Time: 17h - 21h Free Entrance
The cultural event NDSM Get Lost is getting a new look! From 2024, four parties at the shipyard will join forces on one Thursday evening for an artistic program. During this evening, both visitors and residents can discover what the NDSM has to offer in the cultural field, ranging from exhibitions, performances, and lectures to workshops, live music, and more.
Are you curious? Then come along to the Autumn Edition on 12December at Nieuw Dakota, Beautiful Distress House, Stichting NDSM-werf, and Treehouse NDSM.
PROGRAMME
- BEAUTIFUL DISTRESS Website
Group exhibition on youth burnout: LIGHT OFF offers space to reflect on the busyness of everyday life. Inspired by the documentary Fuel and sensory experiences, we explore the topic of burnout from a variety of perspectives. The works mimic overstimulation, create space for softening, prompt critical thinking and tell the stories of six young adults who are burned out.
We live in a world where pressure to perform and constant stimuli seem to be the norm and burn-out is becoming increasingly common. It’s essential to not only look for individual solutions, but to also examine the societal context. LICHT UIT encourages you to critically reflect on how we interact with each other and with ourselves: to work towards a society where mental wellbeing takes centre stage.
- NIEUW DAKOTA Website
Mini exhibition by Silke Riis - The world has dropped its petals and I scooped them back up.
The dying flower is a well-known symbol of mortality, but it is also a symbol of transformation. It marks the end of one thing and the beginning of the next; fertilising the soil and making space for new growth; forcing you to empty the stinky water out of a vase with the potential of bringing home new flowers.
Silke Riis likes to think of her sculptures as picked flowers: Slowly ageing and changing, browning and breaking, but precious because of it. She mainly works with nature latex and raw clay to create her sculptures that, because of these materials, have a life-span and are influenced by their environment. Her mini exhibition is inspired by the following quote from ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarzcuk: “Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism – it ages. Just like the cell of the body, its tiniest components – the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means ‘the dropping of petals’. The world has dropped its petals.” (Pg. 65)
- NDSM-WERF Website
On December 12, we will walk past two works by NDSM artists that are installed outside on the site.
The first work is Under Pressure by artists Catarina Garcia and Jim Du Pan and this was the winning entry of the NDSM Open Call in 2023. The work consists of a colossal steel sphere that towers above the shipyard. The base of the work is formed by Kraan 7, a half-sawn crane, which in its heyday carried pieces of steel from the shipbuilding shed to the slipways, where ships were assembled.
The second work is by Henk Schut, who has had his studio at NDSM for more than 20 years. Schut created the work In Tune in the water at the Y-Slope, a bronze tuning fork that produces sound every few minutes. Coming into contact with the water and the concrete of the Y-slope, different sounds are produced each time. The entire place becomes an acoustic musical instrument.
- Treehouse NDSM
We present the 4th edition of its Pop-Up Exhibition project, a nomadic platform for exhibitions that take place in different spaces within Treehouse NDSM. Each month, a different project in a different empty space. For the 4th edition, we will use our meeting room (yellow cabin on the 1st floor) to showcase a "Creatures of Mass-production & Reveries" – a sculptural art installation by Vico Persson.
Explore the merging of readymade objects and organic materials, in an exhibition that will evolve over the course of 1 month. Through a series of sculptures, Vico Persson will investigate the relation between mass-produced commercial objects, and organic, handmade expressions. Mixing materials such as plastic bottles and cans with wood, and clay, the project blurs the lines between the synthetic and the natural, offering a space where these contrasting elements merge into unique, abstract sculptures that the artist considers "living creatures".