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Swinging Art House is a predominantly straw-bale-douglas-wood house being built (nov 2018 – nov 2020) by us, Ellen Winkel and Jos Bregman. Because the house has a slope and a cirkel and an angle and a vortex roof – and a tree house on top and a greenhouse attached and a veranda also – we felt it was swinging. Because Jos is an artist and is adamant of putting wood samples of his social tree installations into swing, we decided to make the house as a work of art.
First things first: the straw originates from Kees de Vissers neighbour, in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (NL), the douglas trees grew at the Belgium village le Grives. But how does using wood samples of Jos’ social installations make the house a work of art?

People who buy a sample are my audience and they help me ‘remixing’ the original whole of the tree. They help me by putting a marker with some words on the online SET-map that shows the new location of their sample. Both the collection of all markers on the map, and the database of all ID’s represent the wholeness of the tree in a new arrangement. The tree is so to say rearranged, or remixed.

As I have many ongoing SET’s, I will integrate samples in many forms into our Swinging Art House. Thus, I make it into an inverse variant of my Slow Exploding Tree performances:. It is a Slow Imploding Forest of Sampled Trees.