DAY 5

The last works are produced at MU. We make sound recordings at Bjorn Telkamps studio. The strategy for installation day becomes more clear. 

Erik and Suzanne at work.

Placards getting dry.

Erik and Suzanne mixing paint.

Work with stencils outside MU.

Suzanne, Mirthe, Sarie, Martijn, Erik and coffee.

Coffee break in the demonstration factory.

Angela, Mirthe and Sarie surfing the World Wide Web.

Angela painting a psychological term.

Angela in warm boots.

Angela and Mirthe painting words.

A coctail of messages to infiltrate Queensday.

Martijn, Bjorn, Erik and Angela making sound recorings.

Bjorn and Martijn at the sound studio. 

DAY 4

We move from the Van Abbemuseum to MU. Production continues. Some works from the day before are replaced with new concepts. The Dutch queen enters the workshop.

Angela painting QR codes.

Full activity in the workshop.

Sarie with a scalpel.

Queen Beatrix placards.

More Queen Beatrix placards.

Jordy painting Queen Beatrix.

Erik starts the day. 

DAY 3

A constructive day for all, on which our concepts begin to materialize. Signs and t-shirts are painted, we make designs for badges, screenprints and stencils, and there is a prototype made for a ‘zakloop-dress’.

Dutch traditions and art history being tweaked.

Making Dutch signs wearing Dutch overalls. 

Analysing Dutch traditions.

Erik is listening carefully.

Erik, Martin and Suzanne painting.

Mirthe and Angela preparing digital print files.

Martin, Suzanne and Erik painting boards orange.

Sarie and Mirthe discussing strategy.

Jordy painting t-shirts. 

Angela and Mirthe taking a break.

Work in progress.

More work in progress.

The Dutch queen with a big red hat.

Martijn making stencils.

Sarie and her shoes.

Erik and Martijn reaching for cookies.

Suddenly everyone is out of focus but Angela.

Concentrated work in the studio.

DAY 2

After a lot of discussion and talking we manage to get a hold on one common subject which we all agreed upon. Queensday seems to fit in our project as a day on which we all could project our individual ideas.

Graphic designer and artist Chris Lee is visiting the workshop.

Chris Lee is giving a presentation of his work.

The participants are brainstorming.

Ideas are exchanged and become concrete.

Various ideas and questions on the blackboard.

DAY 1

It’s Monday, 19th of April. The first day of the workshop/project “Demonstration Aesthetics” begins. Participants, mostly art student, enter the building of MU. When Erik Krikortz has introduced himself, the group is split into duos, the one person is introduced by the other and vice versa. “Demonstration Aesthetics” has lift of.

The introducion is followed up by showing various images of demonstration aesthetic aspects. A picture from Cuba where citizens are forced to join demonstrations to support their country, Geert Wilders followers, or gay movement activists. The message is clear: neither demonstrations nor their definitions are uniform.

During lunchtime we walk through the city of Eindhoven. While the sun is doing her best, the outside temperature is slowly rising -spring has come-, we exchange our ideas and thoughts concerning demonstrations. In the afternoon, our location has changed from MU to the Van Abbemuseum, we enter our workspace. Every participant tells about his or her ideas and other people react. Halfway through the afternoon we decide to have a closer look to the actual location for the final installation outside the museum.

What are the options and what is essential? Are there any no-gos, what are we going to do?

Discovering the sites outside the museum that could be used for the installation of the finished work. 

The workshop will take place on 19-23 April 2010, at the
Van Abbemuseum and MU in Eindhoven.