ERRARE means: to wander, to roam Erratum to err to be mistaken As in... to be misled... To err from Old French ‘errer’ go astray, lose one’s way, be in error in a very unspectacular way
Together with Neo-futuristic Walks, Mariken Overdijk invites you to join us on a Sunday afternoon stroll through a tiny part of Amsterdam as a future water-resistant resident. We will explore a worn-out path like passing bodies. Fabulating and imagining what and where this body without refuge will take us. Where the city will open its urbane canvas and reveal its “floodgates” to let us explore its future. From fabulating life in wetlands, to repurposing our presence. The not-knowing is a starting point for getting nowhere on this walk. Perhaps for a moment we will meander into the future. Our gaze will probe everyday horizontal-vertical-diagonal and sous-terrain planes. The history of Amsterdam’s water management is fundamentally linked to everyday life. Behind the scenes, Amsterdam is kept dry every day.
About Neo-futuristic Walks: Wetlands
This year, Neo-futuristic Walks in the new phase, called Wetlands, invite strolling through London, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Antwerp – 4 cities facing the threat of floods. These cities also share one geographical similarity: they all emerged alongside rivers or other forms of water formations. Therefore, water has always been crucial to their existence. By inspecting those sites on foot and creating the laboratory of climate fictions, participants are invited to envision the new relationships between people and water in the urban environments that are at risk of flooding.
Neo-futuristic Walks: Wetlands walk in Amsterdam was developed together with autopsychogeographer and urban choreographer Mariken Overdijk.
The project Neo-futuristic Walks: Wetlands is funded by Creative Industries Fund NL.
‘Every city is somewhat constructed, created by us in the image of the galley Argo of which each piece was no longer an original one, yet which still remained the ship Argo, i.e., a group of readily legible and identifiable significations. In this attempt at a semantic approach to the city. We must try to understand the interplay of signs, to understand that any city is a structure but that we must never attempt and never hope to fill that structure. For the city is a poem, not a poem centered on a subject. It is a poem which deploys the signifier, and it is this development which the semiology of the city must ultimately attempt to grasp and to make sing. (Barthes, 1970, 1988, p. 418)’
Mariken Overdijk:
Mariken Overdijk is a performance artist interested in installation and physical performativity through urban choreography, writing, and auto-psychogeography. In addition to her artistic practice, Mariken Overdijk teaches performative arts and works as a coordinator at the VAV-Moving Image department, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
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