March 15, 2004
Switch!
Participating in a group show is never easy. It’s especially hard when
the idea of the exhibition is ‘work together in the same space for about
a month and be influenced by the other’. My oh my... After no one really
showed up or was even planning to be influenced by someone other but
themselves, I started writing little articles about my colleagues and left
out all politeness. Politeness is often used in the weird world of art(ists)
to be sure of return compliments. Anyway, I put those articles on the
wall and waited for the shit to hit the fan.
Finally some of my co-workers were getting the hang of it and started
actually writing stuff all over my ‘art’. Later, when the exhibition was over,
I came by to pick up my papers only to find out someone had already taken
my work off the wall and claimed to have ‘lost it’. Probably threw it the fuck
away. Ha ha... Funny artists. Initiated by Saminte Ekeland and Rolf den
Dunnen. Other participating artists: Roel Meelkop, Johan Kleinjan, Boris
Pas, Bas Zoontjens and others.
photo (detail): Rob Severijnen
Posted by rufus.k at March 15, 2004 4:56 PM