Art sounds
Meet the artworks and artists that will be showcased during Into The Great Wide Open 2023 in Vlieland. The five-part podcast is produced by art lover and program maker Luuk Heezen.
Episode 1: Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch
Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch creates an installation of light paintings for Into The Great Wide Open 2023: 25 steel frames containing painted sheets of plexiglass, which take on a different form each time due to the sliding LED light behind them. Each painting invites being viewed as a unique work, but the 25 paintings together give the larger light artwork its distinctive outline: a formation of horizontal stripes, in stark contrast to the vertical trees, resembling a flock of birds or a spaceship.
Episode 2: Pelle Schilling
In this episode, you will hear artist Pelle Schilling, who has a fascination with kinetic instruments. For Into The Great Wide Open, he builds three wooden sound boxes, where you can lay on with your body and with your head inside. Between the sound boxes and the surrounding trees, there are meters-long piano strings stretched, creating an overwhelming composition that can be heard and felt through the movement of the trees in the wind.
Episode 3: Frank Bloem
A warm pine forest at the end of a hot summer day has an exhilarating scent that is hard to grasp. It has only recently been discovered that this exhilarating character comes from nitro musks, fragrance substances that have been considered aphrodisiac for decades. In the 80s, many mature pine forests stood on the Wadden Islands, until they became increasingly mixed with deciduous trees and other plantings, and the scent changed.
In the installation Pine Desire, Frank Bloem brings the warm pine forest back to life, through twelve dots on trees that each spread a different intoxicating fragrance. Frank has also mixed these scents into a perfume of the same name, which is available for purchase in limited edition.
Episode 4: Heleen Blanken
For Into The Great Wide Open, Heleen Blanken places an architectural structure in the middle of the forest: a white chapel, in which light is reflected, distorted, and broken through special prism glass. This installation titled SIN▲TθPIUM makes visible what cannot be directly seen with the naked eye: the natural harmony of waves and patterns.
Heleen works in various disciplines, such as video, scenography, installation, and sculpture, and explores how concepts like technology, the human experience, and the natural world relate to each other.
