Allard van Hoorn - Personal Website

By clicking on the links below you will find all the images, video and texts on the different projects.

This section of the website gives you all possible information on the research and projects done by Allard van Hoorn. For a complete overview of all exhibitions, workshops, bibliography etc. please refer to the section biography.

2009 _ 002 Urban Songline - Gasworks, London (UK) - Music created from a 'breathing' Gasholder tank in the South of London, designing a musical score from its different positions and animating from memory the movement over a three months period, which subsequently becomes a scenario for a song or 'Urban Songline'.

2009 _ 001 Urban Songline - Flux-S, Eindhoven (NL) - The tradition of the Songlines, a system for navigation and caretaking of their land among Aboriginal Australians, translated to mapping urban space by creating music from its topography, discussing how we use and experience the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it.

2007 _ (re-) Creating History - The Moore Space, Miami - Investigating Miami as a place of blending cultures and transition by displacing a scene from Mongolia onto the local beaches. Two slides, scanned, enlarged and reproduced as props of a stage-play re-enact the scenes shot by the artist 11 years before in Mongolia.

2009 _ 003 Urban Songline - Gasworks, London (UK) - Music created from the sounds surrounding the Thames Flood Barrier in East London. The music was then stored on a flash memory drive and set free in an airtight bottle on the river to be found in another time and place, retraceable by its engraved latitude and longitude coordinates.

2008 _ MATCHMAKER - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil & Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China - MATCHMAKER maps the cities of Salvador de Bahia and Shanghai identifying their colors by their Pantone® codes, investigating how language is used to create systems of reference and representation.

2004 _ Urban Mandalas - El Forat de la Vergonya (The Hole of Shame) - Barcelona, Spain. The Tibetan mandala, a meditative circular drawing traditionally constructed out of colored sand-grains by Buddhist monks, translated into a western street version making the mandalas from many colored shopping bags stuck into fences.