Cascoland Oerol 2004

In June 2004 Cascoland was launched at the Oerol-festival on the island of Terschelling, the Netherlands, bringing together a group of five artists, Fiona de Bell, Lies Schermer, Bert Kramer, Kevin van Braak and Denis Oudendijk. Objective was to research Do It Yourself (DIY) architecture from different backgrounds. A Cascoland village was constructed in three weeks prior to the festival and kept developing during the festival through audience-participation.

Centre of this intervention were five architectural structures built by the artists that could house visitors to the festival. Cascoland was open all day to be visited and at night it turned into a vibrant little village. People could eat and drink and enjoy music and theatre and actually take an outdoor bath in a five-story bath-tower, an object by Ruud Panhuysen en Arlet van Laar. In the midst of a theatre-festival, which Oerol is, Cascoland did a project involving architecture, sculpture, and theatre and had people actually stay for bed & breakfast in the constructed objects.

As such Cascoland Oerol 2004 can be seen as a pilot-project that defined the Cascoland approach for the South African trilogy that would follow.