The Novelty Is Gone, and That’s the Perfect Place to Begin. (2008) Biennials have lost their novelty. Does that mean Bergen shouldn’t host one? On the contrary, this is perhaps the perfect time to set a biennial in motion. As the 53rd Venice Biennale rolls into action, it has spawned a legion of other biennials.…
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Fucking Good Art also known as FGA held a launch event at WORM for a small publication featuring various artists who have gardens in the city of Rotterdam – our volkstuin at SNV was featured when it was entirely flooded due to weeks of heavy rain. By the way, take a good look at the…
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For this installation at the Tongerlohuys in Roosendaal, De Geuzen gathered thirteen portraits of unknown women. Important enough to be painted but not significant enough to be remembered, the installation aimed at giving these women a sense of solidarity in their loss of name. Beginning with two portraits from the Tongerlohuys collection, other portraits were…
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Taking place at the Impact Festival in Utrecht (2003), the idea for this De Geuzen project started when a well-known president declared an infamous divide: “YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US” This made us wonder about how such polemics could be cracked apart and possibly subverted to create more flexible alliances. We were…
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The Phenomenology of Licorice and Other Dutch Myths, Renée Turner, Ordinary Marvel, YYZ Books, 2003 Susan Kealey was a friend. In the early nineties we were at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and both grappled with being displaced North Americans in the heart of the Lowlands. Sometimes we coped with laughter and other times we had…
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Made in 2001, Frivolity and Folly was the second De Geuzen Uniform and was originally exhibited at the Bienal de Valencia (Spain.) Tailored to the idiosyncrasies of our very different body shapes, the De Geuzen uniforms are a collection of handmade garments playing with female identity. Frivolity and Folly is the most elaborate of the…
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De Geuzen made this work in 1999 within the context of “Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers “, an exhibition in the Redlight district of Amsterdam. Most of the time the area is defined by the sex industry, which is of course the most visible. While we didn’t want to reiterate certain clichés, we also didn’t…
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These are a few paper airplanes from the De Geuzen archive. At the time, it was an exercise in tactical media, a proposal for sending analog messages in a wired world.
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This is one of the earliest (1999) projects in my practice where eating a meal together was central to collective research. De Geuzen, Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting, and I programmed and designed a performative dinner accompanied by different textual table coverings and take-home quotes related to the work of Michel de Certeau. In this respect,…
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The Walk-in Reader was De Geuzen’s first library of shared interests or temporary archive. The space was conceived as an open public resource and a place to explore various processes of urban transformation taking place in the Netherlands. Texts, videos, urls, and other materials were collected around the themes, Mapping, Moments of Convergence, Envisioning Cultural Paradigms Across Disciplinary Boundaries and Shifting Economies.
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