Geurts ‘expanded drawing practice’ examines the relationship between perceptory experience and forces in the natural and constructed world. Site-specific research in the form of works on paper, expands to become installation, video, land-art, kinetic sculpture, light works, photography, living-monochromes and sound works, often accentuating conceptual and time-based processes.

Geurts' practice is informed by, and contributes to, the paradigm of psychogeography, engaging with the relationship between the physical world and the human experience of space and time. By intervening in and amplifying this relationship, he creates a view of the environment and the human as two interdependent circulatory systems. A sense of circulation comes through methodologically in the way that he interrelates: land/water mass and the human body; systems of thought/value and organic patterns/cycles. Circulation is reflected aesthetically in the sense of mutability, shifting alignment and resonance that characterizes his work.

“Through stressing flux and the movement between external objects and subject positions, art may open up space in both the individual and cultural experience. Geurts’ exploration of the relationship between bodies, forms of representation and systems, configures such spaces, offering other ways of encountering and being.”

Recent projects include: 2011 Drawing: Subterranean, GEMAK Holland; Drawing: Amplitude, DCR Holland ; Drawing: on Thresholds, CCA Israel; Vanishing Point: Drawing Appearance, Nadine, Brussels ; 2010 Drawing Horizon, Satellietgroep, Holland ; Drawing Field Transmissions, Drawing Out, Federation Square, RMIT University, University of the Arts London 2010; Drawing Tectonic, Italy 2010; Data Ecologies, Foton collaboration, FoAM, Brussels 2009; Drawing Tide #06, Open Art International Art Festival, Beijing, China 2009; Drawing Field #02, La Chambre Blanche In-situ Artist residency 2009, Quebec; 90 Degrees Equatorial Project, four points, equally spaced 90 degrees apart on the equator, six hours apart, Sumatra, Gabon, Ecuador, Kirribatti (Pacific), The Alternative Space and Beyond, ARTspace, New Media, CAA Los Angeles 2009; Art and Cartography International Symposium, Vienna 2008, Experimental Art Foundation 2007.

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