*Identity, site specific installation, lifesize,
for honoursprogram GRA/UvA at Ellen De Bruijne PROJECTS
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Tag: english
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Sunset
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Us
He said yes, but his body tightened.
I thought: you are like me, and suggested we’d switch place.
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Medium 2: root version
I would like to propose a new medium for interdisciplinary communications. Not a medium that can convey meanings, but a medium that is laying the groundwork for all possible meaning. That might sound rather universal and abstract, but in fact it is the most sensuous medium, as the following example might clarify:
If two people were […] -
CITYLIFE
In the city, every contingent fact seems to be multiplied: the stones in the pavement, the units that make up the buildings, and the buildings themselves. It even seems that this could continue ENDLESSLY.
There never seems to be only one person tripping over a bottle accidentally. There is never only one surprise meeting with an […] -
Regarding the viewer dissecting the work
At some point, he just can’t go any further. Unity he can experience. Pieces he can connect. But the link between these two escapes him. At last, after having taken all apart, he gets an eye in return. This is how he discoveres the connection: not as a symbol, not as an understanding, but as […]
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MmeBovary2.0
In 2007, a technique was invented that made it possible to experience feeling in an artificial limb (Nature: 29-1-2007). ‘Feeling’ is not to be understood as some passive experience, like a simulation. It works both ways: the artificial limb is in all its movements directed by thought, while the mind responds to what it senses.
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LEX
LEX = the harvest of acorns
ILEX = the tree on which the acorns grow
LEGERE = collecting
AQUILEX = he who brings together the waters
LEX = bringing together people
LEX = law
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Medium
On the right to make oneself noticed
In this essay I would like to bring into remembrance a medium that, although never exactly forgotten, seems to have been dismembered from contemporary liberal thought, having thus lost its function as a medium. First I will introduce this special medium. Then I will regard those who one must […] -
You
After breakfast, I made my morning walk as usual. I was surprised to see one of the silver balloons hovering over my head for some time. Someone new must have sent it.
In the beginning, we used our balloons like that all the time; just to check out the others like us. Now we know […]
