Maarten Boekweit

In this project I try to teach people on the south side of Chicago a dance inspired by the movements I made during my job in the Netherlands as a trash man. I call it a 'trashcan' dance.

This is a project where I searched for places in the city where I could scream freely. That where places where I felt free enough to scream but also didn't alarm other people with my scream. I made stages an each place and put them in a map.

a similar gesture as in the video painting the chewing gum only now on a plate of chip wood

I showed paintbuckets with labels with the descriptions of the colours inside buckets

A walk trough the city center with shoes with lang laces

This cube (on the picture) was made without knowing exactly why but I wanted it to be big. That it wouldn’t fit through doors I didn’t mind so much. The solution I found for this situation was that I would saw each part seperately and later glue it all together. When I was finished sawing I stood before the choice: Shall I glue it together inside or outside the space? Because if I would glue it inside the cube would never come out, but if I’d glue it outside the cube could never come in again. My thoughts were that it may be better that the cube can still go everywhere and never come in, than for it to be stuck inside forever. And when the cube stood in front of the door and the rest of my work was inside I could see clearly what I had made: It was a cube made without knowing why, that could not fit through the door and because of that could not stand with the other works I was presenting.

I discovered that the remains of chewing gums on the ground around the busstop show a very natural array: dense around the busstop and gradually less as it spreads out. To point this out I painted them pink with acrylic.

four drawings with a man who's going of the slide with a turd. I thought the slide looked like a intestinal canal