{"id":73360,"date":"2016-10-28T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=73360"},"modified":"2016-10-28T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T06:00:50","slug":"ddw-special-six-snaps-seven-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/ddw-special-six-snaps-seven-pipes\/","title":{"rendered":"[DDW Special] Six snaps, seven pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday afternoon, 23 September<\/em><\/p>\n

She casts her eyes around her workshop in search of her drink. \u201cWhere\u2019s my coffee? I\u2019ve already had too much coffee today, actually,\u201d says designer Tessa Koot \u2013 although you can\u2019t really call her a designer anymore. \u201cBut I think \u2018artist\u2019 sounds so pedantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Koot\u2019s workshop is in Sectie-C, a place where artists and other creators have gathered. Her workplace is tucked away on one of the side streets of the old industrial estate. A desk stands on the dust-covered concrete floor and in the corner lies lots of stuff or, rather, art: pictures, furniture, wood, and everything else in between.<\/p>\n

Koot, whose blonde hair, grey jumper and black jogging bottoms are all flecked with white paint, has been asked to produce a creation for Dutch Design Week (DDW). She wants to snap\u00a0two lampposts in a number of places to form a heart with them. \u201cLike two straws.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShall we discuss it over here on the terrace?\u201d The waitress asks what we want to drink. \u201cI\u2019ll have a coffee,\u201d says Koot. A teaspoon of sugar, two glugs of milk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always used to draw hearts when I was on the phone. I love that it\u2019s such a kitsch symbol.\u201d According to Koot, the world of design depends on aesthetes who take everything very seriously. \u201cThe most important thing is that this work doesn\u2019t have any message.\u201d<\/p>\n

She just needs to find the time to make it. And she also needs to decide how exactly to do it. Can you really snap\u00a0a lamppost?<\/p>\n

Ben Hohmann is sought for advice. He\u2019s a creator with a workplace around the corner from Koot\u2019s workshop at Sectie-C. Hohmann, who sports an old-fashioned curly quiff and equally old-fashioned, large-framed glasses, certainly knows his stuff. \u201cThe structure of a lamppost is lost when it\u2019s hit, so that\u2019s not going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hohmann and Koot switch into brainstorming mode. Various ideas are considered. Does the piece have to be anchored to the ground or mounted on a special platform? What colour will the posts be? \u201cGold!\u201d How big do they have to be? \u201cThe work has to go outside and needs to be idiot-proof.\u201d OK, so the lampposts have to hang at least three metres off the ground.<\/p>\n

The question remains of how to make the structure sturdy enough. \u201cI have an idea.\u201d Hohmann runs over to his workplace and returns with an iron pipe. \u201cLook, if you weld a slightly thinner tube here in a small corner and then use another smaller one, you\u2019ll be able to recreate the snapped\u00a0lamppost.”<\/p>\n

After some doubt, Koot agrees. \u201cBut it has to look like a real lamppost.\u201d A total of seven pipes with six snapping points\u00a0are needed for each lamppost to make one side of the heart. There\u2019s one more month to get it done.<\/p>\n

Thursday evening, 6 October<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe posts are coming along,\u201d says Koot on the phone. And only slightly delayed. The lamppost heart will go up on Saturday, 22 October. It will be anchored to\u00a0the ground \u201cfor the chic-factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The work will go up on De Markt in the city centre, near the Coolcat. The lamppost that\u2019s already there needs to be replaced. \u201cThe post is dented from all the lorries that have hit it.\u201d But how will the new one stay dent-free? \u201cWe\u2019re still thinking about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the work will only go up at the end of DDW, it certainly won\u2019t disappear any time soon. The idea is to keep it up for maybe two or three years. \u201cThat\u2019s why I wanted to do lampposts\u00a0\u2013 an intervention of what\u2019s already there. I didn\u2019t want to make something that only made sense during DDW.\u201d It\u2019s a kind of legitimate vandalism.<\/p>\n

Koot\u2019s part of the project will be over after DDW, but that doesn\u2019t mean the lampposts can\u2019t be used for anything else. There\u2019s always the Glow light festival, for example. \u201cI\u2019d actually really like it if techies wanted to do something fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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