Survival Point

In the bowels of the shopping center

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Blind Spot

This image marks one point of interest on the tour through the Hoog Catharijne shopping-terminal. This is a place on the periphery outside the view of surveillance cameras where youth hang out and junkies get their fix during rush hour traffic. The irony I find in this image is that the spectator is trapped, and in the context of us seeing it again becomes a sculpture, a figure that is either observing or attempting to help the addict in some way . Image source:  Duane Hanson’s sculpture Drug Addict from 1974 (together with an unidentified museum guest).

 

special thanks to Regina Kelaita -photography and Expodium -project coordination


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Eric von Robertson works under the conceptual framework of CARL – The Center for the Advancement of Recreation and Leisure. As Robertson says, “CARL is a destination, a way of locating and rerouting the world around us, through a process of excursions and sculptural prototypes.” These prototypes are tossed into a series of field studies that travel between remote and urban landscapes – places where a large inflatable cushion of air is uncontrollably swept through the streets, to a pack of stray dogs sporting custom designed textiles that offer new routes and intersections for ‘City Guides’. As CARL’s excursions continue to meander through the Lost Caves of St Louis or across deserted islands in the Maldives, these places and misadventures become models in tourism and personally reflected souvenirs in the pursuit of recreation and leisure.

 

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