Author: APN201
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Two Doors. One Person.
More than 30 years in IT, operations, security, film, and art, and no interest anymore in pretending those are separate lives.
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Try Everything, But Keep the Thread
The APN201 sites were rebuilt to make one diverse body of work easier to read without flattening every project into the same tone.
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The Installation I Sent Letters About in 2013
When Sleep was finished, I had a rough idea of how it should exist in the world. Not a cinema. Not a TV screen. Something more like a room you can actually be in. I imagined it projected onto a bed, or onto a wall above a bed. A space where someone could walk in,…
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Am I an Artist? I Don’t Know. But I Keep Making Things Anyway.
During my entire “artist career” (quotation marks very intentional), I’ve been stuck on two stupidly simple questions: What is art? Who is an artist? They sound easy. They are not. At some point I read a definition that stuck with me: “An artist is someone who sees something others cannot see, and then creates something…
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Sleep Is Back (Again?) – And Somehow in a Biennale
Now the latest episode: Sleep has been selected for Anozero 26 – Biennal de Coimbra. It will be shown as part of a Three Rooms installation, projected into a monastery room. Which is… kind of perfect, actually. If there is a place where watching someone sleep for eight hours makes conceptual sense, it’s probably a…
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Rotterdam, we meet again (again)
Back in 2015 I went to IFFR with an 8-hour film called Sleep. This felt excessive at the time, but Rotterdam handled it with admirable calm. In 2023 I returned, slightly older but no wiser, to play a cryptomillionaire in Matti Harju’s debut feature Natura. This, too, felt like a reasonable thing to do. Now…
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More is more
I have an endless curiosity for trying new things and technologies. AI might already feel like old news to many, but I’m still amazed by the insane pace at which it’s evolving. It’s funny how people instantly dismiss everything made with AI as “crap.” Sure, there’s a lot of crap—but like with any tool, the…
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The Rocker I Could’ve Been
Almost 40 years ago, there was a rip in the fabric of time. It split reality into an alternative timeline where, instead of getting a Commodore 64, I got a guitar. Now, because of another rupture in the timeline, information is leaking between dimensions—and we can finally see what happened.Let me present to you: APN201…