Since May 2024 I rent studio M1 at the ground floor of the Zeeburgerdijk Artists' Studios in Amsterdam, Zeeburgerdijk 25. In the front part of the studio I plan to realise the non commercial project space 30m3 for presentations and collabs with other artists and designers. More information will follow. 

Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool announced performance Bijlmersymfonie on July 7 with Een monument voor en door bewoners van de Bijlmer, an article by Frederike Berntsen, and national NPO Radio 1 Journaal sent their reporter Vincent van Rijn who realised Bijlmersymfonie vanaf balkons van flat Geldershoofd. Next to that housing association Rochdale published a series of interviews on their website Ons Verhaal. All in Dutch.

New video installation Living Building - the outcome of performance Bijlmersymfonie at Geldershoofd in July - is part of BijlmAIR in Zuidoost 2024, a group show with all residents at the CBK Zuidoost residency in 2024. The show, curated by Renske de Jong, opens on Thursday December 12, 2024 and lasts until February 2025. My project is supported by CBK, Amarte Fonds, Cultuurfonds, Stadsdeel Zuidoost, Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Mondriaan Fonds and Rochdale. 

Open Studios at Zeeburgerdijk Artists' Studios will come up in May 2025 during Amsterdam Art Week, if we manage to get funding. Other artists include Irina Birger, Anika Schwarzlose, Esther Mugambi a.o. More information closer to the date. 

Early 2023 I was able to work again with ambulant street vendors in Yogyakarta on Parade. It had been three years since my last visit. In Amsterdam during Covid I wrote a composition with the sounds of the vendors i.c.w. composer Sinta Wullur. Back in Yogya, assisted by a local producer and conductor, I found the vendors and rehearsed the composition. The Development Budget of Amsterdam Fund for the Arts made the project possible until now. We also prepared for Parade as an actual performance which is planned to take place in 2025. For this we need new funding. 

After creating Hoef van Eden in Alkmaar I am investigating the possibilities to realise an artwork in public space, on a square in Amsterdam East, in a participation trajectory with elementary school children.

This year's edition of the CBK Zuidoost Zomersalon, with the theme Time, I'm again chairman of the professional jury, which consists of Merel Jansen, Raul Balai and myself. The exhibition opens on Saturday July 20 and lasts until Saturday August 31, with the announcement of the winners at 1 PM.  

Bijlmersymfonie (2024) is an experimental concert based on a music composition with existing songs submitted to me by residents of Geldershoofd, a high rise building in Amsterdam Southeast. The piece is performed by the residents themselves and can be heard from speakers at four balconies in the courtyard of the building. The concert will take place on Sunday July 7 at 3.30 PM. The work lasts 33 minutes and will be filmed. Bijlmersymfonie has partly been developed during the BijlmAIR residency of CBK Zuidoost. Next to CBK Amarte Fonds, Cultuurfonds, Stadsdeel Zuidoost, Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Mondriaan Fonds and Rochdale are supporting the project.