projects by Foundation B.a.d
Foundation B.a.d is a non-hierarchic, self-regulated, non-funded artists' intiative
based in Rotterdam, NL.
The main aim of Foundation B.a.d is to provide space: permanent studios for
its members, projects spaces, temporary guest studios and residencies. Several
communal spaces are used by members and guests for artistic and social activities,
allowing for an exchange of ideas.
Foundation B.a.d consists of 11 members, graduated around 1990 from the Willem
de Kooning Academy of Fine Arts. Based on their individual activity as artists
they collaborate on projects related to their identity and aim as a group (and
on other site-specific situations).
In this collective practice they combine disciplines such as photography, graphic
and interactive design, architecture and public art, hosting, organising and
teaching. Hospitality and the exchange of ideas are central issues in these
projects.
The collective projects provide the necessary energy for the maintenance of
a studio complex (and vice versa) and question the artistic intentions on which
the foundation is based. > for more info see www.foundationbad.nl
2001-> SWAFB003 developing the inner garden next to the B.a.d building in collaboration with the neighbours
2001 ‘Oasism II, a proposal for Huis ten Bosch’, project
by the B.a.d Foundation [research of "oasism" as counterpart of nomadism,
B.a.d and neighbours as location] : 2nd in the exhibition series 'My Home is
Yours, Your Home is Mine', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
curators: Hou Janru, Jerome Sans, Mami Kataoka
2000 'Oasism I', project by the B.a.d Foundation
[research of oasism as counterpart of nomadism, presentation of 10 years of
receiving of guests and social exchange in B.a.d ] : 1st in the exhibition series
'My Home is Yours, Your Home is Mine', Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea, curators:
Hou Janru, Jerome Sans, Ahn Soyeon
2000 ‘Democracy!’, the project ‘Being There’
by the B.a.d Foundation, in the Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK :
7 gifts voor the communal spaces of 7 artists’ groups in London
1999 ‘Bad Weather’, openingsevent by B.a.d Enterprises, for
September in Rotterdam and TENT., Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam, NL: opening
of a space by ‘blocking’ the entrance by pouring water, creating an
umbrella representing all cultural institutes of Rotterdam, opening the space
to the street by a board walk, thus also creating a hanging area
doing PR work during the event
Bad Weather
1996 "My House : Your Home'
1995 ‘Binnenruimten’, by the B.a.d Foundation, in a series
of exhibitions of artists’ groups.The studio being the ‘common ground’
for B.a.d, we made an installation in which each member showed a video presenting
his/her views on ‘the studio’.
I made the text-based video [[handelingen_][‘Handelingen I,
II, III’]], and co-installed one of the installations (there were 7 different
ones by different members of B.a.d)