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Flora van Dullemen



Wasteland 




WASTELAND is a 12-day transdisciplinary festival on waste ecologies. The festival takes place at the Grey Space in the Middle and is composed of an exhibition with the work of 13 artists, a symposium with 12 speakers, and 7 workshops which allow you to experience, learn and make collectively.

The festival puts the spot on trash, highlights the objects and products we throw away daily, and aims to create a space of potential to rethink our current relationship to waste. By creating a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary learning, the public can overcome their disgust and encounter the beauty of trash.




WASTELAND invited thirteen artists rooted in different practices and fields to come together for the group exhibition “Fungus socialis” to reimagine waste materials collectively and offer an outlook into a world in which we see waste through a different lens. Each artist provides an individual approach to working with thrown-away materials in the physical, digital, and metaphysical space.

With works by:

Tommy Smits, Daniel Dmyszewicz, Phillip Groubnov, Nuno Orlando, Manon Malan, Bas Kaufmann, Refunc, Karin Kytökangas, Nika Schmitt & Flora van Dullemen, Valentino Russo, Carolien Adriaansche, Galerie de Jaloezie, Wessel Verrijt.


FUTURE ON THE ROCKS 


Flora van Dullemen and Nika Schmitt imagine how the future might “smell”.

Within the framework of the exhibition ‘Wasteland’ and for the collaborative project ‘future on the rocks’ both decided to compose a synthetic fragrance. The chosen components for the scent are inspired by specific plants found in 2019 on the bottom of a 1,38 kilometers deep ice core that initially was drilled out by scientists in the 60’s of the north-west part of Greenland. Fossil plants such as lichen and moss but also twigs and leaves indicate that, instead of the thick layers of ice there must have been surfaces of vegetation less than one million years ago during interglacial years in parts of Greenland.

Nika’s and Flora’s interest behind creating such a scent has risen from the speculative thought that the effects of climate change will inevitably affect the “smell-scape” all over the world. The increasing temperatures will release different types of molecules and the melting ice will allow gases, plants and substances to affect the conditions of the waters, vegetation and air.

An interesting temporal phenomenon takes place: something from the past, quite literally shapes the conditions of the future. This aspect is also incorporated in the presentation of the created scent. An ice cube machine is freezing the diluted scent into ice cubes. The visitor is invited to carry a single ice cube in a glass around the exhibition. Slowly the ice melts which allows the smell to fully develop over time. The smell intensifies and changes during the melting process and at the end, only a sip, a memory of the future remains in the glass.

The created scent “future on the rocks” is an invitation to think of the future. A future shaped by ac-tions of the past.




Flag Design, Trixie




in collaboration with:

Anastasia Loginova - coordinator
Hugo van der Sluijs - design
Flora van Dullemen - poem 

Design made with the letter I - concept around ‘the death of ego’ 






Hanging at Trixie, Den Haag 
October 2021



PLAYING HOUSE


1-3 april 2022




Playing House, a group-exhibition based in a living room in The Hague. Inspired by artists like Richard Winther, Samúel Jónsson and Louise Bourgeois. 


‘Time like no one’ is a poem and shrine with scented candles especially made for PlayingHouse and around the theme ‘Home’. The shrine was made out of mirror material and everyday objects which the vistitor could read the poem through. The scented candles on the shrine represented cosiness but also failure, at home should be the place where you feel the most safe and free - to make mistakes and to start over again. 




OH-DEUR Winterlab




Winterlab was a week long workshop teaching 14 students at Artez about scent composing and how to use scent in their own art practice. Together with Nika Schmitt, we went to Mediamatic to show them the Aromalab, the biggest synthetic scent library of Europe, and on the last day they presented their works to us. This workshop was part of Flora’s research around scent and language and also helping students to better understand their practice and invited them to explore new ways of making, like through scent. 



Workshop StrandLab



On the 12th & 13th of August, Nika Schmitt and Flora were invited by Cocky Eek to give multiple workshops on how to compose scents using the landscape of Almere, at StrandLab. The workshops were part of Flora’s research around language and scent, how we can use scent as a tool to communicate. 
The workshops took place at a 3 day festival which was called ‘Zomersessies van de Veldacademie’.
Documentation and blog you can find here.