Would you go to a city, which you've never visited before, and lock yourself up in a building for one week and then go back to where you came from?I have participated in a project called Blinded Tourist. Visual artist Mariëlle Videler was in charge as she was intensively involved in the project which lasted for eight days inside the art gallery called W139.
Check out an
old blogpost of mine about this gallery.
Four artists, who were chosen out of 59, have never been to Amsterdam and will not see Amsterdam in reality but will experience their whole trip through visitors of W139 and the reporters. I was one of the reporters and took pictures around the city of subjects which were requested by the artists.
Part of the expo including my work (hanging pictures).
Zhou Bin (from China) wanted to see '
old people'.
Davide Savorani (Italy) wanted to see me in my house. The picture in this picture was taken in my bathroom... :)
And this is the paper house (paper and wood) where they spent the nights. Inside, there's only a mattress...(and of course their personal belongings, like clothing, a suitcase, etc.)
On friday, april 2nd, it's the opening of a new exposition called:
Doktor Faustus. And this picture shows a secret preview of the expo...
