“The landscape was a mixture of the strange and the beautiful..”
“Well, I don’t know about the treasure, but I’m sure there is fever there.”
“There was no evidence that man had ever sat foot here before”
Marjolijn Dijkman, stills from ‘Surviving new land’ (2009)
A video shot for Portscapes, a series of art projects along the coast of the Maasvlakte, near Rotterdam.
Dijkman shot the video from a boat circling a newly created island. This video was eventually dubbed with audio excerpts from moviescenes where people are entering land from the water.
Lo-res video here
Below is an interview with Dijkman about the project
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged commissioned piece, interview, maasvlakte, movies, nature, public art, romance, rotterdam, sea, surviving new land, text, unknown, video, wall, water, youtube
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Bernd Lohaus, first artist of Parkplatz.
Last week opened ‘Parkplatz‘. An exhibition of 6 small solo shows on a parking lot in the city of Breda (NL). Every month an artist will create an artwork specifically for one parking space. The work will remain in this parking space for the entire month, then a new artist will choose another space for a work. Go see this this summer in Breda!
Next artists:
Thomas Bakker, Colin Peeters, Kristof van Gestel, Gabriel Lester and Marjolijn Dijkman.
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged breda, car, Cerberus, colin peeters, Gabriel Lester, Kristof van Gestel, lokaal 01, parking, parkplatz, space, thomas bakker
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‘Tunnel’ (2004) by Marjolijn Dijkman and Wouter Osterholt.
Installed at Sign, Groningen (NL).
The intervention consisted of a tunnel built through the gallery space that transformed the non-public space of the gallery into a public space. Removing one of the windows at the front and a garage door at the back allowed twenty-four hour access through the tunnel.
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Marjolijn Dijkman
‘Liberate the Madness’ (2007) by Marjolijn Dijkman.
Temporary stage in front of an existing line of graffiti, that reads ‘liberate the madness’ in dutch.