During the winter of 2009, three Lithuanian artists – Julius Markevičius, Aurimas Lažinskas and Linas Markevičiu – built a boat following the plans of Danish naval architect Morten Olesen. They named it Buratinas. During the summer of 2010, Buratinas went on a four-month trip that took them from Lithuania via Poland, Germany and the Netherlands to Belgium. The trip turned out an artistic project, with the three artists organising workshops, presentations, encounters in and alongside their boat at each stopover. Buratinas became a floating arts centre that eventually reached Brussels. Already at the start of their project, nadine was charmed by this initiative. When it turned out that the artists wanted to leave the boat in Brussels, nadine adopted the project ‘for further development’. The acquisition of this boat was a rather symbolic action but pushed nadine in a new direction of activities.
Wandering arts, nomadic arts practices, slow mobility
‘The Solar Camper’ has since been the vehicle for multiple projects serving as a summer residency space, a public taxi, a floating concert hall, a radio transmitter – in short, a place for new encounters in and around the Belgian waterways.