So, I arrived last night for a group meal at Ruimte in Beweging where I met many of the artists involved in Invisible City – the inevitable repetition of who I am, where I come from and what I am planning on making circled around the table as each conversation happened, and it was good to put faces to names and project descriptions that I had previously read on the website.
So far I’ve met:
Mateja Bucar
http://www.dum-club.si/mateja/zelenaluc/green_ligh…
I’m sharing an apartment with Mateja (who’s from Ljubljana, Slovakia) and i’m really interested in her performance that is planned for some pedestrian crossings around Schiedam. I’ve seen her rehearsing with a group of dancers today and we’ve been chatting over dinner about how she will use the crossings – i’m wondering if there is a link between some work I have done with drawing on pedestrian crossings or bridge crossings previously (www.claireweetman.co.uk/crossings.html)
Daan Den Houter
http://www.daandenhouter.com/
Daan is working on ‘Money Floor’. Today I have seen him devote himself to routing €1cent sized recesses into 20 panels of wood – tomorrow he will begin to lay both the floor and the coins.
Ozlem Uzun
http://ozlemuzun.blogspot.com/
Ozlem will install homely furniture in a bus stop on the main street in Schiedam, making an unexpected intervention for the public who use the stop. I learned last night that Ozlem has had to get a permit from the council to be able to do this – i’m not sure if that would be the case at home, but i’d probably go ahead and try without asking. Ozlem will be filming the intervention and screening the documentation as part of the weekend’s events. Chatting to Ozlem I also learned what a small world it is – she knows one of the Istanbul based artists that POST met in Austria last year, and has also met another Liverpool based artist whilst she was in Lyon – by heck we get around do us Liverpool folk.
Jan De Bruin
http://www.artnews.org/artist.php?i=4329
See Jan’s video below. Jan will be reporting on the Invisible City as it unfolds
I’ve also met many of the other artists, and i’ll describe their work as I learn more about it over the next few days.
Jan De Bruin reports on Invisible City
