Landing Sites

Landing Sites
Cocky Eek in collaboration with Schweigman&

‘Een gedachte krijgt pas waarde als zij is doorlopen. Nietzsche’

Artist/designer Cocky Eek likes to influence our senses in a subtle or radical manner to experience ones surrounding more intensely. For Landing Sites she explored together with Matthijs Munnik how to experience an open landscape in which the elements have a free ride, in an unusual way.

Landing Sites is the installation emerging from this research in which the senses are stirred in an unusual direction. While walking one lands in an individual journey in which the environment and ones inner landscape have a turn on each other.

duration about 30 minutes

concept Cocky Eek | research Cocky Eek, Matthijs Munnik, Geartsje van der Zee | dramaturgisch advies Boukje Schweigman | production Linda Witpaard | Landing Sites crew Eefje Aerts, Hannegijs Jonker, Florencia Reznik, Anna van Rij, Rachel Schuit, Ben Terwel, Gearstje van der Zee | photo Pieter Kers |Landing Sites is a co-production of Schweigman&, Oerol and the Satellietgroep, financially supported by Stroom Den Haag

LANDING SITES

In Landing Sites Cocky Eek explores and develops wearable interfaces to create new sensory relationships in which our inner landscape converges with the landscape that surrounds us. The interfaces will stage us in our contemporary perception in which we are part of and separate from our environment.

Landing Sites sofar took place at two dynamic inter-tidal sites in the Netherlands. In the winter she started her research on the ephemeral landscape of the Zandmotor. Based on the concept of “building with nature”, the Zandmotor was created in 2011 as a defense against coastal erosion. This experimental solution uses the natural movement of the tides, wind, waves and currents to replenish the beaches of South Holland. Almost as an vanishing land art intervention, the Zandmotor is expected to disappear within 15 years. Landing Sites has continued her second stage at the dynamic so called “walking dunes” located at pole 18 of Terschelling Island. At this specific coastal area, the research was accessible for a broader audience who were gently lifted by her gustily winds and catched by new terrain.

concept Cocky Eek | research Cocky Eek, Matthijs Munnik, Geartsje van der Zee | dramaturgy advice Boukje Schweigman | production Linda Witpaard | crew Rachel Schuit, Hannegijs Jonker, Ben Terwel, Gearsje van der Zee, Florencia Reznik, Anne van Rij, Eefje Aerts, Theun Karelse | Landing Sites is a co-production of Schweigman&, Oerol and the Satellietgroep, financially supported by Stroom Den Haag.

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