Baroeg Mulder

Deze video maakte ik op locatie, specifiek voor de expositie bij Mad Meg, in een voormalig bordeel. De dode nachtvlinder die ik in het raamkozijn vond, ligt op haar rug en is vanonder gefilmd. Alleen het rode licht boven haar flikkert zichtbaar.

You happen to be the one reading this. A partial report can only offer you partial access. Like an observation, it stays fragmented, like a piece of thought. In Partial Coverage, Baroeg Mulder makes a choreographic attempt to capture presence, and we are both witnessing and participating in it. The interchange amongst strangers, or people you know, becomes a readable act. Using broadcasting tools to fragment the surrounding spaces, Partial Coverage builds a rotating narrative that the viewer steps into for a moment. Presented at The Servers, Den Haag

(I) Looped conversation from a scene in the 1964 movie 'Juokse kuin varas'. The scene was filmed in the panorama restaurant Linnunrata on the top floor of the Tapiolan Keskustorni, the intended site for 'Full Pivot. (II) Panorama image composed of pictures of the panorama restaurant Linnunrata, received on WhatsApp from Ossi Pettilä in preparation of 'Full Pivot'.

Een installatie met twee gestapelde glasplaten: in de bovenste ligt een gehalveerde vlinder voor een camera die haar reflectie op het glas vastlegt. Deze registratie is zichtbaar op een klein schermpje in de onderste glasplaat.

De inhoud van een register dat ik tegenkwam op een openbare zwemplek in Ii, Finland, waarin winterzwemmers hun plons in het wak bijhielden, is uitgewist door een waterspat. De uitgelopen inkt verspreidt zich over de opeenvolgende pagina’s en neemt telkens een nieuwe vorm aan; achter elkaar geplaatst vormt de groeiende vlek een geanimeerde plons.

Een glas wijn verdampt in een tijdspanne van 3 uur.

A paved street is the center of attention to a network of cameras, routers and TV screens. The cameras zoom in on details of the pavement, devoting their attention to observing these tiles and the archive they hold. In the installation, the camera is subverted from its conventional role, not to capture moments of importance, but to highlight the continuous, unremarkable stream of daily activity, proposing a poetic alternative of the same reality that surrounds us every day; in our house, at our work, and on the street in between. Exhibited during the Graduation Show at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

They were the last ones remaining after everything was taken out; the chairs, the tables, the coffee breaks, the chit-chat. In an attempt to escape the void that remained, they found the crack in between the two layers of glass, and that’s where they spent their last moments, on their back, one eye on the outside world, and one on the empty office building that hosted their entire life.

They were the last ones remaining after everything was taken out; the chairs, the tables, the coffee breaks, the chit-chat. In an attempt to escape the void that remained, they found the crack in between the two layers of glass, and that’s where they spent their last moments, on their back, one eye on the outside world, and one on the empty office building that hosted their entire life.

It sometimes feels like this writing (,drawing, capturing) is all coincidental. Like the stream of thoughts runs and runs and writing is just a momentary registration of this stream. The moment when the needle touches a spinning record, or a cup is held under a waterfall. I like the cup with the waterfall more as a comparison. Although it’s also not really accurate. Anyways, the cup of water is filled and then that can continue to live a life. A more focussed one. Or it can be frozen or boiled or boiled with an egg in it. See, now it’s becoming too big again. Whoever thought it was a good idea to use water as a metaphor for writing?

A colaborative exhibition with Heidi Holmström, exploring the topic of ‘phatic utterances’. Diving into the functions of small talk and chit-chat. ‘Breakroom’ (Baroeg Mulder) One of the rooms in the exhibition takes the unmistakable form of a coffee breakroom. During scheduled coffee breaks the audience undergoes a process that starts with a cup of coffee and an automated response to the situation: performing the act of chit-chat, followed by a realisation of that performance, exposing the unspoken scripts we follow in certain situations. A collection of mugs with typical coffee-mug texts is provided for the coffee breaks.

‘A meeting on the second floor’ (Heidi Holmström and Baroeg Mulder) An iPad frames a part of two rooms and a door connecting them. The parameters of the frame are prominently marked with blue tape, visible to the audience, invisible to the camera.

20 minute performance