Circles of Focus: Clay Event
Tuesday 20 September 2016, 13-16 hrs
Location: Polderpark Cronesteyn, Leiden (12 min. walk from station Leiden Lammenschans)
Starting point at 13 hrs is teahouse De tuin van de smid
Route on google maps: click here
RSVP by email to: reserveren@stroom.nl
This event is part of:
Circles of Focus: The Fall Experiment
During the Clay Event the artists Christine Borland and Brody Condon will dig for clay in the vicinity of Leiden. Tiemen Cocquyt, curator of Museum Boerhaave, will give an informal lecture about the historic 'fall experiment', conducted by Willem 's Gravesande in 1722. The clay will be harvested in collaboration with Atelier NL.
With the exhibition Circles of Focus: The Fall Experiment at Stroom Den Haag, Christine Borland and Brody Condon present the latest results of their ongoing research project, which explores the donated human body as an agent for artistic research and practice. The artists' residency and exhibition focuses on the question: can a sculpture constitute a legally binding body-donation bequest?
In the weeks before the opening of the exhibition on 15 October the artists will have a residency period at Stroom Den Haag. Through a series of public events they will collect the materials they will use for the sculptures in the exhibition. You are cordially invited to join us for one or all of these events.
Circles of Focus: The Fall Experiment is made possible through the financial support of the Mondriaan Fund and the city of The Hague.
Atelier NL
The work of Atelier NL (Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck) translates the convergence of environment, history, and human experience into objects and systems that enrich everyday life. Atelier NL uses design as a method to reveal hidden informational patterns and stories that lie beneath the mundane. What can local raw materials teach us about a place? This resulted in in a.o. their 'Clay Service', a set of plates and bowls that showcase clay from different locations throughout the Netherlands. The set is included in the collections of various leading museums all over the world.
www.ateliernl.com
Tiemen Cocquyt
Tiemen Cocquyt is curator at Museum Boerhaave, the National Museum for the History of Science and Medicine in Leiden. Trained as a physicist and historian of science, his task is to explore the rich social and cultural context the many scientific instruments in the collections testify to. Having tinkered with technology from early on, Cocquyt particularly enjoys replicating historic scientific instruments and reconstructing their modus operandi. This often leads to unexpected insights in the processes by which means ‘discoveries' were originally established, and a rehabilitation of the ‘tacit knowledge' that is part of scientific practice.
www.museumboerhaave.nl
- Tuesday 20 Sep '16 13-16 hrs
- Polderpark Cronesteyn, Polderpad, Leiden
- Entrance: free
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: courtesy Atelier NL
photo: courtesy Museum Boerhaave