Dialectics of Human Mind and Space Itself.

Land Survey
2020

Installation & Performance
wooden sticks, PA-speakers, fog-machine, environmental sounds, digital line drawing
dimensions: ca. 600cm x 600cm
duration: 20 min.

Land Survey was a site-specific performance, using the structure and functionality of the space. During a live sound-performance with sounds derived from a print, and generated environmental sounds such as wind and waves the space was slowly overflown by a layer of fog. The performance poetically contrasts our human approach to space with my vision of floating space – Substanzraum. The fixed positions of the homogeneous grid of sticks contrasts with the space as it actually is visualised by the fog: ‘Free floating and in constant transition and transformation’. The installation was inspired by aesthetics of land survey methods.

During the sound-performance the floor is slowly overflown by a layer of fog. The soundscape is derived from the ‘Tidal Oscillation Curve’ by means of hand-copying the curves from a screen onto parchment paper and then manually drawn into a waveform modulation program. The result is heartbeat like sub-frequencies and wind and wave like sounds. As the concluding part of the performance this print was revealed, by opening one of the blinds a crack so that a ray of sunlight almost precisely overlays the print.

Going To The Beach As Artistic Research Practice (detail)
2020

Digital Line Drawing
ink jet print on paper, cardboard roll
dimensions: 110cm x 500cm

This work is a visual expression of a three-month process of data collection, using the body and other (technical) measuring instruments, on the beach of The Hague. It is a digital drawing created from data, such as air humidity, pressure and density, decibel, light, temperature, wind speed and direction. I counted people and steps to the shore, and documented the intensity of the rain. The data was collected at the borderline between land, ocean, and atmosphere. It is a true representation of my global concept of Substanzraum, the space of substance, and depicts space as it is, in constant flux and change.