel are adventurers down to the bone. Where ever they roam the direct environment is the set for inspiration. The concept of T&NOK is opposite and splitting images. Confrontation is their drive. The result is paintings, objects, installations, photography and since 2008 also videos.

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Dutch artists Nok Snel and Theme Bannenberg create photographs, videos and quirky installations. The Luckkey Lounge is part of an installation entitled NO KEY NO KOMMUNIKATION! - a room made almost entirely of computer keys and office supplies. It seems important to Nok and T that the viewer always has a sense of their entire practice. In each project the artwork becomes documentation, or the documentation becomes artwork.

Nok and T's art has a punk or 1970's LA vibe. The couple make video from the documentation of their real life urban adventures and banal details observed on the road. Their videos and photographs become coherent in the context of their practice rather than as individual pieces. In the video series Pole Express three pole-type objects are filmed on different dates at different locations. It feels as though the art has been made to amuse the artists themselves as the...