(Catalan premiere)

As a child, Nick Steur used to play by balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.

TREK is a co-production of SoAP Maastricht and Peergroup. Steur’s research about the roaming stones that can be found everywhere in the Drenthe landscape, resulted in a short pilgrimage. Your tour starts at Natuurplaats Noordsche Veld and is completely self-sufficient; there is no ticket check or fixed starting time. Reserve a day on which you want to walk and leave at a time of your choosing. TREK is meant for two: if you don’t have a walking partner yet, we will arrange one for you. The experience takes two or three hours.

(CANCELLED) An attempt to balance human-sized boulders. For every new location, Steur uses locally sourced stone that he has never balanced before. The performance is ongoing for six hours a day. Sometimes it takes just a few hours but sometimes it can take him two days to balance one boulder. By disrupting the balance not long after (and continuing with the stone), Steur emphasizes the process rather than the result. Watch the MAKING OF.

We see the stars in the sky often as single points of light. However, they usually consist of several stars orbiting each other. The orbiting of stone became one of Steur’s artistic practices because of this extraordinary fact. The heavy marble stones in this in-situ installation are manually activated and initiate a hypnotic, elemental dance… “They find and repel each other but are inevitably condemned to one another.”

Especially for Museumnacht Maastricht, Steur investigates the attraction of marble stones that are connected from great heights in the grand dock of Ainsi and works together with performer/dancer Nathaniel Moore. The orbiting of stone became one of Steur’s artistic practices… “We see the stars in the sky often as single points of light. However, they usually consist of several stars orbiting each other… Once they are in orbit they are condemned to one another.”

As a child, Nick Steur used to play by balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.

‘Durations’ are a series of performances curated and organised by David Weber-Krebs in and around a glass house on top of Brussels. For the second chapter of Durations, David invites Nick Steur, who develops a site-specific work with stones and monoculars for this occasion.

An attempt to balance human-sized boulders. For every new location, Steur uses locally sourced stone that he has never balanced before. The performance is ongoing for six hours a day. Sometimes it takes just a few hours but sometimes it can take him two days to balance just that one boulder. By disrupting the balance not long after (and continuing with the next, new stone), Steur emphasizes the process rather than the result. Watch the MAKING OF.

As a child, Nick Steur used to play by balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.

As a child, Nick Steur used to play by balancing rocks on top of each other. At an important point in his artistic career, he developed this skill and set out to create stone sculptures. No glue, cement or any other trick is used. Everything is based on concentration: finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone.