Allard van Hoorn - Personal Website

About Allard van Hoorn

He investigates territory and how modification of spaces can lead to new experiences. He uses architecture, music, (re-) design, dance, sculpture, installation and writing to conduct his research.

He is interested in narratives of translation, displacement and representation that open up possibilities of reinterpretation.

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NEWS _ Open / Invited EV+ A

Allard van Hoorn has been invited to do participate in the 2010 Open / Invited EV+ A taking place in Limerick, Ireland, 13th March - 23rd May, 2010. The work chosen by this year's curator Elizabeth Hatz from Sweden is 001 Urban Songline Latitude: 51.44768° N - 51.44729° N / Longitude: 5.45609° E - 5.45529° E, originally developed during the Flux-S Festival in Eindhoven, NL.

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2009 _ 001 Urban Songline - Flux-S, Eindhoven (NL) - The tradition of the Songlines, a system for navigation and caretaking of their land among Aboriginal Australians, translated to mapping urban space by creating music from its topography, discussing how we use and experience the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it.

2008 _ MATCHMAKER - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil - MATCHMAKER maps the city of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil identifying the colors of its skies, waters, beaches and buildings by their Pantone® codes, investigating how language is used to create systems of reference and representation.