Breath of Soils events with Jacqueline Heerema
29 and 30 August and 19th September 2020
Artist Jacqueline Heerema started in spring 2019, as part of the Exploded View research program, with a reconstruction of the history of ‘Land in Wording (Land in the making)’ (no.18 in the Amstelpark map), during the public intervention ‘Onland’ (September 2019), she drew in with experts the bottom of this swamp to a depth of 10 meters and a time depth of approximately 6000 years and appropriated these soil materials. During this drilling Heerema had a rather uncomfortable sensation, which she calls “Breath of Soil”. People, plants and animals breathe, but earth also breathes…. Is the soil alive?
During 3 special afternoons, Jacqueline offers the public different perspectives on the project together with guests in the context of the Exploded View exhibition.
Saturday afternoon, August 29, 2020: Between image and language: an exercise in foresight.
An afternoon about the soil of Land in the making, peat and CO2 storage, climate change and the need to develop a new (visual) language, with more climate scientist Tanya Lippmann (VU) and the international youth collective RE-PEAT
Location: Land in Wording, no. 18 on the map of the Amstelpark.
Picnic, but bring your own food, drink and a blanket.
Please register in advance via projects@zone2source.net
Sunday afternoon, August 30, 2020: Joop Beljon, sculptor, teacher, writer, inspirator … (1922-2002).
An afternoon about artistic ideas and source material in the arts. On September 2, 2002, the exhibition “City Without End” by Joop Beljon and Ellen Vos opened in het Glazen Huis. Almost 18 years later, Jacqueline Heerema (former student of Joop, Environment KABK department, now an exhibitor in het Glazen Huis) will talk to Roeland Beljon, the guardian of his father’s artistic heritage, followed by a lecture with video.
Location: het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark; exhibition open 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, program 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm.
Please register in advance via projects@zone2source.net
Saturday afternoon September 19, 2020: Underground / Subsurface.
An afternoon around the collected soil material of Land in the making, with a depth of 10 meters and a time depth of approximately 6000 years. What does a geological, historical, artistic or philosophical perspective add to the changing living environment and climate? This includes a workshop on Soil Analysis with climate scientist Tanya Lippmann (VU) and geologist Bert van der Valk (Deltares).
Location: Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark; exhibition open 1 pm-5pm, program 2 pm-4.30pm.
Please register in advance via projects@zone2source.net