A SAILING SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION IN CONCRETE
BY SCULPTOR MARIT BENTHE NORHEIM
Reception, Musikkens Hus, Aalborg
Friday, June 17, 2016
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After launching and christening of Life-boats in Aalborg on June 18th 2016. There was a reception at Musikkens hus with speeches by Aalborg Mayor, Director of Aarhus 2017 Rebecca Matthews, president of DSILB and Dr. Phil art historian and former rector of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Else Marie Bukdahl. See excerpts from the reception here.
07.43 min. - with English subtitles - filmed by Lars Hegndal.
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Test sailing "My ship is loaded with Life"
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Test sailing "My ship is loaded with Life" October 2015. The last weekend in October 2015, "My ship is loaded with life" where in the water for the first time, to test how she was in the water. It was an exciting and enjoyable weekend.
05.40. min - (with english subtitle)
Castingparty "My ship is loaded with Memories"
Thursday, September 10, 2015
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Castingparty "My ship is loaded with Memories" 11-14 September 2015. Up to 140 volunteers gathered in Mygdal by Hjørring with visual artist Marit Benthe Norheim, to jointly casting the last Life-boats. The movie is filmed and cut by Lars Hegndal
12.40. min
Building "My ship is loaded with Memories"
December 2014 - August 2015
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"My ship is loaded with Memories". Building process from December 2014 to August 2015
Marit Benthe Norheim, tells about the working process around the last Life-boat, "My ship is loaded with Memories"
a film by Lars Hegndal
8. min
Students from Holland about Life-boats
Here is a little film by two students from Holland about Life-boats! You can find it below this introduction. Enjoy!
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Two students from Holland got in touch with me a few weeks ago; Anna Klapwijk (www.annaklapwijk.com) and Koen Droste, a maritime engineering student. They told me that they were working on a product-system-service around the Life-boats project, under supervision of Han Brezet, Professor at Delft University of Technology, and Dep. of Design for Sustainability. Han Brezet is also a guest Professor at Aalborg University and he has been visiting my studio twice in the process of building the Life-boats. He has engaged these students in a project on “how to make a sustainable cultural event around Life-boats – connection DK and NL”
Anna and I had a skype call, and afterwards she sent me this little film, where she did a collage of film footage and photos from the Life-boats web-site (mainly by Lars Hegndal), together with her and Koen’s related thoughts and interviews with Dutch people. Anna wrote to me that:
“The end part talks about the different projects we have come up with, that could potentially be done in the different cities that are passed on the way. By the end of the month, there will be a report that elaborates on that. Also, the app at the end exists, but it is a very limited example. We thought it would be good to develop one though, so people can connect through it and share their experience, and the boats can actually be followed.”
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2.55 min.
Students from Holland visit Life-boats
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
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A film by the two students from Holland from there visit is Denmark On the 7th of May, the two students from Holland came to visit my studio, to see the project live during the building process. We had a nice couple of days together, discussing the possibilities for collaborations with Leeuwarden as the European Capital of Culture in 2018. Afterwards they sent me another little video that Anna filmed and edited on the journey back to Holland, to let people into their direct experience of the project.
4.19 min