Annual themes

Every year a new subsidiary theme is added to the blanket terms, border, value, and border value.  This connects other independent projects to a programmatic whole.

Subsidiary Theme 2010: Passage

Thousands of people pass over the border between The Netherlands and Germany on a daily basis: by car, on the bus, by train, on the bike, on foot and even by air.  This a routine occurrence but at the same time out of the ordinary. 
This passage exchanges one strong culturally influenced space for another.  Although the passenger doesn’t do this consciously, the action of doing so is of great cultural and personal significance.
‘Right of passage’ describes the passage, the passing and the transitional ritual.  The original identity (of the area) is let go, an indefinable and fragile no man’s land serves as a transition from which people enter a new identity.  But what are they, these new spatial identities that can be exited as well as entered?  Do they become blurred by the velocity of everyday life or actually become more definable?  Is there still a border, space or transitional area between identities?

Subsidiary theme 2011: Overhanging Fruit.

‘Overhanging Fruit’
‘Overhanging Fruit’ – is a titillating image of unbridled and boundless growth.  A fruitful flood from the private sphere to a public arena.  A gift but also an ordeal. 
‘Overhanging fruit’ is the forbidden fruit, a tempting and irresistible welcome from the secluded garden of Eden.  As much a victory as an example of man-made borders.
‘Overhanging fruit’ imposes itself upon the personal space of the neighbours.  Ripened and fallen fruit, but what belongs to whom?
Plucked and placed in a basket or aggressively achieved with a saw, ready for the final judgement.

My task,
Your land,
Our harvest?