From Heimdal to Heimdal
2016
with Martinus Suijkerbuijk
Printed booklet
Live performance at Heimdal Bibliotek, 40 mins
with Martinus Suijkerbuijk
Printed booklet
Live performance at Heimdal Bibliotek, 40 mins
From Heimdal to Heimdal is an exercise in plotting through multiple methodologies, histories and genres. In order to approach a tiny town on the global scale, whose spatial scope is already mapped and apped in the global electronic network, we have to start somewhere. As a site of departure we begin our endeavour at ‘Heimdalsmyra’ (swamp). The swamp, autonomously unsteady, a place of architectural refusal, a fertile soil, a site in folklore fairy tales, has nevertheless been transformed into a wholly different ecosystem, that of commerce and social organisation. The other end —in a non-linear time— of the plot, will have a cosmological magnitude, a planetary displacement to the Heimdal crater on Mars “named after the Norwegian town”. This ‘place’ is of a different order. Where the swamp is a place of refusal, the crater is a place of possibilities, not in the obvious sense of a Heimdal settlement on Mars, but as a psychological expansion of Heimdal. What are the connections on a planetary scale, the legal implications of a possible arriving on Mars? Does the crater become a (cosmological) sign for Heimdal?
The printed booklet consists of diagrams that mapped these multitude of relations which became the blueprints of the script for the performance, either the movement of the lines from the diagram were choreographed into the space of the library or the relations between swamp-crater-mall were transcribed and translated into dialogues.