Report: bike ride Assembly
To launch his book Assembly in a fitting manner, Bert Villa took fifteen cyclists along with him on Sunday 6 June to dive into an associative exercise. How do elements from the landscape you once saw influence the landscape you see today? How do we make those connections and what do we continue to carry (un)consciously in our gaze? From the pedals, the field of research unfolded in and around the harbour, ending at Assembly itself, which we browsed through in the Minor Swing café.
Image: Leontien Allemeersch & Emma Keppens
With the support of Cera, the Flemish Government, and the Dutch Embassy in Belgium
As part of Veldwerk, artist Bert Villa is conducting research into his own mental blueprint with Memory Landscape. This has resulted in Assembly: a book that takes the reader on an associative journey through constructed landscapes, navigating the boundaries between artistic, functional and spontaneous constructions and everything in between.
Read more about his project here.