Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Going in circles
When things change slightly every revolution it is not really a loop. It becomes a pattern of…
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Low-tech timetravel
I had this fantasy as a kid about low-tech time traveling. A simple plan that could give at least…
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New Street Graphics
My latest project. I'm very excited about it. In experiencing the everyday city I'm always struck…
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Picture Perfect
Digital photography has revolutionized the human need to document its surroundings and every key…
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Consecutive moments in no particular order
In 2005 we wandered trough an old deserted sanatorium in the woods of Brandenburg, in Germany. This…
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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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Faceless city
In a time where contemporary architecture seems more and more obsessed with fashionability, the…
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Ethical implications of new dynamics
The simple fact of ‘being alive’ generates a person’s natural presence. During the past century…
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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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Buildings with Stories
One of my major fascinations with the built environment is the stories that are being told in the…
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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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Granularity and sustained interaction
Engagement is an intensity of dialogue, sustained interaction, granularity, not flipping through
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Space in a Moment
The experience of space happens in the moment. Only without thoughts and sense of time one has the…
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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…