I am currently working and living in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the northern part of the country. I am interning at a video/design company called Special Problems. I came over here with the intention to focus on working for them and bolstering my filmmaking capabilities. It has come to the attention of the three person company that I have a musical project called, "Ben and Bruno" and they have been encouraging me to continue work as a musician with any help they can provide. They hope to help me put out a new vinyl issue of an album. My hope is to use the TANDA foundation funds to finance a corresponding CD release of the album and to support a tour of the southern parts of New Zealand, not only as a musical tour, but to also create new drawings and ideas for upcoming work. The hope is to take the Special Problems group as well and create a documentary-style art piece about the trip.

Dear Patrons,

Tanda Foundation has been created repurposing funds i received as part of my fellowship in Eyebeam. The hosting is assured till the end of the yeat but i would like to apply for $100 for cover the costs for the next year. 

You can review this site as documentation for my proposal.   

This project is not in urgent need of funding, so please consider other applications!

Thanks.

Geraldine.

The aim of this wearable piece is to record where, at any specific moment, a designated body part is touching the rest of the body. The various designated body parts constitute the "chapters" of this project, such as "Left Elbow", "Right Heel", "Nose"...

The outcome will be documentation of the relationships between body parts in terms of touch. Kind of like a "map of the body" as seen from each bodypart.

I met Ben Schaafsma in Chicago doing a mini-by-chance-residency in the community art space inCUBATE, a project that he co-founded together with Abby Satinsky and Roman Petruniak.  While there i started working in the Tanda Foundation, having full access to the knowledge and vision of Ben about alternative funding and how to make things happen in a way that makes sense with your life. Since he moved to New York i had the priviledge of being part of his projects and work in a close and intense way with him. Also i became her friend, one that really admires him , trust him my personal life and would yell at him  like at yell at all the people i care.  I couldn't believe he was 26 and was so together. I was feeling proud to have such a mentor as my friend.

Ben has been the biggest inspiration and instigator to create this Foundation, that aims to make other people being able to do the things they want. Thank you Ben.

Las week a car struck him and Ben passed away. Something i regret deeply and cannot really make any sense of it.  The impact of the work of Ben in my life and so many other people all over the place is something moving and incredibly inspiring. 

My proposal is to create a floating "Ofrenda for Make Things Happen". Una and my self will unleash the Ofrenda in a fountain on Mexico City on Dia de Muertos festivity.  The funds received will be donating towards inCUBATE to contribute in the continuation of the work and ideas of Ben, together with Abby and Roman.

Thank you Ben. We love you and miss you.

I encourage everyone interested in a grant and in the independent support of creative work to vote for my proposal.

* Ofrenda in constuction:

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