Cascoland Castaways

On the 4th of June 2009 African giant snails on a little peat island were drifting towards the Zuidas, the new Amsterdam business axis. Where would the winds and currents take them and how would they forever change the Zuidas landscape?
Cascoland followed the snails as they landed close to the WTC station at the Zuidas. Meanwhile in a nearby inflatable exhibition space, team members observed African giant snails, shooting video footage and recording the sounds of the snails eating andives. Real time three different images were captured that were projected inside the exhibition space. The first image was an extreme close-up of the snails, the other two livestreams of the procedings outside at the waterside. A continuous soundtrack was playing of the amplified sounds of the snails eating.
An interested audience were informed about the lives, habits and survivaltactics of the African giant snails and about how they have spread and influenced biospheres in many parts of the world. However, the way they have reached and influenced these biospheres depended entirely on unexpected acts of nature and confluences of circumstances and influences.
Analog to the development of the Zuidas.

Cascoland team: Fiona de Bell, Roel Schoenmakers, Bart Majoor, Bert Kramer
Cascoland Castaways was part of the Software programme of Metropolis 2025 and realised on invitation and with the support of Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte