Project:
L’Essence de Mastenbroek, Birthe Leemeijer
Artist Birthe Leemeijer has created a perfume that expresses life on a Dutch polder through the medium of scent. Working closely with local residents, she sought out the characteristic smells of the landscape. The perfume’s packaging, too, is an homage to Mastenbroek. With Leemeijer, graphic designer Renate Boere created a box that’s austere on the outside, but inside shows the polder through the seasons and contains a leaflet with a map to Mastenbroek.
Interview:
The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek
Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ... person: Birthe Leemeijer
Artist Birthe Leemeijer created the perfume L’Essence de Mastenbroek, a portrait in scent of life on a Dutch polder, in collaboration with ... "The fragrance not only calls forth associations you can immediately name, like hay, milk and cattle, it also tries to evoke an idea of space and the sensation of cold wind."
Birthe Leemeijer "I’d rather develop a work on location, with others, preferably so that the collaboration takes on meaning within the work itself."
Birthe Leemeijer "I feel a connection with people who use imagination to unite humour with serious things, absurdity with the everyday."
Hans Meiboom, Studiomeiboom
Interview:
Come Together
Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom), Table de Ville
In a multicultural society, how do you get everyone to gather around the same table? By making a really big one, Hans Meiboom decided. So far, ... "With this table I want to bring back the meeting function of the Bijlmerpark in particular and of public space in general."
Hans Meiboom, Studiomeiboom “I wondered how to represent our economic relationship with the landscape, and realised I could use new technology."
Esther Polak
Project:
Coat of Arms, Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak (Unruly)
Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak of Unruly helped four underprivileged teenagers to design a coat of arms for Amsterdam’s multicultural ...
Interview:
The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ...
Project:
Milk Project, Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture
When artist Esther Polak and researcher Ieva Auzina discovered that much Latvian milk is transported to the Netherlands, they decided to follow ... "It takes time to set up my cameras. That means more spontaneous pictures. When people pose for a long time, they eventually relax."
Rob Hornstra
Deep Focus
Rob Hornstra, Roots of the Rúntur
In spite of the many excellent photography museums in the Netherlands, there are precious few places for young talent to exhibit. Photographer ... "Photography books are fantastic historic documents. But they're labour-intensive and you almost never recover expenses, so few get made."
Rob Hornstra
Project:
Table de Ville, Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom)
A table that’s more than two kilometres long ought to get people talking to each other again. Hans Meiboom wants to build just such a table in ... "Really, everyone needs their own map. Everyone has their own spatial pattern, their own view of reality."
Esther Polak