Sensing Shipyard
As part of Sonic Acts Academy, we work on a pedagogical research project Sensing Shipyard: A Sensorial Journey. This project is a collaboration between the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague and the Sonic Acts Academy in Amsterdam. The project is initiated and guided by spatial artist Cocky Eek, along with ArtScience alumna Nicky Assmann, sound artist Benny Nilsen and architect and researcher Renske Maria van Dam.
Guided by listening to, moving with, and breathing with that which crosses our pathways we tapped into the different industrious rhythms of the Damen Shiprepair in Amsterdam. This terrain, located in the harbor on the north side of Amsterdam, next to the River IJ, is used to conduct numerous repairs on cargo and leisure ships. It has been in operation for almost a hundred years and is bustling with energy and activity on an industrial scale. Together we wonder: How do we relate our human presence to enormous living machines? How is this relationship sensorially inscribed at this rich and historic industrial complex?
By recording the different sounds, movements and smells, and investigating surfaces and scales by touch, we explore this remarkable shipyard by sensorial mapping, whilst researching how we can recompose these location-specific stimuli into an experimental and experiential environment in which visitors embark on a sensing trip based on uncommon approaches to navigating through space.
Sensing Place is the outcome of this pedagogical research project. The research collective devised an experimental and experiential environment that will be open to the public during the Sonic Acts Academy. Visitors will be able to embark on a sensorial trip based on uncommon approaches to navigating through space.
Partners
Sonic Acts Academy | ArtScience Interfaculty
Participants
Cocky Eek, Nicky Assman, Benny Nilsen, Renske Maria van Dam, Ana Oosting, Anni Nöps, Catherine Ostraya, Vakki Park, Jesús Canuto Iglesias, Mischa Lind, Sophia Bulgakova, Soeria van den Wijngaard, Vera Khvaleva, Youngji Cho.
Courses
2017-2018 Sensing Shipyard: ArtScience Interfaculty, The Hague
Events
Lecture and discussion panel: Sonic Acts Academy, February 2019
Spatial Installation: Sensing Place, Moterkade Amsterdam, February 2019
Contact us for course material
Situated experimentation at the Damen Shipyard in Amsterdam, November 2018
Spatial installation Sensing Place at the Moterkade in Amsterdam, February 2019