mixed media, drawing, video, installation, photography

‘A Song for Mannahata’ is an installation in which videos, drawings, objects, the spoken word, music, soundscape and performance all come together.Dutch version of this page click hereManhattan as a house, making connections between the present and the past as the basis for new interpretation, social relationships, relationships with other cultures, where people and stories resonate with each other on a timeline and together forms a world, which defines ‘NOW’.The Manhattan grid as a layered composition of videos, objects, drawings and texts. Black attendants write next to and on top of the texts on strips of blackboard paint, meaning that they are continuously changing.It consists of separate story fragments from hugely differing sources, from books by writers from different times and cultures, from newspaper reports; an assemblage of heterogeneous stories, memories, dreams, united by the performers. Combined they form the city’s inner self, full of passions and dreams, of yearnings, yet also of anxiety and pain.

distribution of video's and video-installations

2012 Co-organizer of 'The Search for Gold 3', artists reflect on the collections of the Sted. Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam by making a new work, together with Semna van Ooy2008 Co-organizer of 'The search for Gold 2', two evenings about activism in art and sources of inspirations, together with Semna van OoyRC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, Holland2005 Co-organizer of 'The search for Gold', an evening about the necessity of the autonomic artwork, together with Semna van Ooy and Eva Meyer, Amsterdam, Holland2000 Co-organizer of ‘On the Spot’, art and reality, together with Wanda Reiff, result: educative videotape, 19 min., director: L. Schouten1999 Co-organizer of The Scream/De Schreeuw, Galerie ‘t Leerhuys, Brugge, Belgium, together with Wanda Reiff1998 Curator of Trapdoor 2, 7 young artists from the Rijksacademie at the MK-gallery, Rotterdam, Holland1997 Curator of Trapdoor 1, 5 young artists from the Rijksacademie at the MK-gallery, Rotterdam, Holland1994 Co-organizer of American drawing exhibition: ‘can you always believe your eyes?’ De Beyerd, Breda Holland, together with Rob Perrée1992 Co-organizer of 'Erotic Desire in Photography' in 5 galleries in Rotterdam, Holland, together with Rob Perrée1986 Co-organization of Reflections, exhibition of video-installations, installations, and paintings, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland, together with Rob Perrée1985 Co-editor of INFERMENTAL 5, the Dutch edition of the first magazine produced on cassettes, together with Rob Perrée and :Leonie Bodeving1984 Organization of Con Rumore, manifestation of video, film, photographs, installations, Gallery Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, Holland1979-84 Co-editor of MODERN DENKEN, magazine on video, film, installations and photography, together with Gea Kalksma, Els de Groot and Adri Tock1980 Co-organizer of MIXAGE international, festival of performance, expanded cinema, installations, Lantaren/Venster Rotterdam, Het Hoogt, Utrecht, De Beyerd, Breda

Monument for the drowned villages of Zeeland, 2009Installation at the Town library, Zutphen 2003Red Light District,Light installation plus 4x5m painting, Keileweg, Rotterdam 2002Van IJ tot Zee, Installation at 'Het stenen hoofd', 2001Zeeuws archief, Middelburg, Middelburg 2000,Zeeuws archief, Middelburg, routing through 2 buildings,Videowall 'De blauwe Woestijn'16 monitors, variable loops,Technische Universiteit Twente260m Wall of acrylate and steel along incinerator factory, Rotterdam 1996

distribution of video's and in collection of LIMA

commissioner visual artists

Centrespace, DJCAD, University of Dundee in Scotlandlecturer/guest artist at the New World School of the Arts, the college of arts at Florida International University/Dade College,Miami, USALecturer and performanceworkshop at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IrelandBanff Centre of the Arts, CanadaPhotographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada The Royal College of Art, London, Great BritainTown Hall Tokyo, Japanlecturer/guest artist at: School of the Art Institute Chicago, photography department, USAAppendix Galerie, Wuppertal, GermanyAustralian National University / School of Art, Canberra, AustraliaSatellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Canada

department photography

release film: 'Rotterdam, een ongemakkelijk Sprookje' / 'Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale', 65 min. directors: Gina Kranendonk & Lydia Schouten

master Visual Arts

master Visual Arts

performances