Trilogy: NaturallyTrilogy: Naturally

AgriValley is a long-term poetic investigation into Dutch agriculture. The results of this visual research are multiple cinematic representations such as installations, sound, photographic and video works and a publication. The publication shows the relationship between humans and machines in a rapidly changing agricultural landscape. Images of production processes and technological innovations in the Dutch agricultural sector from Mirte van Duppen's video work are interspersed with contributions from Bernke Klein Zandvoort (poet and essayist), Joost Oomen (poet and writer), Hein van Duppen (spatial designer and visual artist), Willem Claassen (writer and journalist), Corinne Heyrman (theatre maker), and a conversation with Floris van Alkemade (architect and former state architect).

Katažyna Jankovska will talk about her book If a Tree Falls in a Forest, a collection of interviews on artistic experiments and scientific research to explore the contours of human senses. The title of the book is both an unfinished hypothesis and a reference to an oft-discussed riddle-if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?–which leaves us with a question-what constitutes reality? Think about the high-pitched sounds of insects, chemical flows, wavelengths of light that do not reach our retina, Earth's magnetic field, and other dynamics of the world that happen beyond human perception. Our senses are limited but not fixed. Using technologies to extend the boundaries of our natural sensory environment, artists are taking back control over tools and knowledge.

If a Tree Falls in a Forest brings together conversations with Mark IJzerman, Merle Bergers, Roland van Dierendonck, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Jokūbas Čižikas, Philip Vermeulen, Ignas Pavliukevičius, and Sandra Golubjevaitė, and suggests new modes of attention, addressing perception and sensuous awareness in nonhuman, technological and human dimensions.

Artist Bruno van den Elshout explores ways to free himself from the rat race, lead a normal life and create extraordinary work. Wishing to make peace and space visible and sharable, in 2012 he photographed the North Sea horizon every hour for a year. In 2018, he wanted to explore the theme of essential encounter and invited 144 people to walk with him along the beach for eight hours each, undisturbed and offline. He made both projects world-famous in the form of a book without text.