15/05/2026
In March, students from spent 24 hours at Kunsthuis Syb to experience working in residence. We share some of the students’ reflections, and thoughts about their one day one night art residency at Beetsterzwaag, Friesland.
▫️This year’s question: “What does fuel for art look like when you are under a time constraint?” ▫️
𝟚𝟜-𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕪 𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕪 - Elfriede Roest and Luka Grimbergen
24 hours, you’d think that’s a lot of time, well it flew by. Especially when you are researching, 24 hours feel like nothing. But then again, what is the difference between observing and researching? In these hours you don’t stop living, you still need to eat food, do the dishes, do the laundry and take care of the stuff you have laying around... and well, you know, sleep for preferably 8 hours. Those are the familiar things, the rituals that we can’t really run from.
But it does kind of become different when you are in the very specific time and place for one reason and one reason only: ART. I experienced that being in a completely different surrounding with the sole purpose of art is rather freeing.
What did we do? Walk in the forest, take pictures, film some stuff, try flint knapping, Connecting with the surrounding and history of the place, talk about various subjects but doing crazy deep dives on those. Kind of like an expedition like Dora or Diego would do. Observing first, taking notes and then afterwards filtering, thinking. Not even the making process really.
24 hours is way too short in my practice to produce a finished art piece afterwards. But well, the spear points were somewhat of an art piece. And I didn’t even talk about our lovely museum visit that we also managed to fit into that very short time frame…
