Scandinavia summer 2011

Found some left over photos from my wonderful trip to Finland.
Good life for a rabbit. Makes me feel wanting togo on a rabbit trip right now!

Left in my backpack

Poor rabbit.Has to fly all the way to New York and is then left in the apartment.

There was too much to see and do in NY to make my own rabbit plan. What a lot of rabbits do they have over there.

Love the chandelier in Anthropologie and Maurizio Cattelan's rabbit in the Guggenheim Museum

A nun with carrots and what to do?

There was quiet a silent period for the rabbits.

This summer in Helsinki I came to the point some really interesting things were happening. But behind my back of course and I don’t have a camera crew to follow.

So I felt stuck in the project.

I see people with their phones taking pictures of me, pretending they are not.

And then this nun shows up from behind me and starts running towards me with the carrots.

It had nothing to with me but the coincidence was so big and the combination (me and the rabbit) and her with the carrots was super.

But we could not capture it.

So I’ am left a little clue less what to do next to make it all work.

Best thing is see what happens so I’ am taking a rabbit to New York next week.

It will be hopping around town especially Brooklyn between 21 till 28 December with me or other persons???. And see if I can discover a new trail for the project!

Close to you

I thought I was going to show the Finland trip in a logical order.

But since I was in Belgium yesterday this whole story came up.

May be it is a discussion on more campgrounds. Why do some people put their tent so close that you can hear them breath?

Are they crazy or what was the first what came out of my mouth. And yes I said it out loud. And Yes they can understand my language! 

So with no doubt winner during my holiday  ( I think of all my holidays) www.randstadprofessionals.be

From Delft to Finland and back.

It all started on the 1st of July in my old Volvo.

On the way through Germany to the ferry to Denmark.

From there on we would travel to Sweden and Finland.

Tent and bikes on board and many miles to go.

And seeing the rain fall on the window for hours.

Rabbits telling stories facebookpage

Art on the move/rabbits telling stories


You can follow me from now on at Rabbits telling stories at Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rabbits-telling-stories/174240102639281

The project art on the move has had many different formats.

While it all started with a dream to travel around the world with my artworks and be my own walking museum / gallery.

But I thought this was so complicated, so I tried different other formats first.

I enjoyed the experiment were people took a rabbit on tour enormous

Seeing the photo’s and film of that part of the project from all over the world was so inspiring and I met a lot of new people. Seen places on the planet I’ve never been to.

Made some real funny videos with Iris  Rethy she invited a rabbit for a swim in the seawho took and Ionica Smeets who explained some theories about networks. Jaap Mulder made the video rabbit old and new.

But since the cultural climate in the Netherlands is chancing my old plan seems to follow me around.

What the whole cultural confusion woke up in me is the strong feeling and desire that I love to be free and independent.

As a person and as an artist and no one can take that away from me.

The rabbit concept gives me the opportunity to be my own free walking around gallery and promotion platform for my own work. I can be my own sponsor and find new ways to share my art.

And no I cannot travel all year, but I’ am on the way a lot. So in this year of the rabbit I want to make a fresh start.

With the work title “Rabbits telling stories” I pick up my rabbits and go.

And start a new episode of the project. And answer my own call.

This weekend we leave in the direction of Denmark’s museum for modern art Louisiana, Helsinki (Kiasma), Jyväskylä, Kalmar, Archipelago national park and a few other places in Scandinavia.

New York around Christmas is a journey I will try to put together after the summer, with the Netherlands in between.

I hope the rabbits can create an inspiring story again.

(In Dutch we have a song” rabbit and me are very best friends, my rabbit and me we belong together. That is a good start of this new episode.) 

Rabbit/ art on the move reunion in Düsseldorf,

The nice thing about this project is you meet new people.

Sometimes you keep in touch.

And some times you have an opportunity to see them.

Last weekend I had the wonderful option to meet one of the first rabbit art on the move joiners Merryn Kritzinger.

She lives in Montreal (Canada) and I live in Delft (Netherlands).

Yesterday she performed with Cas Public the dance company were she works in Düsseldorf (Germany).

So we stepped in the car and drove to Düsseldorf.

Besides seeing each other we had the bonus to see her perform on stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_l4XT4rb48