| A not B, 2010, photography book OUT NOW! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A book consisting of a series of still lives, inspired by non-verbal IQ tests for children. The images show changing combinations of stereotypical domestic objects. The layout of these tableaux is determined by an underlying logic that the viewer is subconsciously triggered to discern.. The book is designed by Julia Born and published by Roma publishers. Order at roma-publishers.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanging around, 2010, photography for a book of dutch jewlery maker Manon van Kouswijk OUT NOW! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manon van Kouswijk: 'Based on photos of my necklaces
and my visual archive, IÕve put together an artist book in collaboration with
Uta Eisenreich and Esther de Vries. By showing the collected images alongside
my own necklaces, each bead necklace becomes an all-embracing piece of
information played out on all kinds of levels – from a supernova in the universe to the smallest particle of tangible matter.' |
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| Based on Bas Oudt, 2009, photography for a book dedicated to bas Oudt. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seven graphic designers pay tribute to their former tutor. The design tutorials of Bas Oudt, who taught at the Rietveld Academy between 1990 and 1996, were for many of his students an extraordinary experience. ÔBased on Bas OudtÕ is a publication and an exhibition celebrating the work of Bas Oudt. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| It is my task to photograph a selection of his works, as well as various of his extensive collections of inspiring objects. My approach is a rather 'performative' one; I am browsing through the material in front of the camera, trying to analize hidden paralles between works and objects playfully. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Instant poetry, 2008, photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A contribution to 'Wonder Years', a publication on occasion of the 10th anniversary of Werkplaats Typografie Arnhem. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In a workshop with participants of WT, poems are generated on the spot. Books of WT's archive are selected for the text on their cover and are dropped into a predetermined grammatical structure by a simple set of rules. The poems are succesively displayed and photographed. Order at roma-publishers.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| About winning and losing, 2008, photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A contribution to 0 magazine. A collaboration with the British school of Amsterdam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For this Olympia-magazine children of the 5th grade collected a list of words around winning and losing- and turned them into a photo-dictionary-rebus. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cheese mountain, 2008, installation/photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A contribution to 0 magazine. A collaboration with the British school of Amsterdam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As a contribution for a magazine about the urban development of the Olympic Quarter, I invited two classes of the nearby British School to develop a plan for a future, utopian Stadionplein. Why them? As the next generation of expats, the children represent the target group for the ambitious plans for the Olympic Quarter. Which makes them - in my mind- the ideal board of experts to generate alternatives to the existing plans of O.M.A.. Pointing out an obvious shortcoming of the Netherlands the children decided on building a mountain, but then made of (fake) cheese. The wholes of the cheese are used as sliding tunnels and waterways, as an aquatic park. Outside there are facilities for paintballing and mountain climbing and rotating international restaurant is located on the mountain top. There are waterways with a clog-ride through a quiet and peaceful park that stretches out on the east-west-axis. We built a scale- model for the future Stadionplein right on the spot, using material that was generously facilitated by the surrounding construction sites. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thanks to H.Linford, G. Hookings and the children of
their classes J. Franssen, S. Balbuena at Hillen en Rosen for facilitating the material Florian Gttke, Edwin Meijer, Roel Wouters for supervising the building of the model Niels Schumm for photography. |
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| Casco Issues, 2007, photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The cover features a study for the IQ series. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duels: Shadow play, 2005, performance, 15 min, with Zhana Ivanova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| One after the other, each of us randomly draws a
small piece of paper out of a box. The box contains a collection of opening
sentences from selected novels. The sentence is read out loud and the paper
is then carefully folded, placed on the table and covered with an object.
These are familiar domestic tools and products. This process repeats again
and again. In what looks like an unusual chess game, the stories are left unfinished and the objects accumulate into a predestined pattern. Things seem a little different though, with the lights off. |
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| Vocabulary, 2005, installation, at Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A work about representation and language. This installation consists of tableaus of strictly arranged clusters of objects and the vocabulary of Basic English on game cards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initially the collections seem to be placed according to a predetermined continuous logic: each word corresponds to an object. But as the days pass the words seem to live their own lifes. Flying from object to object, sometimes staying a bit to pollinate, the words create a range of new meanings and associations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Irrational storylines begin to emerge, and the initial recognizable order system seems no longer tangible. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hello Stranger, 2005, tour, 75 min, with Zhana Ivanova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Close Connections, Ellen de Bruijne Projects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An invited audience is intercepted on their way to the gallery. They are all foreign business travellers and strangers to the city. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soon after they are invited to embark on a small bus with darkened windows, the door slams behind them and a jolted ride begins. One after the other the passengers are dropped of in town and lead away until the bus is empty. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Each member of the audience has been distributed to a prearranged location in the area. These include the local fire department, an old ladyÕs home, a canal boat and the studio of a dog painter amongst many others. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The hosts had been instructed to go about their usual activities as they would. Free to treat their guests in any way they wish, they could be asking them to help, showing them around or simply talking with them for a while. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The guest on the other hand, would have to do their best to adjust within their surprise situation. We learned later that these situations varied from learning how to make baklava to going on an emergency fire call with the fire fightersÕ! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After an hour each stranger is taken back to the gallery again. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duels: Close to the edge, 2004, performance, 10 min, with Zhana Ivanova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ŌClose to the EdgeÕÕ 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, with a higher and more beautiful construction. Yet it only takes a breath in the wrong direction for everything to fall apart. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A B C D, 2003, installation, with my grandfather, Theodor Mucker. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consortium ÔTen goats pulled ten pounds of sugar to the zooÕ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An installation about (and in collaboration with) my grandfather. He was a pensioned mathematician who sufferd in his late days from short-time-memory loss. In order to cope with this disorientating flaw, he arranged his household around a domestic signage system. Nearly all items of daily use were numbered or had written abbreviations on them, the house was covered with hand-written warning signs. Since years I foster an ongoing selection of material, handmade objects and signs, audio and video documentation about our talks about memory, the beauty of abstract geometry, recycling and duck tape. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In this particular installation I tried to combine my order-related works with his. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ItÕs a kind of magic. 2003, performance, 85 minutes, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music: Rico Repotente | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thanks to: Cathy Naden, Jeroen Peters, Martin Nachbar supported by: Flmische Gemeinschaft (B), Vooruit (B), Monty (B), Dock 11 (D) Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia (CH), Prsidialdepartement der Stadt Zrich (CH), Tanzhaus Wasserwerk (CH), Rote Fabrik (CH), | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ĩ Theaterspektakel, Rote Fabrik, Zrich, (CH), August 2003 Ĩ Dock 11, Berlin, (D), August 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| W139, Amsterdam, (NL), November 2003 Ĩ Jonge Honde Festival, Monty, Antwerp, (B), December 2003 Ĩ Vooruit, Gent, (B), March 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network, Teamwork , 2002, photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| published in ÔNetwork: Swiss Design 2002Õ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sociograms and other presentations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ĩ Red: Which 3 kids would you invite to your birthday party? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ĩ Yellow): Would you like to be someone else in your class? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| If yes, who? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ĩ Blue: Whose house have you already been into? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ĩ White: Who do you know least well in your class? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (I) Ping pong table | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (II) Ping pong table | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (III) Class room city | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (IV) School yard mandala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ordinator, 2002, game, 75 min, with Eva Meyer Keller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Digiart Festival, rhus, DK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The basis of Ordinator is a spatial representation of a computer desktop. The operating system is divided into tasks with designated work areas and corresponding toolkits. These tasks are appointed to different audience members. The audience is creating an operating environment that files and structures information. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aufrumen: 7 Sachen, 2000, photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A slide show in which I keep rearranging items from my kitchendrawer. Changing combinations of seven items are placed on the table and photographed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aufrumen: 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In this example they were asked to furnish imaginary rooms. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aufrumen: 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aufrumen: Parkplatz, 2000, video | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The process of this intervention was recorded by the factoryÕs own surveillance system. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||