Marco Broeders

Background

About Marco Broeders

Marco Broeders (NL '70) graduated as an architectural designer from within the safe and institutional walls of the monastery building of the St. Joost Academy (Breda, The Netherlands).But only in the alternative scene he discovered the inside of squats, abandoned industrial buildings and stripped factory halls to be his ‘canvas of choice’ for the portrayal of his particular spatial insights. And the sort of environment best cut out for an enlightening and dynamic ongoing investigation into alternative functions for the existing urban space.In that scene Marco, now under the moniker Co2RO, turns contrasts such as ‘light and heavy’ into manageable tools and adds these tools to an arsenal of obscure and rarely available analog projectors, lamps and the prism - the realm where Co2RO breathes life into spaces. Always within a new environment, ‘adventurous’ circumstances and using absolutely unruly methods. Every Co2RO installation is explicitly laborious, like a birth performed under extremely difficult circumstances, throwing even an experienced doctor off balance - A metaphor not as far-fetched as you might think because each time Co2RO sets up his control room, an autonomous and authentic consciousness is born and will see the light for the first time.