For the minor: Public/Private, I initiated a collective with academy students to set up a safety-net for creative continuation after graduation this year.

For the end exhibition of this minor I did a performance with the help of the collective and performed a spoken manifesto with images, sound in a, on purposely chosen, exaggerated (sect-like) set-up. This manifest is about having a post-academic collective and why it is necessary and important for art graduates.
The manifest is written by myself, I am a member of the collective, therefore we performed as if we were one person, the tone-of-voice of the manifest. Because of the specific, ONE tone of voice this performance ended looking like a strict sect, almost manipulated to speak on behalf of another person.

I chose for this aggregation to show the will for help of the collective when you are in a close group as The Missing Collective. But I also want to make a statement with this experiment that group dynamics, behaviour and so a collective spirit can be really influential and that is also happening in other kind of groups in society; communicates, politics etcetera. After this experiment I acknowledge some anxiety on group dynamics, how they can evolve easily with a certain drive and power of a leader and where the member's individual meaning becomes less important than the collective one.

Aesthetics: this look I chose to show (graphic) design diversity with a clashing use of color, noise and hysterical design to talk in a so called non-design. It had no specific reasons with the aesthetic background of the collective, but it was a one-day event, and therefore an "one day design". The performance of the manifesto was an experiment, and so was the design that came with it. I played with basic forms, type and colours to make it look aggregating, screaming (positive of negative) to get attention for text itself and not for trends, typesetting, font-choice, hierarchy, composition or design balance.