Wablief? This was how every conversation started when I lived in Heerlen for six months during my 2018 Mondriaan Fund residency at SCHUNCK museum.
I was matched with composer Tom America via a lottery system.
The most obvious connection Tom and I had was Heerlen: the place of birth of both Tom and the Anonymous Scientist.
Tom and I went to Heerlen to interview the indigenous people. Tom made a sound piece with fragments of these interviews. One of the interviewees started every sentence with “that” phonetically: “dototte”.
A flag questioning instead of posing, also the flag is having an infinite conversation with
itself, the yellow and blue part says “what” and the yellow and pink part says “that”.
Above all this piece is a tribute to Heerlen.
Wablief was part of the exhibition 1 en 1 is 1 by Jos Houweling and Anne Verhoijsen.