Art for Kidbrooke

HET RESERVAAT: BACK TO THE PRESENT
Join a voyage from the future at this one-day museum experience!


July, 3007


People/groups
Sophie Hope
Daphne de Bruin
Joost de Groot
Residents of 2007 Leidsche Rijn.
http://www.beyondutrecht.nl
http://www.welcomebb.org.uk/blog/archives/000018.html


Location
Castellum Hoge Woerd, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht


The masterplan for Leidsche Rijn Utrecht was completed in 1997. By 2007, the town, still only half-complete had accumulated over 15,000 residents, make-shift supermarkets, plenty of primary schools and a Leidsche Rijn anthem. Built on agricultural land, numerous archeological sites and incorporating two existing villages (Vleuten and De Meern), Leidsche Rijn Utrecht was not merely a suburb but the largest ‘new’ town ever to be built in the Netherlands


Het Reservaat was an open air one-day museum of life in 2007. The artists worked to creat a snapshot of 2007 and convince the residents of Leidsche Rijn they were travelling back in time from 3007 to 2007. The idea was to look again at today with fresh eyes, like travelling in a time machine from the future back to the present. Visitors could experience strange spectacles such as local politicians discussing the meaning of democracy in 2007, rare sightings of elderly people playing board games and Dutch residents practicing an ancient art called Tai Chi in amongst the trees while the infamous (local teenage) rock band EitherWay screeched up to a stage in a bright orange jeep and performed their four song repertoire every hour, among lots of other strange goings on...