This book as a site fluctuates between moment and stability, between the informal, the immediate and the on-going.

It embodies the drifting of our projects and working, engaging with functionality, site sensitivity, and in-depth reading into what establishes a 'space of experience'.

This book as a site is continuously in a state of becoming, an active dynamic construction, a support system for a way of thinking, acting, and practicing.

Since 1995, Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol work together as Bik Van der Pol. They work and live in Rotterdam (NL). Their work emphasizes research-based collaboration and the activation of encounters, fostering the dissemination of knowledge and communication through dialogue as a methodology of ‘pasing through’.

They see art as a verb: as a process, performance, training, and as a cultural technique. As an activity to turn existing knowledge against itself, to influence our ability to see, hear, feel things differently, to trust that ability, to make public, and to set ones' own conditions. To ask critical questions about what stories are told, how and by whom, to imagine and practice the possible futures that lie ahead, and create stories that takes place here, now and in the future. As a model for moving forward that helps to imagine how we will live together in a disrupted world.

Encompassing performance, film, installations, publications, public projects, curating and working with institutions and archives, their work is both instigator and result of their method.

Bik Van der Pol have exhibited their work at numerous national and international venues and biennials. They were the course directors of The School of Missing Studies – temporary masters programme at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam; guest-teachers at ACT, M.I.T., Cambridge (USA) and advisor at Jan van Eijck Academy (Maastricht). They are mentors through the Mondriaan Foundation, Creative Industry Stimulation Fund, and Cultuur & Ondernemen; give talks and workshops at various universities and art institutions, and active in different boards, juries and advising bodies. Liesbeth is core-tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, MFA, Rotterdam and member of Akademie van Kunsten (KNAW)