Making use of leaks in systems. photo M. Dijkman

Recently the ‘Interplanetary SuperHighway’ is being used in space travel; a collection of mathematically defined pathways (energy lanes) through the solar system that allows an object or spacecraft to move much faster without using additional fuel or impulse. These energy lanes are the connections between the L-points (named after Lagrange) that are situated around every planet. About five points surrounding each planet mark a tiny zero-gravitation point where a stationed object is equally drawn towards all surrounding planets, creating an absolute standstill.

In a similar way ERforS uses existing relations between different entities (organisation and locations) as energy lanes in order to move around the world. ERforS stimulates the connections between different entities and organisations and tries to create temporary L- points through mutual collaboration: a moment of concentration and focus on a certain area. This enables ERforS to organise projects using combined energy and create unusual and non-existing connections between existing organisations and institutions.

Enough Room for Space
Founded by Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde in 2005
Official Foundation since January 2007
Board: Carlijn Diesveldt (Chairman), Maaike Gouwenberg (Secretary), Daan Emmen (Treasurer)
Copilots: Marjolijn Dijkman, Maaike Gouwenberg, Martijn Hendriks, David Maroto, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Annette Schemmel

Enough Room for Space

Enough Room for Space (ERforS) is an artist-run organization with a number of aims; to provide a workingspace alongside established institutions; to explore critical positions for contemporary art in society; to create room for unexpected relations between official bodies and people working on location; to create a platform where investigations by individual participants in projects can overlap and lead to new collaborations. ERforS tries to act as freely as possible, always putting the context and the idea before the medium, challenging the barriers between different disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

Although these aims often depend on unexpected and unpredictable combinations of people, institutions, locations and disciplines, ERforS also tries to support these processes in becoming productive, more solid and long-term working relationships based on mutual interests. By doing this, the organization seeks to provide a kind of counterweight to the life in the fast lane that makes us hurriedly travel from one curated exhibition to the next. By doing so, ERforS wants to leave space for forms of working that rely on a more sustained concentration and longer working relationships. Within these goals, ERforS supports both small-scale and large-scale projects, short term as well as long term initiatives.

Screenshot of the navigation for the 'Collective Construction Site'

As a continuous support behind the different temporary projects, each of which takes place at a different location, the ERforS website provides the one constant space that ERforS claims. Yet the contributors to the website vary; taking on the character of a 'collective construction site,' the website is meant to be used as a public tool and provides an online working space.

www.enoughroomforspace.org