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Posts Tagged ‘Maritime Network’
Sea Dike
May 10th, 2014 | Amsterdam Island Cities are performative environments. Living in one as the sea rises is an unsettling dialogue with the sea. Amsterdam’s historic management of the Amstel river and the North Sea is an imaginative instance of how island cities and a water bound urbanism can evolve. In Sea Dike, Harmattan collaborated with […]
Cabo de Tormentoso
Dias Beach, Cape of Good Hope, South AfricaDecember 12, 2011, 7-8 am. Directed by May Joseph. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, leading the way for Vasco Da Gama ten years later to find a sea route to Asia. Dias initially called the Southern tip of Africa where the Atlantic and […]
When the Sea Rises
Vasco Da Gama Square, Fort Cochin, Cochin, India | October 30, 2011 at Sunrise. Directed by May Joseph. Choreographers: May Joseph and Muthu Mozhi. Theyyem Performers: Muthu Mozhi, Similesh, Aneesh. Kalaripayyati Performers: Midhilesh, Manish. In 2004, the Tsunami swept into Cochin as a surge, an ominous portend for the city’s archipelago like structure. Cochin’s many barrier […]