Project website: www.portscapes.nl
Projects timeline: http://www.dipity.com/latitudes/PORTSCAPES
Bookings: write to ad@skor.nl by 2 November 2009
Free tour. English spoken
A summary of Portscapes' projects will be presented at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam from 5 February 2010.
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BUS TOUR SCHEDULE 8 NOVEMBER 2009
10.00 am –
Leave from NAI Rotterdam, Museumpark 25 3015 CB, Rotterdam
On the way to the port you can listen to interviews on headphones in
the bus. Amongst others, Hans Aarsman, an industrial ecologist, a
botanist and an archaeologist, will describe his vision of the Maasvlakte
on the basis of his field of expertise. The artistic duo FGA broadcast
this and other conversations from a temporary web radio station in a
container united placed on the Maasvlakte between 21 August and 21
September.
10.45 am – Visit to wastelands by artist Lara Almarcegui and botanist Remko Andeweg
The Spanish-born Rotterdam-based artist Lara Almarcegui has published a free newspaper research project concerning the ‘wasteland’ areas which can be encountered throughout the Port of Rotterdam. In contrast to the vast planning involved in Maasvlakte 2,
she is interested in the spaces which are defined by an apparent lack
of human design and development, which in turn relate historical
legacies and changing land-use practices. The public experiences the
port as an interconnected territory through self-determined tours as well as a botany excursion
to selected sites. The artist wishes that the project “will act as a
tool for knowing the port better. To know these places is another way of
seeing how the territory is changing. In the future when most of these
terrains will be developed or changed, the guide will remain as a
document of how the harbour was in 2009.”
12.00 am – Arrival at Futureland, the Maasvlakte information centre
On the way we pass the billboards of the artists Marjolijn Dijkman, Jorge Satorre, Paulien Oltheten and Hans Schabus.
Lunch in Futureland, provided by the Rotterdam Port Authority
Presentation by Latitudes, the curators of Portscapes
1.00 pm –
Tour of the artworks in and around Futureland
You can view work by Paulien Oltheten and Hans Schabus and explore the nearby area picking up Ilana Halperin’s
audio tour. Halperin created a compelling narrative of fragments which
draws on fact, fiction and personal fieldwork – as well as site surveys
by volcanologists, geologists and the experts involved in the
construction of Maasvlakte 2.
1.30 pm – Performance 'Postpetrolistic Internationale'
The project by Swiss artists Roman Keller & Christina Hemauer
emerges from the medium of the collective human voice, the tradition of
the aspirational social anthem alongside the artists’ long standing
interest in energy use. The project starts with the transportation of a
wooden stage along the Rhine from Basel (where the Rhine begins), near
the artists’ home, to Rotterdam (where the Rhine joins the sea). Upon
arrival a local choir will perform this anthem of hope-in-action
(composed by the artists in collaboration with musician Mathias Vette)
on the stage, against a backdrop of local industry, to mark man’s
changing relationship with fossil fuels and energy use.
2 pm. – Return to NAI Rotterdam with a number of stops at
various art projects along the way: wastelands by Lara Almarcegui and
works by Paulien Oltheten
3 pm –
Arrival in NAI Rotterdam. End of the journey
