A New Order, A New Earth

After the two week lockdown, Garage Rotterdam will reopen on the 20th of November with the third and final exhibition of Imke Ruigrok: A New Order, A New Earth. A New Order, A New Earth brings together visual arts, quantum science, philosophical traditions as well as ancient shamanistic wisdom and AI technology. Nine international artists, thinkers, and scientists have created visions of an alternative relationship between man and nature. Re-envisioning us as (part of) nature, instead of separate from it.

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, November 20th from 5 to 22 pm.

Due to the current situation, the opening will be a little different to what you are used to. We’ll work with time slots and advance registration is required. Each time slot starts with a word of welcome by curator Imke Ruigrok, followed by a guided tour and a number of the participating artists will be present to explain their work.

The number of places per time slot is limited, so don’t wait too long.

Not feeling well? Please stay at home, we would love to welcome you another time!

If the current lockdown is extended and we have to cancel the opening, you will be informed.

https://garagerotterdam.stager.nl/Garage%20Rotterdam/tickets

Celebrate the start of the Christmas holidays at Garage Rotterdam!

On Sunday 20 December, Garage Rotterdam is organizing a special program for the whole family, accompanying the exhibition A New Order, A New Earth.

Program
Happy Wobbel Yoga (2 – 3 years)
10.00 am – 10.45 am
11.15 am – 12 noon

Guided 1.5 meter Tour
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM

Participatory Artist Talk by Annika Kappner: “Be Water My Friend”
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Happy Wobbel Yoga
In the morning we invite the little ones (2 – 3 years old) and their parents to BLIJE WOBBEL YOGA in the exhibition
A New Order, A New Earth. The rhythmic movements on the Wobbel bring peace to mind and body, exertion and relaxation alternate.

Together with your child you will discover the exhibition A New Order, A New Earth. Can you imagine yourself as a tree? How do you move like Water? Can you surf on the vibrations of the sound?

At the end of a WobbelYoga class, each child steps off the Wobbel proudly, relaxed and with a big smile.

Costs for participation in WobbelYoga: € 15.00 (1 parent and 1 child)

Guided 1.5 meter Tour
Together with our regular guide Miriam Sentler you will discover the exhibition A New Order, A New Earth. In the group exhibition A New Order, A New Earth, we are invited into a world where the cards have been shuffled. We are introduced to other world views than the dominant Western scientific paradigm. The nine international artists, thinkers and scientists create visions of a different relationship between man and nature. Do we dare to put ourselves in a different perspective, that of nature?

Costs Guided 1.5 meter Tour: € 5.00 per person

Participatory Artist Talk by Annika Kappner; “Be Water My Friend”Be Water My Friend – exploring water as information technology of nature

Annika will share AKWĀ, the latest chapter of her research project Deep Planetary Sensing, through a series of somatic exercises entering in conversation with the element of Water. Together we will explore and speculate on the possible roles somatic and digital technologies play when we consider our planet as a living being using our bodies, emotions and minds.

Costs Artist Talk: € 5.00 per persoon

AKWĀ is a participatory immersive performance unfolding through a dialogue between two water spirits. The participant is invited to journey through the different dimensions of water on a physical, emotional and mental level. Through sound, movement, narration and scent the qualities of water as an alchemical element, chemical substance, economic resource, political weapon and sacred being, throughout history and in possible futures, are activated and shared. AKWĀ seeks to add complementary experiential, somatic perspectives to the contemporary relationship between man, nature and technology.

AKWĀ is part of Kappner’s long term research project Deep Planetary Sensing exploring how we can relate differently to our planet – the planetary body – through the somatic and experiential. The performance is part of the latest chapter AKWĀ that manifests as immersive installation, workshop and digital guided audio meditation. This chapter explores water as information technology of nature in relation to contemporary digital technologies.

Costumes: Min Li
Performers: Jihae Ko, Annika Kappner
Sound: Eric Maltz

ONLINE SCREENING | Brandstof: Holocene Memorial with Ambassade van de Noordzee
April 11, from 2 pm via YouTube

Commemorating a geological epoch
To conclude the exhibition A New Order, A New Earth, an online edition of the in-depth program Brandstof will take place on 11 April. Especially for this edition, the Embassy of the North Sea has been invited to create a special ritual.

The Holocene is coming to an end. We are saying goodbye to an era during which the North Sea and the Dutch coastline were formed. We are entering a time in which mankind has become a disruptive force of geological proportions.

We must now relate to inconceivably large matters: The planet, the climate. It is quite maddening. Our individual lives are difficult to rhyme with such an enormous, geological responsibility. How do we, humans and non-humans, take care of ourselves and of each other now that the Holocene is coming to an end?

With a wholesome ritual, we will make time and room for reflection and for personal stories and the non-humans we are saying goodbye to are given a voice.

This online ritual will be directed by Performance artist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, together with Harpo ‘t Hart. With an introduction by curator Imke Ruigrok.

The ritual can be viewed online from Sunday 11 April, 2 pm via YouTube