Independent newspaper (2018–2022) printed in 2000 copies/day on vintage Gestetner machines. A team of 20 illustrators and writers captured audience experiences in real time.
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LIT!
A mobile animation setup co-creating glowing lightpainted animations with visitors. At Lowlands, Defqon, De Kubus, Kaboom, Museumnacht Amsterdam, Eye Filmmuseum, Beeld en Geluid, Parade Utrecht.
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Set Design
Projects include large cubist instruments for Podium Klassiek (NTR), youth theatre sets (BALO Brugge), CODA Apeldoorn forest decor, jewellery exhibition design, giant cardboard objects for Q-Dance, and puppet design for Talpa’s Pop Star!
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Betastingsdienst (cancelled due to covid)
We don’t want to dwell on all the cancelled projects of 2021, but this one would have been amazing. Lowlands was preparing the first festival where people could hug freely again. We designed a special hugging zone, mimicking official COVID flowcharts, announcements, and crowd control—but then completely subverting the “do not touch anyone” message that had dominated our lives.
In our immersive lab, we created a playful environment with hug superspreaders to help people relearn how to hug. This project would have been another experiential art installation emphasizing audience participation, co-creation, and the “as if” quality of a fake lab. We love the approach of a fictional workshop or mock institute, where the line between reality and performance is joyfully blurred.
It was not meant to be 🙂
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Illustrations for article SaxNow
I am a little proud of these, covid was good for training my drawingmuscle. This series is inspired by quotes from my students. It was so much fun to work on this during covid! Used in print and online. https://www.saxnow.nl/nieuws/achtergrond/2020/december/reconstructie-het-wonder-van-saxion-en-het-verdriet-dat-het-meebracht
I was far away from home, living in a new city,I couldn’t go home and the only meetings i had with people I knew was online., but most of the time I was online with the people i was supposed to be in a class with. I am not sure if I liked them.. 
All the luggage, bags, backpacks slowly became ghosts, why did we have these things? They were so big in my room, yet they had no function. 
You were over there in a bustling city living a great live with bars and meetings and i was stuck in the Netherlands with my psychotic roommate. I did go out on my bike though, that was good. I wanted to go home so bad. 
Flirting is hard. The camera adds 15 pounds. I wanted to hug people, I organised a tonguekissing event with my festivalfriends. 
I was pretty fast at getting used to working online technically. Emotionally it was something different. 
Students trying to hide their roommates, students in bed (with eachother), students with their whole family there while they are trying to study, students at parties, students walking in nature, students cooking, cats, lots of cats. -
Die Kunstbaustelle
Local residents co-created sculptures and performative interventions exploring waiting, transition, and presence. Geltendorf, Germany (2021).
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Videomappings
Video mapping works for Moving Images Festival, Cobra Museum, TV Gelderland Building, Cereol Fabriek, and more (2010–2013).
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Talks on Cardboarders, Community Building & Design Thinking
Talks and Pecha Kuchas on cardboarders, community building and design thinking in Utrecht and Rotterdam. Talk on rituals for reconnecting with the physical world at Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Pabo Saxxion Enschede, MediaMatic Amsterdam.
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Cardboardia Projects
Projects with the Cardboardia collective: Temporary City Karton an Kamsk (White Nights Festival, Perm, 2014), Mobile Embassy of Cardboardia (Derry City of Culture, 2015), Parade for the Tyran (Spoffin, Amersfoort, 2016).
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Analogue Reality / Real Reality
Workshop series where participants built app-like automata and mechanical VR devices critiquing digital obsession. Polytech Festival, Moscow (2017).
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Bloons – Balloon Genomics Lab
Visitors wove balloon “chromosomes,” forming oversized balloon-organisms that roamed festival grounds. Kaboom & Lowlands (2018–2019).
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Architectus Lucis
A large-scale participatory building process in a former gym hall. Over 140 participants co-created evolving cardboard structures and performative environments. Landsberg am Lech, Germany (2016).
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Lowlands Television
Created absurd, site-specific TV items with festival visitors for Lowlands Television, broadcast on screens across the entire festival terrain.
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We Will Sock You
Sockpuppet Republic invited audiences to create thousands of sock-beings and explore identity play and collective imagination. Lowlands (2019), Smeerboel, Brienenoord, WDKA, KLIK!.
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Exhibitions & Projects Before 2015
If you read this, then you are an unexpected guest… I really did not think someone would get here before I updated this. Let me know you are here in a comment underneath and I will buy you a drink 🙂 To be uploaded: Large installation the binaire bui: animation made from water and valves for Robodock Festival, Kunstcamping, KunstenLab Deventer, st. G.A.N.G. , Site-specific large scale installations: paper art at Art Premiere Dordrecht, Extrapool Nijmegen, Holland Papier Biennale Rijswijk, Collaborations with media artists at: BLIEP! Oerol Terschelling and Biotex Fabriek Nijmegen. Temporary new city in the centre of new city: Pleisterplaats Lelystad, curator at Hooghuis Arnhem, interactive bicycle installation at G.A.N.G. Arnhem, interactive facial‑recognition installation for DOX Utrecht. TOER! — a fitness performance at multiple locations. And more. If I ever find the time
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Monster Motel
A motel with big windows and oversized puppet creatures. Visitors explored absurd services and uncanny micro-performances. Lowlands Festival (2017).
