Concept and cocreator: Playful, provocative animated protest signs for Kaboom. A wandering procession and exhibition exploring activism as theatre. https://www.cardboarders.com/2025/animated-protest-signs/
Category: Projects / co-creation / exhibitions
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Wall of Frames
Interactive drawing installation shown at Kaboom, Rotterdam Illustration Festival, and WDKA.
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BonnenBonding / De VriendenJacht
A site-wide participatory system at Wildeburg (2024) where visitors exchanged playful coupons that triggered dares, favors, micro-quests, and unexpected interactions, forming a web of surprise encounters and collective mischief.
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Emoji Omaji
Concept and organisation – a real life tamagotchi grandma where visitors communicate from afar only using emoji rebuses. A generation conflict game about care and miscommunication.
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Being at Home Animated Magazine
A magazine made on-site using hand-stenciled pages on vintage mimeographs. Over festival days the theme “Being at Home” was explored through communal illustration and interviews. HKU / Kaboom / Utrecht Library (2023).
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Wildeburger Courant
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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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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Die Kunstbaustelle
Local residents co-created sculptures and performative interventions exploring waiting, transition, and presence. Geltendorf, Germany (2021).
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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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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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Bloons – Balloon Genomics Lab
Visitors wove balloon “chromosomes,” forming oversized balloon-organisms that roamed festival grounds. Kaboom & Lowlands (2018–2019).
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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).