Sacrament for unwanted plants, twighlight service
twighlight service
Jeruzalemkerk
Sunday, June 28th 2009
04:30h – 05:30h in the morning
Jeruzalemchurch, Jan Maijenplein, Amsterdam
Just before sunrise a ‘twilight service’ starts in the Jeruzalemchurch,
in the light of undesirable plants in the church garden.
artists:
Annet Bult
Christina Della Giustina
Wietske Maas
choirmaster:
Maritta van Woudenberg
choir:
chorus Jeruzalemchurch
organ:
Hans Jutte
vicar:
Bas van der Graaf
organisation:
Foamlab http://fo.am
prologue
The ‘twilight service’ in the Jerusalemchurch in Amsterdam, which starts June 28th just before sunrise, is dedicated to the recently removed plants from the church garden:
the undesirable plants, the so-called weeds.
All elements that construct this service come forward from the actual surrounding in- and around the Jerusalemchurch:
- the real-time sound that can be heard every new day outside the church on the square just before sunrise;
- the church choir that takes the actual soundscape over, merging into a song, in which every strophe asks attention for one unwanted plant from the garden;
- the organ, which fills the dawn with volume;
- the drink distilled from the removed plants, which is offered at the end of the concert to all participants and drunk together;
- and the sun that rises during this approximately one hour ceremony.
With the twilight ceremony, which has come about in close cooperation with the congregation of the Jerusalemchurch,
we attempt to enable an experience that is open for the unpretentious, the undervalued, and the unknown.
2009 Annet Bult, Christina Della Giustina, Wietske Maas, and Foamlab
‘twilight service’ was supported by JuniKunstMaand 2009, the Municipality De Baarsjes, and the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
with thanks to:
Marritta van Woudenberg, Jantine Veenhof, Tirza van der Graaf, Nanny Roed Lauridsen, Hans Jutte, and Bas van der Graaf
Choir [audio] (website, Christina Della Giustina)
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