I am an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to ‘radicalize the local’. My long-scale community-embedded projects combine performative actions, discussions, and other forms of organizing and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of their own futures.
In 2009, I worked for the Biennial on the public project 2up2down and listened to the people of Anfield and Everton during the ‘Housing Market Renewal’ Scheme about their hopes for the future of the area, discussing what alternatives could look like and how we could work towards taking matters in community hands. I negotiated with the Mitchell family to use their bakery building as our base camp and out of this the CLT and Homebaked bakery were born. I have stayed involved as a board member but more from my hometown of Rotterdam.
