projection with the first video of 'Geography is a Flavour'

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part of the map with images references to the US and Mid America.

part of the map with images references to the Africa and Europe

Screenshot of the online publication of References (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum). In the navigation the images are to be found on the place they represent instead the place they were originally taken.

Geography is a Flavour
Concept: Marjolijn Dijkman
Prints / map: total assembly 5x3 m.
Leporello: edition of 600 designed by Julie Peeters
Video: 5:30 min.
Produced for: Songlines at Stadsvisioenen, Mechelen, BE
Period: 23 May 2009 / 21 June 2009
Organised by: Firefly, Brussels
Participating artists: Orla Barry, Els Dietvorst & Hassan Darsi, Marjolijn Dijkman, Christoph Fink, Suchan Kinoshita, Johanna Kirsch.

Geography is a Flavour

Taking its title from the famous Starbucks slogan, Geography is a Flavour presents images of references in design and architecture to other geographical locations. These images are presented and arranged together like a kind of worldmap.

The images show abandoned sets which attempt to represent other cultures. Is it possible to import specific elements of a culture and to give the impression that one is really somewhere else? Or does such a setting become something else, a kind of utopian vision which is in fact no longer really at home anywhere?

This question is further explored in printed matter and the first video of an ongoing series, in which the original sounds of the location play an important role. These two works focus on references found in relation to the US. Together with Julie Peeters I published the first leporello with 12 photographs like a touristic folding booklet.

This presentation is a continuation of References, a part of the ongoing research Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

download pdf References US #1