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Three research-ateliers with three exhibitions in three cities,
and a installation for children and adults.
I sometimes have those days,
that my legs are lighter than the air,
but then my trousers too, are filled with stars
and the great flight begins.
Pierre Kemp
The first ‘Atelier took place in Leiden at Scheltema, centre for
contemporary Art, where she worked with 6 children during 7 afternoons
around the theme of ‘travelling and residing in the UNIVERSE’.
During the first three phases of the project
‘THE REST OF THE WORLD (and beyond)’ Judith Nab invites children and
scientists to work with her in ‘ateliers’ to visualize the unknown
parts worlds of the dark zone of the deep-sea, the
universe, and the inside of the earth.
With the use of (animation) film, interviews,drawings, discussions and
research they create material, while celebrating the 'free thought'.
After each atelier a exhibition is organized in the city.
The journey to the ‘unknown’ is a pretext to
reflect, free of age and strengthened by the imagination of children
and scientists, about our place in the world and about our
attitude towards the unknown and the (im)possible.
"God created the world while thinking it could also have been different." Robert Musil
Creators of this project are:
the children:
Isha Scheenaard, Marieke
Sauer, Raisa Mulder, Pepijn Spaans, Ties van Meegen en Mattias Nab.
Sparring partners:
Dirck Nab- painter,Tessa Jansen-editing, Leonie Baars and Ursula Schursch,
production.
The scientists :
Remco van der Burg, astronomer.
Willem Westerhuis, biochemist.
Jeanette Bast, astronomer.
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TROTW, Atelier Scheltema Leiden.
clip (jan/febr 2011)
‘The rest of the world (and beyond)’ is an appeal for curiosity to the unknown, the motor of progress.
This is also the connecting link between the three groups of participants of this project: children, scientists and artists.
They are all used to think ‘outside of the box’ or as Mattias (10
years), a participant said, 'to take the curly roads instead of the
straight ones'
Scientists and artists are trying to move the borders of our knowledge
and our imagination. Children don’t know these borders and move them
naturally.
Ties van Meegen (10 years)
‘I designed a vehicle that works on thoughts, but that is at the same time the most complicated part’
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