2011 - Emmen: Broken Circle / Spiral Hill on a very hot late summer's day during our introduction week: DAI-students take a dip in the lake encompassing this famous site -specific piece by Robert Smithson

One hot afternoon early September, 2011, DAI students took a dip in the cool waters surrounding Robert Smithsons 1971 earthwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in Emmen in the Netherlands. Photo-credit: Jacq van der Spek.

DAI-students take a dip in the lake where this famous site -specific piece by Robert Smithson is located 

Thursday 29 September 2011

10.00 Pack your lunch in the canteen with Amarashradda
11.00 Departure by bus from Arnhem to Emmen
12.30 CBK Emmen

In June 1971, the American artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973) completed the land art project Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in a sand quarry in Emmen. Forty years following its completion, and after a highly eventful history, the work in Emmen is once again in good condition, and is the regular destination for those interested in Smithson's work from all over the world.

Broken Circle/Spiral Hill is the only 'earthwork' produced by Smithson still in existence outside the United States. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the creation of Broken Circle/Spiral Hill we will visit the exhibition 'Robert Smithson in Emmen. Broken Circle/Spiral Hill Revisited' which will be introduced to us by it's curator Roel Arkesteijn*

14.30 Transfer by bus to the actual Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in Emmerschans. ADDRESS TO THE ARTIST  by independent curator Mark Kremer: 'A Tour of the Monuments of Emmen, Drenthe'

18.00 Whole food diner at http://www.volkshuisdeventer.nl/biologisch.html

Overnight in the village of Gorssel