{"id":7745,"date":"2019-02-27T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/news\/boot-van-papier-mache-op-mata-hariplein\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:07:42","slug":"boat-on-mata-hari-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/news\/boat-on-mata-hari-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper-M\u00e2ch\u00e9 Boat Lands on Mata Hari Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Last week, something unexpected appeared on Mata Hari Square in Leeuwarden\u2014a large white structure seemingly out of nowhere. Under the cover of night, PAX Construction and Industrial Services delivered the boat, made entirely of paper-m\u00e2ch\u00e9, right into the heart of the city. But what\u2019s it doing there?<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The installation is part of Leeuwarden\u2019s Cultural Capital of Europe 2018 programme. It responds to the question: <em>What now&#8230;?<\/em><br><br>What\u2019s next for Friesland after a year full of cultural events? The idea is simple: people are encouraged to write <em>Wat nu?<\/em> (&#8220;What now?&#8221;) as many times as possible on the boat\u2019s plastic surface. A tiny microphone attached to the marker captures the sound of the writing. All that scribbling and scratching is then woven together into a soundscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 20-meter-long ship had a public moment back in 2011, too. Back then, it was lifted\u2014under much public attention\u2014over the walls of the Blokhuispoort and launched into the water near the Prinsentuin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1234\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PAX-mata-hari-boot.jpg\" alt=\"Paper-M\u00e2ch\u00e9 Boat Lands on Mata Hari Square\" class=\"wp-image-2801\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PAX-mata-hari-boot.jpg 1234w, https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PAX-mata-hari-boot-960x503.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PAX-mata-hari-boot-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PAX-mata-hari-boot-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1234px) 100vw, 1234px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paper-M\u00e2ch\u00e9 Boat Lands on Mata Hari Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, something unexpected appeared on Mata Hari Square in Leeuwarden\u2014a large white structure seemingly out of nowhere. Under the cover of night, PAX Construction and Industrial Services delivered the boat, made entirely of paper-m\u00e2ch\u00e9, right into the heart of the city. But what\u2019s it doing there? The installation is part of Leeuwarden\u2019s Cultural Capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pax.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}