In the Anthropocene humans affect the earth on a geological scale. Satellietgroep explores the Zandmotor, a prime example of the anthropogenic frame of mind, as a cultural phenomenon.
 
 
The first open air pop-up CineMare at the Zandmotor with Laboratory for Microclimates, Breaking Light#2 by Berndnaut Smilde during TodaysArt and kick off The Elements Lab with Royal Academy of Art, Interfaculty ArtScience.
NEWS: Rob Sweere, RAAAF and Overtreders W work on design Zandgast!
 
 
INVITATION SEPTEMBER 18:
PUBLIC EXPEDITION ZANDMOTOR#5: CINEMARE
LABORATORY FOR MICROCLIMATES
& ONKRUIDENIER
Date: Friday September 18
Time: 18:00 - 21:00; screening starts at 18.30
Location: Zandmotor, near Argusmast
Directions: http://www.dezandmotor.nl/nl-NL/bezoekers/route-naar-de-zandmotor/
Dresscode: Outdoor
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Satellietgroep and Laboratory for Microclimates (LfM) cordially invite you to the first open air pop-up CineMare at the Zandmotor. The Climate Rescue Unit of LfM is turned into a mobile Cinema.
After screening of the cinematographic impression by LfM you are invited to enjoy a taste of the coast specially selected and prepared with coastal ingredients by Jonmar van Vlijmen, Onkruidenier.
LfM performed extensive artistic research and present at CineMare an unusual perpective of the Zandmotor, filmed from the sea and from within the sea that surrounds, shapes and transforms the Zandmotor, as Building with Nature. Artist Annechien Meier and filmmaker Gert-Jan Gerlach have combined their expertises in the Laboratory of Microclimates. A microclimate is a small area which differs from its surrounding environment. On the scale of the Dutch coastline the Zandmotor can be perceived as a microclimate. A new landscaped, uncultivated coast where the initial flora and fauna cautiously re-settle.The Laboratory of Microclimates aims to activate people's perceptions about their immediate social, ecological environment and the climate in general through installations, performances and visual media.
More: www.microclimates.nl | www.onkruidenier.nl | www.zandmotor.nl
 
With special thanks to Martin Hoogslag, the Haaglanden Monster Rescue Brigade,, Max Radermacher (TU Delft, Project NatureCoast, PhD-candidate), Dare2Tri wetsuits, Provincie Zuid-Holland, Stroom and DOEN Foundation.



Video still: Laboratory for Microclimates testing at Zandmotor.


SEPTEMBER 26: BREAKING LIGHT#2
BERNDNAUT SMILDE DURING TODAYSART 2015 FESTIVAL ON SEA
Date: Saturday September 26
Time: After sunset
Location: Scheveningen, near the lighthouse
 
Satellietgroep and TodaysArt cordially invite you to experience Breaking Light#2 by Berndnaut Smilde at Scheveningen. The appearance aims to be efemeral, questioning our surrounding and position as a viewer. Being at the right place and time.
During his Zandmotor residency with Satellietgroep Smilde looked into ways of imposing a natural phenomenon onto the surroundings. He is interested in the artificial aspect, the interference on the location, the meaning we project onto weather phenomena and the images created after them. During his residency Smilde continued to work on the idea of refracting the light of a lighthouse in order to project a rainbow onto the landscape. Curated by Satellietgroep for TodaysArt, Smilde aims to open the curtains on the city side of the lighthouse for a short moment so he can compose ‘Breaking Light#2’ on Scheveningen. The lighting rhythm that the lighthouse produces belongs to Scheveningen as an historic and temporal icon. By making use of a prism the artist temporarily changes the function of a lighthouse of just being a beacon. 

Exactly 50 years ago on the 25th of September 1965, a large scale multimedia open-air art manifestation was planned on the Scheveningse Pier by the radical and revolutionary art movement ZERO. This event never took place. Today, 50 years later, TodaysArt presents a festival, inspired by ZERO, with contemporary artists.
More: www.berndnaut.nl | http://todaysart.nl/2015/

TIP! Berndnaut Smilde: artist talk at ZEROnow - Beyond the White Cube.
Date: Friday September 25
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Location: The Pier at Scheveningen
 
Bright Collisions sessions is part of the two-day program of ‘ZEROnow: a symposium on the topicality of ZERO’, a collaboration between Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the ZERO Foundation, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and TodaysArt. During this symposium, practitioners aim to re-read the history of ZERO and address the topicality of its legacy today.
More: http://todaysart.nl/2015/symposium-info/
 
With special thanks to TodaysArt, Villa Ockenburgh/LocatieZ, Maarten de Kroon, Steve Tomczyk (NCAR, National Center of Atmopheric Research), Tiemen Cockuyt (Museum Boerhaave), Provincie Zuid-Holland, Stroom and DOEN Foundation.
 
Public Expedition Zandmotor#3: Berndnaut Smilde composing Breaking Light, photo: Annegret Kellner.
 
 
SEPTEMBER 2015 - MAY 2016: THE ELEMENTS LAB
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART INTERFACULTY ARTSCIENCE
 
Starting September 2015 Satellietgroep engages with lectors, students and experts to enhance the scope of artistic fieldwork on the Zandmotor as part of the Interfaculty ArtScience program.
ArtScience offers an interdisciplinary bachelor’s and master’s programme that fosters curiosity driven research as an approach for the making of art. The Elements is an outside coastal lab situated along the North Sea at the Zandmotor south of The Hague. What does it mean to work in a dynamic intertidal environment, where the tides are dictating time and seasons are close to our skin? The lab has a phenomenologist approach, stimulates students to play, wander, explore and focus on elements in their own way, where also their own sensorial body in relation to this dynamic landscape can be considered as an element.
More: www.interfaculty.nl | www.kabk.nl
 
Zandmotor, photo: Satellietgroep.

 
ZANDGAST
 
During 5 succesful years of exploring the scope of the international artist in residency program, cinema and talks at Badgast at urban beach community F.A.S.T. at Scheveningen, Satellietgroep built an extensive network  and expertise of interconnecting arts, science and society on coastal transitions, in The Netherlands and abroad.
Together with Provincie Zuid-Holland and partners Satellietgroep now develops Zandgast, the new visitor center and artist in residency on and about the Zandmotor. Currently Rob Sweere, RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] and Overtreders W are selected for the first designs of Zandgast, of which one will be choosen to develop Zandgast. Aimed at sharing new works and insights of the coexistence of man and water with broader audiences and in collaboration with multiple partners.
 
 
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. 
 
Looking forward to meet you!
Jacqueline Heerema, Ronald Boer & Francois Lombarts, the curatorial team of Satellietgroep.
 
 
Our projects are currently supported by funding by Stichting DOEN and Stroom and commisioned by Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed and Provincie Zuid-Holland.
Satellietgroep (The Hague, 2006) explores through arts the social and ecological impact of the sea and coastal transitions on cities, people, communities and environments in The Netherlands and abroad. The aim is to enhance public and professional awareness on coastal transitions.
Satellietgroep hosts artists in residents for artistic fieldwork, connect 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 the international artist in residency exchange programs called Badgast and Now Wakes The Sea. 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.