In our daily life, we easily forget about the subtle experiences our senses can give us. MIND MOUTH reconnects you to what is really to most powerful thing you’ve got, which is the combination of your senses together with your imagination. The point of life, is that there is no point. And to understand this, […]
In 2005 I was asked by Droog Design in the Netherlands to do a Christmas dinner. My initial thought was that a Christmas dinner is full of clichés. How can you design something that’s already fully designed? But in thinking of Christmas as a time when people eat together, share food and fel connected, I […]
I feel intrigued by animism, the belief that everything, also lifeless objects or computers, have a soul. This is rooted in Japanese culture. I think, when you believe everything has a soul or a spirit, you will handle the things around you with more care. I am not sure if this counts for contemporary Japanese […]
A 4 day performance where Roma Women have fed over 400 visitors while telling their life stories. In the white space of the A38, a boat on the Danube river, are 10 separate installations presented. 10 units with a seat for one guest at a time. The installation is made of tables with extended legs […]
In the summer of 2012 we drove up to Weil am Rhein (DE) to transform the Zaha Hadid Firestation at the Vitra campus into a bakery. With the professional help of master baker Fritz Trefzger we produced 2500 bastard buns plus love sentences made from bread on a fragile installation of hundreds of metal pins […]
In a way I really understood her strategy. Kinds of that age don’t have that much to say about their live. By keeping her mouth shut she managed to take control and noticed that this was the moment that her mum would start behaving in interesting ways. I do respect that attitude. But obviously, for […]
I’m not really sure why I was captivated by feeding. Perhaps because I have breastfed and spoon-fed 3 children and found a profound surrendering between the two in this act. I remember I was breastfeeding my son and my mother came to visit me. I do not remember her feeding me as a baby but […]
I created Pasta Sauna initially for Performa ’09 New York and made a new and improved version for Dordtyart in April 2013. After that the sauna has traveled around. The Pasta Sauna is inspired by the Futurist movement which occurred during the early 20th century and originated in Italy. It saw the breaking of ties […]
There are many reasons to eat vegan or vegetarian food. People who choose to become a vegetarian generally do not do this because they do not like the taste of meat. Finding a plant-based alternative to meat to cook similar dishes as they did before seems like a good solution. The idea of alternatives is […]