11 October 2025, 13:30–17:00 / Casco HQ
Time: 13:30–17:00
Meeting point: Casco Art Institute, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht
Snacks, coffee, and tea provided.
No RSVP required
As a third public activity in the context of Wapke Feenstra’s Rerooting in the Polder, we ask: What’s beneath the surface? We depart from our courtyard and into the surroundings, joining a walking excursion that brings us into dialogue with geology and archaeology as we attune ourselves to the layered grounds of Utrecht. Together with Wapke and Kim Cohen of Utrecht University’s Physical Geography department, we drill into the earth, venture underground, and follow the shifting traces of what lies beneath, opening to encounters and stories carried in the soil.
This collective activity extends from the geological animation featured in the exhibition, which you may visit before or after the excursion. Taking the platanus tree in Casco’s courtyard as its anchor, the work descends from its roots through strata into a living archive where geological time and farming histories intertwine, revealing what has shifted, grown, or remained concealed. The storyboard arose from the storytelling of Kim together with Herre Wynia, Municipal Archaeologist of Utrecht, and was then hand-drawn in geological notation, where dots stand for sand and crosses for stone.
