slapende Meermin

a time based site-specific architectural installation
STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven Belgium
30 Sep -4 Oct 08

Slapende Meermin references a historical building situated at the North end of Martelarenplein, Leuven. Above the ground floor window the name of a café has been carved originally into the stone lintel: A la sirene – in de Meermin. The sculpture is a full-scale copy of the façade of this building turned by 90 degrees. Appearing like a physical manifestation of the building’s shadow, the architectural structure stretches out on Martelarenplein over a length of nearly 18 meter.

Slapende Meermin has been developed with r.Bau Ltd, South Tyneside and Newcastle College UK, and Wonen en Werken Leuven. It was a STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven project and part of the STUKSTART openingevent 2008.


www.stuk.be
www.stuk.be/expo/detail/56084


With special thanks to:
Sean Coyle, Colin Crammond, Michael Davis, Dean Hoggarty, Vince Martin, Wayne Parker, Richard Kerkhofs, Olivier Leirs, Annelies Mommen, Charlotte Peys, Eva Wittocx, Praveen Varma, Paul Webster and everybody else involved in the project.