From Materiality to Humanity

In this Tutor Base, art is a means to ask questions around what it means to be human in a manner that is at once light- hearted, playful and serious. We all have our own story to tell. For us, as artists, as human beings, it is not only important what this story is, but also how it is told. This “how” contains much of our thinking. It is what we question each other about.

We invent rituals and games that are seemingly banal, but create moments of exchange, full of humour. These games help us suspend judgement about ourselves and others. These exchanges may involve making a work together, or playing a ball game. We also celebrate all of our birthdays twice a year.

We approach art as a sensory and hands-on adventure, in which human and social values are at stake. We are dedicated to making, to a way of thinking that is visual in nature and that exists in the interplay of what the hands, the eyes and the mind do. One of the aims is to build the courage to trust ourselves in the encounter with our desires, fears, dreams and intuitions. Through making, we explore how we can take up space in a social context, as artists, as humans.