Welcome to the online exhibition Shifting Baselines. This website runs on solar energy, generated in the North of the Netherlands, near the home of Oerol Festival: the island of Terschelling. The island has a high sunshine average for Dutch standards, but autumn and winter are equally often bleak and gray. The accessible of the exhibition varies with the energy available at the moment. It blossoms at high sunshine levels and takes a break when the energy is scarce. The shadows throughout the website travel along with the intensity and position of the sun. So keep a close eye on the weather forecast!
Giuditta Vendrame
Ludmila Rodrigues & Mike Rijnierse
Rita Hoofwijk
Lisa Doeland
Teresa Borasino
Marjet Zwaans / Totomboti
Dávid Koronczi
Subathra Subramaniam
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SHIFTING BASELINES
Shifting Baselines is a visual, poetic and essayistic overview of four years of research LAND making in fragile natural areas in Central and Northwestern Europe. Four art festivals – Oerol Festival (NL), Le Citrone Jaune (FR), Sytev (SK) and Activate Peforming Arts (UK) – took a closer look at the landscapes of their home bases with landstuarts, environmental organizations and artists: how to make art in fragile landscapes, what role do we play as storytellers within the dynamics of the climate crisis and how are these landscapes connected to other places in the world?
MORE ABOUT LAND
LAND is a unique European network where art, ecology, and territory converge to address the urgent challenges of sustainable living and landscape conservation. We firmly believe this emerging interdisciplinary art form can play a crucial role in the cultural sector’s response to the climate crisis. It bridges global challenges with local landscape issues, connects art with science and environmental practice, and engages audiences with the pressing concerns of our time. Our landscapes are evolving, our world is transforming—and we believe it is essential to forge a new partnership with the natural world. To inspire as many people as possible in this collective journey towards a sustainable future, we must imagine new potential worlds and reframe our relationships with our ecosystems. Together, we are establishing “landscape laboratories” on Terschelling, in the Camargue, and in the mountains of northern Slovakia.