Exposition that took me by the throat. People protesting open pit-mining in Lützerat or cutting century-old trees in Hainsbach. Also Maidan, Ukrain, 2014. And Indian Farmers Protests in Delhi in 2020/2021. And many more. 

My host Michael helped organise protests against hydroelectric power plants  – Hainburg 1984 and Nagymaros on the borders of Danube river in the 1980ies. More about those protests: https://boku.ac.at/event/details/76836

Architecture starts where someones body occupies a space. So someone glued to the road is part of protest architecture.

In Vienna’s botanical garden I met a tree and a lotus

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?”

Plan your own residency: https://www.transartists.org/en/air/pop-art-house-osenovlag

Along the railway tracks

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?”

Plan your own residency: https://www.transartists.org/en/air/pop-art-house-osenovlag

Michael lives in a co-housing project with 70 appartments and shared rooms to meet, play, read, sauna, do laundry, herb garden I like it. In the heart of Vienna.

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?”

Plan your own residency: https://www.transartists.org/en/air/pop-art-house-osenovlag

Mark was reading Hamlet, which is about revenge to the murder of his father. I was reading Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock – which is about a future queen of The Netherlands in an overheated Texas. Mark was on a visit to his bishop, so he was a pelgrim of sorts, like me.

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?”

Plan your own residency: https://www.transartists.org/en/air/pop-art-house-osenovlag

‘Toepen’ and ‘Zweeds pesten’. Spoke about being pelgrims.

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too? Or do you know some art, or an old tree or someone you know I should meet?”

Met Rob en Marjolein, contacts through cycle community Warmshowers.com, they drive velomobiles. Cool, I am going to do a testdrive in Dronten – velomobiel.nl – when I am back. Had a good nights rest, railway station Hilversum is 3 minutes away, Interrail Pass is activated, I am ready for Vienna.

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?”

I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?

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