Outdoor works
Tina Braegger, Wjm Kok, Sinaida Michalskaja

Artist Tina Braegger has created a series of flags for Het Zuid Manifest, which will be placed throughout Charlois near the festival’s locations.
The series is titled My Secret Life (2025). Each flag features the recurring “dancing bear”, derived from the iconic Grateful Dead imagery, which she uses to explore ideas of repetition and originality. The repeated image accumulates significance through its multiple appearances and forms a loose visual network across the neighbourhood, inviting visitors to discover and encounter the flags as they move between the different festival sites.

Wjm Kok presents a work for public space with the working title One Drop (Cloud Dancer), 2026. This work consists of a single drop of paint applied to a sidewalk somewhere between Katendrechtse Lagedijk 430A and 490B. For the choice of colour, Kok turns to the annually designated “Color of the Year” selected by various institutes and companies. The drop is executed in water-based paint, and its durability is independent of the festival context: it may
disappear over time due to wear and weather, or remain visible beyond the duration of the event. The work coincides with the place where it is found and merges with its surroundings, reducing the act of painting to a single gesture.
The exact location is kept secret, inviting visitors to stumble upon it by chance as they move through the festival. For the same reason, no documentation of the work was taken.

Sinaida Michalskaja’s outdoor work welcomed visitors to Attractiepark. It is as you tell it (for Heinz von Foerster), 2026, materialises an anecdote by scientist, philosopher, and magician Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002). Walking past the New York Times building one day, where a banner proclaimed "Tell it as it is," von Foerster remarked: "How naïve on their part, there should be written 'It is as you tell it.'" Another version of the anecdote has him teaching a class at Stanford University's journalism school, where a banner bore the same slogan. He walked in and told the students: "My God, gentlemen, do you want to get rid of the responsibility of being a writer by telling it like it is?" Nobody knows how it is. It is how you tell it.