On the left of the frame, a man with cap and hoody on ladder is assembling art. The woman with pony tail is connecting a stage light to rig. A woman is standing on a ladder to secure a plug in a socket.

traction | Camp Notes | Basecamp | 2026

White elderly female person, horizontally positioned, watching a video projected onto ceiling. Their mobility aid leans against wall of space. A human-like object, in soft shiny materials. From ceiling a rotating sculpture of two neon torso's.
Two people are having conversation horizontally. The Black person with turquoise and orange shirt tells a story, while gesturing with hand to support content. White person listens. Both are beaming with crip joy.
A video of a tree, from the perspective of the tree trunk. Text message balloons represent people in conversation speaking alternately. Emoticon show joy during this inclusive and accessible exchange.
Rotating neon torso's, a learning object of a human-like figure of shiny pillows called the soft body. Pillows participants can lay down on when watching the video installation. TRACTION exhibited during Camp Notes at Basecamp in Utrecht.
Video installation TRACTION at Basecamp, showing the rotating neon torso's artist Jochen Lange created. The Joy Mariama Smith and Sandra in the background.
Black background. Neon torso's of a male and a female figure. Hundreds of tiny circles from a 3D pen form the two sculptures, exhibited while rotating and hanging from ceiling.
Video installation, torso's and the soft body are at the opposite end of the space.
A white piece of paper, size A5. Explaining the concept of crip, where it came from. What the concept refers to. And why it is important to find words that communicate ones' embodied experience in the world.
A white historical building in van Asch van Wijckstraat in Utrecht. This replica of the Pyke Koch work from 1940 is painted on the façade. Black background, a white woman in a red evening gown. Portrait of Mw. de Geer.
Seven people stand in a darkened exhibition space, video projection on ceiling, neon torso's slowly rotate. A light hits the shiny fabric of 'the soft body' human-like figure. Participants workshop 'Laboratory of pain' listen to Sandra. 
photo's:  Wang Xue Sophia  |  Tim van Loon  |  personal  collection
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