Marcel Broodthaers Memorial Poem
(28 January 1924 - 28 January 1976)
a visual poem with a boat in paper-maché, a pedestal with the handwritten text A Voyage on the North Sea, and a small bag of sand from Ostende to be shaken out in the boat to stabilise it.
M.B.’s A Voyage on the North Sea (1974) is a silent, short film of static images from a 19th century painting of fishing boats and photographs of a 20th century sailboat on the North Sea. The film can be read like a book with 15 pages.
(28 January 1924 - 28 January 1976)
a visual poem with a boat in paper-maché, a pedestal with the handwritten text A Voyage on the North Sea, and a small bag of sand from Ostende to be shaken out in the boat to stabilise it.
M.B.’s A Voyage on the North Sea (1974) is a silent, short film of static images from a 19th century painting of fishing boats and photographs of a 20th century sailboat on the North Sea. The film can be read like a book with 15 pages.