In Zamo, the sculpture, built of local brick, had a strong historical connotation; in Potsdam it stood in sharp contrast to the concrete residential blocks, at the same time becoming a symbol for their reticence.
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The choice of location was inspired by the neo-existentialist novel 'Concrete Island' by JG Ballard; an allegory of alienation in which the protagonist finds himself marooned on a scrap of land encircled by highways.
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What really and concretely exists is nothing but the ink...One has to cultivate, first of all, the eye to see the selfsame reality of ink in all letters, and then to see the letters as so many intrinsic modifications of the ink.”
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On the top floor where construction workers are in the closing stages of major renovation work, she slides a piece of plywood next to a concrete-encrusted plank out across an uncovered part of a foundation in an effort to bridge two concrete footers.
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Participating artists will be accommodated on unwanted land beneath Amsterdam’s busy orbital motorway, like 21st Century lepers driven out of the city walls or the protagonist of J.G.Ballard’s Concrete Island who is forced into exile from the modern world.
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The viewer passes from perfectionist images of birds in flight and aerial photographs of rationally planned new urban neighbourhoods to images of dead birds in the storage rooms of a museum of natural history and residents of the concrete city enveloped in burkas.
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The sometimes extensive empty spaces in this concrete city, catapulted into no-man's-land after 1947, as well as the at times strange signs and symbols revealed by its architecture, betray the hands of different architects and an eventful local political context full of ethnic and religious conflicts.
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De ontwikkeling van de personages, korte verhalen, ideeën over plaats, bij elkaar gezochte concrete voorwerpen en een dagboek over het proces zullen samen worden uitgegeven, met een open einde, als bouwstenen van een soap; continuïteit over een langere periode is een essentieel kenmerk van het format van de soap.
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It contemplates a number of fundamental aesthetic questions from the perspective of artists who all deal with concrete, non-fictional subjects, incorporating these into their work, so that it is not clear where the process of discovery stops and where making work begins, in which individual experience almost coincides with its representation.
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It contemplates a number of fundamental aesthetic questions from the perspective of artists who all deal with concrete, non-fictional subjects, incorporating these into their work, so that it is not clear where the process of discovery stops and where making work begins, in which individual experience almost coincides with its representation.
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