Bien Carel
Works
observing a space (2026)

Project with Aron Brouws, Damian Staicu, Dora Papaspyropoulou, Miki Louloudi and Gintautė Siniakovaitė



the space,
no specific function or form,
located between two destinations.

lines and planes that converge.
walls,
a floor, a ceiling, a door,
perhaps
a window.

the act,
an examination of the space.
observe,
react,
look, move, listen,
touch, smell.

record, distort, mark,
highlight,
caress, remove.
sounds echoing through,
movements following up, changes of position,
multiple points of view.

the intention,
a field observation through an improvised routine,
interaction
and interruption.

a shifting exchange gets created,
it becomes and
then it changes,
movements through and with the space,
traces of presence
and attention.

the altered state of the space
is in constant flux,
continuously becoming something else.






How do you move through space? What is this dimension we categorise as space? We can go left or right, up or down, forward or backward. Lines and planes function as the space we move in, but how do we move? What does our presence do to a space? And what does the presence of space do to us?

We investigate a space through embodied methods of field observation and description. Our approach consists of improvised routines which include acts of interaction and interruption. This creates a collection of observations–mapping the temporary state–creating a shifting exchange.

During the performance we apply a practice of spatial attention. We look, record, remove, touch, caress, and distort. These acts change the room during the twenty minutes we inhabit it. The altered state of the space is in constant flux, continuously becoming something else. We try to make sense of the space by all answering the question about how and what we observe in it. It becomes and then it changes. There is no beginning, and no ending, just a space.