terra nullius et cetera et cetera.
The highest point of the Terra Incognita, et cetera mural in Centraal Museum, Utrecht, is about 360 cm from the floor. I started painting the blank dymaxion map on 11 October, and finished it on 13 October. The next day,…
wall sketching.
Preparing Terra Incognita et cetera for the Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Chris sent me this photo that he has taken for me before I went to the site at Centraal Museum, Utrecht. From previous correspondence with Meta Knol I did imagine…
to live.
Turbulence. Nothing new. The roughest one I’ve had so far, though. The woman sitting next to me held on tightly to her seat. She closed her eyes tightly, and mumbled something. A prayer, maybe, obviously. Or perhaps promises? Her heart…
intermezzo.
I’m working on Schumann’s Intermezzo (No. 4 from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26), written in 1839 when he intended to settle with his future wife Clara, whom he married the year after. A poetic piano piece, in the only recording…
today.
A pudgy black Fold Away Tesco Green Bag, a silvery blue hard disk, two plastic bottles, a hazy Tate Aug/Sep booklet, a colourful Transport for London June 2009 brochure, a black umbrella, an empty tall glass, a little black mouse,…
logic, memory, time.
In my dreams, logic goes in reverse. Once, in there, I saw my ID card — which was slightly bigger than it was in un-dream (or, the waking world, to avoid using the word “reality”), therefore might be fake and,…
proximity.
We walked the platform. As we pass the first class carriages, or perhaps a bit before then, you tried to initiate a conversation. Sorry that I can’t look at you in the eyes, you said, I’m too nervous. I nodded…
terra incognita et cetera
Presented as a party game, Terra incognita, et cetera (2009, interactive performance and wall installation) is an exercise in collective painting and, simultaneously, a play of collaboration and territorial marking. The interactive performance is an art exhibition opening party game…
lure.
Lure (2009) is a spatial installation using handmade miniature passports, handmade real-size passports, and a claw vending machine. The installation consists of two coherent parts — the Intro and the Main part. The Intro is a long line of colourful…
multinational.
The production of Lure involved a curator (Eva McGovern) based in Kuala Lumpur, a production supervisor based in Yogyakarta, and a production assistant based in Melbourne, as well as subcontractors in Guangzhou and Yogyakarta. This valuable experience of a multinational…