IN MY BACKYARD - Plato’s grot: drawing video Jet Nijkamp - Revalidatiekliniek naast het park: poem Anna Enquist - subtitles EN from grot s Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 78 sec
✓ Published: 10-Nov-2014

Description:
IN MY BACKYARD is a project about the Amsterdam Vondelpark on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. For this project visual artist Jet Nijkamp invited three poets to write a poem about the park. Anna Enquist, appointed City Poet of Amsterdam, wrote a poem about the rehabilitation clinic adjacent to the park. From behind the walls of this clinic people without an arm or a leg hear the sounds of playing children, joggers running, horses, and they regret that they can’t participate. Those sounds