On 21st September I made a sign:
I N V I T A T I O N
I have an invitation for you... Just come and ask me for it.
I wanted to invite people to approach me for a paper invitation which began:
Beste buur/Dear Neighbour
Hierbij nodig ik je uit, om mij uit te nodigen, om je te vergezellen tijdens een van je dagelijkse openbare bezigheden. /
I would like to invite you, to invite me, to join you, in an act of your everyday public life.
Ik ben geïnteresseerd naar het openbare leven in Amsterdam. Wellicht kunnen we samen er iets over uitvinden terwijl we wat tijd met elkaar door brengen, als stadsgenoten, als onbekenden die een stad delen. /
I am interested in finding out what public life is made of. I’m hoping we can learn something about it, while spending a little bit of time together as strangers who share a city.
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For the next few weeks I used my sign in a number of locations in the city...
Eliah was the first person to ask me for an invitation. He asked if he could make this picture of me and if I would make this one of him.
This represents one part of the Beste Amsterdam (Dear Amsterdam) project. See also Beste Amsterdam: Bicycle Derive and Five Minutes for other fragments
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Marloes van der Hoek
