The Expected Season

2015

 

Wouter Corvers' project has a very clear relationship with the city. For his proposal 'The Expected Season' Wouter uses religious complex Mariënhage as a podium to launch a new ritual for sharing with inhabitants of Eindhoven. The interaction of the inhabitants and their natural surroundings - each with a different harvesting season - commence with the ringing of the church bell. Wouter installed a stairs and a balcony, dedicated to the celebration of the rhytymns of nature in the city. Everything is painted in a bright yellow, which is the colour of temporality in architecture. Each of the seasons is opened on the stage.

 

Wouter made a selection of ten normally unscheduled periods, which recur  each year: the flowering of the birch trees, a lapwing's egg, sheep's wool, asparagus honey, pike perch, lavender, mushrooms, bock beer, and a pollarded willow. The asparagus season, for instance, will be celebrated with new varieties of the crop and the Asparagus Queen. Or think of the sheep's wool season: a sheep-shearing workshop or a lecture by a sheep shearer. Of course not every product can be harvested, think of flower gardens! Wouter has therefore created a mobile service where the balcony is driven to the blossoming of a particular season's products. The mobile balcony is equipped with a bell to summon the inhabitants.

 

- by Ellen Zoete and Daniëlle Arets

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mobile balcony was exhibited  at Kazerne in Eindhoven (June 24th 2015 / August 29th 2015)

Bock beer

Sheep wool

Willows branches

Birch juice

Wild duck