Dispatchwork

Wevelgem

For the festival crystal ship – more fotos and infos coming soon!

2 Rue d’Espagne, 64100 Bayonne

Done for the festival of Arts in Public Spaces: Points de Vues (www.pointsdevue.eus)

“Points de Vue is an international urban art festival created in 2017, organized by the Basque Country Urban Community, with the support of the region’s municipalities, the City of Bayonne and the Kaxu Gallery (formerly Spacejunk Art Centers).

The festival revisits the living environment of residents in the Basque Country, by inviting local and international artists to intervene in and with public space. In the most diverse forms, the works produced inhabit the territory for a variable period of time, sometimes until they disappear. You will find on this site all the artistic projects carried out to date, as well as resources available to you.

An unmissable event in the visual arts landscape, Points de Vue takes place every year in October. The festival offers a program for all audiences, punctuated by the production of new works, guided tours, creative workshops, screenings and even audiovisual performances. It is also an opportunity for stakeholders in the visual arts sector to come together around structuring themes during professional meetings”

1 Bd du Rem Lachepaillet, 64100 Bayonne

Done for the festival of Arts in Public Spaces: Points de Vues (www.pointsdevue.eus)

31-29 Rue d’Espagne, 64100 Bayonne, Frankreich

Thanks for Damien and Evan for standing with me in the rainy autumn streets to start and finish these pieces!

Done for the festival of Arts in Public Spaces: Points de Vues (www.pointsdevue.eus)

1 Rue Port Neuf, Bayonne, France

Done for the festival of Arts in Public Spaces: Points de Vues (www.pointsdevue.eus)

Quai de Metz 1, Paris

Developed for the Project “Bien-Venue” with artcenter 104 Centquatre and the local schools and craftsmen.

Kolymazhnyy Pereulok, 6с2, Moskva, Russland

Participating at the Festival for Inclusivity, “See the world my way” – Listened to very inspiring speakers of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Guggenhei Collection Venice and Kunsthistorisches Musem Wien, who all spoke about their efforts to make the Arts available for everybody. Definitely a topic that has to be improved on. The Conference took place in the italian courtyard inside the museum, right next to the Cast of David from Milan.

https://www.facebook.com/accessiblemuseum/
https://www.instagram.com/theartsmuseum/

The Green, Aberdeen

When you read these lines, it’ll be roughly 400 years since the man named Indian Pete has passed. The history books tell us, this wall that you are seeing in the picture, “is one of the oldest in this grand city [of Aberdeen]. It had formerly been a part of an old townhouse known as Aedies House. Built around 1604 and finally demolished in 1914 it held a dark history. Believed as it was to have been a holding house for children stolen off the streets to be sold as slaves in America. […] Around 700 children would be kidnapped from the streets. Their fate, to be kept in holding houses like Aedies until there were enough of them to transport.”

Someone told me that a bagpipe was played every night, to drown the screaming of these doomed kids. Who knows really, but the one story everybody agrees on is the story of Peter Williamson. His parents “reputable though not rich” sent him to live with an aunt in Aberdeen. In a cold night in January 1743 Peter was kidnapped while playing on the quay. With the age of 8 years, he was abducted to America as a slave, and sold for 16£ to work on a plantation.

I’ll spare you the details of his gruesome return to his birthplace of Aberdeen, since you can now easily look it up online. And I tell you in advance it is a story of deep desolation, describing the cruelty of the so-called “discovery of the new world” and the horrors of slavery connected to it. But it is also a story of hope. And, as his clumsily chosen name suggests, there are Native Americans involved as well as the final return to Scotland which, however, left him “banished from Aberdeen as a vagrant” for telling his story.

Ultimately, Indian Pete was able to make a living from a succesful tavern he ran in Edinburgh, for poets and lawyers. But until this day, his story haunts the Aberdonians. Another local whispered to me on the night i took this picture, on the staircase that leads up from The Green to buzzing Union street, that him and others had seen, from afar and late at night, children in nightgowns sitting on precisely these stairs.

French Pavillion, Venice

The theme of the Venice Architecture Biennal 2018 is “Freespace” – The police came twice to make us remove the installation and get back in line.

Thanks for refusing and having our back @104paris @nicoladelon @encore_heureux_architectes ! Thank you for the invitation, thank you to the 104centquatre and caserma pepe staff

Gatekunst Gate, Stavanger

Nuart Festival! Best festival in town!
http://www.nuartfestival.no

Vestergade 51, Aarhus

J. M. Mørks Gade, Aarhus

Taiwan Democracy Memorial Park, Taipei

Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Barcelona

It should be mentioned, that executions were conducted on the Square of St. Felipe Neri, during the Spanish Civil War. When you see the walls, you will understand why this place is still a symbol for the unresolved anger against the Franco-dictatorship.

Carrer de Montjuïc del Bisbe, Barcelona

Piata Cascadelort, Barcelona

Petperstraat 113, Amsterdam

In collaboration with Platform21and the Institute for Achitecture ARCAM, in Amsterdam many people joined in to brighten up the city.

Plage, Hossegor

I was in Hossegor meeting my friends from androphyne to work on their project about Elias Pozornski. One day we went out to surfer’s paradise on the atlantic ocean. There’s this bunker, which used to be sitting entirely above the dunes, overlooking the ocean. Now the waves are slowly luring the tons of concrete into the depth.

Rue du Chevaleret / Rue Charcot, Paris

The Nuit Blanche is a huge art-event which the city of Paris organizes each year. The whole night through, from 7pm to 7am, everyone is invited to discover events throughout the city and to follow a parcour connecting the different events in all parts of paris. Thousands of parisians came to the streets, and also the Paris mayor herself was expected to visit and shake hands. (Nuit Blanche de Paris)

And I was invited to install Dispatchwork in the 13th arrondissment, where I met a wall, which could hold three big patches easily. So in the course of the next three days me and helpers erected these patches within the parcour of nuit blanche in rue Chevalret. Each of these three patches took us around 9 hours to set up, and us working basically from dusk till dawn.

Bocchignano

Dispatchwork was part of ‘20Eventi‘ and the contemporary art festival ‘Arte in Sabina‘ in the region of Sabina with friendly support of the Goethe Institute Rome. We were a group of students around our former professor of Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee Karin Sander.