Blinded Tourist - Travel Program

Four foreign artists and their hostess, Mariëlle Videler, will take up residence in the middle of the rear space of W139. None of the selected guests have been to Amsterdam before. For the full 8 days of BLINDED TOURIST they will not leave the building. Marielle Videler gives her four guests an environment largely designed and created by herself. They will get to know the city through her and the experts she has selected. During their stay, the blinded tourists will be in W139 where viewers can observe and visit them during opening hours. On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March they will give a presentation of their findings. We invite you to come to W139 on Sunday 28 March at 16:00 hour for a drink and to say good-bye to Davide, Henrique, Caroline and ZhouBin.

Travel Program

The sequence of days will be devoted to different aspects of the city: its history, inhabitants, biology and spatial structures. Mariëlle Videler created a ‘travel programme’ around five topics FOOD, HISTORY, PEOPLE, ART & NATURE. The programme consists of two parts: a day and an evening programme. During the day we have contact with five reporters, our ears and eyes of the outside world. The reporters will be on hand to help the residents and carry out the research tasks they have been given. The second part is an evening programme, a series small scale and personal meetings with different experts. The evening programme is, with personal exchange in mind, limited open for visitors.

Evening programme

All evenings:

19:30 -19:45 hour: welcome with coffee & tea. The programme starts at 19:45 hour.

English spoken.

Sunday 21 March > FOOD

(Private meeting, not open for public)

Welcome diner for the residents Caroline Doherty (USA), Henrique Cesar de Oliveira (Brazil), Zhou Bin (China) and Davide Savorani (Italy).

Monday 22 March > HISTORY

Lecture by Gabri Tussenbroek (urban construction historian of Amsterdam and writer of the book ‘Amsterdam in 1957’) about Warmoesstraat and Amsterdam in 1597.

Leon Deben (urban sociologist) will talk about people living and working in and around the Warmoesstraat, with special attention for the homeless.

This evening is open for a small audience (max. 20 people).

You can be a guest by signing via: blindedtourist@w139.nl

Tuesday 23 March > PEOPLE

(Private meeting, not open for public)

Guests for this evening are people who work and or live around W139.

Thanks to: Stock Exchange Amsterdam, Prostitution Information Centre, ‘de Bakkerswinkel’, ‘de Condomerie’ and ‘de Oude Kerk Gemeente’.

Wednesday 24 March > NATURE

Lecture by Remco Daalder (urban ecologist of Amsterdam and writer of the book ‘Urban Animals’) about animals living in the city, especially rats.

Grieta Spannenburg (meteorologist and co-writer of the book ‘Dutch cloudy skies’) will talk about Dutch skies and the shapes of our clouds.

This evening is open for a small audience (max. 20 people).

You can be a guest by signing via: blindedtourist@w139.nl

Thursday 25 March > ART

Lecture by Ad de Jong (artists and founder of W139) about the creative and chaotic times in begin period of W139 at the Warmoesstraat.

Gijs Frieling (artist and director of W139) will give a lecture about his work as the director of W139.

Frank Koolen (artist), Eric von Robertson (artist) and Els van de Meersch(artist) will finish the evening with a presentation of the work they exhibited in W139.

This evening is open for a small audience (max. 20 people).

You can be a guest by signing via: blindedtourist@w139.nl

Friday 26 March > WORK

(Private, not open for public)

This evening we will work on the travel journals.

Saturday 27 March & Sunday 28 March > JOURNAL

Travel journals & reports presentation.

The blinded tourists are asked to create a work, a visual journal, during their stay in the installation. They work with different disciplines like performance, drawing and installation. Beforehand we cannot predict what the journals will look like. For update information keep an eye on the website of W139.

Sunday 28th March > 16:00 hr

We invite you to come to W139 for a drink and to say good bye to Davide, Henrique, Caroline and ZhouBin.