Platitudes
De Gids Literary MagazineEvery artisthood is teeming with platitudes. Repetitive anecdotes, topoi, that give every artist biography the same setup: he or she, always alone; real talent eludes schooling; thousands shouted out, only a handful chosen. Large or small talent, they all put their lives at stake for something that wants to transcend life. Art goes before offspring, reaches beyond death.
Time Warp
collaboration with Driessens/Verstappen, RotterdamA cinematic report on the processes of growth and change taking place on W.G. Witteveenplein in Rotterdam. Each film begins with the construction of the park in early 2003 and shows the various changes that have taken place so far. The films are supplemented four times a year with new material. This will result in five twelve-minute films in 2023.
Nieuwkomer
online photo documentaryFor months after I first stood on that little bridge, I continued to circle around the windmills. Not only with my camera, but also with a microphone. When you look closer, the polder turns out to be an arena of conflicting interests. The cluttering of the landscape stands in opposition to climatological necessity; economic and ecological interests are locking horns for dominance; innovation oriented towards the future has to compete with the appreciation for history. The counter argument is always around the corner.
We
Kunstvereniging Diepenheim and Rijksmuseum Twenthe, EnschedeThe definition of the word definition is: 'the description of the essence of something in one or two highly precise and succinctly formulated sentences.' That is by no means easy, and we certainly don't pretend to be able to do so. Nevertheless, there are a lot of characteristics that we find interesting and that we come up against in wondering about what might be typical of the region known as Twente. But those things aren't so much absolute as they are relative.
In Memory Of Things To Come
time capsule, RotterdamThe history of the Wilhelminasteen began on 30 May 1891 when the 10-year-old Queen Wilhelmina and Queen Mother Emma visited Rotterdam. To celebrate the occasion, hundreds of boats sailed on the Maas and 3,000 schoolchildren performed an aubade. The brand-new little Queen will give her name to the Wilhelmina Quay and the act that goes with it is a stone-laying ceremony.
Onkenhout
galvanized bronze, textStaring at the picture of the garden on the postcard I catch a glimpse of my mother in a version of her life that she never lived, one in which Nico had gotten in touch, after that evening out. Perhaps now she'd have a different surname and be sitting by a different fire drinking wine with a different child. In a moment that feels like an oedipal short circuit, I experience something impossible: that I never existed.
Filmplan De Kunst van het Vergaan
De Kunst Van Het Vergaan legt vast hoe het werk van de in 2011 overleden kunstenaar Krijn Giezen postuum aan het verdwijnen is. Door in gesprek te gaan met weduwe Martina Giezen over een geschikte omgang met de nalatenschap wil de film afdwingen dat het circulaire gedachtengoed van Giezen (en zijn werk waar mogelijk) naar het hier en nu wordt gehaald. De kijker wordt deelgenoot van dit proces en ziet dat kunst - in het algemeen en die van Krijn in het bijzonder - een rol kan spelen bij de overgang van lineair naar circulair leven.