Emotional space
Sensation, emotions and feelings are crucial indicators for well-being and survival. When touching a hot stove, the sensation of heat will trigger retreat. Emotions of fear will trigger escape. Also more complex feelings like love, compassion, hate or alienation, inspire human behaviour. Sensations, emotions and feelings deeply influence the sense of place. When being in conflict even a large palace can be experienced as suffocating. When in love, a small bed can be paradise. Phsyical sensations inform about the nature and construction of environments. Emotions and feelings reflect the atmoshere that happen in an environment, touching the heart of human beings involved. As result a sense of place is constructed.
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Love as the seventh course
"B.O.B" was a project whereby we invited 100 people per night for a seven course dinner, and for…
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Absence makes the civil disobedience grow fonder
Not all things worth communicating fit the format of absence. Some of our most ubiquitous…
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Secret Stories
What happened here. As an urban investigator one stumbles upon interesting leads everywhere. What…
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Dark City Witness
The dark side of urban life is part of the ying-yang balance of every major city. In the darkness…
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The Intimate Family Sendoff
When Grams died, my family celebrated her right then and there with a memorial which accidentally…
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The Great Sendoff
The festive funeral of Dutch Fluxus artist Robert Jasper Grootveld on March 7th, 2009
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EXPERIENCE
Granularity and sustained interaction
Engagement is an intensity of dialogue, sustained interaction, granularity, not flipping through
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Controlling chaos
While trying to control the factors that influence the outcome I also define where I want the piece…
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Chto Delat: How one thing functions as a stage for another.
The Russian art and activism group Chto delat/What is to be done? approached me soon after they…
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Osdorp land of milk and honey
On the western edge of Amsterdam is a living example of rural fantasy, a stone’s throw from densely…
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Permaculture relationships
Permaculture is a design discipline for emphasizing the relationship between natural processes. The…
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Taking control while giving room
The more you take control as an artist, the more you can send or guide the experience. Without a…
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Seeing how others are looking
The viewers often don’t want to interrupt each other’s view. Which creates a funny situation when…
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Paintings
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The Game
Compare it to the games children play. They play war games, play death, they long for a game full…