Wit gespikkeld met bruin, Ypenburg
Krijn Christiaansen and Jeroen Bruls
Commissioned by Heden Den Haag
Amivedi was founded in 1933 by Indonesian ladies from the Hague. Since the fifties they keep weekly lists of lost or missing animals. These are circulated via aid stations. The aid stations are manned by full-time volunteers. Each volunteer describes the characteristics of the lost or missing animal in his own way. Only the description of breed, colour, genus, chipcode and collar number have been standardized. For that reason a lot of “forced and a direct handwriting” remain existent in the descriptions. Meanwhile Amivedi also presents these weekly lists online on their own website.
An illuminated trailer, on the front of a vet’s practice in Ypenburg, shows passers-by the lost or missing animals in the neighbourhood in a text scrolling from right to left. The illuminated trailer is connected to the database of these online weekly lists. Because all messages are shown non-stop, one after the other in one single line, a continuous one-line sound poem is created, which changes every week.
