You know, I never went to Italy, so I had to write a song about it to know it
- Boris Vian
I work as artist and curator, and sometimes I find myself writing. To me these are methods of investigation. These investigations and conversations may result in works such as installations, events, performancelectures, texts. Since am interested in finding out what the world looks like to others, most of my works involve close collaborations.
After publishing a novel at a young age, art school seemed the best place to learn more about the creative process. The creative process in turn seemed and seems to offer a sound possibility to learn through appropriation – that is to say, to learn something not by memorizing it but by spending time with it. This interest in appropriation has stayed with me. It became the subject of my work.
What do we need in order to feel like we own our lives, knowledge, and environment? How to connect realities which, at first glance, appear vastly different from each other?
These are questions I keep returning to. Looking into them and playing with them yields works and stories ranging from tragic & absurd to sugarsweet.
From the adventures of lonestar psychic Ted Owens or the strange tale of the first Dutch scientific investigations into parapsychology in Nervous Radiation, to a travel guide for use in your home town in Reisgids or the temporary transplantation of two hi-tech-artists to a decidedly non-tech environment in Elopement: a lot of the stuff that makes life strange, interesting, and unmistakenly human is here.