Beyond the Atlantic Burden
77 years after the Second World War the installation Beyond the Atlantic Burden breaks the status quo of the controversial heritage of the Atlantic Wall. The overly cautious way in which Europe deals with the 17.000 bunkers has paradoxically let to the conservation of their original intention; as ruins of the ‘Thousand-Year Reich’.
This meglomanic system will be impaired by digging out, reorientating and displacing the monoliths in the context of the dynamic coastal landscape.
The installation is a call for renewed imagination and represents a search for new meaning of controversial heritage through seemingly impossible experiments.
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Art installation and research: RAAAF
Team: David Habets, Cecile Diama Samb, Ronald Rietveld, Joop Schroën, Mariana Fernandez, Johnny Long
In collaboration with Bureau Europa / Marres / Jan van Eyck
The Materiality of the Invisible
Location: Maastricht
Status: Realized, 2017
Photography: Frederica Rijkenberg
