Five projections on the window of an apartment, Brussels, 28/04/2005 – 18/06/2005
with Femke Snelting

The square surface of an apartment window at the corner of Papenvest and the Dansaertstreet in Brussels was temporarily transformed into a projection screen. Every two weeks between April 28 and June 18 2005 we screened films, animations, videos and digital works, connecting our living room window to the movement of the city.

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De Strip, Vlaardingen, 05/2002 – 05/2004

The Uit+Thuis Videomagazijn is a thematic public videolibrary and productionspace for site specific video. (Uit+Thuis means Home and Away) All video’s in the collection, and works produced in the framework of this project focuss on ‘roots and migration’. The work was commisioned by the city of Vlaardingen and De Strip, a temporary cultural zone initiated by Jeanne van Heeswijk, and existed during two years. The Uit+Thuis Videomagazijn website is still online and contains lists with all video’s that were shown, and the projects which were caried out.

Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam + KunstUniversität, Linz, 2001 / 2002

A research project with fine art students of the Piet Zwart Institute and the Kunstuniversität Linz, department Experimentelle Gestaltung. The program investigates artistic positions in rethinking the predominant model for structuring private relationships. With presentations in TENT. Rotterdam, Depot Vienna, Kunstuniversität Linz collective workshops and guests including Peter Skopik, Kees Crijnen, Klaar van der Lippe, Gil and Moti, Lucas Wurtz and Slavoj Zizek.

Video programs organised for the Rotterdam center for contemporary art TENT.

Urban Positioning System
with Rob Hamelijnck and Eddy Keijzer, TENT, 19/09/2002

You follow their moves, you analyse their behaviour, you film them.The camera registers your gaze, your viewpoint and your fascinations

Ed van der Elsken – Een fotograaf filmt Amsterdam (fragment)
Wim Wenders – Tokyo Ga (fragment)
Christopher Nolan – Following (fragment)
Jean Rouch – Gare du Nord (fragment)
Louis Bunuel – La fantome de la liberté (fragment)
Inge Hoonte en Pieter Wackers – L.E. Meyer
Alex van Mechelen – Burenruzie
Korneel Jeuken – A blue screening
Andre Schreuders – Bij vlagen

Family Affairs
in collaboration with Piet Zwart Institute, TENT, 21/02/2002

Hippies, bloodrelatives, unfamiliar people and alter-ego’s meet in a
program which questions the family as the predominant structure for our private lives.

Iratxe Jaio – Tumulto
Iratxe Jaio – Old song
Kirsten Leenaars – Broertje
Racke & Muskens – The tower
Emanuelle Antille – Night for day
Sophie Call – Double blind

City Game
TENT, 17/05/2001

Program with short films related to my residency in LA. Film makers from Los Angeles portray the city as a festive and challenging realm of self investigation and social experience.

Juan Carlos Alom – Habana solo
Gustavo Artigas – the domino effect
Type A – Urban contests
Joe Sola – Travelogue for 1999
Kerry Tribe – Double

Puur en Zuiver
TENT, 21/12/2000

Participants of the Piet Zwart Institute produced short films in which Hygiene is pitched and researched as a social perimeter.

Kirsten Leenaars – Cordon Sanitaire
Natasja van Kampen – Headphones
Antonis Pitas – When mouth meets hole
Korneel Jeuken – Grande Messe des Morts, deel 1,2,3
Fiona Weir – Relax with nature
Rona Mathlener – Skin deep
Christine Saalfeld – Grossvaterbuch
Korneel Jeuken – Grande Messe des Morts, deel 4

Gravity
with Martijn Verhoeven, TENT, 10/06/2000

A program about the ambiguous relationship between human beings and mother earth. Films about solitude, grotesque posures and postmodern architecture.

Bas Jan Ader – Fall 1&2
Istvan Kantor – Jericho
Andrew Stones – The animals on the island
Jeroen Kooijmans – Pilot
Ben Schot – Edge

I am the other,
with Martijn Verhoeven, TENT, 13/04/2000

A visual journey through notions of integrated otherness investigating adaptable identities, manageable societies and changeable personalities.

Peter Campus – Three transitions
Joan Jonas – Leftside rightside
Peter Stel – Look at me
Nelson Hendricks – Crush
Boris Gerrets – Invisible
Emanuelle Antille – Wouldn’t it be nice

Senseless Violence
with Martijn Verhoeven, TENT, 24/02/2000

A non critical, highly agressive video program fueled with streetviolence, stardom, drug abuse and media overkill.

Anders Thoren – His masters voice
Carlos Amorales – Solitario
Peter Bogers – Video Violence
Marcello Mercado – The warm place

Making Public
with Martijn Verhoeven, TENT, 16/12/1999

Strategies against human reproduction, secrets for burgling houses and classified surveillance images are brought into the open.

Gregory Green – For information purposes only
Wim Gijzen – Serie vergissingen
Carsten Höller – Jenny
Bart Dijkman – Observation # 762
Johan Grimonprez – Kobarweng, or where is your helicopter
Michael Klier – Der Riese

Space Clash
with Martijn Verhoeven, TENT, 11/11/1999

Privacy, curiosity and self doubt casted in an intimite visual survey of the spaces that surround us.

David Haines – Stalking Mr. Holding
Sean Evans – Home is where the heart is
Polly Gould – The story of one woman’s struggle with her fear of architecture
Nox – Soft city
Alicia Framis – Interior Landscapes
Alex van Mechelen – Burenruzie
Vito Acconci – Full Circle

A video program that gives an overview of contemporary dutch video art. TREMOR is also the thematic framework for a reflection on artistic positions within an unstable social and political situation.

Tremor included works by:
B.A.M.B.I / Heimir Björgulfsson / Eelco Brand /
Michal Butink / Jürgen Chill / Instituut voor Betaalbare Waanzin / Ivar Gloudemans / Florian Göttke / Tijmen Hauer / Han Hoogerbrugge / Rebecca Moran & Rosie Sanders / Marc
Schmidt / Ute Ströer / Alite Thijssen / Peter Westenberg.

“The Hygiene project examined the relationship between private and public spaces from the point of view of cleanliness. Do social hygienic standards determine the way people relate to each other? Making contact, socialising, being infected, purification: these terms were also interpreted as metaphors for the position of the artist in society. Do we develop artistic ideas isolated from society, or are we willing to be influenced by environmental circumstances?

This project was developed and realised in collaboration with HTV de IJsberg, a newspaper for contemporary art, made by artists. HTV de IJsberg is in itself a medium for artworks that are developed within the specific characteristics of a paper, while also providing information about the activities of artist-initiatives in the Netherlands. Different methods of working were explored and combined. The theoretical and visual research went hand in hand with practical production. Participants were encouraged to use the practice of editing as an artistic tool. In collaboration with the HTV editors, participants produced a special edition of HTV de IJsberg no 35, which appeared in January 2001. The aim of the publication was the development of views on the future meaning of “hygiene”. Taking the analyses of related topics as a starting point (representation of dirt in advertising; the historical develop- ment of the concept of filth; the political and social implications of the notion of hygiene), the group worked towards the visualisation of alternative models. What would the world look like if the water closet had never been invented? Will genetic manipulation produce cleaner human beings?

Parallel to the production of the magazine, the participants produced Puur en zuiver (pure and clean), a compilation of individual video works which were broadcast by Salto Television in Amsterdam (January 12, 2001), and presented in screenings at TENT., center for contemporary art in Rotterdam (December 21, 2000) and W139 artist initiative in Amsterdam (April 14-29, 2001).

Project leaders were art historian Anne Bruggenkamp (Netherlands) and artist Peter Westenberg (Netherlands), at the time both members of the editorial team of HTV de IJsberg. Guests for this project were cultural theorist Rob van Kranenburg (Netherlands), and artists Joep van Lieshout (Netherlands) and Zeger Reyers (Netherlands).

A reader was produced, including texts by Hans Blumenfeld, Norbert Elias, Dominique Laporte, Philippe Perrot, and Louis A. Sass.”

(source Piet Zwart Institute )

Quartair, Den Haag, 1999

A group exhibition with ten artists whose works investigate ways of looking, representation, appearance and the construction of public space.

With Joke van Stuyvenberg, Pietertje van Splunter, Peter Westenberg, Hugo Renirie, Graciella Tomasi, Hermelinde Hergenhahn, Ellen Pronk, Cesare Davolio, Riek Sijbring, Lara Almarcegui, Polly Gould