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Intervention 3:
Polder
Cup by Maider López
3 June 2010: opening of the project and launch
of the banner on Witte de With's façade,
Rotterdam
4 September 2010: Polder Cup in Ottoland
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Polder Cup by
Maider
López
OPENING
PROGRAM
Thursday 3 June 2010, from 6 pm until 9
pm
6 pm: welcome & introduction by A-C
Schmitz
6.15 – 7 pm: public conversation between
Maider López and Fulya Erdemci
7 – 9 pm: inauguration of the banner,
start of the registration period to the Polder
Cup & drinks
Polder Cup is the latest site-specific
project by Spanish artist Maider
López.
The façade of Witte de With functions as
an open call to participate in a one-day football championship, which takes
place on September 4, 2010 in the polders of Ottoland (Municipality of
Graafstroom).
Maider López’s projects focus on
the intriguingly humorous or the extraordinary behind the obvious and ordinary.
López creates various events and situations for individuals to gather
through a common language, in this case, football. Polder Cup becomes a moment where diverse groups of the society
are brought together through play, sports and social exchange. Unlike a typical
football game, López’s displaced football field intersected by
water channels, challenges the rules of football and encourages players to seek
and invent new strategies.
Not only does the location create an unusual
situation, it reflects on the long Dutch history of fighting against water and
the consensus society. With this project, López hopes to transform the
function of the polders, going beyond its historical and agricultural uses, to
host a public event held within the framework of a common sporting match.
Through the participation of football players and audience from all walks of
life, the polder will undergo a transformation in which its use can be opened up
for new interpretations, challenging the way in which we perceive our spatial
surroundings.
Curated by SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare
Ruimte) & Witte de With (Center for Contemporary Art). Produced by
Mothership.
For more information, please visti
www.poldercup.nl or our regular websites: www.skor.nl -
www.wdw.nl
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Between You and I is a joint project by SKOR and Witte de With
taking place between the Fall of 2009 and the Fall of 2010. For this project,
four international artists are commissioned to intervene on Witte de
With’s façade in order to create a critical interface dealing
directly with Rotterdam’s urban fabric. Between You and I strives to open a space to reflect about
morality today, inviting an active response by the public concerning the
presence of contemporary art in public spaces.
Featured artists: AES+F, Isa Genzken, Maider
López and Ayse Erkmen.
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For press information, please contact Margarétha Moerkerke and
Trix van Alphen: +31(0)20 612 7000 - e: margaretha@publicy.nl, trix@publicy.nl
Polder Cup is generously supported by the
State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX), the Directorate
General for Cultural and Scientific Relations and the Spanish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation.
With thanks to the Municipality of Graafstroom,
Ottoland and all supporting communities.
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