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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ part two This second part of the report about the KODAMA residency at La Pommerie – the focus shifted to ‘topics’ and not just daily walks. hunting season The morning of the 19th day – I woke up in my tent to the sound of packs of dogs and gun fire somewhere to the [...]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ part one Starting august 24th, 2009 – I have begun a residency with Hitoshi Kojo and our KODAMA project at APPLEBOOOM in La Pommerie, France. This hamlet has a summer population of 10 and a permanent population of 2. We will be here until our final presentation which is October 3rd. As it is [...]

during the last few months in belgium i had the pleasure to become friends of the folks behind [canard sauvage, nothing out there, przewalski's horses, the waste & the trees] aurélie brouet & constantin dubois – we decided to find locations within which we could use the existing ambience, resonace and spirt to play. on [...]

some years ago – living in grenoble, france and later in montreal, canada – i began to hear the word ‘urbanism‘ as a study of city and civic design. this is something that comes to mind again while re-settling in berlin. riding around on a bike on a very early spring day. realizing that there [...]

Mithi River Walk Project My friend Rajivan Ayyappan is out on the road – mapping a river that starts outside of Bombay and passes through the city – check out his personal blog above. Here is his description of the project: Sound mapping Mithi river: a sound creation as part of an exhibition SOAK: Mumbai’s [...]

Returning to a wintery Vermont – I decided to take my regularly scheduled flight back to Belgium, in lieu of extending my North American stay. Many reasons for this – but number one was to see my lovely friend Sachiyo, who came out to meet me the morning I arrived. Another good sign was that [...]

again – the contrasts continue… back from snowy vermont – resettling in brussels, belgium – and thinking about one year ago – when i began my collaboration with shumona goel (see Family Tree) in mumbai… the visit to future east, chor bazar, working out at the ‘intuitionalist’s den’ of nagaon, and visits further down the [...]