VANDALIZATIONS / Proposal for annual opening ceremony of Kunstvlaai API
(Amsterdam: Kunstvlaai API, 2008; Prague CZ: USandTHEM at Václav Špála Gallery, 2009)

The staged event Vandalizations took place during the opening of  the art show Kunstvlaai API, and consisted of six so-called hanggroepjongeren (loitering youths) and actors, who vandalized three parked cars within a timeframe of around eight minutes, using a range of different tools. The performance was developed in reaction to the many art works that had been vandalized by loitering youths during the past editions of Kunstvlaai. During the art show,the remains of the staged event functioned as a hangplek (loitering site), thus averting the attention from the other art works. The result was, that after the opening ceremony during which the cars had been vandalized, they were additionally damaged and sprayed with graffiti. The event was proposed to the organization of the Kunstvlaai as an annual opening ceremony.

Concept and production in cooperation with Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei