Specific Project Proposals:

1.“books of a shelf”

THEME:
Hidden information that can only be accessed when the structure is destroyed.

MATERIALS:
Books, Boards, Strings, A room.

In many cases a book consists of covers, a spine and a content between the covers. The body of the book is hidden by the covers and sometimes the bareness of simple covers can enhance the excitement of the readers, making them more curious about what the content is. I would like to carry this idea of hidden body, or the content, to a larger scale.

I would like to construct a bookshelf made out of a row of books. They will be arranged between two bookstands, or two walls that push the books together, without any support on the bottom of the books. This row of books, suppored upright by the forces from both sides, will collapse and fall down onto the ground if one of them is taken out to be read. The choice of the books, or whether they will be self-made or found, is also also to be determined.

It’s a challenge for the audience to “destroy“ work. Once the information is revealed (when the books are taken out) the magic of the forces on two ends of the row of books is destroyed and cannot be redone. Is someone really going to take the risk? How valuable is the information inside, or how daring is it from the outside that someone would do it? How to treat the aftermath of the falling books event that it can still be considered a piece, rather than just books on the floor?




2.“At the right time”

THEME:
Information that can only be accessed once.

MATERIALS:
Various

This is a series of works that can only be seen at once. Otherwise the information is overexposed or underexposed.

1. Video that is exactly the length of the work being shown. The still image is carried through until it reaches a very short climax. The climax is the truth of the video. Once this climax is over it goes back to a still image, which portrays an aftermath of the event(climax).

This will investigate the notion of chance for the audience. Suddenly, by complete luck, those who happen to be present in front of the work, become special. It is not a selective process and done completely by chance. The ideal outcome would be that those who have been “lucky“ spread the rumor that there is something more to the work than a still image, which will attract attention from the wider audience, but there is nothing for them to expect.




3.“Wallpaper Clock”

THEME:
Hidden information that is gradually revealed overtime

MATERIALS:
Wallpaper, a room

In many old houses that I have been to, especially the ones that haven’t been taken good care of, the old wallpapers are worn out and peeling off the wall, baring the dirty walls and the moulded glue on the backside of the wallpaper. In more contemporary houses there are no wallpapers and the walls are usually painted white. You never think of, at least I never do!, what could look underneath the white paint.

I would like to create a patterned wallpaper, of which patterns are to still yet to be determined, but possibly text and images, which will be pasted image-side-down on the wall, so when it’s pasted on all the walls (4 walls, ceiling and the floor) the room looks completely white.

Overtime, because of the strength of the glue, or by inviting the audience to peel off, the backside of the wallpaper is being revealed: the “truth” comes out.

The more dysfunctionality the wallpaper turns into, the more color and patterns it brings to the room, playing with the functionality of a familiar material.