about I am an artist whose work traverses a wide range of media and worlds. From the analogue, to the digital, to the occasionally galactic, establishing connective networks and scripting interaction is key to my practice. I make experience design oriented installations and performances in galleries, musea and in the public domain. In the past year my work has become focussed on related events and social interaction. In a recent work of mine titled Recipes for Geese and People, food is bait for inter-species social contact. In close conjunction with Natalie Jeremijenko's OOZ project I designed the culinary interface to lure animals and people together to share the urban space. Both the Recipes for Geese and People and the 4-course 'Do Geese See God' dinner references the visual landscape that geese encounter during their migration. For example, 'Vegetable Matter Underfoot' refers to the trampled vegetation alongside ponds and lakes where waterfowl like to hang out. 'Pasta di Larvae' is rice gluten and seeds or greens, mimicking the lake larvae that cloak themselves with pebbles and leaves as camouflage from predators. Visual materiality of the 'ingredients' is central to this work. The dinner at de Verbeedling (12.02.2004) in Zeewolde was attended by both geese and people. My work has been shown at the PS1 New York, Kunsthal; Rotterdam; V2_Organisation; Rotterdam, the Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam, the Offenes Kultuurhaus; Linz and the Edith Ruß Haus in Oldenburg. I have lectured widely, including UC Berkeley, the International Astronautical Federation Congress, the Design Academy in Eindhoven and currently teach at the MFA programme of the Dutch Art Institute in the east of the Netherlands, a postgraduate research institute in fine art practice. Would you like to know even more about me? Would you like to read a flattering review of my 2003 work 'Ladies Gourmet Cycling' by art critic Paul Groot? Toch liever in het Nederlands?

right now From N O W until the 5th of April, 2005 I will be in India. This is one of the things that I will be doing: Imagine a street scene in Old Delhi, food vendors, lining the busy streets. Imagine a restaurant in which the courses are compiled entirely from the delicacies of these street food vendors. Imagine walking from course to course in sequence, in an experience designed especially for you. You are imagining Nomadic Banquet, an urban mapping service design workshop March 17-19, in Delhi in close collaboration with the Doors of Perception and the Dutch Art Institute (DAI). I don't want to dictate too much but the results of this research will not be a traditional sit-down banquet in one location, but a prototype for a wandering banquet, a Nomadic Banquet. At the Doors8Delhi Social Innovation Salon, located in Delhi's Habitat Centre, and in a lecture-presentation as part of the Doors 8: Platforms for Social Innovation, the workshop participants will present their Nomadic Banquet. March 21-26, 2005. You can read about the Nomadic Banquet Workshop at the project weblog here. But if you love to read what possesses me on a daily basis concerning food and all things food-related and that in the very hippest sense of the word, then you really should be a regular visitor to my culinary weblog CULIBLOG. New entries from Autumn and into the heart of Winter 2005 included, Dabba Wallah - git yer Tiffin while it's HOT (packet protocol food distribution in India), PiPod? (a New York City pizza guide on an iPod is a... PiPod), Latvian Master Baker (ancestral Latvian national traditions?), La Peche qui brule (et la vache qui rit non plus), The Banquet Years (enough about Roger Shattuck, I'm talking about me!), The Wild Boar Thing (halalchisch recipes for salons and blog launches), Hash Shakes are sooooooooo passée (What were we eating one and a half years ago!?), Learning through your Ass: The Return of Laurel's Kitchen (!), Ik lust je R A W (Raw Food means, 'The Return of Learning Through Your Ass'), and Re-Enact Creaming! a visual review of the Mediamatic/CASCO performance art evening. April 6th 2005 I will be lecturing in the symposium Food for Thought, about innovation.

future / near future I am currently developing an installation and experience titled 'FASTFOOD Restaurant (a restaurant for fasting), and will open an ephemeral fasting restaurant for the occasion. The project addresses global food politics and cultural programming and manifests itself in product design, recipes, installation, photography as well as a publication in the form of a cookbook titled 'Recipes for Fasting'. And then there's the 'Recipes for Geese and People' cookbook...

recent and relevant past From March through April 2004 I was in Nanjing, PRC with the Dutch Art Institute where I gave a lecture and a 5 day workshop titled surprisingly, Nomadic Banquet, the pilot's pilot. It was of course a pilot project for the current Nomadic Banquet project I am doing in Delhi. The results of the workshop you can find here and a very useful Chinese food point-it dictionary you can find here. I had the pleasure of guest teaching at the Design Academy in Eindhoven for Allan Murray's Obsessive Amateur workshop. Could I be anything else than flattered? It is of course well known that the bourgeois always accuse the avant garde for being dilettantes and amateurs.