consensus is an art-research project, created during a residency period at Het Vijfde Seizoen (The Fifth Season). 

During the residency I worked together with clients of Altrecht Psychatric Institute in den Dolder in context of stigmatization around mental health. The project 'consensus' consists of a series of masks and attributes functioning as communication- and sensory-tools. 

With these body extensions a mutual deeper communication is possible without the need to speak. Some sort of connection between body and mind. By introducing the masks at spontaneous moments, encounters happened in a state of intimate distance.

 

These interactions and improvisations are documented in a series of film fragments.

 

Exhibition view of the objects, attributes and film during the exhibiton

‘See Overleaf’ /Beautiful Distress projectruimte, Amsterdam