In addition to substantive research into my/our methodologies, I want to create work that builds on a project realized in 2024 called “Ganzfeld.” GANZFELD was a work in situ for the biennale in Völklingen, where an installation was made with canvases painted by more than 1000 people. In doing so, we intended to facilitate a space for encounters where images of many people merge into one work: a "body. Hierarchies between the works of different people did not matter, and authorship became collective. As a result, GANZFELD became an artistic, realistic utopian document of a society where multiple perspectives reinforced each other. As artists, we provided the framework by selecting colors and materials and building the installation. Furthermore, there were limits to the creativity of the participants. We opened ourselves up to their ideas and stories and accepted surprises and challenges as artistic impulses.

The interaction between us and the public is an organic form of work that creates development and innovation on both sides. With this work, for example, we served for the first 2 months by facilitating, but also decided beforehand that we wanted to insert ourselves as artists by designing the final presentation of the works as an installation purely from our vision concerning the paintings, but also with room for more radical decisions.

This installation was exhibited for 6 months in an old iron factory. After its completion, part of the canvases went back to the people who painted them, and another part I collected. I now want to take these canvases as a starting point to create new work in the public space. Here I want to build on my series “contributions come in many forms” in the form of posters and flags. Flags have a ceremonial function, traditionally making it clear where an entity is located or referring to an identity. The reuse of work realized by participants is a new step in how to deal with already collectively made work. Giving it back to the outside world is then an important aspect. I am an intermediate step. This process and how to deal with it will be part of my active reflection period at Greylight.

My movement through the area around Heerlen and my unforeseen encounters dictate the content of the work. The reaction to what I encounter “refers to the nature of the transfer or exchange of energy and information in general.” This spontaneous way of working and using all the techniques and resources at hand is what prevents me from proceeding with a dense project plan. Greylights has the perfect conditions for me from my long connection to Germany and my need to connect more with the Netherlands. The expansion of my network in the Euregion between Venlo and Heerlen and Münster and Aachen, but also towards Belgium as Eupen and Liege, has for me a great attraction, also because of the industrial history of the area. At the beginning of 2024, I already did an exploratory residency by realizing several works in public space during a road trip through the area between Vise and Thonvile. The advantage of a professional practice expressed in time is to become familiar with a geographical area that is constantly expanding. I look forward to further exploring this area during my time at Greylight and being able to use it as my field of work.