Nijmegen
Workshop Mijn/Dijn
Van Oldenbarneveltstraat 63A, Nijmegen
Language: Dutch
Entrance fee: €5 including one beverage
Students: €2.50 including one beverage
(Discountcode: student)
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How can we create a language that expresses our relationship with the soil?
On 12 December, this question will be the focus of writer Helen Weeres' workshop Mijn/Dijn. The workshop will take place in the Soil Life exhibition. In the exhibition, Platform DIS - in collaboration with a number of artists, including Helen Weeres - shares new ways of learning, feeling, doing and regenerating with soil and soil life.
The name of the workshop is derived from the old Dutch proverb ‘het mijn en het dijn’, or: my property and your property. Simultaneously, the title refers to the excavation of raw materials from the soil: mining. The concept of land ownership combined with the mining history of the Nijmegen area were the starting point for Weeres' research into the language we, the people of the Netherlands, use to describe the soil. A language that they believe has an origin in the ownership of and control over the soil we live with.
In the workshop, participants will engage in exercises in writing and association to collectively work on generating a ‘new’ language for soil. In the meantime, Weeres will recite passages from their research on soil awareness.
Experience with writing or knowledge of soil is not required. However, each participant is expected to bring an object from their own home environment that symbolises their relationship with soil. These objects will be the starting point of the workshop.