Nomadic Pavilion opened
May 4, 1998
Friday May 1st, the Nomadic Pavilion was opened in the atrium of the Hague's City Hall. Until September 15th this pavilion will function as 'temporary encampment' for several activities in the area of plastic arts, music, theatre, architecture and media technology. The activities around the pavilion take place in the framework of the Hague 750 years. During this coming summer the 'IJspaleis' (Ice Palace) will be heated with seminars, theatre performances, exhibitions, design and art installations and several computer applications.

The pavilion, designed by Archipel designers, is composed of an almost square floating black plane in the white inner space of Richard Meier's atrium. Several different configurations of walls and exhibitions will be placed under this 'floating roof' during the manifestation. The pavilion will remain a multi-disciplinary 'work in progress' until the end of the presentation, faithful to its informal, researching-roaming character. However, a number of program-parts are already set.

The Nomadic Pavilion, design: Archipel Architects.

Theatre group Hollandia will perform "I figeneia in Aulis" shortly following the elections (May 6th - May 29th). This theatre piece is written in 406 BC by the Greek tragic poet, Euripides, as commentary on the functioning of democracy. Starting May 27th, the composers Horst Rickels and Edwin van der Heide will design a sound room focussed at the atrium. Pertaining to the opinions regarding space and light of the architect of the city hall, Richard Meier, a translation will be made to space and sound. On May 29th the Nomadic Pavilion will host demonstrations of 'Mindsurger', an interactive music program in which the emotion of the listener directs the flow of music via bio-feedback equipment. During the months August and September the installation Mobiel Licht (Mobile Light) by Joost Rekveld will be there to see and to hear. There is also the computer program Artificial, an automatic art generator designed by Remko Scha. It creates 'accidental' images by applying arbitrary transformations on randomly selected images and randomly constructed shapes.

The Winter Pavilion, an unrealised preliminary design.

During the whole manifestation different productions of the Interfaculty Image and Sound will be performed under the denominator Sonic Acts. In August and September there will be special installations on display which are made on the Nomadic theme. By Marc Mauer: Duck Loop, an installation that represents the three 'hip-hop' principles by a combination of information (sampling), deformation of information (scratching) and feed-back of information (looping). Marc Ruigrok shows projects about the digital space. From an overstepped position he will react on the doubling of public space by the digital space. On June 3rd a seminar will be organised in the city hall (in the Hague's lobby) by Booosting, as preparation to the exhibition of a study into the development of an energy efficient eco-tech building (Project XX) in which the economic lifetime is optimally tuned to the technical lifetime by using another building method. In the Nomadic Pavilion the Stichting SOFA shows a representation of the future by using new furniture designs which will be presented under the title 'WoonDroom'.

You can find more information about the program and the participants on the Nomadic Pavilion website.