To celebrate 50 years of Ruigoord we have a special program kicking off on the 6th of July with Dead zones.
When
6 july 2023
What Times
18:00 or 20:00
Time of performance
+/- 30 min.
Tickets
Visual artist Suzette Bousema will guide you on a metaphoric scuba diving session in one of the Netherland’s dead zone areas, located in Veerse meer, Zeeland.
Man-made dead zones are areas in the ocean where the oxygen disappears, caused by the decay of huge micro algae blooms, fueled by human waste streams, like agriculture runoff and sewage spills. From the surface of the water we will ‘swim’ through the depths of the ocean, until we finally reach the floor.
This performance is created in the context of Silbersee Waterwende. This project is supported by Silbersee, Ruigoord, Fonds Podiumkunsten and Instrument Inventors.
About the makers
Suzette Bousema (The Hague – NL, 1995) visualizes contemporary environmental topics in collaboration with scientists. Planetary conditions and our place in them are the starting point in her work; the way humans interfere with nature and how we relate to the Earth on an individual level. She works interdisciplinary with photography, printmaking, glass blowing, weaving, sound, smell, and organic materials such as seaweed.
Her work has been published in a.o. NRC (NL), de Volkskrant (NL), Foam magazine (NL), Harper’s Bazaar (NL), Financial Times (UK), Der Spiegel (DE), Die Zeit (DE) and Liberatión (FR).
Rafaele Andrade [Curitiba – Brazil, 1994] is a composer and performer in the field of experimental music. She designed her own string-based instrument ‘Knurl’ and has performed across Latin America and Europe in venues such as Royal Theater Carré (NL), Chigiana Music Festival (IT), Morphine records (DE), Gaudeamus (NL).
She is a member of Netherlands coding Live (NL), iii workspace (NL) and is a research associate at the intelligent instruments lab (IS). She is currently living in the Hague, The Netherlands.