Calls Overboard /// Offshore Refractions
Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, Rietveld uncut, March 2022
Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, Rietveld uncut, March 2022
Calls Overboard - Offshore Refractions is a series of flags that serve as an expansion to the existing International Code of Signals (ICS): a standard set of flags used for communication among sea vessels.
Imagine the sea - coast relation as a metaphor for human and non-human bodies. What signals do they emit?
Calls Overboard - Offshore Refractions transpond signals from the human body position echoing to coasts, to oceans, to islands and to all human and non human entities within the vast archipelago that is the world today.
Those messages take as inspiration the contradictory and rather conflictual notions that shape our understanding and imaginary of both islands and the ocean.
The work stems from Walking Club Rietveld’s [I]sland [D]rift; a collective study on foot looking into islands as physical entities and as symbolic manifestations of our fluid relations with each other and the world. The study exists in the framework of Studium Generale Rietveld 2022: OCEANIC IMAGINARIES.
Here the research website of the project: https://wwwawwtaw.hotglue.me/?captains_log/
