PROJECTWEBSITE EVA builds a lighthouse
During a building period of 10 days artist Eva Schippers builded a 6,5 meter lighthouse at Strandlab Almere with donated and found materials. Since 2020 Schippers builds her installations with donated and found materials: This started with the build of a spaceship in the Vondelbunker in Amsterdam, and has become an important part of her practise. After the building period the lighthouse was open, in the command center the artist invited the public for a one on one talk about possible futures, during which the lamp was turned by them manually by turning the table.
Conversation with Semna van Ooij in the top of the lighthouse during Kunst Corso, april 2022.
HISTORY: In the end of 2021 the top of this lighthouse was build, the command centre, during a project of The Culturele Stelling Amsterdam in April 2022. This lighthouse, together with 12 other art installations, drove through the city of Amsterdam on flat carts as protest against gentrification. During the build of this command centre Eva Schippers contacted Strandlab Almere to continue building and working on this project. At Strandlab she made the tyower higher by building a base with a stairs.
Thanks everyone for donating, visiting and make the lighthouse happen!