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Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, Fort Ruigenhoek will open today.

This piece is part of the Nous ne notons pas les fleurs cycle that began in 2009. So far I have done one in Patna, one in Jakarta, one in Singapore and this one in Fort Ruigenhoek. Each time it is different depending on the locale and what is possible to do. And of course each time it is also different because it depends very much on the people that are involved in the whole work.

This time, in Fort Ruigenhoek, I’m using live flowering plants. And instead of recording it for only several days like the previous works, I will record a whole 6 weeks of it.

This is what it looked like when I left it the day before the opening.

A hose going through the grass.
A watchtower peeking in a distance.
The world in its pristine colours.
In the bunker the control room and the public monitor is ready to go.
During the opening, children and their parents will put the pots in place. Red on red, blue on blue, white on white, yellow on yellow, and orange on orange.
These colours were based on the Olympic logo, but instead of black I use white for Africa because I thought black wouldn’t go well on green.
I wish I had a better picture of the watchtower. In this it’s a bit too dark and you can’t see America. In reality, from certain angles the red is clearly visible, but not always.
Three continents – where did they meet?
The public monitor is ready. People can see what has been recorded earlier in the day through this monitor.
During visits we are recording 1 frame every 1 second, and otherwise it’s 1 frame every 30 seconds.
The three binoculars hanging on the back wall are for looking back at the monitor in the watchtower.

And all the maintenance tools – softwares, hardwares and handwares – are in the control room.

Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, Fort Ruigenhoek (2011) is commissioned by Kaap 2011/Stichting Storm. Kaap 2011 is curated by Tiong Ang.