VITAL SOURCES:
I am learning to choose aliveness
Michiel Teeuw & others, 2020-2026
“I am going to the rock formation. I am spinning circles rapidly. I am looking around me. I am positively engulfed by the stimuli merging into faded streams of color and movement and sound I am balancing jumping raising horizon flash betweenness and waterlines centrifugal being aquatic and cloud. I am able to give into the unparsedness of that. I am feeling full of life.”
How do we move from exhaustion and extraction towards vitality and stimulation? This question steered Michiel Teeuw into six years of learning from living, making art, reading, talking to people and meeting with landscapes. VITAL SOURCES is a record of this process, moving into a plethora of directions, regions, knowledge domains, genres and tones of voice. Throughout the chapters, a call and response is established with eight invited contributors in different media. The whole forms a meandering journey, inviting you to reflect and learn along.
Wadden - Exhaustion - Dolmens - Neurodissident - Dutch Caribbean - Extraction - Peace - Performance
Michiel Teeuw is an artist & researcher interested in the overlap of the personal and systemic. Teeuw’s practice centers the pleasure and liberation of learning from and with others. Teeuw lives and works in Grunnen, Grunnen, Netherlands.
zandbank place is an ongoing series of artist books dealing with topics like critical ecology, decoloniality, landscape, indigeneity and regionality.
| contributors: | Michiel Teeuw featuring featuring Lakisha Apostel, Siem de Boer, Momo Columi, Cissy Joan, Milly, Jan Evert Musch, Mikaela Martinez Parente and Bakita Pietrowicz |
| size: | 110*180mm |
| pages: | 256 (incl cover) |
| price: | €25,- |
| for sale at select bookstores |
Audio version:
coming soon