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Het Eiland / The Island (30 min)
Premiere: 25th November - 5th December 2010
at Vrijhof Enschede University Twente
Publication (Dutch) UTNieuws
University Twente Enschede 2006-2010
Photo: video still, map University Twente, 2007./ Right: Hilly Podde, Le Roy woods in snow, 2005
English DVD cover >>click here<<
The view from the studio of visual artist Machteld Aardse is a curious plot of land, belonging to Twente University, the Netherlands. One day, the plants are cut down to make way for a heap of sand. Then, a laboratory for nanotechnology arises.
Aardse found the sand heap to be a great stage for art performances but was also sucked into the story of the plot of land where an eccentric ecologist, L.G. le Roy, could put his ideas to practice in the '70. About the hisory of an acre of land, conflicting ideologies and a changing Zeitgeist, architects and contractors, and old dreams thrown out with the garbage.
Nederlands DVD cover >>click hier<<
Het uitzicht van het atelier van kunstenaar Machteld Aardse is een bijzonder stukje grond van de Universiteit Twente. Eerst was hier het wilde bosje van de ecoloog Louis G. le Roy. Op een dag wordt dit echter gekapt en ligt er ineens een grote zandhoop. Daarna verrijst er een laboratorium voor nanotechnologie.
Photo: Mei-Yu Tao: view from studio, 2007
Eiland I (Island I), cardboard, plastic, tape, acrylics, blanket, bikini, on sand
Universiteit Twente, Enschede, November 2006
- Eiland I (Island I) 23 november 2006
- Eiland II (Island II) 16 december 2006
with report by H.H. van de UT Security
- Eiland III (Island III) destroyed 2 april 2007
videostill, Eiland II (Island II), December 2006
videostill, Eiland III (Island III), april 2007
videostill
Research with cooperation of the University Twente (Archive), Vastgoed Drienerlo and Firm Dusseldorp.
Photo: Jan Hesselink: Construction of Le Roy bush, 1972
Photo: Bani Banwart: Machteld Aardse, Eiland I, 2006
Photo: Mei-Yu Tao: Nano Lab by architect Jan Hoogstad, 2009
director: Machteld Aardse
camera 1: Julian Scaff
camera 2: Paula Bugni & Tao Z (Mei- Yu)
camera 3: Jae-Min Kim, Nikos Doulos
photography: Kevin Mitnick, Bani Bannwart, Jan Hesselink
music: Julien Grossmann
sound: Thomas van der Linde, Machteld Aardse
titels & animation: Anke Noorman
editors:
René Nuland, Machteld Aardse, Julian Scaff
poetry: J. Heymans
nanolab suits: Micronclean, Cleanroom Services van Berendsen
choir & conductor: Convivium, Joost Schouten www.koorconvivium.nl
Choir Convivium in Microclean-suits, 2010
Choir Convivium, soundrecording, conducted by Joost Schouten, 2010
Het Eiland / The Island was made possible by the suopport of
Vrijhof Cultuurcentrum, University Twente.
Special thanks to:
actor: Laurens te Walvaart - Fa. Dusseldorp
Maarten Lensink - Fa. Dusseldorp
Jan, Erik - Slopers Dusseldorp
De heer M. Weustink - Beveiliging University Twente
Peter Vergert & Peter- Archive University Twente
Karen Frowijn - Vastgoed Drienerlo
Ing. H. Kruidhof - IM Univeristy Twente
De heer P.J. Kiekebos - Library University Twente
De heer Schooneberg
Jeroen van Westen - landscape artist
De heer Holzik - Greenman
De heer A. Hirsch - Vastgoed Drienerlo
Rik van der Velden - architect Nanolab for Ector Hoogstad Architects
Tatia Skhirtladze - voice
De heer J. Hoogstad - supervisor & architect Carré Enschede
De heer J.H. Hesselink - photographer University Twente
Marsha Plantenga - communication University Twente
Vrijhof Cultuurcentrum UTwente
Mariëlle Rijpstra - Micronclean, Cleanroom Service van Berendsen
Choir Convivium - Joost Schouten, Miriam & Pepijn
Willem van Weelden - consultancy
Cesar Moerman - communication consultancy
Kees Maas - silkscreen
The Island, silkscreen, 100 x 70 cm (200 gr) - in colour and black/white