Karen Lancel in collaboration Marjorieke Glaudemans and Hermen Maat.
for the NOMANSLAND site click here
Nomansland is a meeting place, a hybrid platform for exchange and debate, a conceptual space with a base on the web. nomansland initiates social interventions on the public domain, inviting the audience to meet in online chats, to participate on the website, to join offline discussions and performances. The audience is invited to exchange experiences about their personal relationships to the public environment, in order to create new connections between the public and the private space. nomansland offers a temporary freezone to discuss the need for an undefined area in the hyperdetermined public domain. Hyperplanned spaces create not only geographic, but also social and political borders. ‘A border can exclude, but it can also serve as an orientation and transitional space; a space in between.’ ‘nomansland stimulates an awareness of systems and mechanisms that form identity and policy within a globalizing society.’
Images of nomansland activities are presented on billboards, postcards and website.
nomansland.nu is a growing collective memory of nomansland, work in process.
Special thanks to Marjorieke Glaudemans
What does a nomansland mean for you? What does a border mean for you?
nomansland activities:
entering nomansland.nu
All actions of nomansland are archived on this website as texts, photographs and movies.
nomansland.nu is also a meeting place, where visitors use the chatbox during performances and are invited to add to the guestbook.
The website homepage reveals the hidden faces of nomansland ‘inhabitants’ through user interaction. Visitors can add their own face by sending a portrait to: info@nomansland.nu
With support of Dutch Instituut voor Media Art Montevideo TBA Amsterdam, artist in residency
Website hosted by Driebit, Driebit.nl
think tank
At Watertower in Stadskanaal, May 18-19, 2002
Public commission for Semslinie Kunstlijn, DLG Groningen/Drenthe and city of Stadskanaal.
founding
At the land of Farmer Soppe, May 18-19, 2002
Public commission for Semslinie Kunstlijn, DLG Groningen/Drenthe and city of Stadskanaal.
asylum chatpoints
Asylum Seekers’ Center Veendam Groningen, November 29, 2002
asylum chatpoints
Imagine IC Amsterdam. and Festival Face to Face Apeldoorn, April 26, 2003; June 21, 2003.
Hosted by AZC/OC,COA Cluster Groningen Zuidoost, Vluchtelingenwerk and Stichting vluchtelingenwerk.
petition: autonomy for nomansland
Binnenhof Den Haag, June 22, 2002; Hosted by Stroom HCBK Den Haag.
demonstration & online domain
At VU (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam and construction site for the new VU.
Hosted by Virtueel Museum / Vrije Ruimten, Zuid As and VU, Amsterdam
join nomansland at nomansland.nu
Thanks to: Wim Boetze, Hendriekje Bosma, Loes Heebink, Liane van der Linden, Hermen Maat, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo TBA Amsterdam , Adriaan Nette, Daphne Pappers, Herman Soppe; and many thanks to all participants. Design postcards, publication: Erwin Slegers.
Texts: Jellichje Reijnders (advise and feedback). Ina Boiten auteur ‘niemandsland’.
