Polderlicht 2009
Dates:
Fri Oct 23, 2009 00:00 - Mon Oct 19, 2009
The Chicago and Amsterdam based collaborative localStyle presents Fluid Mechanics Remix as a large-scale outdoor public installation in the Amsterdam Polderlicht 2009 Festival.
Curated by Loes Diephuis and John Prop, the Polderlicht Festival is a biannual, international event that has taken place in Amsterdam since 2001. This unique festival is open free of charge to the public on three successive nights this year: October 23, 24, 25. It takes place in and around the Stadhuis Oost-Watergrafsmeer, a location in Amsterdam that is still in the midst of being transformed from its former industrial identity as the site of a large gas factory to that of mixed use residential purposes, civic services, and cultural organizations.
Video installations, sound sculptures, performances, interventions, and other works that foreground light and/or sound as their medium are placed in a wide range of atypical spaces, dramatizing the architectural process—itself a work in progress—as it relates to the reclamation of a desolated urban zone and celebrating its reintegration into the surrounding community.
Participating artists in 2009 include: Mark Bain (USA), Gudrun Barenbrock & Carl Ludwig Huebsch (Germany), Beambus, Berale, André van Bergen & Michiel Kluiters, Blendid, Rachel de Boer, Jan-Bas Bollen & Byungjun Kwon (Netherlands/Korea), Jeroen Glas, Kees Hoogeveen, Jaap de Jonge, localStyle: Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim (USA), Dorothee Meddens & Ronald van der Meijs, Yehudit Mizrahi (Israel), Bart Prinsen (Belgium), Su Tomesen, Peter Vink, Elaine Vis, Arik Visser, and Bert Vogels.
Curated by Loes Diephuis and John Prop, the Polderlicht Festival is a biannual, international event that has taken place in Amsterdam since 2001. This unique festival is open free of charge to the public on three successive nights this year: October 23, 24, 25. It takes place in and around the Stadhuis Oost-Watergrafsmeer, a location in Amsterdam that is still in the midst of being transformed from its former industrial identity as the site of a large gas factory to that of mixed use residential purposes, civic services, and cultural organizations.
Video installations, sound sculptures, performances, interventions, and other works that foreground light and/or sound as their medium are placed in a wide range of atypical spaces, dramatizing the architectural process—itself a work in progress—as it relates to the reclamation of a desolated urban zone and celebrating its reintegration into the surrounding community.
Participating artists in 2009 include: Mark Bain (USA), Gudrun Barenbrock & Carl Ludwig Huebsch (Germany), Beambus, Berale, André van Bergen & Michiel Kluiters, Blendid, Rachel de Boer, Jan-Bas Bollen & Byungjun Kwon (Netherlands/Korea), Jeroen Glas, Kees Hoogeveen, Jaap de Jonge, localStyle: Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim (USA), Dorothee Meddens & Ronald van der Meijs, Yehudit Mizrahi (Israel), Bart Prinsen (Belgium), Su Tomesen, Peter Vink, Elaine Vis, Arik Visser, and Bert Vogels.
