Meet-a-Maker
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Wouter Osterholt (Deep Time Agency) is open to creative consultation and discussing ideas.
Meet-a-Maker is a 30-minute session to have a one-on-one talk with artists currently working at Mediamatic. We are lucky to be inspired by the many artists who work and stay with us for exhibitions, residencies and workshops. Deep Time Agency are part of our Aquatoop Program for 2025. We welcome you to meet them and be inspired as well!
About the artist
In 2020, visual artists Miriam Sentler (1994, DE/NL) and Wouter Osterholt (NL/DE, 1979, NL/DE) set up an interdisciplinary research initiative: Deep Time Agency. DTA is designed as a multi-year research project that recontextualizes archaeological objects in industrially changed landscapes, in collaboration with local residents, stakeholders and institutions. The initiative merges different historical time layers of places to form a material voice for the present and future of the disrupted landscapes, working in an activist and poetic manner with the symbolics of the objects. By highlighting objects exposed by industrial excavations, we seek to develop a sense of belonging in the disrupted landscapes themselves and on a larger scale in the Anthropocene era.
Wouter speaks German, Dutch and English.
Topics
The conversations with Wouter are meant for anyone who has a special interest in the role of art within reclamation and recultivation of disrupted landscapes.
- Linking archeological objects to contemporary issues
- Using archeology as a means to reconnect to altered landscapes of the Anthropocene
- The contemporary importance of context- and site-specificty in art
- Merging the ancient with the contemporary
- Performative production as means to connect with audiences
- The “returning” (reclamation) of historical and archaeological objects to highlight environmental change
- Starting debates about the site-specific meaning of objects in a place, for local communities and the landscape alike
- Re-acivating archives and archeological activism
- Archaeological reclamation as a means to reclaim sites and (social and environmental) histories
Information
Dates: 27th of February
You can choose a 30-minute time slot between 16:00 - 16:30 or 16:30 - 17:00.
Full price €10
Artists/Students discount €7,50*
*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.
For questions please e-mail workshop@mediamatic.nl.
