Haunting Traces of the Ephemeral
echoes...
Nabuurs&VanDoorn
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" We started to organize small gatherings at which artists, designers, actors, and architects came together in fluid environments. These gatherings became happenings and happenings became performances."
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"Slowly we became broken mirrors of a fall- out society and were invited to be part of self-organized exhibitions. The parallel reality we created slowly merged with the institutionalized world and in response we started to think and act in other ways. We started to study theories about landscape painting and how to construct new ways of seeing the environment that surrounds us."
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"We want to open up societal mental constructions and express alternative ways of being."
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"Initiate dialogues and collect other voices by working directly with audiences and breaking out of a cult of binaries."
GREYZONES, Kunstverein Publishing Milano, 2023
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it was necessary
for us to go to
the actual locations
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—to map the markers
and intermediate zones
and collect different stories
from people involved.