A cardboarders project is all about creating stuff together with visitors in a playful environment. We often use cheap, recyclable materials, trying to turn nothing in to something. Our projects include improvised creative games, tinkering, puppetry, lightpainting, animation, live-journalism, character design, costume making, storytelling, street theatre, set-design.
Need something? Send us a message! mathijs@cardboarders.com
During our projects we became very skilled in getting participants enthusiastic and motivated to create stuff. We see art as an actionsport: participating in the process of making is more important than the endresults. Destruction of the things that are made (by using them) is often a part of the project!
We work in an atmosphere of absurdity and quirkiness, cherishing the freshness of amateurism. Treu creation comes from innocent pleasure of working together and a feeling of having nothing to loose.
Cardboarders is a loose group of artists working from the Netherlands, based in animation studio Reanimation.nl.
Wildeburger Courant 2019
Wildeburg’s 4th! This year we hit a home run with the festival newspaper we made on the festival with the visitors. A lot of the kinks in our first year workflow disappeared and there was a lot more attention to readability 🙂 Besides that we had some great printpartys at night. Many amazing illustrators and […]
Live Mobile Lightpaint Animation Studio
#LIT Mobile Lightpainting Animation Studio! How it works: This is a mobile workshop that works well in public spaces. It consists a large (55 inch) LED screen, camera and computer mounted on a bike. The way people interact with it is rather layered. There is the studio as a mobile live visuals installation on the […]
Defqon1: Hardstyle? Cardstyle!
Our 5th year at Defqon1! The heat was on, literally. The glue melted before we could turn the glueguns on. What a giant party with a lot of familiar faces! We feel like we are a real part of the festival now! Big round of cardboard for the best team ever: Astrid van der Velde, […]
We will sock you at Smeerboel Festival!
At Smeerboel Festival! We brought our improved sets for the sockpuppetsweatshop: the sockpuppet wrestling area has now a pimpy look and the micro playback sjo is equiped with a smoke machine 🙂 We really have a hang of this workshop now and it is ready to travel! Of course we also brought all sorts of […]
Crowd Light Painting Animation
At the opening of Klik! Animation Festival we wanted to make an animation with everyone in the audience at the same time! We gave all the 300 people in the audience a light which they can draw with on the screen! We made a little live survey using their drawings. A sort of live data […]
Bloons! Giant monsters from party DNA!
Balloons are the DNA of parties. Our crazy clown scientists take over the party bringing with them 10 balloons for everyone at the party. From the stage we explain that we need help recreating the party spirit animals. The only thing the audience has to do is to make as many connections as possible. We […]
