Exhibition of JULIACKS at Ornis A Gallery, March 4 - April 8, 2017Interiors are ripped out of their context in the flow of a narrative, out of their history and wovenanew. Juliacks creates a series of tapestries intersecting archival material on the Netherland'sfirst correctional facilities, and the first documented prison uprising in Haarlem, in 1613 as a point ofdeparture in the hallucination of alternative futures.Is the inside visiblewhen authority is defiedand losing is inevitableor is itthat the spacesthe conditions that forcethe situations that inspire people to uniteare embodiedJudicial Records of Haarlem (Noord-Hollands Archief) inv. nr. 66.2, fo. 224, 224vo and 225 January 18 1613Verdicts of Pieter Jacobsz "Goeluck", Arijs Janss, Barthelmees Corneliss and Pieter Jacobsz ofDelft, corrected at the workhouse.All four, having been forced to weave and work at the House of Corrections because they wereliving an unruly and [bad3] life for an unlimited time until they would find better-ness...have nowbeen apprehended as last Friday on the eleventh of this month of January they appeared verymaliciously; to be precise: first the aforementioned "Goeluck" had hit a father of the workhousewith a stick on his head..."INT. TUCHTHUIS (HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS) - JAIL CELL - 1613- NIGHTINT. TUCHTHUIS (HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS) - HALLWAYS - 1613 - NIGHTINT. TUCHTHUIS (HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS) - BLEACHING PISS YARD 1613 - DAYINT. TUCHTHUIS (HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS) - WEAVING YARD 1613 - DAYINT. TUCHTHUIS (HOUSE OF CORRECTIONS) - WOOD-RASPING YARD 1613 - DAYEXT. "DUTCH" MEZOZOIC WAREHOUSE - 66 MILLION YEARS AHEAD -NIGHTThese four, being the principal actors and troublemakers, made a great scene with the smashingof locks [cramp-irons] with which they liberated the other prisoners who had been separated fromthem. With joint forces and all together, they dragged weaving looms from their places and builtbulwarks with them in front of the door, to block the entrance of the place in which they were. Andthus, preparing tools for themselves to resist the authorities of the lords of justice trying to touchthem, to compel them to obedience. Furthermore they were yelling and shouting like mischievousrascals that they would not give up nor give in until their last man standing would have fallen, andthey were performing many other obscenities without any sense of respect, so that eventually theyhad to be tackled with violence to bring them to obedience.The above text shows a translated excerpt from an entry in the 1609-1613 North Holland CriminalRegistry combined with scene headings from a screenplay that Juliacks is writing. Within theprocess of the film production is this series of 5 tapestries, which Juliacks designed and fabricatedwith the TextielLab at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg. The tapestries are interiors of the film andrelate to the project as the historical story of Jan Gillisz - said to have been the first prisoner ofHaarlem- and the uprising in an early Dutch 'tuchthuis.' Closely entwined with a booming textileindustry. Here, serious criminals of the 17th century were forced into labor for the production ofpigment in the Rasphuis, others were weaving textiles.This project is supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and Haarlemse Lente, festival of contemporaryart (March 24-26) where a subsequent part to this project will be presented. This work was made by Lars Berg of Motion Identiy. All works are (c) juliacksCast: Juliacks
