Moustafa AL-Yassin, Syyria
Size
4,5 m high, and 7 meters long, but narrow.
Description
Five part installation of 4,5 meter high sails. They will be different colours with different expressions, they carry poems from different places of the world, in different languages.
The sails will be fixed on the ground with aluminum poles, the sail material will be distributed from up of the slope down to the river as if they came from the river to go up to the earth. The sails will be pegged to the ground, and weighted with rocks near the river.
Vivian Bondy, Denmark/Hungary
Title
Boat Caught in a fishing net
Size
Length of installation about 6 meters.
Description
The construction is an abstraction of a boat caught in a fishing net, now wrecked. The boat is battered and severely damaged. The boat pieces are inside the net - some sticking up at different angles (black metal and plastic bars, rope, pieces of sail). The net which totally covers the wreck are fastened to, and carried by, the sticks and bars stuck into the ground.
Prominent features on the net are white floats (normally fastened horizontally to the edge of a fishing net to keep it afloat). Here they are hooked on to the net in different places in a wave form. Together with pegs their weight keeps the construction grounded.
A long trail of the net continues on the ground at the back of the boat (illustrating the pulling of a trawl). To the net are fastened strips of seaweed and other partly indeterminable objects from the sea. Faded letters in combinations indicate that the boat has a place of origin - to be guessed (eg. AL- BA).
The history of the boat journey is told through the objects attached to the net and a log book on one of the boat parts.
The silhouette of the work will in itself represent a strict sculptural form
Materials
Pre-fabricated elements will be sent from Copenhagen and assembled on the spot. Emphasis has been on lightweight materials:Hollow aluminium bars (blackened) connected by pieces of oilcloth material forming the shape of boat pieces with patches of other materials glued onto it.
Scrap wood and other metal. The torn sail will be made of half transparent heavy plastic (with imprints of water and net) plus strips of canvas (shaped as blowing in the wind)
Fishing net black (new) with sprayed silvery parts - faintly glittering in the sun.
The white floats will be made of foam material covered with fibre concrete.
Entangled in the net: various objects: seaweed, bone-like structures, seabird, green glass pieces, etc.
The log book will be in latex.
Avtarjeet Dhanjal, India
Title
As time Flows
Size
100m long
Description
The installation will be 100 meters long piece on a hill side, finishing in the river water.
The idea behind the installation is passage of time over the last 100 years for people of Turku. Physically the installation will be about a meter wide and 100 meters long, created from polythene, net fabric and ribbons.
The length of the polythene will be marked with scale of 1 meter for each year of time will go back to 1911 in history.
It will be participatory installation. Each participant will take a ribbon of the colour of their choice as they feel akin to their life; will draw/write/paint the ribbons to express events of their lives one meter for each year. Once a participant has worked on the ribbon, either on site or at home, he/she will tie/contribute this ribbon to the installation starting from the year one was born all the way to the river. All materials used it his installation will be soft material safe to be handled and come into contact with public including children.
Some people might like to create a story of their parents or partners who are no more in this world, the ribbons will end according to their time in history.
The final exhibit is expected to have thousands of ribbons with different stories scribed/painted on them. The ribbons part of the installation will be coming down the hill like a Stream of Time. The story of the people of Turku written in this installation.
Later this installation may be moved to another venue in Turku, either the City Hall or Turku Museum.
This will be a participatory piece of sculpture that will be the property of the people of Turku telling their own story.
Bracha Ettenger, Israel and Ilana Salama Ortar
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Thanos Kalamidas, Greece
Size
1.5m wide, 2.5m long around 0.5m high.
Description
For the installations will be used, pieces of wood as a base preferable pieces of boat, transparent bottles mainly glass bottles glued together in a way that the colours inside them give the sense of waves with a piece of paper in each one.
Each bottle will contain a piece of paper with a single word in different language. All together will combine the verses of a poem about last and hope.
The colours to be used will be acrylic and oil and the bottles will be glued with transparent glue or silicone.
The idea is based in the globalization of intellectuality, multiculturalism, poverty, desperation and need for human communication in contrast to the financial globalization so much advertised the last decades. Most of all is an effect to emphasize the human factor in a globe with more problems and desperation in front the economic and social reality than solutions.
Amir Khatib, Iraq
Size
6m high 1,5m wide at some parts
Description
Red wall 6 metres high and 140cm wide standing far from the other works. In the centre of the wall there will be half boat stock together and to the wall with scrolls, the colour of that half boat will be black, the end of the boat from the bottom roots will be shown in a golden colour.
These golden roots will hang from a black boat on a red wall, this seems to the audiences as combination of colours from the first time but when the viewer comes close she/he understands that we brought the roots of the boat and put it on a wall, meaning the expression of the roots will be reflex to the expression of the boat/trip.
The base of the wall will be some concrete block of 10cm thick and 40X40 cm square, this will weigh the wall down with no harm to the nature,meaning there will be no hole no digging nothing which might harm the ground.
Ali Najjar, Iraq
Title
Boat from time (inspired by the Sumerian)
Size
8m long
Materials and Description
View: fortify the relationship between the boat as tool of goods, culture, environment, time transaction and the water which surround people, connecting the real picture by the imaginary one.
The main material of the work is the boat, which I already have in 6m length, I will cut some part of it to be continued by other materials, the second material is which cover the boat, it will be put close to the water so it will be seen as pulled from the river, and the other part of it will be floated on the surface of the river and all what carry
Third material is disposable dishes which covers the whole boat
Other material are mixed of rise, flower, sugar, and colourful spices
The final shape
Boat curry disposable dishes which have many colours, food smell from them, put on the shore.
The whole boat will be 8m long and put direct on the shore.
Adolfo Vera, Chile
Size
4m long, 40 cm wide and 1,6m high
Description
I will make a bridge, I'll put that bridge on the ground beside the shore, I will make a lot of paper boats, those which will learn to do while we are little children, or some one make these boats and give us, I will paint these poats in many colours and spread them on and around the bridge.
The bridge will be made from wood, little wood as piece of decoration, bridge symbolises combination of things which are some closed ways.
The strait of Gibraltar where Europe and Africa can be close to each other, there can be a bridge, but for some reason or other it never been thought to build a bridge.
Egyptian God like bridge and all who under it are protected, from there I was inspired to do my work.
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