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Recent Projects
__Lost Highway Expedition__
__The Watermill Center: The Grand Opening__
__Christo Rey Armageddon__
__Prelude Shadowmonument__
__Port in Pictures__ |
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LOST HIGHWAY
EXPEDITION - “Highway
of Post Brotherhood and Non Unity.”
'A multitude of individuals, groups and institutions will form a massive
intelligent swarm that would move roughly along the unfinished “Highway
of Brotherhood and Unity” in the former Yugoslavia. The road was
made in sixties in the massive voluntary campaign of the peoples of all
nationalities that constituted Yugoslavia.
The expedition will generate projects, art works, networks, architecture
and politics based on the found knowledge. Projects developed from the
expedition will lead to events in Europe and the USA.
Lost Highway Expedition will begin in Ljubljana, and travel through Zagreb,
Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana, Podgorica to conclude
in Sarajevo, comprised of two days of events at each city and one day
of travel in between. '
Me and my colleage Hugo Lammerink went on this expedition to explore
these Western' Balkan cities. During the trip we executed ‘spontanious’ fountains
on selected locations, where we consider these as a metaphor for the
movement of people along this route.
For more info about the project visit: http://europelostandfound.net/
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THE WATERMILL CENTER:THE GRAND OPENING
After many years of (re) construction, the former Western
Union facility in Long Island ' historic town Watermill got transformed
into an 21st century academy for arts and humanities.
The Watermill Center will serve both the local and international
communities. It will host the Watermill Collection and operate as
a study center for Asian and Tribal Arts.
In addition, the Watermill Center will be home to the Robert Wilson
Archive, a collection of papers, films, and artifacts documenting the
activities of Wilson and his collaborators.
For more info visit: http://watermillcenter.org/
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CHRISTO REY ARMAGEDDON
In Mexico I laid my hands on a set of previously unreleased pictures of
the Christo Rey project in which I cooperated in 2004 with Martin and Matias
Teufel Sanchez as well as Kalucha, Pansas, Abel and others.
The project was a 10 meter high commision of a triumphing Jezus
to be installed onto a hiltop overlooking the city of Pachuga in Hidalgo
state.
After some doubts of whether or not it would be realized in bronze
or fiberglass, only half of the sculpture got finished and so the project
was kind of unsuccesfull.
The Christ got destroyed to get rid of the volume
it took in the workshop. For sure what all people working on this
project gained was the experience to work on this kind of a scale.
I would like to show these pictures of
the completed half and termination. Also have a look at the new website of these artists. |
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PRELUDE SHADOWMONUMENT
In 2005 Delphi Foundation
approached me to integrate a site specific artwork in the neighbourhood
Spangen, Rotterdam. After review of my proposal for the shadow monument
of meadieval Castle Spangen, ideas rose to first combine the spatial
intervention with a social one.
The result came with 4 weekend cultural events where the inhabitants of
the street where stimulated to participate. We made a weekly chalk projection
of the shadow monument onto the streetbricks, knight tournament, sandcastle
competition, heraldic design workshop and finaly a banquet to celebrate the
end of the project.
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PORT IN PICTURES
Lately the project Port in Pictures got inaugurated and will be on display
in the Rotterdam' neighbourhood Katendrecht for the upcoming ten years.
It consist of a photo series
integrated in 6 buildings designed by architect group Mecanoo in 1988.
Port in Pictures was made in collaboration with artist Ymke Bartlema and initiated after an open call by Building corporation
De Nieuwe unie and is realized with the financial aid of:
The Rotterdam
Central Foundation of Visual Arts,
Muncipality of Feijenoord-Rotterdam, Job Dura Foundation, Foundation of
population strength, Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund, Mandele Foundation.
A selection of the design you could find here
An article (in dutch) was written about the
project in AD RD.
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