About Invisible City
Invisible City is the first project of Shadowing Cities, a cooperation of Liat Magenzy, Fiona Weir and Ans Kanen. Artists, builders, architects, actors, dancers, players and thinkers are invited to react to the notion of the moving, invisible city. Its goal is to put the spotlight on Schiedam by means of art and culture. For the first time the city will be flooded with artists from all over the world. Invisible City aims to free Schiedam from the shadow of Big Brother Rotterdam.
Ruimte in Beweging on Boterstraat is the central point of Invisible City. Several entrances give acces to the building. It has a large, open main space and some seperated smaller spaces. Each has its own atmosphere and peculiarities. For Invisible City, the building will be transformed to a city in itself, a shadow city.
The individual visions of the artists form a city installation, an integral work built up from personal views of the city. The way the city dweller moves around in a city, the way a city is discovered, is the way a visitor of Invisible City discovers the town that springs from the artist’s imagination. Nobody will take the same story home.
Schedule:
2 September 2011 – Opening 19.00-23.00
3 September 2011 12.00-18.00
4 September 2011 12.00-18.00
For more information:
Contact:
Liat Magnezy | Fiona Weir | Ans Kanen
www.shadowingcities.com
Daan den Houter
‘Money Floor’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Spatial intervention on the floor
Location: Ruimte in Beweging, outside
Marc Koolen
‘Let’s Kill the Moonshine’
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interactive performance based on destruction
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
In a smaller room in Ruimte in Beweging a visitor uses a shotgun to shoot at objects that lie typically in the tradition of Schiedam. Marc talks to visitors about Schiedam and her dilemmas. What are the early, present and future changes for Schiedam? What is being destroyed and with what? Where and how does ravage occur? How do you experience this destruction? Are traditions being kept or is there space for new development?
Ivo Vrouwe and Michiel Jansen
‘Tube’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Architectural installation
Location: Side entrance of Ruimte in Beweging
Vincent Denieul
‘Rank Systole Radio’
Paris, France
Radio station
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Vincent will set up a radio station in the office space of Ruimte in Beweging. Radio Schiedam will be launched a week before Invisible City opens her doors to the public. His radio broadcasts will be streamed live on the internet. Recordings of the city of Schiedam will mix with interviews, readings, abstract radio plays, music, news panels, telephone polls, and instructions for Invisible City. Vincent will also place sound sensors in Ruimte in Beweging to trigger the public with sounds they are creating themselves. With, among others, Judith Janssen and Das Ding Bat.
Jan de Bruin
‘The Roaring Reporter’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Television reporter
Location: Ruimte in Beweging, outside, CBK, Wennekerpand
Jan reports about what is happening in and around Invisible City. Together with his camerawoman he explores the streets of Invisible City. He will reflect on the performances in and around Ruimte in Beweging with interviews taken from visitors and artists. On Sunday a Round Table Conference is planned at 14:00 in the Centre for Visual Arts, CBK, at the Wennekerpand.
Sigal Weissbein
‘One Two One’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Openings act with two orchestral bands
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
On the opening of Invisible City Sigal Weissbein organizes a concert. Through a Skype connection the concert will be played by two orchestral bands, namely the Maalot-Tarshiha orchestra from Israel and the similar Rijnmondband from Schiedam. Both orchestral bands play an active role in the cultural life of their city. The virtual meeting is an exchange over long distances of two highly localized, yet comparable expressions of culture.
Elmer Koopmans and Andrea Jacobs
nr. 4 ‘Macramé Forever’
nr. 5 ‘De Graat’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Spatial interior design
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
>>> Elmer and Andrea will make two different chairs that question the normal point of view when taking a seat. Attached from the ceiling in Ruimte in Beweging, one chair hangs above everything that takes place down beneath. A rope ladder allows for one to climb up and sit back. The other is from the ground going up in the air like a pyramid where the two chairs meet. The chairs are like nests and offer an overall perspective; one can get an overview of Invisible City in Ruimte in Beweging.
Mateja Bučar
‘Green Light’
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dance performance
Location: Outside on Broersvest (around the corner from Ruimte in Beweging)
Green Light is an unexpected performance of seven dancers that cross the street. Both the pattern of the zebra crossing as the on and off rhythm of the traffic lights determine the movements of the dancers. The motions we make through the city are full of distortions, obstructions, interruptions, delays and repetitions. Green Light puts an emphasis on the already existing urban choreography.
Julieta Ortiz de Latierro
‘Saint Liduina’
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wall projection
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
The sculptures and adornments on buildings in Schiedam will be examined and scrutinized by Julietta. She then manipulates them by means of video and animation techniques. Her statues perform simple actions: one of the images throws a hammer, another falls from its pedestal or is beheaded. The movements are fast, silent and are constantly repeated.
Janne Eraker and Philipp Ernsting
‘City Sounds’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tap dance performance and electric vibraphone sounds
Location: Ruimte in Beweging, Wennekerpand
Janne and Philipp make a dance and sound performance with tap dance and electronic vibraphone sound. The composition is based on sounds and noise from building sites and excavations. A rhythmic maze of obstructions and constructions is the result.
Claire Weetman
‘Motus:Immotus’
Liverpool, England
Real-time drawing with projections of sites in Schiedam
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Claire draws the movements of the city Schiedam on a real-time video projection. The video image is a recording of activity and traffic taking place at various locations. Think of busy intersections, passersby, bicycle paths, bus stops, and pedestrian crossings and so on. Claire is like a witness to the city, the dynamics and the traces people leave behind are recorded through her drawings
Marta Reig Torres
‘Underground city’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dance performance
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Starting from the idea about how different atmospheres can change our way of perceiving bodies in space, Marta, two dancers, a light designer and a musician consider the idea of the underground city, like linked subterranean spaces that may provide a defensive refuge, a place of comfort. Creating a familiar and unfamiliar space where public and performers can meet and share a moment of relief in this urban madness.
Dannielle Tegeder
‘Moving painting’
New York, USA
Animation video
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Danielle has created a moving painting that plays with the abstractions of the city. The images can be seen as architectural blueprints for imaginary cities. The individual lines, circles and planes appear as radars in motion and form a sort of ever-changing city appearance. It is an infrastructure where the elements collide, fall and turn. It is an absurd living painting that fascinates by its slowness, complexity and its agility.
Mali Klein
‘CITY DRESS’
Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Spatial sculpture
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Mali makes a large three-dimensional paper dress that hangs from the ceiling and extends to eye level. There are holes in the dress in which miniature parts of the city can be seen; the city lives in us and is a part of us. The miniature parts from inside the dress alternating in light are similar to a building or office where the light goes on and off at certain moments and places. The dress comes to life just like the city does.
Adam Nillissen
‘When desire is accompanied by expectation’
Arnhem, The Netherlands
Performance
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Adam is a visual artist who works with dancers to express what defines us as people in the city. His starting point is walking the streets and getting absorbed by the crowded masses. Adam will make a composition of the daily movements in a way that they are pulled out of context. Ordinary actions become uncomfortable situations.
Özlem Uzun
‘Home’
Istanbul, Turkey
Intervention
Location: Outside on Broersvest (around the corner from Ruimte in Beweging)
Özlem will decorate a bus stop in the centre of Schiedam into a home style setting. The waiting time for passengers is deformed and made comfortable. Her work is an intervention and interrupts the social habits of the public space.
Harri de Ville
‘Untitled #12′
Brussels, Belgium/Helsinki, Finland
Light sculpture
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Shadowing Cities is the skyline of Rotterdam that casts a shadow over Schiedam. The experience of great urban architecture comes to justice here. It consists of modular pieces of colored Plexiglas in various sizes that appear to come out from the ground, similar to the construction of a city. The straight lines and positioning of the pieces reveal a strict business-like character whereas the surreal skyline is being projected on the walls with dim light sources.
Jonah Bokaer and Liubo Borissov
‘Double Feature’
New York, USA
Dance video
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
The theme of doubling animates the process of creating a site-responsive work “Double Feature,” originally commissioned for Pavilion Dance, in Bournemouth, England. On a material level, the new performance center inhabited a historical structure; on a cultural level, contemporary dance mirrors Bournemouth’s classical and popular dance legacy; and on a formal level, “Double Feature,” as a media work records the construction site of Pavilion Dance in March, 2010. Bournemouth University’s Access Mocap facilitated the motion capture of waltzes, each performed by dancers from Bournemouth. Motion capture studies explored the structure of the double: by pairing these studies with existing video footage, the project couples two disparate forms of media in a sparring duet of moving images. Each frame becomes a stage; the data becomes performed; and Double Feature becomes a constructed site of moving bodies, and moving images. Double Feature is a film inspired by the physicality of a building site. We see figures dancing in a construction site full of frames and pillars and dark places.
Gabriel Rico Jiménez
‘elevando el espacio a la dignidad de atributo de dios’
Mexico
Installation
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Gabriel Rico responds directly to the space he encounters and uses material he finds. The installation is about the power of the urban man and his ability to build bridges between certain non-existent issues. His reflections are of a material nature. We do not exactly know what he will do.
Max Boschini
‘Lunetta’
Mantua, Italy
Photographs
Locatie: Ruimte in Beweging
Max shows a series of black and white photographs of specific cityscapes of urban landscapes. He gets his inspiration from the outer skirts of a city that is inevitably a part of a city’s infrastructure; old abandoned houses, apartment buildings, squats, popular areas and poor social housing conditions.
Marieke Haandrikman
‘The hole in the plate’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Performance
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
Marieke deals with simple daily issues and uses humor to cover up for it, sometimes leaving the viewer ashamed. During the weekend of Invisible City she will combine performance with installation. The main entrance of Ruimte in Beweging is separated with a glass wall and gives Marieke the freedom to create a new piece.
Floris Kaayk
‘The Origin of Creatures’
Animation film
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
The Origin of Creatures is inspired by the biblical story of the Tower of Babel and is set in an imaginary future where the world is hit by a catastrophe. That what is left of humanity lives among the remains of a devastated city. Human bodies are divided into parts and are fused into special beings. Together, these creatures form a colony. In the rubble of destroyed buildings they are trying to build a nest as large and as high as possible to get enough sunlight for their queen.
Martina Humar en Alvaro Petricig
‘Mala Apokalipsa’
Italië
Documentaire
Location: Ruimte in Beweging
>>>’Mala Apokalipsa’ consists of two documentary films about a village destroyed by an earthquake. The first film shows, in archive material from the seventies, a traditional religious festival in the town of Cisgne, in the valleys of Natisone between Italy and Slovenia. The account has an unreal quality that takes you to unknown territory. The second film is about the replacement of the original town by new buildings and stores, and about the consequences of industrialisation. The older genaration talks about how it was then, and how it is now.
Roeland Otten
Contribution to ‘Rank Systole Radio’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Radio/DJ/Storyteller
Roeland Otten is a designer in the broadest sense of the word: from graphic design to new media, from product design to works in public space and the organisation of events. Starting 16 September he will be the weekly resident dj of Goede Vrijdagen in Worm Rotterdam. Among other things, he worked for Red Light Radio in Amsterdam, and, together with Vincent Denieul for the Polish Sitka Radio. During Invisible City he will make two contributions toVincent’s Rank Systole Radio: friday night, during the opening, he will play a ‘roller-disco-dj-set’(bring your rollerskates!) and sunday afternoon he will read from Guido Quarzo’s book ‘Forgotten Cities’ (in Dutch, bring you kids!). Last year a Dutch translation of the book was published, which was inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
Olivier van Nooten
‘Open Street’
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Storyteller
Come and hear the story about a street breaking open to breath once again. Surroundings in the city are easily taken for granted as a second nature while fading history feeds creatures alienated from organic fabrics and true interaction… but not in this street. Or at least not anymore. Enjoy.
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