Yebwiersma - PL Editions, Script

3 Script Editions, Soundtrack, Installation FOAM.
Collaboration: Vanessa Hudig, Yeb Wiersma, 2009.
Design: Bart de Baets, Veronica Ditting

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 'Lucy and Felix² head off for Amsterdam. In this city they hope to find a new venue for their love, in which nothing but the story of their love will be told, exclusive of and abstracted from interferences from outside. But the setting starts playing a role of her own in which Lucy and Felix find out that they are not in control of the script of their visit...they just checked in at 'Hotel Paradise Lost' 

Coming Soon Soundtrack³
When They Spoke Your Name In Ordinary Places

 
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Fragment Scene I
Felix, Voice-Over:

'In order to fall asleep, I summon up remembrance of things past; I walk through the rooms of the houses where I have lived in, the corridors. I dig in my memory for details: paintings on walls, doorknobs, all kinds of gewgaws my mother used to collect, trinkets, baubles. With some, I am not sure whether they actually belong to my reality or if I am making them up. I might interchange memory with earlier dreams, or stories from others that I have incorporated into my own memento. The object leads to actions. It is being picked up or bought, thrown away, moved to other places. Then the actions lead to persons: a maid, my mother, old friends, people I never think of in daily life but who are brought to me from the deep undercurrent of my mind...'

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Day II, XXI: Lucy asks Felix if he recognizes the young woman sitting in front of the howling wolves. Artis Zoo, Amsterdam.
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Day II, XXI: Lucy asks Felix if he recognizes the young woman sitting in front of the howling wolves. Artis Zoo, Amsterdam.Day II, XXIII: Felix and Lucy are playing a game, how many animals can they name in the 'Garden of Eden' - The Zoo.Day II, XXVI: Lucy starts taking pictures of this woman, who keeps bumping into her.DAY I, VVI: Lucy likes to share one of her childhood stories about her made up half brother Gerard Makoumba. She used to cover her home town obsessively with notification leaflets calling the local residents to assist her finding the brother that only existed in her imagination.DAY I, VV: Lucy and Felix visit the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.DAY I, VVI: Felix briefly glances at all the paintings passing. He's distracted. By Lucy's appearance.Day I, XXXI: Newspaper Couple #2 runs across Dam Square.DAY I, VIII: Lucy and Felix arrive at Leidseplein Square. Lucy notices a bar called Bar Americain. She decides that's her pick for tonight. Experience 'La Nuit Americain'.DAY III, XXIV: Felix wanders alone through Chinatown looking for presents to bring home to his children.DAY III, XXXXV: Lucy is by herself, she wonders why Felix didn't take her along to go shopping with him. As she ponders, a young woman - the same one she met several times - hands out a kind of newspaper magazine called: Paradise Lost Editions. At that moment Lucy realizes what's going on...Day III, XXXII: Felix's Flashback Scene - brings him back to Granary Burial Ground, Boston.
2. Hudig and Wiersma created the fictitious story of Felix and Lucy, who had a brief liaison amoureuse and spent 3 days together in the city of Amsterdam. For these 3 successive days [Sept - 09] every citizen of Amsterdam could witness Felix and Lucy’s love story and their whereabouts in Amsterdam by freely subscribing to the PL Editons. Through especially created website by Veronica Ditting.

Special volunteers delivered the PL Editions personally to the subscribers. Some of these couriers were also actors in the Paradise Lost Script. Four different 'Newspaper' Couples were photographed, they all played the same part -like Lucy and Felix- of those who fell. In love. - Supporting Actors: Kati Kärki - Kasper Jacobs - Hanne Lippard - Phil Barber - Steinnun Jonsdottir - Rustan Söderling. 
During the first weekend of November 2009 the PL Project was part of the yearly museum night event at Photography Museum FOAM -Amsterdam. Around 50 images (stills) were projected while the soundtrack was being played at the same time. Visitors of the museum could sit down on one of the benches to watch the slide show, listen to the soundtrack while paging through The Paradise Lost Edition.
Day 2. Scene IXV: Lucy recognises the courier guy she met before in the hotel lobby. Just across from the Zoo.
The Prologue [voice-over] - An Airplane Across The Atlantic Ocean: - A bright celestial body: the sun. A glaring blue surface: the sky. From out of the distance an airplane approaches, leaving a white vapor trail. It comes straight towards us. As the roaring of the motors becomes louder, we recognize behind the front window a form, a man: a pilot, thinking about the stripes of chalk on his suit, about a false alarm, about Amelia. We see the aisle, a stewardess walking, smiling an ineradicable smile. She hands cushions out to people, who in their normal biological rhythm, would be sleeping at this moment. But their moving back in time doesn't allow them to be enclosed in consoling darkness..
Installation View at FOAM - The 3 different script editions and soundtrack were at display at the FOAM Photography Museum, 2009.

Supported by Fonds BKVB, Paradiso and FOAM.