> In the installation "She is a machine" (2005-2007), I created  six female Robots standing and sitting in various ways on stools.  These automatons were fed commands (Lessons 1, 2, &3) by way of a small flat - screen monitor, which they had to perform  mechanically and unquestioningly.
At this time  I was interested  in the work of the Modernist Bouhouse designer  Oskar Schlemmer. I felt then that my body was a tool detached from my mind. Consequently  I was interested in how Schlemmer dealt with bodies and movements. I was fascinated by the way he limits his dancers' bodies to a shape, reducing their figures to simple architectural forms, controlling their movement through his design.

> I used Oskar Schlemmer’s shapes to define my automatons bodies. They were similar,  but each one of them was made  with different details. Each had its own special shape and character but  they moved and acted as a group. They jump and obey, eager to please, as if their whole existence depends on their good behavior.

   
> The viewer would walk in the installation from one groups of automatons to the other and try to read the different commands and instructions that was shown  on the monitor screen. He/she would try to understand the connection between the commands and the reactions performed by  the moving figures.

 >(this work was created and developed with the technical help of Stephan Kuderna and Kees Redijk from the  RijksAcademie van beeldende Kunsten). >