Liquid Time (Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen) – Roadstead, Sea Lock, Deepwater Port

Sonic Acts Podcast

19 May 2023 – Ruigoord, Amsterdam Speculating on logistics as a project of time management, Liquid Time’s lecture performance at Maritime Frictions considers processes of distributing, expropriating and configuring planetary time. Based on field research carried out in the IJ estuary to the west of Amsterdam, the duo maps out three sites throughout time that each, in their own way, encapsulated enact a particular temporal dynamic within maritime space: from the harbour that shielded Dutch East India Company ships from storms in the sixteenth century, to the newly opened Sea Lock – the largest moving metal structure in the world – designed to allow mega ships to enter Amsterdam. Along the way, Liquid Time charted the oceanic and anthropogenic rhythms that form each location, the building blocks of what they call the ‘infrarhythm’ of logistics. Liquid Time (Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen) are a research duo working around shipping, finance, and the temporalities of maritime worlds. Miriam Matthiessen is a researcher interested in critical logistics and urban political ecology. Jacob Bolton is an architectural researcher interested in supply chain violence and resource struggle. Drawing together artistic and critical practices, Sonic Acts and FieldARTS’ collaborative event Maritime Frictions also included field presentations from Harpo ’t Hart and Frank Bloem (Embassy of the North Sea), a listening walk with Lance Laoyan, talks by Fred Carter and Charmaine Chua, a screening of Michaela Büsse’s ‘Building with Nature’ (2022), a sound performance by Velma Spell, ending with a DJ set by Nessim. Find out more at https://sonicacts.com/agenda/maritime-frictions Maritime Frictions is a part of 'New Perspectives for Action', a project by Re-Imagine Europe co-funded by the European Union. CREDITS Video editing: Bin Koh Sound mastering: Poul Sven de Haan Sound logo: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros