[UR01]
Building/Film Programme
Before the Horizon,
a poetic viewing engine
(Competition art project
for a pavilion)

Open Call Beaufort
2015
BE

For the Beaufort Triennial, an exhibition held every three years along the seawalls, beaches and dunes of the Belgian coastline, TMML, in collaboration with trainee architect Dien De Greve, devised the project Voorbij de horizon, een poëtische kijkmotor (Beyond the Horizon, a poetic viewing engine). It was a pavilion designed for the beach/dune area between Raversijde and Ostend that drew on the notions of the panorama and the ‘bioscope’ as poetic viewing engines. It was also designed as a cultural event or attraction that responded to the context of the sea (wind, water, sand, climate, nature and city) and to the notion of the present tourism. For the round pavilion erected in black canvas, TMML designed, among other things, a bar and a projection room. The artists put together a programme of short and longer films on the theme of the sea and the coast by makers such as Ria Pacquée, Guillaume Bijl, Harun Farocki and Michael Snow. Besides a film programme, the pavilion also represented a viewing experience: from a round viewing hole, the project offered an articulated view of the sea and its surroundings. The pavilion was not built.