My name is Terry Janssen and I work since 22 years I try to make new forms of life and
these forms of life are not based on protein like the existing forms of life but I base
my my basic material is this plastic tubing which we use in Holland for cables in houses
that the beginning was that I use PVC because it was cheap and so available
I noticed that while making it how beautiful it became
how willing the material is as you notice if you heat it you can do anything with it
you can make pistons of it so it's really a new building construction material of life just like
protein so I tried to make everything of this plastic tubing and that became a sort of animals
which could walk and these animals they don't have to eat they get their energy from the winds
and I want them to live on the beaches in Holland my project is not only about
life in general it's also more or less about my own life and I was born almost on the beach
from my room I could look over the sea and I spent my youth a lot on this beach so the beginning
of my life I and still I live on the beach so it's also my personal life which plays a role in this
life itself gives me inspiration I'm very surprised like well we all are surprised
that we are here I guess I am surprised every day that I exist I wonder where it all came from
so I studied the evolution theory and that so Darwin could give me is my inspirator
our social structure is based on the social structure of animals we have lots of habits
which come from the monkeys also I feel that I'm a monkey I'm just an animal with all my strange
habits I try to solve the secrets of life I know I won't solve anything but at least you can solve
some secrets to have more insight in how it all came that we are here the strange thing of this
animal they seduce humanity somehow so they seduce humanity to take care of them so I hope that
that once you and I are gone that our children and grandchildren will take care of the strange things
technophallish it's very different from the sites where my work used to be shown normally it's in
the museum and so it's inside is a very very silent silence environment and here seems to be so
lively so lots of people who are running around and music and I think well lots of people which come
here are not usually in contact with the with the strange word of imagination and my my work is
sort of fairytale I would be very happy if people kept in contact with imagination so they kept in
contact with another world apart from their world of reality that you have to go to work and all those
things of course this has to be done this work has to be done but it's also nice that people
have imagination in their lives because in my opinion life without imagination is no life it's
nothing
