
Hiryczuk/Van Oevelen: Landfall
- Publisher
- Jap Sam Books
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN
- 9789490322205
- Specifications
- Hardcover
160 pages
17 x 25.5 cm
English and Dutch
Editors: Marente Bloemheuvel, Zsa-Zsa Eyck
Introduction by Tom Conley
Text includes Gilles Deleuze, "L’ile deserte" (1953)
Based on a temporary art project in the public space of a business district, bringing the youngest island in the world, off the coast of Iceland, to a former marshland by means of large panoramic images. The two land masses are comparable in size but otherwise totally different: one a spontaneous impulse of nature accessible only for research, the other changed by human intervention into a business district on some of the most expensive ground in the country. The question raised is where one can find real nature: where ordinary human presence is taboo, or where the city drives out nature?