My Themes:


Absence, presence, installation, performative, interaction, meeting space, connect, communicate, reflect, remember, memory, dreams, solitude, universal, emotion, moment, be, unapologetic, unfiltered, public, calm, personal, stories, letters, language, collect, curate, representation, intermediate, immediate, objects, spontaneous, temporary, human, soft, mood, cycles...

Artistic System

Methodology:

What is my big aim?

Strategy:

How do I get there?

Methods:

What are my tools?

How would I define my work?

"I work on the border between installation art and performance"- Dries Verhoeven.

What is my Methodology?

I tried to figure out the pattern of what I’m looking to achieve through my work.

So I reviewed the Egg-Stedelijk museum installation, my RC performance, my final film last year, and Culemborg. And what I discovered is that every work of mine seems to me like an attempt to summon someone from back home into this new space of mine.

 

 

What is my Strategy? (or Process)

Creating a Collection

Personal point of view

Curating it in space

Making it Universal

What is my next step?
  • Choose a space

  • Collect from the space itself (use it as a source of data)

What are my Methods? (or some of my action verbs)
  • Collecting
  • Curating
  • Interviewing people
  • Creating a set design
  • Writing letters

Which brought me to wonder about the relationship between spaces and people, what they mean to each other.

Is the life of a space, the people that inhabit it?

Is a space devoid of people considered dead?

The space is the vessel and the people are the blood running through it.

Then if the stories of a space are told by the people in it, what kind of stories does a human-empty space tell? And how do they tell those narratives?

Do I collect from the people in the space, or from the space itself?

Interlude

Think,

Make

What interests me in her work?

  • She collects interviews in a scenographic way
  • She has a certain character trade for the spaces she chooses to collect from

What are my inspirations?

What kind of spaces am I looking for? What is their character trade?

Roos Van Geffen's "The Collection of Fears and Desires" (2000- Present)


Roos travelled all over the world, and asked people those two questions, for 20 years.

Then she collected allt eh answers, and started giving performance lectures about them.

Immediate and Intermediate Presence.

The power of SUGGESTION in art and theater more specifically.

Documentary Theater.

What interests me in their work?

  • They work with non professionals
  • They are story tellers
  • Their work is linked to chosen locations.

Spaces where people go to be alone, to have some calm during the day: park benches, churches, temples, cafes, seats in a library, the canal...


Also, spaces with a sense of WAITING and TRANSITION: train seat, bus stop, bridges...
  • Photography
  • videos
  • scans of collected reseponses and letters
  • writings (diary essays and RC)
  • Maybe some collaging

How do I plan to document?

BERLIN's "Remember the dragons".


BERLIN is a Flemish group, whose main characteristic is its documentary and interdisciplinary work methods. They work also on location and start from a specific research question. They engage different media depending on the content of the project.


In this one, thirty kids enter a space and each sit on a chair facing a screen, which will display the story of another kid in the world.

Is it fiction? Is it real? Who knows..