SABRINA BASTEN
SABRINA BASTEN

 

‘My Space, Your Space, Our Space: My Space’ took place from March 6 to June 6, 2010 at exhibition space Roodkapje in Rotterdam.
Four spatial interventions, continuously open to the public, developed through a constant dialogue between each other and the interested visitor. I organized lectures/presentations within each installation, covering topics from science, music to digital research.
Accompanied by manifestos written for my practice by artist-colleagues.

Manifesto for Sabrina Basten
- by Jonas Staal

1. My work is not only about material
2. My work is never just about repetition
3. My work is never just about space
4. In my work material, repetition and
space is always at the service of experience
5. The experience that my work brings forth is
never only to define in terms of material, repetition and space
6. I engage the body and the mind of the visitor
in my work
7. Physical and mental experience of the visitor
are equal to each other in my work
8. Material, space and repetition are the keys with
which I engage the body and mind of the visitor
in my work
9. The experience my work produces in the visitor
creates a new space, which otherwise
could not exist
10. I am hospitable

'#1'

This installation consists of about 1000 Styrofoam balls fixed to a grid to provide the exact distance between every ball.
Only the height differs with each ball, creating a cloud of randomness within a clear structure.
Link to presentation by José María Viña Rebolledo

6. March 2010
styrofoam balls, metal grid, fish thread
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

Manifesto for Sabrina Basten
-by Laura d’Ors

If there were no threads…
but there are threads, visible and invisible,
of all shapes, colours and materials,
old threads, new threads,
the threads we still don’t know,
threads that move in space and time,
holding things together against their volatile nature,
binding it all
so the things don’t go away yet
and stay instead for a while in this room
to give me the time to show you
the possible contained explosion of events and ideas,
a chain of numbers, questions and exclamations;
to give me the time to have it all, tie it all
and give you the nature of the world:
the wonderful subtle balance
between being free and remaining interconnected.

'#2'


The second room was painted orange in its totality (floor, walls, and ceiling). I created a room-sized 'mind map' on all walls during a period of two weeks (see also my installation 'messy mind map'). The visitor could not only read through my associations on the wall, but experience a particular function of the brain - the brain tries to balance between cold and warm light, if a lot of warm light gets through the human eye, looking aside we see a blue layer on top of everything else we see. After reading the white text on the orange background the visitor looks at the white styrofoam balls (#1) which are looking blue for a fraction of time.

1. April 2010
orange paint, white pencil
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

Manifesto for Sabrina Basten
-by Diederik Klomberg

rearrangement

what

Everything changes in the large field
The field itself has no form
No particle is added and none taken away
In the density of the field things manifest themselves
in constantly changing guises.
We call this evolution
Development and change are no synonyms
A caterpillar, a cocoon, a butterfly.

Nothing stands in itself, everything is the opposite to what it is.

What is the form of a thought?
Wild ideas are nothing more than the displacement
and rearrangement of particles.
They do not stand alone but be what they are
by other manifestations.
What is useful remains. What seems of no use will expire and rearranges itself

For how long

If you accept that everything is temporary and a subject of
constant change
you can see the impermanence of beauty
with the confidence that the experience will manifest its beauty
in one way or another.
They resemble each other, experience and memory, as a thought in a word.

If an object is an artwork you may think that they are materialized
thoughts.
An environment is a shaped void in which the observer's blueprint
rearranges the artwork to lift it over the time.
A constant process of recreation.
We do not have to keep anything because we lost nothing.

For as long it lasts

#3

This installation was situated in the basement of the project space. Each surface of the room was covered with blue stretch fabric which faded away all corners, the only light was coming from the ceiling behind the blue fabric. The moment you would step into this installation your eyes were blinded by darkness, just after some moments you could walk and explore the space. Another result was the disorientation, not knowing where you are in relation to the rest of the project space. Painting the floor upstairs the same color blue, all three installation got visually connected.

Link to presentation by Philipp Lammer and Gordan Savicic

6. May 2010
blue stretch fabric
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

#4

This installment was the last one during the 3 months project. All installations were taken down and the spaces were painted white. In one room you could see a photograph of each installation with on the opposite wall the printed version of each manifesto. The documentation video was projected on a wall in the entrance space. The project space was turned into a white cube with only the documentation being the evidence of what used to be there.

4. june 2010
white paint, photographs, video
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

 

‘My Space, Your Space, Our Space: My Space’ took place from March 6 to June 6, 2010 at exhibition space Roodkapje in Rotterdam.
Four spatial interventions, continuously open to the public, developed through a constant dialogue between each other and the interested visitor. I organized lectures/presentations within each installation, covering topics from science, music to digital research.
Accompanied by manifestos written for my practice by artist-colleagues.

Manifesto for Sabrina Basten
- by Jonas Staal

1. My work is not only about material
2. My work is never just about repetition
3. My work is never just about space
4. In my work material, repetition and
space is always at the service of experience
5. The experience that my work brings forth is
never only to define in terms of material, repetition and space
6. I engage the body and the mind of the visitor
in my work
7. Physical and mental experience of the visitor
are equal to each other in my work
8. Material, space and repetition are the keys with
which I engage the body and mind of the visitor
in my work
9. The experience my work produces in the visitor
creates a new space, which otherwise
could not exist
10. I am hospitable

'#1'
This installation consists of about 1000 Styrofoam balls fixed to a grid to provide the exact distance between every ball. Only the height differs with each ball, creating a cloud of randomness within a clear structure.
Link to presentation by José María Viña Rebolledo

6. March 2010
styrofoam balls, metal grid, fish thread
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

Manifesto for Sabrina Basten
-by Laura d’Ors

If there were no threads…
but there are threads, visible and invisible,
of all shapes, colours and materials,
old threads, new threads,
the threads we still don’t know,
threads that move in space and time,
holding things together against their volatile nature,
binding it all
so the things don’t go away yet
and stay instead for a while in this room
to give me the time to show you
the possible contained explosion of events and ideas,
a chain of numbers, questions and exclamations;
to give me the time to have it all, tie it all
and give you the nature of the world:
the wonderful subtle balance
between being free and remaining interconnected.

'#2'

The second room was painted orange in its totality (floor, walls, and ceiling). I created a room-sized 'mind map' on all walls during a period of two weeks (see also my installation 'messy mind map'). The visitor could not only read through my associations on the wall, but experience a particular function of the brain - the brain tries to balance between cold and warm light, if a lot of warm light gets through the human eye, looking aside we see a blue layer on top of everything else we see. After reading the white text on the orange background the visitor looks at the white styrofoam balls (#1) which are looking blue for a fraction of time.

1. April 2010
orange paint, white pencil
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

Manifesto for Sabrina Basten
-by Diederik Klomberg

rearrangement

what

Everything changes in the large field
The field itself has no form
No particle is added and none taken away
In the density of the field things manifest themselves
in constantly changing guises.
We call this evolution
Development and change are no synonyms
A caterpillar, a cocoon, a butterfly.

Nothing stands in itself, everything is the opposite to what it is.

What is the form of a thought?
Wild ideas are nothing more than the displacement
and rearrangement of particles.
They do not stand alone but be what they are
by other manifestations.
What is useful remains. What seems of no use will expire and rearranges itself

For how long

If you accept that everything is temporary and a subject of
constant change
you can see the impermanence of beauty
with the confidence that the experience will manifest its beauty
in one way or another.
They resemble each other, experience and memory, as a thought in a word.

If an object is an artwork you may think that they are materialized
thoughts.
An environment is a shaped void in which the observer's blueprint
rearranges the artwork to lift it over the time.
A constant process of recreation.
We do not have to keep anything because we lost nothing.

For as long it lasts

#3

This installation was situated in the basement of the project space. Each surface of the room was covered with blue stretch fabric which faded away all corners, the only light was coming from the ceiling behind the blue fabric. The moment you would step into this installation your eyes were blinded by darkness, just after some moments you could walk and explore the space. Another result was the disorientation, not knowing where you are in relation to the rest of the project space. Painting the floor upstairs the same color blue, all three installation got visually connected.
Link to presentation by Philipp Lammer and Gordan Savicic

6. May 2010
blue stretch fabric
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)

#4

This installment was the last one during the 3 months project. All installations were taken down and the spaces were painted white. In one room you could see a photograph of each installation with on the opposite wall the printed version of each manifesto. The documentation video was projected on a wall in the entrance space. The project space was turned into a white cube with only the documentation being the evidence of what used to be there.

4. june 2010
white paint, photographs, video
Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)