The hands of Ahmed Gomaa Ahmed Eltrabily rise up out of the darkness. An ancient block of ice is retrieved from the mouth of a glacier. The sleeper dreams. Oceans are crossed and recrossed. Lives are lost.

The Ghost Below the Waterline is a dynamic installation that explores the life of a ship and its crew. 

 

The Ghost
Below the Waterline



Artists

Curator

Photography
  • Jara van den Bosch

On show from 15.11.2024 to 05.01.2025
Opening The Ghost Below the Waterline
Sam Wilson Fletcher — My body is a body of ice (2022) 
Opening The Ghost Below the Waterline
Opening The Ghost Below the Waterline
Sofie Hollander — Oh Dear Kelly (2024)
Opening The Ghost Below the Waterline
Anna Spiliotopoulou — (working title) a study of moving bodies (on the curve of x,y,z and t)


In 2022, after a two-year furlough during the coronavirus pandemic, MS Ocean Endeavour underwent maintenance in dry dock in Amsterdam. The ship was then returned to Canada.

Sam joined the ship for this crossing. He was the only passenger.


Sam Wilson Fletcher — My body is a body of ice (2022)
Sam Wilson Fletcher & Marco Dol — The Transmission of Anthony (2024)
Sam Wilson Fletcher & Marco Dol — The Transmission of Anthony (2024)
Sam Wilson Fletcher — My body is a body of ice (2022)
SAM WILSON FLETCHER

Sam Wilson Fletcher is an artist and writer. He studied chemistry and quantum mechanics at Oxford and geosciences at Harvard before switching to an artistic practice. In 2022 he was artist-in-residence on expeditions to Antarctica and the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, as well as aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic from Amsterdam to Quebec City. Recent publications include Curse Tablet (Slub Press) and New Adjacent Possible Empty Niche (Veer2).


MS Ocean Endeavour is a cruise ship with a capacity of 199 passengers. The ship was built in Poland in 1981. Originally named Konstantin Simonov (after a Soviet war poet), it was used as a car ferry in the Baltic Sea until 1988, when it was refitted. 



Anna Spiliotopoulou — SITUATION #3: Let me tell you about imagining
Opening The Ghost Below the Waterline
Anna Spiliotopoulou — A Flawed Analysis of Incorrect Assumptions
Anna Spiliotopoulou — (working title) a study of moving bodies (on the curve of x,y,z and t)
Anna Spiliotopoulou — SITUATION #1: The wild, the tamed and the parasite
ANNA SPILIOTOPOULOU

Anna Spiliotopoulou is a multidisciplinary artist and scenographer. She studied Scenography at HKU University of the Arts and Art & Performance Research Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores the relationship between humans and their environment by means of site-specific interventions, performances, and sculptural assemblages. Anna divides her time between the Netherlands and Italy.




Between 1996 and 2014, the ship operated in the Mediterranean under the names Francesca, The Iris, and Kristina Katarina. On 8 January 2014 the ship was sold and renamed Ocean Endeavour.

 
Sofie Hollander — De burgemeester spreekt (2021)
Opening The Ghost Below the Waterline
Sofie Hollander — Zonder Title (2024)
Sofie Hollander — It is part XXX of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessarily ceremonial (2022)
SOFIE HOLLANDER

Sofie Hollander is a performing artist. She has worked with numerous artists’ collectives and theatre groups, including Networked Collective, BUI (bevordering Utrechts Improvisatie), INBLIK Radio, De Kroniekschrijvers, De School, Para Academy, and Lavrar O Mar. In her performances, Sofie uses sculpture as a tool, making in-situ interventions that incorporate the audience into the work.




Today the vessel operates in the northern summer season on the east coast of Canada, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic.


The Ghost Below the Waterline is on show from 15.11.2024 to 05.01.2025. 

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