Floodlight is an audiovisual installation by Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Mark IJzerman. The city has been claimed by water. Its canals have risen - the surface is now navigable only by sea chart. Beneath, life slowly grows. This is where Floodlight begins - not at the moment of catastrophe, but with the quiet shift that follows after the water has come. Seated on rafts, you face a horizon of weathered canvases. These surfaces have already passed through water. Tidal clay coats them; wire, rusted in brackish water, threads through them. They have been left at the flood line, where seaweed, fishing line, and plastic gathered and dried. The canvases bear the marks of that encounter before any image appears. Images are projected: underwater footage from canals, docks, and coastlines. They move across the surface and pull you under to the seabed. Light filters down through the water column. Above you, the city continues to move. A speculative ecology settles onto material shaped by time and tide. A spatial soundscape, drawn from hydrophone recordings across the region, surrounds you: rain striking the surface, frogs calling in the eastern docks, the subaqueous rumble of trains and ships passing through, seaweed crackling at low tide, a fog buoy sounding, shipping forecasts drifting in from a distant radio. Together, image and sound evoke a speculative vision of a flooded city. Floodlight asks what it means to know the water is rising - and to go on living anyway.
OnderwaterwerkHydrocommons, performance.,
Growing Connections,