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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Accidents Waiting to Happen, installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Bianca, plaster, cast aluminium, iron wire, crutch, steel, 30 x 35 x 178 cm, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Isje, plaster, cast aluminium, textile, steel, 30 x 35 x 162 cm, 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Pancras, plaster, cast aluminium, wood, surgical drape, 40 x 40 x 140 cm, 2019

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Pancras (detail), plaster, cast aluminium, wood, surgical drape, 40 x 40 x 140 cm, 2019

Accidents Waiting to Happen

installation consisting of sculptures, endoscopic cameras, vinyl flooring, clock, and performance, dimensions variable, 2019

Accidents Waiting to Happen has been specially developed for the Prix de Rome 2019. The work is based on our research into the body language and behavioral patterns that characterize the various roles that are “staged” in the hospital. Both the choreography and the life-size sculptures can be understood as a representation of the physical gestures and movements that express feelings of pain, boredom, or concentration in the hospital.

The installation consists of a video installation, five sculptures and a performance. The sculptures are a series of portraits that form a cross section of a hospital: a doctor, a nurse, a director, a cleaner and a patient. Penetrating the wall are several endoscopic camera’s—which are also used to look into the body during surgery. The images of these camera’s are shown on two flatscreens, but with a delay. This delay is randomized: it can be a few seconds or several months. The empty space in the middle is activated by the the camera’s and the gaze of the sculptures, and becomes a stage for the performance in which actors, sculpture and audience take interchangeable roles.

Like the hospital, the modern art museum is a knowledge institute, known for its white walls. And the museum also seeks to create a sterile environment – for the preservation of art. We consider both spaces as sites of contemplation, where one can view life from a distance. By repeating scenarios and gestures from the hospital in the museum, both environments are integrated into a new image.

Performers: Camila Romero Lema, Christina Flick, Len Pillen, Luca Hillen and Merels Severs

Technical support: Jerke van den Braak

With thanks to: LUMC Leiden University Medical Center and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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