Artist - Mind Warrior - Imagination Navigator

I studied fashion from 1994 to 1998 before graduating from the fine arts department of the Maastricht Art Academy in 2000. I continued with the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, which I completed in 2002. I subsequently joined an experimental curating course, an initiative of the University of Amsterdam and the Sandberg Institute.

After my studies, I developed a keen interest in understanding how art is a form of knowledge production, in particular in a scientific or social context. I found a home in the field of artistic research. I this I seek to go beyond the traditional function of art translating science to the general public. In this, I also separate art and research, where the knowledge that is produced to benefit the artist and the artwork. I align with knowledge born from artistic activities, in which the art is subordinate to the knowledge. Touching upon the field of 'knowing without knowing' with measurable economic and or social impact.

I was an artistic researcher-in-residence at the National Psychiatry Museum in Haarlem (5 months), and Waag Society Institute for Art, Science, and Technology, Amsterdam (2 years). I was the tutor of the Honours Programme ART and RESEARCH of the University of Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (+3,5 years). My most renown work is Labyrinth Psychotica, a creative social entrepreneurial project aimed at changing the story of psychosis.

WE THINK THOUGHTS EVERY DAY

BUT WHAT IS A THOUGHT?!

If you could take one of your thoughts and place it in time and space, what would it look like? What material would it have, what color, what shape? How would it behave?

AN ARTISTS JOURNEY INTO THE PHYSICS OF THOUGHT