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While sifting through photos, full of renewed commitment to post most regularly on this blog, I’ve come across these images. They were taken at Raversijde in Oostende, with the participants with who helped me create the performative installation Score for the Atlantic Wall, part of the exhibition Private Tag.

We spent the morning taking the piece down, and in the afternoon rehearsed ways of working the material, exploring ideas for producing a new piece with it.

 

As usual, things happened real fast and by surprise. Yours truly luckily managed to record some of the action with these few shots. The aim is now to find means of exploring this further, possibly at the same site. Read about it here a few posts from now… 

Score for the Atlantic Wall

Score for the Atlantic Wall is a performative installation created with a group of participants at the Atlantikwall Museum, a WW2 site at Raversijde near Oostende. The piece was commissioned by Vrijstaat 0 for the exhibition Private Tag, curated by Isabelle De Baets.

The piece, developed over a couple of weeks, was made by walking through the site following existing animal tracks, desire lines and boundaries marked by trenches and openings to tunnels.

These paths, made physical through stitch, brought into view and into mind the superimposed networks of lines dissecting the site, topographical, man-made and imagined.

The group of participants completed the work in a durational performance at the opening of the exhibition. A film documenting the making and rehearsal of this piece was also shown.

For more information on the exhibition, click on this link.