Week 3 at the OXT Sonsbeek 2016 project.
Maze de Boer started with series of nonexistent board games and games. These games have all the typical elements and archetypal forms of games. When confronted with these games people start to devise rules and play with it. Besides being a participant of OXT, Maze is also independently invited for this edition of Sonsbeek. For that project, he exchanged a playground in Indonesia with one from the Netherlands and vice versa. The playground from Indonesia is currently intensively used by children who visit Park Sonsbeek.
Cyan D’Anjou, another intern working for the first half of the exhibition period, and aspiring artist created a large work: a freestanding burnt match of 3 meters high.
This week, Maria Roosen inspected her tree, that she will begin to work with in week 5.
Ryan van Beurden makes dinner plates from sawn planks.
On July 9, as the start of his own work, Kevin will work with Leo Hoegen, a paper craftsman, to produce paper sized double-A0 (2A0 = 118.9 x 168,2cm). The paper is created from maple trees of Park Sonsbeek.
Weaving artwork into a city’s fabric
International New York Times
Thursday, June 16, 2016
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Week 2 at the OXT Sonsbeek 2016 project.
Prilla Tania has come over from Indonesia and makes jewelry from wood in weeks 2 and 3.
Daya Bakker continued to work on the kitchen and he will return in week 5 to complete it. The kitchen is inspired by a Rietveld-dresser. It is a mobile kitchen with a raised platform, which allows Dini Arisandi an overview of the workshop, and due to its mobility can also be placed elsewhere. It includes many levels to serve from as well as a bar.
Jasper Nouws has started a spring rider. This is a bouncy, outdoors playing device consisting of a metal spring beneath a plastic or wooden central beam on which a wooden or plastic animal or (motor)bike is mounted. When a person sits on it, the structure moves and bounces. Spring riders are common in many playgrounds around the world. However, the one Jasper designed is not so innocent. His is not modelled after an animal or bike, but after the bomb that fell on Nagasaki, nicknamed “fat man”. With this ‘playful horror’ he takes a critical stance towards Sonsbeek 2016 in which war occupies a central place. He also comments on the history of Park Sonsbeek, whose founder Baron Van Heeckeren, earned a lot of money with his mercenary army and the lootings it conducted.
This week also featured one of the daily lunches prepared by Dini Arisandi. Among the diners was Indonesian writer and photographer Valiant Vabyo (bottom right). He wrote an article about Sonsbeek TransAction and about my work (link will follow).
Marieke Schoonderbeek created a surprising work during week 2 till 4. She made a big batik fabric with paint derived from dyes extracted from plants from the park. The fabric also contains a poem.
