intervention 4 - July 2020 - art lous alert
mind your step
Time and circumstance repeatedly appear to have a major influence on the experience of a work of art and the impact that work of art has.
If in 2012 a work by Bart Drost is refused by the CEAC in Xiamen because of its "subversive and controversial nature", he responds with placing the artwork mind your step at CEAC: Watch your language!
In 2019, Drost mind will use your step on its own initiative and in an adapted version at the staircases of Museum Het Valkhof, which many consider impassable: Watch out, don't fall!
In the first week of July 2020, Kunstluis will give the message mind your step out loud through the museum rooms, remembering the call regarding the corona policy: Watch out, keep your distance!
Already on the first day that Kunstluis has drawn up his Intervention 4 - Bart Drost's installation mind your step - in the museum, angry visitors complain about the volume of the megaphones and the tempo at which the texts follow each other. It even goes so far that a visitor switches off the megaphones with his own hands. In order not to run the risk that Intervention 4 should unexpectedly be stopped prematurely, Kunstluis was forced to work on the installation specially adapted for this presentation.
So as of Wednesday, July 8, the message mind your step no longer sounded as loud as the artist wanted and the lyrics could be heard at greater intervals. Those who visited the museum with a visit and who thought 'what a tame installation': they were absolutely right. Kunstluis invited them through a wall text to reinforce this weakened installation by loudly saying "MIND YOUR STEP!".
In 2019, Drost mind will use your step on its own initiative and in an adapted version at the staircases of Museum Het Valkhof, which many consider impassable: Watch out, don't fall!
In the first week of July 2020, Kunstluis will give the message mind your step out loud through the museum rooms, remembering the call regarding the corona policy: Watch out, keep your distance!
Already on the first day that Kunstluis has drawn up his Intervention 4 - Bart Drost's installation mind your step - in the museum, angry visitors complain about the volume of the megaphones and the tempo at which the texts follow each other. It even goes so far that a visitor switches off the megaphones with his own hands. In order not to run the risk that Intervention 4 should unexpectedly be stopped prematurely, Kunstluis was forced to work on the installation specially adapted for this presentation.
So as of Wednesday, July 8, the message mind your step no longer sounded as loud as the artist wanted and the lyrics could be heard at greater intervals. Those who visited the museum with a visit and who thought 'what a tame installation': they were absolutely right. Kunstluis invited them through a wall text to reinforce this weakened installation by loudly saying "MIND YOUR STEP!".