The program is based on the commons and other forms of collaboration. Commons are shared natural resources such as water and air, but also texts, images or computer codes. Over the past year, work continued on a growing archive, in which associations and sometimes astonishing coincidences passed by. Participants continued to work on what was already there, added, bent the context, made their own. This group exhibition shows a bundle of the archive, not only work by the artists, but also the visual contributions of the poets.

When setting up the Altered Breath exhibition, three people involved (an artist, the curator and a Plaatsmaker) were guided exclusively by association and intuition. The entire, now immense archive was spread out on the large table and on the floor of the space. This is how it could happen that works from the archive that had previously remained unseen are hanging in a surprisingly coherent composition. This shows that a large group of people have worked on an image and text archive that creates connections between people in other ways, ways that may not be easy to interpret in text.

A reflection of the project in language and image has been brought together in the Plaatsmaken magazine Zevenblad #4. This magazine with art and poetry is published twice a year in a circulation of 100 and is available at Plaatsmaken and in our webshop.

Artists and poets: Marijn van Kreij, Ananda Serné, Astrid Nobel, Dorien de Wit, Bernice Nauta, Hannah van Binsbergen, Müge Yilmaz and Vicky Francken

Altered Breath is made possible by the Mondriaan Fund, the Province of Gelderland and the Municipality of Arnhem