On view in the Buorskip is the work of Lotte van der Woude, which she developed at Syb in the spring of 2021. The motivation behind this project was Lotte’s own ship, the Anthonia Maria. From Syb, she was able to collect a lot of information about the (Frisian) past of the ship, the families involved, and their personal histories.

Her film Anthonia Maria shows a picture of the sailing ship in a changing landscape. In the accompanying audio track, various parties involved explain their experience with the Anthonia Maria. The stories are not introduced and follow each other continuously; the stream of personal histories tells a shared story of how the old freighter kept changing cargo, meaning something different in different hands.

Lotte van der Woude (Amsterdam, 1986) graduated as a political scientist and visual artist. As a child of two theater staff, she often sat watching the performance offstage. For her, the performance was always twofold: on the one hand, what happened on stage, and on the other, what happened simultaneously behind the scenes. Today Lotte makes experimental documentaries in which she headlines the process prior to the performance. It is her aim not to see a visible result as a fixed fact, but as an agreement of different interests or in some cases the outcome of a historical process. In her work, Lotte shows how performance is structured and hopes in this way to provide a stage for the fallibility of underlying decision-making processes.