Bij aankomst hier
Performance, 10mins
October 2011
A performance about the first weeks of my time in the Kolenkitbuurt, Amsterdam.
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Visual art
Seoul digging
HD video, 4:00mins
May 2011
A video story produced during the AIAS In-Between workshop in Seoul, South Korea, May 2011.
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Necessary difficulties, part 2
Performance, 30mins
April 2011
This work is a continuation of the work Necessary difficulties performed in October 2010.
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Necessary difficulties
Performance, 45mins
October 2010
In October 2010 I gave a “walking lecture”/performance in the Museumkwartier of Utrecht, in search of an answer to the question that our mature, overdeveloped society ought to be asking itself: what is it that we’re doing, exactly?
Condensed space
Collaborative performance, 45mins
October 2010
The work Condensed space was a collaborative performance work by Yenyitzu, Astrid Marit and Chris Meighan, which took place as part of the Madness in Arts Festival 2010 in Haarlem.
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Only later do you know the side that you were on
HD video, 3:40mins
May 2010
In 1844, Charles Sturt set off with a company of men into the Australian interior. Along with him he brought a boat, hoping to sail it on the great “inland sea” at the centre of the continent, the existence of which he was completely certain.
This work is a tribute to all those who perhaps should have given up, but did not. (more…)
Constellation
Video, 3:00mins
November 2009
This work is an exploration of the symbiotic relationship between two large groups – thousands of static, immortal terracotta warriors, and the even more numerous stream of tourists who file past them day in, day out. (more…)
Amstelpark parapark
March 2009
The Amstelpark in the south of Amsterdam is notable for a determined idealism in its layout and features, an admirable striving for peace, restfulness, and order in hopeful disregard for its location between a motorway and busy railway line.
The installation Amstelpark parapark is intended as both a respectful acknowledgement of and a critical comment upon this idealism. (more…)
To err is almost human
Publication
July 2008
To err is almost human was an artistic publication project, carried out in collaboration with the designer Cecilia Costa. It has as its subject a machine which I have built for writing, drawing, cutting, and carving. (more…)
Durée
HD video, 4 x 2mins
July 2008
The title of this work refers to a concept of the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1951), that of “la Durée” (“the Duration”). This concept is rather hard to explain but in effect posits that time as measurable and quantifiable (seconds, hours, years) is quite different from time as experienced by conscious individuals. This inner life, or time, is the Duration. (more…)
I your dear friend am in my self undone
HD video, 4:06mins
November 2007
The title of this piece comes from a line in John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”, a religious allegory from the 17th century. Christian, the protagonist (and my near namesake) must journey from the City of Destruction to Mount Zion, on the way shedding his heavy burden of sin. (more…)
Here As The Centre Of The World – Enschede
Collaborative artistic research project
June 2007
Following on from my participation in the Here As The Centre Of The World workshop in Diyarbakır in March 2007, I also took part in the final workshop of the project in June of the same year, this time in Enschede. (more…)
SYB wordt beter in Beetsterzwaag
Performance and intervention
May 2007
“SYB is getting better in Beetsterzwaag”. Kunsthuis SYB is a platform for contemporary art located in the small, sleepy village of Beetsterzwaag in Friesland. Myself and Bani Bannwart established a ficticious development company with big plans for an enormous new art museum in the village. The point was to pose some questions about the public’s automatic acceptance of what is done with their environment, and where this may lead. (more…)
Concert for guitar and three pieces of masking tape
Video, 4:43mins
April 2007
I play here a duet with a fickle partner; three pieces of masking tape which, although instructed which notes they should play by me, nevertheless stop doing so at the time of their choosing. (more…)
Here As The Centre Of The World – Diyarbakır
Collaborative artistic research project
March 2007
In March 2007 I travelled with other students of the Dutch Art Institute and others to Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey, to take part in a workshop as part of the Here As The Centre Of The World project. This workshop was intended as an exercise in transnational collaboration, using the streets of the city as the location for artistic research and engagement. (more…)
Building a perfect prison
Video, 2:20mins
March 2007
This video was made in front of a former prison building in Diyarbakır, Turkey whilst visiting that city as part of the Here as the Centre of the World project with the Dutch Art Institute in March 2007. (more…)
Fietscamera
Video, 5:54mins
February 2007
Fietscamera – “Bicycle camera” is just that; a journey filmed around the square adjacent to my house on a bicycle. (more…)
Unknown Pleasures
Interactive intelligent art-system
April 2004
Can a machine appreciate beauty? This is an important question, but it is perhaps more important to know if a machine can form it own opinions about what is beautiful and what is not. If it can, then we shall need to re-evaluate our perceived positions as the masters of art and the arbiters of taste. (more…)
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
Web-based artwork
February 2004
I scream, you scream, but he screams. Language is complicated. This work responds to a call for works related to the present simple; that verbal form which describes an action habitually occurring or a state of being not restricted to the immediate moment. (more…)
