Ik hou me bezig met de wereld omdat dat het enige is wat ik zie.

I wrote this line to characatarize the air of my activities when I made a compilation of my works in 2004.
I didn’t want to show work after work after work but wanted to show intensity, more the mental whole of my activities/practice, the socio-architecture of being if possible.
Now I would change non-importance in same-importance or also-importance.

If we talk about non-place or non-reality I tent to speak about same-place. Nowadays it is to easy to speak about non-place for me, it’s to passive. I agree that some places are a residu of the certain places but they aren’t any longer or never were.

So what I wanted to point out is that my work is not about the non interesting nor that I want to keep myself busy with ridicule things (being member of generation x). I’m seeking for a certain kind of totality, (small)particles in a whole. Not one point but some points which surrounds us. Not do I search the supreme, nor  the weirdness. I’d like to work with the normal as it should be wicked enough and stronger in its superficial. In the superficial there’s all the content to find.

We try to be ready for the changing frames and terms/meanings,
where-in we will do, the always-same things as we usually do.

that's why we only see a part. It's to us or others to let us focus on a certain side.

there is enough present.

We are here with that what formed us, the only thing we can show is what is or has been. From there we find other things (see the metaphor). In that way I see myself more as a documentary photographer without making documentary photography in the strict sense of the word.

Men and their strive.

Rotterdam correspondent,

I came up with the word liquid carrier instead of the static carrier. A canvas with paint is a static carrier if you are sure that the paint will go on the canvas. So one can say that you hide behind the common product. (If you just paint because you are a painter).
We thought then also that for ex kippenberger only used the canvas as liquid carrier but of course understood the economical value of the object as well the steady thing of it.

Wouldn’t it be a good idea that local governement buys or restores semi-large (industrial) factories. Not for creative-cultural use or service-jobs only but merely for craftmanship knowledge and practice?
Europe is  selling out it’s skills to so-called low-coast countries. Where, as economist say, labour is not to compete with. Nor with labour coast nor with quality of goods and nor with transportation coasts.
But what is to compete with?
Small scale business on goods and products with sustainable quality will be soon again of use and need in a local situation. It will be of big value to have production places and trade-centres. If we don’t commemorate these kind of idea’s we’ll have to re-establish factories and craftma(n)chine-ship in panic and in blindness. We have these large buildings and sites. We have the potention and ability of combining unmovable, unsexy machinery (goods) and knowledge with flexibility, entrepreneurship, social structure. We somehow know how to handle temporality as well.
Investing as governement is investing in inhabitants, is costless collecting and storing knowledge. It is in my opinion an as valid investment as investing in building houses and tourism and creativity. In there you create an active and self supporting community, a communicating community. Which is perhaps a breakeven business but a vivid soil to start up again. You keep the inhabitants pro-active and you create the space for enterpreneurship. Starting from the need of being active, taking part of. Here we start from ones own potention instead of the need of strategical decisions and having people working on non-suitable jobs.
In the long term we’ll need again a wide range of manufactures in different professions, in the long term we’ll end up with ourselves depending on our neighbourhood wether that will be partly also on the other end of the world.
Investing in semi-productional labour will strengthen social cohesion, local political relevance and will put in perspective the corporated investements and benefits with the communal participation of inhabitants in need of goods and social relevance of oneselves.

BEING CONCERNED:
Taking time, finding time, being more stuburn as a need.

Public-private-profession.

PRODUCTS:
Results of need, results of logics.

Een erg goedkope jas of een slechte re-enactment van mode:

Een nieuwe te goedkope jas is niet alleen het product ‘de jas’ die van een bepaalde stof is. Het is de wereld van iemand die produceert. Iemand die wellicht verhuisde naar een andere streek. Een individu/familie die werkt onder bepaalde werkomstandigheden, geïnstalleerd of zo zijnd door specifieke omstandigheden.
Het individu wordt aangespoord tot overproductie en ingezet als dusdanig als onderdeel van die jas, als substantie.
Een individu als overproductie betekent niks anders als stukje van een ‘jassen’. Dat lijkt me pijnlijk als dat het enige is wat je aan je eigen familie te bieden hebt. Over de vraag of het erg is doe ik geen uitspraak.

Liam Gillick
Francis Alÿs
Ryan Gander
Luc Tuymans
Rodney Graham
Richard Prince
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Gordon Matta-Clark
Michael Snow
Arnout Mik
Claude Closky
Chris Burden
Allen Kaprow
Matt Mullican
Mel Bochner
Pierre Bismuth
Allen Sekula

Meanwhile at the rijksakademie 1999:

Jossy Albertus ,Jeroen Allart ,Mark Bain ,Guy Bar-Amotz ,Maria Barnas ,Mo Becha ,Delphine Bedel ,Bibo
,Ellen Boersma ,Marika Bredler ,Miriam Böhm ,Isaac Carlos ,Arthur Clemens ,Renata Czajor ,Eva Damen ,Ade
Darmawan ,Matthijs de Bruijne ,Koen De Decker ,Folkert De Jong ,Christiane De Jong ,Elspeth Diederix ,Fendry
Ekel ,Sophia H. Ernst ,Marnix Goossens ,Georges Hanna ,Bart Hendriks ,Jenny Jaramillo ,Tushar Joag ,Dessislava
Karoushkova ,Alexander Komarov ,Patricio Larambebere ,Guillaume Leblon ,Gabriel Lester ,Dora Longo Bahia
,Fabian Luyten ,Arkady Nasonov ,Tero Nauha ,David Neirings ,Luan Nel ,Hans Op de Beeck ,Ilya Rabinovich
,Marco Rolla ,Julika Rudelius ,Sharmila Samant , Bojan Sarcevic ,Irene Sauter ,Janine Schimkat ,Marike
Schuurman ,Monika Sosnowska ,Arthur Steenbrugge ,Christine Tauber ,Ulises Unda ,Lonnie van Brummelen
,Reinaert Vanhoe ,Anook-Cléonne Visser ,Osnat Weiss ,Pia Wergius ,C Wiersema ,Nico Yerna

I'm perhaps solely busy with, 'I exist', and what it does mean.
Narcistic if it was to be a hiddingplace. It is not.
I'm not exploiting it. Exploiting it is weak and doesn't considers others at their value.
Arrogant easiness hides 'life', that is already quite a normality.

Ik ben eigenlijk hoofdzakelijk bezig met 'Ik besta' en wat dat betekent.
Narcistisch ware het een schuilplaats. Dat is het niet.
Ik coqueteer er niet mee omdat ik coqueteren zwak vind en het anderen niet in hun waarde laat.
Gemakzucht vermomd 'leven', omfloerst het.
En dat is zowiezo een vrij normaal iets.