WERKLANDSCHAP ZANDMOTOR
LABOUR LANDSCAPE ZANDMOTOR
We warmly introduce and invite you to join the Zandmotor research in progress by parallel artist-in-residence Lotte Geeven and Maurice Meewisse as part of the Mondriaan Fonds Binnenland Gastatelier Program during March-May 2017.
Please note in your calender also our upcoming program:
MAY 19-20-21: during Festival Designkwartier in Tempel The Hague we present 'Tijd Maken-Making Time'.
JUNE 9-18: during Oerol at Wadden Island Terschelling Satellietgroep & Onkruidenier present 'Tuinieren zonder Grenzen-Gardening without Boundaries'.
With special thanks to the municipality of The Hague, Mondriaan Fonds, Festival Designkwartier and Oerol.
INVITATION APRIL 17 - MAY 16
KOFFIEPAUZE ZANDMOTOR
COFFEE BREAK ZANDMOTOR
BY MAURICE MEEWISSE
Maurice Meewisse doet onderzoek naar de randverschijnselen en de bijwerkingen van de Zandmotor. Hij zoekt naar onverwachte materialen die niet op een strand thuis horen – en dan voornamelijk obscure objecten – zoals steenkool en ijzeroer. Met de mengeling van natuurlijk materiaal en niet natuurlijke producten wil hij een kleinschalige industrie opzetten: Hij gaat ijzer maken. Op een bepaalde manier is de Zandmotor ook een product van de industrie, ondanks dat het in de beleving als natuur wordt gezien. Meewisse zal daar een belangrijk dagelijks ritueel introduceren: de koffiepauze. Gedurende vier weken opent hij een kantine waar mensen welkom zijn om een kopje koffie te komen drinken – elke werkdag open van 10:45 tot 11:00.
Maurice Meewisse researches the fringes and side effects of the Zandmotor. He looks for materials that aren't expected on the beach – preferably obscure objects – like coal and low quality iron ore. With a mixture of natural and human-made materials he will start a small scale industry: he will make iron. The Zandmotor is in a way also the accomplishment of industry, the result of human endeavour, even though it is experienced as nature. To this he will introduce a very important daily ritual: the coffee break. For a four week period he opens a cantine where people are invited to come and enjoy a cup of coffee – open every working day between 10:45 and 11:00.
www.mauricemeewisse.com
DE ZAND MACHINE
THE SAND MACHINE
BY LOTTE GEEVEN
Woont u in de woestijn?
Help ons het akoestisch zand te verzamelen vanuit de afgelegen plaatsen op deze planeet waar het zand zingt, fluit, giert en brult. Dit zeldzame zand vanuit de hele wereld zal samen komen in een publiek geluidskunstwerk.
Voor het kunstproject in ontwikkeling, verzamelt kunstenaar Lotte Geeven akoestisch zand uit de weinige en afgelegen plaatsen in de wereld waar dit zeldzame fenomeen zich voordoet en de woestijn brult en zingt. Ook op de Zandmotor is een stukje ‘zingend zand’ te vinden waarmee Geeven haar eerste tests heeft gedaan.
Via Facebook, Twitter, telefoonboeken, onverwachte sporen en Google Maps spoort ze mensen op die in bepaalde extreem afgelegen gebieden leven en overtuigt hen om akoestische zand naar Nederland te sturen. Op dit moment rijden een limousine bestuurder in Oman genaamd Rizwan, evenals Luca uit Kazachstan en Melanie, die op de eenzaamste snelweg in de wereld in Nevada woont, naar de woestijn om zandkorrels te verzamelen, die samen zullen klinken in het kunstwerk. Voor de laatste partij van dit speciale zand reist de kunstenares binnenkort zelf naar de Namib, de oudste woestijn van de wereld.
Als u wilt helpen en toevallig in Mongolië, Chili, Afghanistan, Kazachstan, China, Qatar, Oman, Tsjaad, de Westelijke Sahara, Marokko, Californië of Nevada woont, of iemand kent die daar woont: stuur dan een e-mail naar Lotte Geeven (info@geeven.nl) en zij zal zo snel mogelijk contact met u opnemen.
Alvast bedankt!
Voor meer informatie over het project, waar akoestisch zand te vinden is en hoe het klinkt:
www.singingsand.org
www.geeven.nl
Are you living in the desert?
Help collect acoustic sand from the few remote areas on this planet where the sand sings, whistles, booms and roars. This rare sand from all over the world will be sounding together in a public artwork.
For the art project in progress, artist Lotte Geeven is collecting acoustic sands from the few remote places in the world where this rare phenomenon occurs and the deserts roar and sing. Also on the Zandmotor, traces of ‘singing sand’ can be found with which Geeven started her first experiments.
Through Facebook, Twitter, phonebooks, wild leads and Google maps she is tracing people that live in the extremely remote areas and persuades them to send acoustic sand. At this very moment a limousine driver in Oman named Rizwan; Luca, from Kazakhstan and Melanie, who is living on the loneliest highway in the world in Nevada, are all about to drive into the desert to collect these sand grains that will sound together in the artwork. For the last batch of this special sand the artist herself will travel to the Namib, the world’s oldest desert.
If you feel like helping out and happen to live in Mongolia, Chile, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, China, Qatar, Oman, Chad, Western Sahara, Morocco, California or Nevada or know someone who lives there: please send an email to Lotte Geeven (info@geeven.nl) and she will get back to you a.s.a.p.
Thank you!
More information about the artwork, where to find acoustic sand and what it sounds like:
CONNECTING TO YOU!
You can also contribute to the activities of Satellietgroep! Spread
the word or invite us for a presentation, research, collaboration or
exchange project. Satellietgroep works also on commissions. Feel free to
contact us at satellietgroep@gmail.com or browse our website www.satellietgroep.nl for ideas.
DCR GUESTSTUDIOS
Satellietgroep programs 3 DCR Gueststudios at DCR, the cultural incubator in The Hague that also houses 35 permanent studios for
artists and designers, including the studio of Satellietgroep, Zaal 3 -
laboratory for performing arts of Theater aan het Spui, sound studio
Loos, Cloud Danslab and exhibition space Nest.
Contact our coordinator Lotte Bosman at dcrgueststudios@gmail.com if you are interested in a short or long term cultural visit in The Hague. More at www.gueststudio.com | www.dedcr.nl
Looking forward to meet you!
Jacqueline Heerema, Francois Lombarts & Lotte Bosman.
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Artists collective Satellietgroep (The Hague, 2006) explores through
arts the social and ecological impact of the sea and coastal transitions
on cities, people, communities and environments, and vice versa the
influence of mankind on coastal transitions and climate change in The
Netherlands and abroad. Our aim is to enhance public and professional
awareness. Satellietgroep hosts artists in
residents for artistic fieldwork, collaborate with locals and experts and
develop new concepts and works that reflect the resilience of
coexistence of man and water, in past, present and future.
Long term projects are 'Badgast' - artist in residency program at The
Hague/Scheveningen (2009-2014), 'Now Wakes The Sea', the international
exchange residency program in collaboration with international cultural
partners (since 2012). Since 2014 Satellietgroep develops the first artistic research on the Zandmotor, the newest innovation on coastal protection called Building with Nature. In these programs artist in residencies are used as a research method to enable artists and scientists to do fieldwork and to work on site with local partners, coastal communities and experts in order to map out and research the current status of coastal transitions and to generate new narratives and perspectives. The programs function as an alternative source for collecting. New concepts and works are developed that we connect and contextualize with existing works for public events like traveling film festivals, exhibitions, workshops and presentations at expert conferences. Artist in residents are invited to critically explore and visualize the zones of coexistence of man and water and reveal different perspectives. By interconnecting coastal communities, arts and science we share local knowledge on global level to gain sustainable insights on coastal transitions that transcend local and national issues.
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