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REVIEW 2014 & PREVIEW 2015
The team and board of Satellietgroep would like to warmly thank all participants, partners and
organisations, past and present that made 2014 into a most interesting transitional year!
We presented arts during international expert conferences, engaged in the long term collaboration with Nida Art Colony in Lithuania, screened The Best of Badgast & Beyond to a broad audience during TodaysArt Festival and started the new program for artistic research on the cultural phenemenon Zandmotor in collaboration with Villa Ockenburgh/LocatieZ. Meanwhile we expand the collection with new works, explore our new concept of innovatory heritage in order to develop the Anthropogenic Coastal Atlas, of which the first part concerning the Dutch coast is now commisioned by Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed. We receive funding from the Dutch Embassy in Lithuania, the municipality of The Hague, Stroom, Fonds 1818 and Stichting DOEN. We are proud to introduce the artists in residence of the Zandmotor and the Liminal Labs Program 2015-I.
NEWS:
ZORO FEIGL was the first resident at the Zandmotor and his new work 'Untangling the Tides' is now presented at Intersections by Trendbeheer at Art Rotterdam February 5-8.
Please note for your agenda: NEXT PUBLIC EXPEDITION ZANDMOTOR#2: MARCH 29, 2015
CHECK: DCR GUESTSTUDIOS
Satellietgroep hosts 3 DCR Gueststudios for short or longterm cultural residencies in The Hague!
NEW BOARD MEMBERS + 2 VACANCIES
We welcome our new board members: Emmy Bolsius (former director of Deltaprogramma Kust) and Jotham Sietsma (international program manager of TANDEM, MidOst in Berlin). Together with Hein de Jonge (hydrologist, Dunea) and Marie-Jeanne de Rooij (director of GEMAK) they strenghten the team.
We currently have 2 vacancies for the board for treasurer and communications. If you have great affinity with our activities and want to contribute your skills please contact us at satellietgroep@gmail.com
ARTISTIC RESEARCH ZANDMOTOR:
More about the Zandmotor: www.zandmotor.nl
Starting September 2014 Satellietgroep invites artists in residence for
artistic research on the Zandmotor as cutural phenomenon. Designed as dynamic innovation for coastal protection, Satellietgroep redefined the Zandmotor - called building with nature - as
the largest contemporary cultural statement of the anthropocene era we
now live in. This dynamic innovation is a time machine that transports us from holocene
(affected by nature) into anthropocene (affected by mankind). The first
artist in residence are hosted at Villa Ockenburgh - LocatieZ on walking
distance of the Zandmotor. With residents Theun Karelse and Josje Hattink we are currently preparing the Public Expedition Zandmotor#2 on March 29.
THEUN KARELSE
www.fo.am
http://technoecologies.tumblr.com
Fossil remains of mammoths, rhinos and other extinct mega-fauna lie scrambled all over the Sandmotor like Neolithic confetti. They come from the bottom of what is now the North Sea. Back in their time this was solid land connecting England to mainland Europe. Is it possible to experience anything directly from these bones? What does Mammoth taste like?
JOSJE HATTINK
www.josjehattink.com
During her residency at the Sand Motor, Josje Hattink set herself the task of digging a way through the morphology of sandy volumes. To contain a dune in it's ever changing shapes and volumes before the sand slips through your fingers. Positive as a pile, negative as a hole. When does sand become a whole?
INTRODUCING ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE OF THE LIMINAL LABS PROGRAM 2015- I
During the Liminal Labs Program Satellietgroep invites artists in residence to do fieldwork on site, connect arts to science, policy, citizens science and audience with the aim is to develop new works and insights that reflect the
shifting relations of man and nature in the Netherlands and abroad.
The program is supported by Stroom and Stichting DOEN.
LIMINAL LABS#1:
THIJS EBBE FOKKENS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT NIDA ART COLONY LITHUANIA
To continue our long term international exchange collaboration with
Nida Art Colony on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania Thijs Ebbe Fokkens is artist in residence during Febuary 2015. His art practice
provides the means to contemplate, orientate and wonder. In his
drawings, photographs and installations he evokes a space and place
which transcends the literal & psychical in favor of the ambiguous
& mental. During his stay at Nida’s Curonian Spit his artistic
practice will engage with the projection of meaning onto this area of
coastal transition.
Thijs Ebbe Fokkens: For Future Reflections, 2014
NEW ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE AT ZANDMOTOR 2015-I:
LIMINAL LABS#2:
ESTHER KOKMEIJER
Esther combines artistic research periods at Beijing, Antarctica and the Netherlands into a trilogy about the urge to control nature, seen from the perspective of
the three different stages of water and the way human interact with
this. The project is called 'Because we meet'. Part I: Vapor - The movability of clouds, residency at IFP in Beijing hosted by Mondriaan Fonds; Part II: Liquid - The everlasting encounter with water, residency at the Zandmotor hosted by Satellietgroep and Part III: Solid - Ownership and pioneering on ice, residency at Antactica, hosted by DNA Culturales. 'Because we meet' is a project about borders, pioneering, ownership, scientific results, utopian ideas and the urge to move.
Esther Kokmeijer: Rotating Column of Air, China 2014
LIMINAL LABS#3:
JESSICA DE BOER & HANS KROODSMA
www.jessicadeboer.com
Jessica and Hans combine as artistic duo arts, science and performance. They are curious how the Zandmotor is designed as a man made coastal innovation while the public appropriated it as a natural landscape. As the Zandmotor is an open scientific laboratory, scientists that study the dynamics of the Zandmotor may have to include human behaviour. Can we trigger visitors of the Zandmotor into new spatial patterns of movements?
And by doing so, make them wonder about the course of things?
De Boer & Kroodsma: Episode 1: To the Purity of Things, 2014
LIMINAL LABS#4:
BERNDNAUT SMILDE
www.berndnaut.nl
Berndnaut is not particularly interested in nature itself, but there is
something you cannot grasp about it which he finds interesting. His work centres on aspects of duality. Just as his cloud works (Nimbus) build up and fall apart at the same time, his installations and sculptures question construction and deconstruction, size, temporality, function of materials and architectural elements. Many of the works seem to be functioning but are often determined to fail, whether it is material based, physics, or based on our perspective as a viewer. The prospect is often just a facade in his work dealing with questions about perfection and the ideal. It is either denying itself or is so delicate that it will break. It falls short and shows its impermanence.  Berndnaut Smilde: Unflattened, 2012
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, Eliane Esther Bots and Ronald Boer, the team of Satellietgroep Foundation
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