What Do Landscapes Say, with Shifting Dunes (handout, 2020)
Printed essay, edition of 1000, design by M. Maria Walhout, (Photo by Jhoeko, The Three Stages, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (september, 2020))
(If you want a copy sent me an email and I’ll post you one.)
'Shifting dunes' (2020), is written essay for the collaborative project ‘What Do Landscapes Say’ (2019-2021) following the research in the Wadden region, and in preparation for the making of the video essay Shifting Dunes (2021). The essay is a combination of 7 (non) fictional) fragments and found footage.
What Do Landscapes Say?’ explores the ways in which art and critical artistic research might inform the development of diverse urban environments through looking at landscapes. Whether we quantify and confine our environment in shaping it to our will, leave it to its natural processes, or flatten and exploit it to satisfy our needs, our approach to the landscape trickles down into the development of the cities we inhabit, the industries we work in, and the societies in which we live. (...) Through various media, Nomaos probes questions such as: Do the designs of specific public structures reinforce the socio-economic divide between large cities and the periphery? In what ways are 'natural' landscapes re-arranged to represent a certain identity?
Research collective Nomaos is a cross-disciplinary group of architects, artists, illustrators, designers, urbanists and writers who, in their individual practices or as part of their respective backgrounds, navigate disciplines as divergent as geology and sociology, mathematics and history. In their method of working, the encounter with the landscape is a form of collaboration – just as in artistic expression where disciplines, identities and idea meet and form a collaboration. Throughout a one-year research period, Nomaos sought out encounters with places both in Russia and the Netherlands. More on this project can be found on https://jegensentevens.nl/2020/09/what-do-landscapes-say
This project has been made possible with the support of the Creative Industries Fund NL / Stimuleringsfonds / Mondriaan fonds and Cultuurfonds
