Verre Stemmen

Verre Stemmen (far away voices) wants to investigate what’s possible with mobility within the public domain on the Internet. Language scientists, anthropologists, biologists, fieldworkers and world bikers all carry around digital cameras, phones and laptops along, especially when they go to a place far away. At this way they function as mobile communication points between people abroad and internet users as we in the Netherlands. De website is an open platform for poetrists or storytellers from unknown language areas and their promotors, the so called scientists. Every poetrist recites in his own language, starting with the word Earth. In this way poetrists and storytellers get a common podium for their unique language and culture and the way they see the earth. The site will be placed online during the opening of Amsterdam Wereldboekenstad in april 2008.

Final products

A website containing short movies containing the spoken word in a special language with translations in English and Dutch.
A weblog containing an explanation about the site to follow the proces of making, searching contacts and make suggestions. The different voices will be searched and contacted from out the Netherlands. Through which ways and persons will this contact making go? How world wide is the web anyhow?

Contact

Stichting Websk8
belleau@dds.nl