Portscapes - Maasvlakte 2

Portscapes
Portscapes consists of tours through the harbour area devised by artists, temporary sculptural interventions, actions, performances, screenings and mobile seminars, all relating to the situation of the Maasvlakte. The programme will be an artistic voyage of discovery of the past, present and future of the Rotterdam harbour in an architectural, political, social and ecological sense. During Portscapes, Dutch artists as well as artists from China, Mexico, Australia and the USA will be researching the implications of the Maasvlakte 2 project as a worldwide distribution hub.

The following artists have been invited to develop project proposals:

Lara Almarcegui, Bik van der Pol, Jan Dibbets, Marjolijn Dijkman, Fucking Good Art, Cyprien Gaillard, Ilana Halperin, Roman Keller & Christina Hemauer, Paulien Oltheten, Michael Rakowitz, Jorge Satorre, Hans Schabus, and Jun Yang.

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Jan Dibbets' 6 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective

Portscapes was launched during Art Rotterdam (5-8 February 2009) with a preliminary publication designed by Ben Laloua/Didier Pascal; a Bus tours and talks with presentations by the curators and some of the artists and the realisation of a special project: a new version of Jan Dibbets’ 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective on the Maasvlakte beach.
The first screening of Dibbets’s film will be at the information centre FutureLand every half hour from 1 pm on Sunday 14 June.
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Hans Schabus

Schabus’s Portscapes project is a new chapter in his ongoing project of ‘arrivals’. Rotterdam and the Maasvlakte will become the next location in a series of photographs in which we see a lone sailor, the artist, sailing in his one-man boat ‘Forlorn’. The existing images of New York, Frankfurt, or Venice, for example, evoke an unknown journey of imagination or immigration concerning a single seafaring wanderer. Against the vast backdrop of modern industrial cargo ships, and the endeavor of MV2, the Rotterdam image will span another maritime scale, towards the individual sailor – or luckless refugee – in the simplest of water vehicles.
In the week between Sunday June 14 and Saturday June 20, Hans Schabus will be around the Maasvlakte area to complete his work for Portscapes. When it is finished it will go on display at Futureland for a few months.

Lara Almarcegui

Together with biologist Remko Andeweg, Lara Almarcegui researched the 'wastelands' that are everywhere to be found at the port of Rotterdam. These sites are some of the few in the Rotterdam area that have not yet been subjected to any design, or used for any particular purpose. Because they have been left alone, natural processes of decay, transition and entropy can be observed. Read more....

Read more: www.portscapes.com