“Birds in the trees singing” is based on a recording that Lynette sent me of a short piano melody. I added a processed Guzeng MIDI instrument and looped it. After that I didn’t really know how to go on.

A couple of weeks later I went to stay on a small farm in Brandenbourg, outside Berlin, for one week alone. There I was, sitting and listening to the surroundings for hours.

The music found its way out as well, through the speakers of my computer out on the farm. There it was stroking the grass and chatting with the goats and singing with the flies.

I let it run free for some minutes, I think it really enjoyed it.

Jan Adriaans

A butterfly that mimics a bigger butterfly, not gradually over generations but instantly, with a good enough resemblance to fool predators and prey, is able to survive and remain.

The parasite enters the body, stays unnoticed by the host and eats it from the inside.

A cop wearing a hoodie, infiltrating the protesting crowd starts to smash shop windows. He’s hoping to fire up the crowd into pillage, giving the police a justifiable reason to take people in or beat them up.

I will use nets which can come in play to capture and arrest people, and break the protest, as the carrier for the imagery. They’ll become banners.

All I want is to expose the Agent Provocateur.

As an artist who positions her work within contemporary jewellery practice, I am interested in the archetypal forms and the language of objects that are worn on the body or that perform otherwise in relation to the body.

Within my work I look at the presence of jewellery in the everyday and the contexts in which it is worn, used and displayed. My jewellery practice is multidisciplinary, I translate my material through the making of wearable objects as well as installations and artist books in which I use photography and drawing to trace and reimagine the appearance of jewellery and other personal possessions in private settings, in museums and in popular culture.

“Dancing with my DNA”

When I started thinking about Lyn’s question “Are we coming to an end?” the body itself became the focuss of my exploration.

In response to Lyn’s banners I am working on a number of objects that can also be held, carried, worn and animated / activated through photography, video or performance.

Here I am thinking of the body as a burden, notions of wearing, being worn, being worn out, the body as a passive form that is being manipulated.

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”  -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Banner One (shutter): Flemish Interior.

Banner Two (1.5 metre): Diagnostic banner against becoming indifferent to the horizon.

Banner Three (Can Happen): Performative reminder for a Dutch sound poem.

A physiologist … sees an extended phenotype in terms of mechanism and asks how it works, how it alters the flows of matter, energy, and information through the organism and between the organism and its environment. … Organisms … channel energy through their bodies and create orderliness in the process. … It takes work to create [order] and to maintain it. … Physiology is essentially how animals use energy to do order-producing work. … Many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. … Are such structures best regarded as external to the animals that build them, or are they more properly considered parts of the animals themselves? … Animal-built structures are properly considered organs of physiology.

Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures