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Artists Noel Meek and Elliot Vaughan commissioned new walking performance scores by Aotearoa artists John Vea (Tonga), Louie Zalk-Neale (Ngāi te Rangi), Rob Thorne (Ngāti Tumutumu), Sonya Lacey, and Noel Meek. With performances every day of The Performance Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2024, Meek and Vaughan explored a rich and challenging artistic ecology showing walking’s potential as an aesthetic, social, and political action.
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In april/may 2024 the dutch city Dronten organised an art walk with about 40 artists exhibiting sculpture, paintings and photografic art around the theme of Tulips. The cultural, historical, botanical and aestetic connotations of tulips was inspiration for the artists. Sound-artist Remco de Kluizenaar devised a guided tour in which he gave the artworks an extra dimension by composing music inspired on the looks and making process of several artworks. On the way from artwork to artwork he added storylines, like the botanical story of Tulips not being a Dutch flower, but coming through Vienna traders from Turkey, and in Turkey it was allready an import from the cold windy Kazachstan and Mongolian altitude planes. Remco plays with thoughts like this: Dronte, being in dutch province Flevoland, a cold windy plane as well, is a good place for strong natural tulips because of their origin. And he makes the travel from Mongolia to Netherlands audible by writing fragments of Mongolian, Turkish, and dutch music. The song “Een bosje Flevoland” (a bouquet of Flevoland) https://soundcloud.com/search?q=tulpen%20Remco%20de%20kluizenaar%20bosje%20flevoland is arranged to a baroque version, a dutch 60’s singersong version, and several others, to be the music main theme of the route (inspired on the continuous reuse of the soundtrack of the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam). In a long straight line of a roofed shopping mall, he makes an audiopiece with circles overlapping, crossfading a soundscape tuned to the frequency of the earth, telling the audience a one end of the mall they are in the earth, at the other end they are amongst pollinators, hovering over the flowers. Inside the mall, links between the artworks and plant parts of the tulip are made. In this way the route, besides being a guided tour telling something about the artworks, is an artwork by itself.
Credits
Tulpenroute Flevoland is the organiser/funder of this guided tour, composed by Remco de Kluizenaar

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