Last january (2024) saw this video (-installation) as part of an expo ("Unmonumenting") at the former NDSM ships wharf hall in Amsterdam.
It gave a beautiful artistic insight on a very impressive subject of taking apart a ship on the beach in Pakistan, that was built on the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam in 1979. It shows the gruesome, dangerous, working conditions of the almost 'without any rights' workers on this beach, where we, of the western world, dump our old ships to be dismantled.
Most imposing, to me, was the image of workers walking over the anchorchain to enter the ship. Beside that the workers were given poor housing, low wages and long working days with almost no safety measures.
And in the end even no more fish was living in that part of the sea anymore because of the dumping of all kinds of contaminated materials, so former fishermen lost their jobs as well.
It gave a beautiful artistic insight on a very impressive subject of taking apart a ship on the beach in Pakistan, that was built on the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam in 1979. It shows the gruesome, dangerous, working conditions of the almost 'without any rights' workers on this beach, where we, of the western world, dump our old ships to be dismantled.
Most imposing, to me, was the image of workers walking over the anchorchain to enter the ship. Beside that the workers were given poor housing, low wages and long working days with almost no safety measures.
And in the end even no more fish was living in that part of the sea anymore because of the dumping of all kinds of contaminated materials, so former fishermen lost their jobs as well.
