con•sens•us / água morte - água viva
con•sens•us / água morte - água viva / Thomas Körtvélyessy with Aharona Israel+incidental guests
a one-plus... day performance series of travelling improvisations
relating the stilled waters of the city and the moving water in our bodies
dates & times:
TUESDAY JUNE 7th
10:00 beach of Hoek van Holland
15:00 canal at crossing of Witte de Withstraat / Eendrachtsweg
16:30 Wijnhaven, between Gaperstraat (Willem de Kooning Academie) and Posthoornstraat
THURSDAY JUNE 9th
(to be confirmed, please check the weblog in before you go http://perambulacao.blogspot.com/)
15:00 starting from bridge of Linker Rottekade to Noordplein and continuing along Zaagmolenkade
NOTE: performances will be cancelled in case of heavy raining
directions: - Hoek van Holland, take stoptrein at 9:11 AM from Rotterdam Central Station to Hoek van Holland Strand until the very last stop. Then call 06-27493972 for contact & we will come and pick you up.
- Witte de With. Metro Eendrachtsplein, or tram 5
- Wijnhaven. Metro Blaak (also has a trainstation, one stop from Rotterdam CS direction Dordrecht)
- Zaagmolenkade (to be confirmed, check weblog in advance) tram 8 to Oostplein, stop at Zaagmolenkade
Part of perambulação / 2nd Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
curated by Mirta Demare and Daniela Labra
come, sense us! :-)
a one-plus... day performance series of travelling improvisations
relating the stilled waters of the city and the moving water in our bodies
dates & times:
TUESDAY JUNE 7th
10:00 beach of Hoek van Holland
15:00 canal at crossing of Witte de Withstraat / Eendrachtsweg
16:30 Wijnhaven, between Gaperstraat (Willem de Kooning Academie) and Posthoornstraat
THURSDAY JUNE 9th
(to be confirmed, please check the weblog in before you go http://perambulacao.blogspot.com/)
15:00 starting from bridge of Linker Rottekade to Noordplein and continuing along Zaagmolenkade
NOTE: performances will be cancelled in case of heavy raining
directions: - Hoek van Holland, take stoptrein at 9:11 AM from Rotterdam Central Station to Hoek van Holland Strand until the very last stop. Then call 06-27493972 for contact & we will come and pick you up.
- Witte de With. Metro Eendrachtsplein, or tram 5
- Wijnhaven. Metro Blaak (also has a trainstation, one stop from Rotterdam CS direction Dordrecht)
- Zaagmolenkade (to be confirmed, check weblog in advance) tram 8 to Oostplein, stop at Zaagmolenkade
Part of perambulação / 2nd Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
curated by Mirta Demare and Daniela Labra
come, sense us! :-)
posted by Perambulacao at 11:00 PM
1 Comments:
summary from the last few days:
Aharona & I were talking about this role of water here in the Netherlands, and I was also talking about this with Roberto Rocco at TU Delft: there are literally tons of water here and they pose a real threat to one's survival.
So it's a basic experience to dam them in, to reduce their power-movement, as a vital necessity.
Therefore nature is not some vague Goddess as e.g. in German Romantic Culture, but a very sobering and real matter to be handled, a cow, or a piece of wood. The Dutch word for 'civilisation'/'culture' is literally 'beschaving' i.e. shaving, shaving off the wild?
No sentimentality here, no nonsense. No fear of intervening either, after all it's part of survival (not only here).
It can also lead to a very understanding kind of being gentle out of practicality, that is very quiet and attentive and balanced.
. . .
Being foreigners to Dutch culture we all three noticed this trait in the aim to get very reliable regulations of territory that is very clearly defined from the outside in, not the other way round, basic codes of behavior, and discipline in sticking to the rules.
To do something out of bounds can be something very difficult here for 'cultured' people, unless someone looses their head and then turns berserk. This in opposition to the cool-headed adventurer on the leave to discover new shores and bring home newly robbed goods from far away, or the bravoura of inventing something totally unconventional that simply works.
Aharona is an architect-dancer and remarked on the fact that in Amsterdam there are all the canals shaping the city which has a very clear functionality that remained to this very day (the singel, the Herengracht, Keizersgracht Prinsengracht, etc.)
In Rotterdam she wondered if this was more an aesthetic than a necessity - could it have done the same as São Paulo, burying the water underground?
There are some interesting maps of Old Rotterdam in the Schielandhuis, at Coolsingel (yet, a singel by its name, but apparently no water there!).
It's located opposite of the huge FORTIS-bank building and before the actual street / shopping area.
(metro-stop: Churchillplein)
These maps show how much this land here in Rotterdam was actually water (Blaak was a lake, so was the big marketplace!)
. . .
If one starts to give in a little, to what extent can that be done, and alternatives to existing codes be enacted, with understanding of the structures, rather than just discarding something out of fashion.
Given the continuous rise of the sea-level some Dutch scientists claim it is time to give land back to the sea...
When I did a small rehearsal at Wijnhaven by myself, I did feel compassion with this stilled water in the canals, mostly harmless, stinky at worst in the summer.
But then this afternoon, rain broke through a part of my roof and I had to very quickly evacuate some dear books. So there obviously is a limit of how much movement I want.
Having lived for a very long time in the Netherlands it became clear to me how much I forgot, that it is not at all 'natural' in other countries to have so many canals be a constant part of the landscape, all that water, waiting around you....
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