The animal leans the head on the bars of the run. For the last time, the chicken lifts its head and opens its beak. Small pests crawl on and around the eye socket. Halfway through the video, the chicken collapses and body fluids flow out of its beak. The flow slows down to a steady drip. The head is now bent forward and rests on a piece of green grille of the chicken coop. - Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015)

Museums won't put their art collection in the garbage because they have taken care long enough. With public art works however, especially in the Netherlands, it seems a normal practice. Lots of art in public space is just being destroyed. In this research project young artists video-registered what factors and actors determine the fate of cultural heritage.They implicitly outline the contours of a new vulnerable generation in a hardened politicized artistic climate. This group of artists managed to play a crucial role of significance.

hey paarth, what about the atom bomb? resituates the Bhagavad Gita's knowledge of humankind within the social and political circumstances that permitted the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima - a historical fact that continues to defy our thinking, the notion of an ethical progress of humanity.

Theodor Paleologu reflects on Bucharest public space, 2016

Fr. Dr. Mihai Iordache reflects on Bucharest public space, 2017

In 1957 the Russian Sputnik brought covid-19 into orbit, where it circled around over time. Recently it made its way back to earth but decisively sent back into space once more. It is a hoax, criticism on conspiracy thinking, or just a fantasy? The film was produced within the project 'The World After' by de Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

One village church, three preachers and the inevitable change of the religious and social values in the Hoeksche Waard.

Two film: In Between Blue Waves and Green Corridors and Hey paarth, what about the atom bomb? on Documenta 15, Kassel.

JAVA is the first film within the project History-Memory-Commemoration, a long-term collaboration between artist Iswanto Hartono and researcher Mirwan Andan, both members of the Indonesian collective Ruangrupa, and Dutch artist Hans van Houwelingen. The project aims to produce eight films, each recorded on specific locations in Indonesia and the Netherlands, that relate to their shared colonial history: Java, Aceh, Nias, Netherlands, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Moluccas and Papua.

History, Memory, Commemoration is a research project by researcher Mirwan Andan (Makassar), artists Iswanto Hartono (Jakarta/Kassel) and artist Hans van Houwelingen (Amsterdam/Berlin). The project will result in eight films, each recorded on specific locations in Indonesia and the Netherlands that relate to a shared colonial history. The first film JAVA is recorded in Jakarta and was released in February 2024, the second film ACEH in September 2024. This film was recorded in Aceh and pictures how history is remembered and commemorated within the specific Aceh culture. It shows the influences of tradition, islam, politics, education, historiography and fashion on the way history is experienced, shared and passed on to next generation.