PASSAGE I
PASSAGE I
the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another.
“Fundamentally, boundaries are inflection points where flows change direction. Any social construct — fence, wall, passport, browsing history — that changes people’s movements is part of the social kinetics of borders.
It follows from this definition that borders are not about stopping things from moving, they are about movement itself. — freely after Thomas Nail
In the performative audiovisual piece ‘PASSAGE’ artist Boris Acket and production designers studio RAITO explore this philosophical concept of the border. The piece is placed on a slope connecting one part of the festival to the other. Acket and Roijen are fascinated by the temporality, fluidness and endless variation of passages, separations and non existing endpoints.
Physically, metaphorically and socially; borders and passages are always temporary and often fictional and thought up by human kind, as is this intervention; it only functions during the running time of the exhibition. Even the exhibition itself forms a temporary community: with a clear border separating this bubble from reality.
The piece is built out of (...) structures forming a huge fence on the monumental NDSM Dockyard slope; the towers are over 10 meters high and are standing in a line of 40 meters long.
While the shapes of these towers seem to be strict and straight, the towers transform into a ballet of sound and light in the evening; a border you have to cross making your way over the festival terrain. The piece is intended to make you question what a divide or passage or actually is: a social construct, a physical gesture, a fence, a nationality, a *click* or in fact an invitation to a new movement.
PASSAGE / by Boris Acket & RAITO
concept, design & composition — Boris Acket / concept & production design — Bob Roijen, RAITO, www.raito-raito.com
Project production — Tom van Haagen, The Good Guyz Technical production — Bjorn Van der Broeck, Apexx
Comissioned by — DGTL Amsterdam 2022