Rechthoekige toelichting: My grandfather's workshop with vacuum cleaner installation.

Rechthoekige toelichting: The book, Work inprogress, 2007-2009 photography I am working on a book that contains a series of still lives. The lay out of these tableaux is determined by an underlying logic that the viewer is subconsciously triggered to discern.

Rechthoekige toelichting: Casco Issues X, 'The Great Method' 2007, book cover, study for IQ series.

Rechthoekige toelichting: A B C D, 2003, installation with my grandfather, Theodor Mucker Consortium, Amsterdam

Rechthoekige toelichting: Network, Teamwork, 2002, photography ‘Network: Swiss Design 2002’ Sociograms and other presentations. • Red: Which 3 kids would you invite to your birthday party? • Blue: Whose house have you already been into? • White: Who do you know least well ?

Rechthoekige toelichting: Aufräumen: Parkplatz, 2000, photography at Akzo Nobel, Sassenheim One morning, all incoming cars of a factory got directed to park according to colour. I had organized an army of colour-coordinators to guide them.

Rechthoekige toelichting: Ordinator, 2003, game,75 min with Eva Meyer Keller Digiart Festival, Århus, DK Within a spatial representation of a computer desktop, audience members are appointed to different tasks, that correspond to functions of an operating system. The audience is creating an operating environment that files and structures information...

Rechthoekige toelichting: Vocabulary, 2005, installation. Ellen de Bruijne projects, Amsterdam This installation consists of tableaus of strictly arranged clusters of objects. Each object corresponds to a word. The clusters are displayed as still lifes, waiting to be photographed. The collections appear to be placed in an order according to a predetermined continuous logic. However, at closer inspection irrational storylines begin to emerge, until the initial recognizable order system is no longer tangible.

Rechthoekige toelichting: Aufräumen: Schreibtisch, 2000, photography

Rechthoekige toelichting: Aufräumen: Turnhalle, 2000, photography During a class of physical education at an elementary school I instructed the students to arrange all the sports equipment under a number of parameters.

Rechthoekige toelichting: Aufräumen: Kreuzung, 2000, photography

Rechthoekige toelichting: Network, Teamwork, 2002, photography ‘Network: Swiss Design 2002’ Schoolyard mandala

Rechthoekige toelichting: My grandfather's elaborated technique to cover rusty pipes - with gaffer tape.

Rechthoekige toelichting: Aufräumen: Sieben Sachen, 2000, A slide show in which I keep rearranging items from my kitchendrawer. Changing combinations of seven items are placed on the table and photographed.

Tekstvak: Die liebste und intensivste Beschäftigung des Kindes ist das Spiel. Vielleicht dürften wir sagen: Jedes spielende Kind benimmt sich wie ein Dichter, in dem es sich eine eigene Welt erschafft, oder, richtiger gesagt, die Dinge seiner Welt in eine neue, ihm gefällige Ordnung versetzt.” Sigmund Freud: ‘ Dichter und das Phantasieren’

Tekstvak: War jetz' des gestern oder im 3. Stock? Karl Valentin

Tekstvak: Intentionality: (1) the fact, that words, sentences, and other ‘representations’ have meaning; (2) the fact that representations may refer to (i.e., be true of) some actually existing thing or each of a number of actually existing things: (3) the fact that representations may be about something which does not exist, (4) and the fact that a state of mind may have a ‘state of affairs’ as it’s object’. Hilary Putnam: ‘Repräsentation und Realität’

Tekstvak: A certain Chinese Encyclopedia by Borges Animals are divided into: (a) those that belong to the Emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) sucking pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray dogs; (h) those that are included in this classification; (i) those that tremble as if they were mad; (j) innumerable ones; (k) those drawn with a very fine camel’s hair brush; (l) et cetera; (m) those that have just broken the flower vase; (n) those that at distance resemble flies. Jorge Luis Borges

Tekstvak: “The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers. They walk in a fragmented trance, stop and go, clusters of well-dressed figures frozen in the aisles, trying to figure out the pattern, discern the underlying logic, trying to remember where they’d seen the Cream of Wheat. They see no reason for it, find no sense in it.” Don de Lillo; ‘White Noise’

Rechthoekige toelichting: Close to the edge, 2004, performance, 10mins with Zhana Ivanova “Close to the Edge’’ with its consequent order resembles the form of a break-dance duel. Each of us attempts to build a tower out of ordinary objects, the aim being to outdo the other..

Rechthoekige toelichting: Shadow play, 2005, performance, 15mins, with Zhana Ivanova In what looks like an unusual chess game, stories are begun and left unfinished. Objects are set on a table and accumulate into a predestined pattern. Things seem a little different though, with the lights off...

Rechthoekige toelichting: Hello Stranger, 2005, tour, 75 min, with Zhana Ivanova for Close Connections, Ellen de Bruijne Projects An invited foreign audience is intercepted on their way to the gallery. After a jolted busride the passengers are dropped in town one after the other, and are lead to mysterious destinations.

Rechthoekige toelichting: I collaborated in the dance piece 'Faceless' by Keren Levi and Tammuz Binthstock, 2006, as a photographer. The piece is about how the presence of a photographer disturbs or: alters a choreography. Photograph from a rehearsals session together with Rebecca Sakoun

Rechthoekige toelichting: Lepidoptera domestica, 2007 photography for a book by Manon van Kouswijk about her collection of 683 butterflies - all sawn out of domestic objects

Rechthoekige toelichting: Boeken voor boeken, 2005 Commissioned work for 'de telefoongids'

Tekstvak: Es kam ihm vor als hätte ihn ein Stemmeisen von dem, was er sah, abgestemmt, oder als seien vielmehr die Gegenstände ringsherum von ihm abgehoben worden. Der Schrank, das Waschbecken, die Reisetasche, die Tür: erst jezt fiel ihm auf, daß er, wie in einem Zwang, zu jedem Gegenstand das Wort dazudachte. Jedem Angesichtigwerden eines Gegenstands folgte sofort das Wort nach. Der Stuhl, die Kleiderbügel, der Schlüssel. Es war früher so still geworden, daß keine Geräusche mehr ihn ablenken konnten, und weil es einerseits so hell war, daß er die Gegenstände ringsherum sah, und andererseits so still, daß keine Geräusche ihn davon ablenken konnten, hatte er die Gegenstände so gesehen, als ob sie gleichzeitig Reklame für sich selber seien. Peter Handke: 'Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter'

Rechthoekige toelichting: 'On winning on losing', 2008 Another collaboration with the British school: a dictionary on winning and losing.. Comes with a cross word puzzle..

Rechthoekige toelichting: Utopian Stadionplein, 2008, As a contribution for a magazine about the development of Amsterdam Zuid, I invited two classes of British School to develop a plan for a future Stadionplein - and build a model for it.. "First I didn't think it was so big but it was humongeous - we could build a really good cheesemountain there"

Tekstvak: Akira Haraguchi, 59, mental health couselor, has set the current record for memorizing and reciting the digits of Pi. The Japanese recited 83 431 digits of Pi. He had started on Friday and finished on Saturday morning. Despite Haraguchi's efforts and detailed documentation, the Guinness World Records have not yet accepted any of his records set, and accredit instead the record to another Japanese man, Hiroyuki Goto, who managed to recite Pi by 42,195 decimal places in 1995.

Tekstvak: “Wenn ich sage 'Alice wächst', will ich sagen, daß sie größer wird als sie war. Doch eben dadurch wird sie auch kleiner, als sie jetzt ist...Man wird jedoch zur gleichen Zeit mit einem Schlag größer als man war und macht sich kleiner, als man wird. Darin besteht die Gleichzeitigkeit eines Werdens, dessen Eigenheit es ist, sich dem Gegenwärtigen zu entziehen. Insofern es sich dem Gegenwärtigen entzieht, verträgt dieses Werden weder die Trennung noch die Unterscheidung von Vorher und Nachher, von Vergangenem und Künftigem. Es gehört vielmehr zum Wesen des Werdens, in beide Richtungen gleichzeitig zu verlaufen, zu streben: Alice wächst nicht, ohne zu schrumpfen und umgekehrt. Der gesunde Menschenverstand besteht in der Behauptung, daß es in allem eine genau bestimmbaren Sinn gibt; das Paradoxon jedoch besteht in der Bejahung zweier Richtungen, zweier Sinnprägungen zugleich.” Gilles Deleuze; ‘Logik des Sinns’

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Tekstvak: Chapters Titles: Halo Effect Illusory Correlation Misplaced Consistancy Mistaking the Cause The wrong Impression The wrong Connection Stuart Sutherland: ,Irrationality - the Enemy within'

Tekstvak: 'What is this?' I asked holding up a glove. 'May I examine it?' he asked, and, taking it from me, he proceeded to examine it as he had examined the geometrical shapes. 'A continuous surface,' he announced at last, 'infolded on itself. It appears to have'- he hesitated - 'five outpouchings if this is the word.' 'Yes,' I said cautiously..Now tell me what it is.' 'A container of some sort?...It could be a change purse, for example, for coins of five sizes. It could...' Oliver Sacks: ,The man who mistook his wife for a hat'

Tekstvak: "Inwieweit spiegelt die kognitive Entwicklung beim einzelnen Kind die Evolution der Symbolfunktionen wieder? Wenn wir davon ausgehen, daß die Symbolfunktionen in der Menschheitsgeschichte sehr spät auftraten, ist es verständlich, daß sie beim Neugeborenen und beim Säugling noch nicht nachweisbar sind. Sie erscheinen am Ende des zweiten Lebensjahres. ... Zumindest reizvoll ist die Vorstellung, daß das Kind in seiner kognitiven Entwicklung die Evolution des menschlichen Denkens rekapituliert" Remo Largo, 'Kinderjahre'

Tekstvak: 'I remember on one occasion wanting the word for Table. There were five or six boys standing around, and tapping the table with my forefinger, I asked, 'What is this?' One boy said it was a dodela, another that is was an etanda, a third stated that is was bokali, a forth that is was elamba and the fifth said it was meza. These various words we wrote in our note-book, and congratulated our selves that we were working aamong a people who possessed so rich a language that they had five words for one article.' ...one lad had thought we wanted the word for tapping; another understood we were seeking the word for the material of which the table was made; another had an idea that we required the word for hardness; another thought we wished a name for that which covered the table; and the last, not being able, perhaps to think of anything else gave us the word meza, table - the very word we were seeking.' J.H.Weeks; ‘Among Congo Cannibals’ found by Phil Baber/ Michael Beck

Rechthoekige toelichting: Instant Poetry, 2008, photography A contribution to 'Wonder Years', a book on occasion of the 10th anniversary of Werkplaats Typografie Arnhem. In a workshop at WT, poems are generated at the spot, using pieces of text found on WT-publications.

Rechthoekige toelichting: It's a kind of magic, 2003 performance, 75 mins with Eva Meyer Keller and Alexandra Bachzetsis. It's a kind of magic deals with the part of the world that humans perceive subconsciously, if at all. In a laboratory situation different activities take place at the time, executed in a slow, introvert and inexpert fashion. We try out techniques to infringe the borders of perception, we sing songs while we conduct telekinetic experiments, we occasionally demonstrate scientific models, or play video interviews in which experts and others report strange occurrences. In the process, facts, hypothesis, half-truth and actions tangle up into a mess in which it becomes more and more difficult to orientate.

Rechthoekige toelichting: Ordinator, 2003, game,75 min Within 60 minutes all objects carried into the room will be marked, ordered, filed and counted. All data will be played, all broken objects will be repaired, waffles will be baked and all rubbish will be dragged over the floor on a woolen string. Some people will stand on chairs absolutely idle, some will try hard to do some pirouettes whilst others paint with buttermilk or try to contact the outside world, scribbling messages on pieces of paper. Between all of this, the Virus and Dr. Norton will play a crucial game of four-in-a-row that might determine upon life or death of the system...

Rechthoekige toelichting: Utopian Stadionplein, 2008, "We decided to make something unusual. We thought about a cheese mountain with holes in it which would lead to different areas; one hole leaded to a water area, and the other leaded to a park landscape and the last one leaded to a paintball area, where there also was rock climbing"