Father, can't you see i'm burning

Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? allows us – as artists, audience and curators – to infiltrate the building of de Appel arts centre, testing different tools and inhabiting existing infrastructure. In doing so, we twist conventions into losing sight of their assigned functions and force them to mutate in a strikingly subtle way. For example, marketing platforms become exhibition spaces, presentation spaces become studios, storage rooms become stages, stairwells become sofas, and collaboration becomes corruption. Conjured from the ashes of a radical inheritance, this project loosely reconsiders an important non-event, an exhibition that never happened… namely, that of the Situationist International’s** proposal to Willem Sandberg to build a labyrinth in the Stedelijk Museum, in 1959.