Point Nemo
Theun Mosk (namens Gouden Haas) & Oceanic
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The Fantasy Beach is owned by Theun Mosk and Oceanic. It has become a beautiful, but ominous place; a technological landscape where light and dark contrast again and again. Wander through this landscape and discover how light and dark become almost tangible: an uncanny, but also aesthetic experience, supported by a ten-minute composition that suddenly appears from the landscape. In this way, unpredictable nature and human impact are interwoven with an interplay of synthetic and organic sound.
The artwork is inspired by an existing place: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies Point Nemo, a normally serene place at sea, but which also serves as a graveyard for spaceships. This place is the furthest point on Earth from land. The idea behind this is that potential hazards or pollution have minimal impact on humanity. Every now and then the pristine darkness of the sea is fiercely broken by mechanical structures that fall to the ground. The ISS will also soon meet its end here, when the International Space Station crashes here for good.
Point Nemo on Almere's Fantasy Beach exudes the same tension and contradiction: technological light lines and fault lines emerge from the sand, dark depths appear and visitors become silhouettes, as if the 'made' urban nature can suddenly be wildly and capriciously disrupted. For the composition, Oceanic collaborated with singer Greetje Bijma.
Point Nemo can be seen on Fantasy Beach.
About the artist
Theun Mosk
Theun Mosk (1980) works as a visual artist, theater maker, scenographer, on projects at home and abroad, with partners and clients such as Michel van der Aa, Robert Wilson, English National Opera, NDT, Medhi Walerski, Schweigman&, Touki Delphine, Oerol Festival, Ballet BC Vancouver, Cultural Capital 2018, Warme Winkel, Jameszoo, Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk and Rijksmuseum. In 2007 he won the Charlotte Köhler Prize and was selected for the Prague Quadriennale that same year and in 2011. In 2017 he received the Proscenium Prize for his essential contribution to the Dutch stage. In 2020, he and Balster van Duijn founded a makers and development site Ruimtetijd, which is located in Fort Penningsveer, a UNESCO heritage location.
Oceanic
Oceanic (the stage name of Job Oberman, 1992) is a DJ, producer and sound artist. In 2023 he presented his debut album Choral Feeling. Previously, in addition to his international performances as a DJ, he developed experimental music and sound projects with jazz vocalist Greetje Bijma and the classical-avant-garde Ensemble Klang, and he was part of SHAPE, a European network and platform for experimental audiovisual art.
Credits
Production: Ruimtetijd / technical realization & software: Cas Dekker - Ruimtetijd / sound technology: Miguel Rodriguez, Cas Dekker - Ruimtetijd / vocalist: Greetje Bijma / construction: Tjalling Ridderikhoff, Cas Dekker - Ruimtetijd / interns: Shayna Cornelissens, Rients Dijkstra, Marieke Horst, Jurre Pöpping - Ruimtetijd / artistic advice: Gienke Deuten – Gouden Haas.
Point Nemo was commissioned by ALLUMINOUS light art festival, in collaboration with Gouden Haas.
