Foundation Art and Public Space
On Friday 11 July 2008, the Wilhelmina Polder art project, titled Land, art voor de Zeeuwse Wilhelminapolder, will kick off with the screening of the film and video program ‘A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel: Land Art's Expanded Field, 1968–2008’.
To mark the 200 year anniversary of the Wilhelmina Polder in 2009, the KMWP has launched an art project that will investigate the significance that this polder holds for Zeeland as well as the relationship between its residents and their surrounding landscape. The selected program focuses on land art and is made up of an exhibition that will open in April 2009 and a permanent work that deals with the latest artistic practices and their relationship to our landscape and living environment.
Location
Schuur Hofstede Hongersdijk
Langeweg 10, 4475 PA Wilhelminadorp
Land art for Zeeland’s Wilhelmina Polder
‘A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel: Land art's Expanded Field, 1968–2008’
As an introduction to this selected theme, a screening of the film and video program, ‘A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel: Land art's Expanded Field, 1968–2008, which was compiled by Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Canepa Luna) will take place on 11 July. This compilation will present the history of land art through films and videos by field experts such as Gerry Schum, Robert Smithson, Marinus Boezem, Walter de Maria and Richard Long, as well as projects by a new generation of artists, including Hans Schabus and Cyprien Gaillard. This unique collection of films provides a historical overview of the developments in land art projects since the 1960s. This project, which was showcased earlier this year in Mexico City, Seville and Barcelona, will now screen in the Wilhelmina Polder in a beautiful and monumental old barn that belongs to the former Hongersdijk manor.
Land, art in de Zeeuwse Wilhelminapolder in 2009
The Wilhelmina Polder land art project was initiated by the KMWP and CBK Zeeland in collaboration with SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte) and will result in the commissioning of a permanent work that will be placed in the polder and in an exhibition that will be held in a temporary ‘art station’. Three artists, namely Andreas Zybach, Phoebe Washburn and Krijn de Koning, were each commissioned to make a design plan based on the cultural, historical and geographical properties of the Wilhelmina Polder. In late 2008 it will be announced which design will actually be executed. In addition to this an exhibition will be held in the barn of the Hongersdijk manor in the spring of 2009. The exhibition will present a number of experimental artistic practices that aim to investigate the social, economic, political and cultural dimensions of specific ecological issues.
For more information about De KMWP: www.kmwp.nl
Film and video program Friday 11 July
11.30 am Welcome speech by Kathrin M. Ginsberg, director CBK Zeeland
Introduction by Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Canepa Luna)
12.00 noon Start film program part 1, followed by lunch
2.00 pm Short presentation of the participating artists, Andreas Zybach and Tue Greenfort
2.30 pm Start film program part 2, followed by drinks
Registration, payment and directions
The costs for participating in the event are € 7.50 per person (this includes lunch). To register, please email: or call: 0118-611443.
If enough people register, SKOR will organize transportation by coach from Amsterdam. This coach will depart at 9.00 am from SKOR, Ruysdaelkade 2, Amsterdam and will cost € 10.00, making the total payment € 17.50. To register, please email: info@cbkzeeland.nl or call: 0118-611443.
Especially for this bustour Rutger Zuyderveldt known as Machinefabriek compiled a soundtrack.
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Overview film and video program
For more information: www.l-a-t-i-t-u-d-e-s.org
