In august 2024 I participated with the international investigative art project Meander, organized by Flux I Bell (Berlin).
Based on individual experiences of a 12 hour long walk, a group of 15+ artists came together in Berlin to collectively translate these experiences into public interventions, performances, etc.
Together with Ari David I conducted some bodily interventions: small in-situ performances that concentrated on mapping our bodies in public space.
The performance came to an end when arriving by a collective alternative map that I created, made out of reflective tape so it could easily be removed.
Based on my own walk, in which the trajectory of my route was decided by “things orange” I would spot along the way, I asked the other artists to follow a certain colour for 10 minutes whilst intuitively drawing their route.
Afterwards I took elements of each drawing, combining these elements and thus the artists’ experiences into a wholly new map.
After the project, I compared the 12-hour walks I did in Brussels as well as in Berlin. The colour orange was just as prominent as the insane amount of construction works in both cities. This resulted in the creation of a worker-suit: a hand-tailored, bright orange workwear-suit with reflective patterns on it, referring to the suit construction workers generally wear.
By wearing this suit, I question if merely pretending to have the authority to conduct changes into the urban infrastructure, actually grants more authority.
I have been using it in several interventions since.
