artist, she/her, NL/BR, based in Amsterdam,
curious how people observe themselves
and the world they are part of.
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Pictures: Looiersgracht 60
FLOATING PLATFORM
2020
Research project in collaboration with Rots, Pepijn Meurs and Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven presented during the group exhibition ‘Eileen’ in Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam
The floating platform was build from recycled materials, including wood and empty PVC beer barrels.
During the one-year Art & Research programme (Gerrit Rietveld Academie & University of Amsterdam) Pepijn, Rots, Mathild and Joana worked together and initiated the research project Floating Platform, an on- and offline platform about the connection between water and social issues such as mobility, migration and climate in the context of the Netherlands and it’s notion of a national identity. The programme’s aim was to incentivate collaboration between artistic and academic or scientific practices and thereby intevestigate new modes of research.
The online platform consisted of interviews with people from different disciplines, e.g. a ‘crisis watermanager’ working for Rijkswaterstaat, a laywer who elaborated on national boundaries on water territories, one of the co-founder of The Tres Hombres (the only trans-Atlantic sailing freighter without an engine transporting fair trade products) and Theun Kharelse from the Embassy of the North Sea.
During the exhibition at Looiergracht 60 visitors could hear the interviews through the speakers coming from the platform installation. One of the afternoons Theun Kharelse (Embassy of the North Sea) was invited to open up a conversation on the North sea and how we as humans can relate to the non-human (e.g. the sea) having a voice.
Afterwards the platform was brought to the Zuider Amstelkanaal, the canal behind the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, serving as a meeting place for students during spring and summer.
“No longer can democracy and freedom be fully and truly secure in one country, or even in a group of countries; their defence in a world saturated with injustice and inhabited by billions of humans denied human dignity will inevitably corrupt the very values they are meant to defend.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Time: Living in an Age of Uncertainty