Yesterday (Mon 22 Aug) marked the first day of the production period for Invisible City, an event that will be staged in Schiedam, NL on 2, 3 & 4th Sept 2011. I’m one of the artists who has been invited to take part in the event, although I don’t start work in Schiedam until next week.
I’m aiming to write about how I got this far, the work i’m planning on making, how the event is funded and i’ll share some of the work that the other artists are producing. So, to start:
What is Invisible City?
www.shadowingcities.com
“Invisible City is the first project of Shadowing Cities, a cooperation of Liat Magenzy, Fiona Weir and Ans Kanen. Artists, builders, architects, actors, dancers, players and thinkers are invited to react to the notion of the moving, invisible city. Its goal is to put the spotlight on Schiedam by means of art and culture. For the first time the city will be flooded with artists from all over the world. Invisible City aims to free Schiedam from the shadow of Big Brother Rotterdam.
Ruimte in Beweging on Boterstraat is the central point of Invisible City. Several entrances give acces to the building. It has a large, open main space and some seperated smaller spaces. Each has its own atmosphere and peculiarities. For Invisible City, the building will be transformed to a city in itself, a shadow city.
The individual visions of the artists form a city installation, an integral work built up from personal views of the city. The way the city dweller moves around in a city, the way a city is discovered, is the way a visitor of Invisible City discovers the town that springs from the artist’s imagination. Nobody will take the same story home.”
How did I get involved?
I responded to this advert in a-n last November –
www.a-n.co.uk/jobs/single/814051
– with a proposal to re-visit a piece of work called Passing, Watching, Waiting, Following that I had previously realised at the Bluecoat in Liverpool and In Linz, Austria. See www.claireweetman.co.uk/pwwf.html and http://www.claireweetman.co.uk/weetman_pwwf.html
Fiona, Liat and Ans got back to me in December 2010 to tell me that my proposal was selected and over the past 8 months things have come together until today there is just a week until I start work in Schiedam.
Things to do
So that this blog is both informative for you and useful for me, here is a list of things that I still need to do before I leave for the Netherlands:
-Make some new test drawings in the studio using stencils to try and establish a balance between the background(context) of the image and the lines documenting movement (content)
-Pack all the equipment that I need to take with me
-Edit some drawings that I did as part of a design brief for Ruimte in Beweging
-Send mailing list update & update personal blog
-make sure that I mention that this project is Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, in all publicity.
