During the month of November 2016, students and (guest)teachers of the ArtScience Interfaculty (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) will prepare an exhibition in Fortress 1881 Hoek van Holland, near Rotterdam. (Fort 1881, Stationsweg 80-82, NL 3151 HS)
Students will dive into the complex and layered history of an area which underwent an extreme make-over during the past 150 years. The “Hook” of Holland is an emblematic landscape so typical for the Netherlands for it reveals to us the irreversible impact man and technology have on our surrounding landscape. Not only in this century, but already back in the 18th century engineers, geologists and physicists were experimenting with techniques to shape the surface of the Hook, leaving behind a landscape that is completely man-made.
As a (con)temporary commanding crew of the fortification we set off to create new ideas, impressions and images for a story that has been told many times. Each time the story was told, it was from a different perspective revealing multiple histories that constitute this site. The “In Situ” project is another attempt to contribute to these histories.
Fortress 1881 is our vehicle for doing so, carrying us back in time, launching us towards a projected future in which the adversities of this area become hypothetical scenarios for landscape futures.
During the residency participants will develop several installations that are going to be exhibited in Fort1881 from Friday 2nd December 2016 until Sunday 15th January 2017.
ArtScience bachelor and master students participating in this workshop are: Jan Boudestijn, Maarten Brijker, Kay Churcher, Nina Lezaic, Cameron Lobdell, Falco Pols, Andreas Sahl Andersen and June Yu. Guest lectures and field trips: Jan de Graaf, Juliane Arriens, Van Oord Dredging and René Vas (coastal light museum). Project by Michiel Pijpe, Onno Dirker and Christian van der Kooy.
cc: Maasmond 1665, Joost van Geel, Rijksmuseum A'dam
A selection of installations by individual students:
# 5 - Jan Boudestijn - "Untitled"
# 7 - Kay Churcher - "02/12/16-"
# 10 - Andreas Sahl Andersen & Beng Yuenyoung
# 1 - Andreas Sahl Andersen & Beng Yuenyong - “Freight #01”
# 2 - Nina Lezaic - “Waterweg”
# 3 - Falco Pols - “Freight #02”
# 4 - Maarten Brijker - “A Sky Unseen”
# 5 - Jan Boudestijn - “Untitled”
# 6 - Cameron Lobdell - “Henge_a.01.001.01”
# 7 - Kay Churcher - “02/12/16-”
# 8 - June Yu - “Problem Of Translation”
# 9 - Andreas Sahl Andersen & Beng Yuenyong - “Freight #03”
# 10 - Andreas Sahl Andersen & Beng Yuenyong - “Opening + Finissage”
