11th November 2021
MSR = HAAG SAEZ – Dutch artist working on new work, to be presented in December
Dreams of intercontinental travel have been stripped away by the hassle caused by cotton swabs and complex QR codes. Can we still dream about a place you have never visited while embracing unforeseeable situations? It takes more imagination than simply digitalizing things: repurposing familiarity with your own face or conceiving in-between hybrid landscapes might possibly be an answer.
In MSR = HAAG SAEZ, two artists took up summer-autumn residencies to produce a new kind of travel experience. It resulted in a PACKAGE (or a kit) with a QR CODE attached to it. Minamisanriku AIR presents MSR = HAAG SAEZ Online Lodging/Virtual Travel Package.
Holiday glimpse – Aydee Derix
When looking for activities to do in the Netherlands, you will frequently come across the Zaanse Schans. Ranked as the 12th place of Things to Do in the Netherlands on Tripadvisor, the Zaanse Schans is mostly known for its windmills.
‘Holiday glimpse’ is a virtual tour that reflects the alienation in/of the Zaanse Schans caused by tourism.
Tourism has a very double effect, on one side it is an experience and exploration that can help you relax, make you happy and show you different sides of life and on the other side it is a destructive and alienating force that changes the places it goes to.
After entering the app installation, you will find yourself in the Zaanse Schans, while being surrounded by Japanese elements that will alienate and change the way you view the the place.
Open the app and let yourself become a tourist once again.
Minaving – Piet Verkleij
You wake up in a warm sauna, the smells of pinewood and glowing embers fill the air. On the left of you stands a small heater and on the right you can make out a map on a wall. Through the glass in front of you, you can see a bridge while rainy grey weather fills the sky. You have entered ‘Minaving’. A place where some things seem familiar but out of place and other things seem strange but fitting. Time moves slow here, so relax, listen, look around and let the scenery slowly wash over you.
Make sure to keep a Wi-Fi connection while using the app since it’s necessary for playing videos within the app.
Now it’s time to go, open the app, place your smartphone in the cardboard holder, plug in some headphones or earplugs and dive in!
Happy exploring!
MSR = HAAG SAEZ's "Online Lodging and Virtual Travel Package" is expected to be launched in early December 2021. Simply order the package, scan the QR code on the assembled headset you receive with your smartphone, and you will be transported into the special region.
Launch event on 5 December - 10am - 12pm CET/18pm - 20pm JST
We are planning an online event on 5 December on Zoom (live on YouTube) to launch our travel package and apps. The language is English, but the session will be live translated into Japanese.
Participants:
Aydee Derix
Piet Verkleij
Yoshinari Nishiki (a.k.a Inari from TOFU/Rotterdam) * Person in charge of this project from Minamisanriku AIR
Yukiko Shikata (Curator) *Minamisanriku AIR curator
The press release can also be viewed as a word document
The project website
https://msr-haag.org/en/
https://msr-haag.org/
連絡先
Contact
msr.haag@gmail.com
2021年10月30日
南三陸=ハーグSAEZ オンライン実験イベント
「時里充＋福留麻里＜スクリーンエクササイズ＞@ZOOM」 参加募集！
[日時] 2021年11月8日 20-21時 @ Zoom
[募集人数] 30名
[参加無料・事前登録制] 以下までメールをお願いいたします。後日URLを送付いたします。msr.haag@gmail.com
メールの表題：「11/8参加希望」、お名前（ひらがなも）、メールアドレス、緊急連絡先（携帯電話番号）、ご住所（都道府県・市町村まで）
[申込締切] 11月7日23:59（30人になった段階で締切）
*録画しYouTubeで公開させていただく予定です。ご了承をどうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
[概要]
今年開始した、宮城県南三陸町とオランダのハーグ市を結ぶアーティスト滞在プロジェクト「南三陸=ハーグSAEZ」（https://msr-haag.org/）は、コロナ禍において人の移動が困難になった状況を踏まえ、まず日本やオランダのアーティストによるヴァーチャル視察から開始し、来年以降実際の視察へと拡張していく予定です。
今年は、メディアアーティストの時里充とパフォーマーの福留麻里が2月からヴァーチャル視察を重ね、ゴールデンウィークに南三陸でその成果を作品とオンライントーク、そして上記サイトにて披露しました（オランダ側は、現在2人のアーティストが公募で選ばれ、12月に作品発表の予定です）。
今回、時里充＋福留麻里は、新たな試みとして、コロナ禍において南三陸町で精力的に展開されているオンライン研修のフォーマットの隙間に、アートとして新しい風を導入するプログラム「＜スクリーンエクササイズ＞@ZOOM」を企画いたしました。
このオンラインの実験は、研修では使うことのない知覚、身体、頭を使うこと、またZoomのこれまでにない使い方を参加者の皆さまと一緒に体験するものです。レクリエーションとしての先進的なアートプロジェクトの実験に、皆さまのご参加を心よりお待ちしています。
主催：南三陸 AIR（岩田康宏、四方幸子、錦 良成／a.k.a いなり from TOFU）
特別協力：一般社団法人南三陸研修センター
＊内容についてのお問い合わせ先：四方幸子（stoicomedia@gmail.com）
6th Auguest 2021
We held an open call for artists to build Online Lodging and Virtual Travel experiences between 1 June and 11 July 2021. Each proposal was carefully evaluated by Yukiko Shikata (Curator, Tokyo), Michel van Dartel (V2, Rotterdam), Jacqueline Heerema (Satellietgroep, The Hague) and Yoshinari Nishiki (TOFU, Rotterdam) in terms of feasibility, novelty and suitability to the theme.
After numerous discussions, the decision was made to go with Aydee Derix and Piet Verkleij.
Aydee Derix graduated from the BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research) Fine Art department at ArtEZ. She grew up in Aruba and her work focuses on tourism. For this residency, she wants to create a virtual face-framing billboard experience. When you scan your face with your mobile phone, the phone becomes a VR headset that leads you to a space where animals from Minamisanriku are placed on top of a Dutch tourist landscape. If you look closely, you will notice that your face is embedded here and there in the scene, including the faces of the animals. For the graduation exhibition, the artist created a physical version in which faces scanned by a camera are projected in the middle of the sun on an exotic artificial beach.
Piet Verkleij is a graduate from ArtScience Interfaculty at KABK. He is originally from Tilburg and now lives in Scheveningen near the beach. Piet makes collage videos based on real footage of the sea, with the speed of the waves carefully adjusted to match the clouds. This creates a strange surreal immersiveness, and he basically wants to make a new one combining footage from Minamisanriku. One idea is to make a view of Minamisanriku when seen from The Hague based on the residency concept. It would be interesting to ride onto the recent sauna hype in Japan, as traditional saunas have screens embedded, his work could be screened to make a meditative sauna lodging experience.