(Nederlands) Samen met 230 leerlingen van de gemeente Peel & Maas maakte ik in totaal 10 audiowandelingen met de kinderen in hun buurt. Tijdens de wandelingen vertellen de kinderen verhalen over wat zij interessante vinden in hun directe leefomgeving. Zo kan je op vakantie in eigen dorp!
(Nederlands) Een jaar lang krijg ik de vrijheid om zich met het Museum Valkhof in Nijmegen te bemoeien als een luis in de pels. Ik zal zeven keer ingrijpen op verschillende plekken in het museum. Met mijn interventies reflecteer ik vooral op de verbouwing van het museum en alles wat daarbij komt kijken.
(Nederlands) In de Museum Juwelier wordt vergaan erfgoed omgebouwd tot nieuw erfgoed. In samenwerking met Museum Peel & Maas worden versleten en afgeschreven machines minutieus uit elkaar gemonteerd door kinderen en de losse onderdelen tot sieraden gemaakt. Zo kan iedereen het nieuw erfgoed bij zich dragen.
(Nederlands) Met dit project onderzoek ik hoe je op vakantie kan gaan in je eigen stad, straat of woonkamer. Hiervoor ontwikkel ik, samen met kunstenaars, kinderen en toeristen verschillende projecten zoals wandelingen, souvenirs, informatiefolders en festivals.
(Nederlands) In navolging op de Waardeloze Winkel en de Waardeloze Juwelier opende dit jaar de Waardeloze Souvenirwinkel, die ik samen met studenten van de Willem de Kooning Academie heb ontwikkeld. In de winkel worden waardeloze objecten getaxeerd, en verkocht als ware souvenirs.
(Nederlands) In 2018 en 2019 voer ik verschillende keren de Burenparade uit: een buurtwandeling door Leidsche Rijn waar de buurtbewoners elkaar en de stad ontdekken. Tijdens de wandelingen ontstaan live datavisualisaties, die de wensen van groep verbeelden.
(Nederlands) In de zomer 2018 was ik Artist in Residence bij StrandLab aan het Almeerderstrand. Hier heb ik gewerkt vanuit een caravan die prachtig uitkeek over het water. Het Almeerderstrand is in transitie; er komt nieuw strand bij en er komen steeds meer bezoekers om te genieten van de omgeving.
(Nederlands) De hele zomer 2018 vinden er workshops voor kinderen plaats op het Almeerderstrand. In samenwerking met Allard Medema, StrandLab en Stad&Natuur Almere heb ik de Kinderwaterjury opgericht die de micro en macroschoonheid en smaak van water beoordeelt.
(Nederlands) In navolging op de Waardeloze Winkel, ben ik gevraagd om voor Into the Great Wide Open 2018 het concept een nieuwe draai te geven. Dit is uiteindelijk de Waardeloze Juwelier geworden.
In cooperation with Waternet, Deltares and WUR, I developed The Clean Water Experiment. During the summer of 2017, we mapped the water quality together with 500 citizens of Amsterdam. The participants received a water box filled with instruments to measure the water’s quality.
At Art Rotterdam I have shown my first work made in response to my research, which I will continue to develop over the coming years. For this research, I visit various laboratories across the world that operate an International Prototype of the Kilo. During these visits, I study the actions surrounding the IPK.
The project Dust Particles was an ode to dust. From shipyard to elementary school, from art fair to farm; every location has its own history, and with that, its own kind of dust. At 11 locations in Amsterdam and its surrounding areas, several columns were placed where one could view dust using a microscope.
The Worthless Shop is a trading shop and an interactive art experience. The Wothless Shop will trade in ‘worthless’ items that are found in the streets or surroundings of the shop.
From August 2016 until January 2017, my wallpaper, which I designed for Natura Artis Magistra, was on display at the exhibition ‘Dream Out Loud’ of the Stedelijk Museum.
Van 17 mei t/m 1 juli exposeer ik in Huis de Pinto. Hier presenteer ik mijn onderzoek naar de eerste zinnen in romans.
In April and May 2016, I will give several unique tours in the historical city centre of Amsterdam. The tours will focus on illustrating different types of data connected to tourist sites. For example, the amount of bricks used in a building, the type of garbage in containers on a specific street or lists of significant dates.
On the 13th of June 2015, The Frans Hals Museum showed a new work of mine in the exhibition ‘Work in Progress’, in which 3 masterpieces of the museum were being restored in-situ. In my work I paid tribute to the restored decay of both the painting as well as the room in which the work was shown.
Infinite Coastline Until the end of June 2015, I was artist in residence in Cádiz, South of Spain with Linea de Costa. There I measured the rugged coastline with instruments that I especially designed for this. The results of this research were shown both in public spaces as well as at the museum affiliated with the Linea de Costa.
In 2014, the renovated Members’ Rooms in Amsterdam’s iconic Royal Artis Zoo reopened their doors. I updated and redesigned the building’s 19th-century wallpaper. This projected contributed to the Royal Artis Zoo winning the Dutch Design Client Award.
As part of Into the Great Wide Open’s 2014 festival, I ran a project called Camping Mapping, which intricately mapped the interactions and clashes between nature and culture on the campsite.
I was artist-in-residence for a week in the Tower Room for Dutch radio station AVRO radio. My research focused on craquelé (cracks in paint), and in particular the origin and variety of craquelé structures in Verspronck’s painting “Portrait of a Girl in Blue” (1641).
‘Yards’ ran from the 19th of October until the 23rd of November, 2013. In this solo show I mapped all the weeds on the streets of the Staatsliedenbuurt in Amsterdam. The project aimed to show the area’s residents the complexity and extraordinary patterns in their ostensibly mundane flora and fauna. The show focused on different groups of grass, a mosquito, a dying plant, marks on a tree, sand dust and the veins on bamboo leaves.
The Royal Amsterdam Zoo commissioned me to do a comprehensive study of three trees. With a team of 41 volunteers I analysed and studied the trees from top to bottom – their branches, leaves, spider webs and cracks in the bark. The research took place in the open during the busy summer period and many children helped spontaneously.
