Ilon Lodewijks

Recidency center	BIRCA
Recidency type	Island Connect
Art form	Performance maker Transdiciplinary
Time of residency	June 2024
Country	Denmark Netherlands
Contact info	ilonlodewijks@hotmail.com
Definition of artistic practice?	Work at the intersection of performance arts and social engagement
Title of the investigation at the residency	Co-creation - The Sea Hotel
Description of investigations and findings	All the artistic work I produced was about how the seas are interconnected and how this can become tangable or an embodied experience, what happens in the sea and how this is visible in our society. 1) I present different jars, I fill them up with water, I give every jar a seaname, every participant has to take care of a ‘sea’, the have to take a stand in theroom, they have to relate to each, what happens with the other sea if there happens something with your sea. 2. The Ocean Spa, we welcomed the particpants in a spaarea were the particpant got different foodbaths, every foodbaths presented a sea, afterwards there were offered different ‘spa treatments’, every treatment symbolizes facts about the sea. 3. Contemporary act global eat local restaurant, I welcomed participants in a restaurant where I offered different courses. I explained how the opening of the Suezcanal caused a major migration of marin species from the tropical red sea to the mediterrean.
What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice?	Social engagement and adressing important questions in society. To work with people with other disciplines To work under very limited time restrictions; I work quite well in pressure cooking situations.
What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with?	How to make a collective concept with strangers? How to both be a facilitator and an artist. How to be outside the process and have a helicopter view and to be inside it as a participant? What does it mean to be an islander artist? How can a group of islander artists create work that is both local and global? I left with a lot of impressions, great encounters, a collective concept, more information about the cultural fishing background of Bornholm, an motivation to do more research.
Transformative, creative moments at the residency	Creative ideas often come from unusual combinations of things, facts and intuition and they develop along the way. An example on Bornholm was a thought about how all bodies of water are connected, a question what if one sea collapses how does this effect other seas, an proposal from a collegue artists that the partcipants should feel the sea they are and then an idea that it could be a in a spa setting.
Keywords for the work done at the residency	Co-creation, Islander identity, Ocean, Sea, Water
Research locations	Tejn harbour, White Space (BIRCA)
Further documentation
Photos documenting the research
Videos of work in progess or reflections
Webside links	https://ilonlodewijks.com/

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