Unhalfbricking — Noor de Vries

About

Noor de Vries is a researcher, video artist and film programmer. Her work focuses on themes of collectivity, public space and direct action, often weaving archival anecdotes together with political theory and personal stories.

She is a graduate from The Sandberg Institute (Critical studies department) and has a BA and MA in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In addition she worked as a film programmer at Filmtheater De Uitkijk and has now continued to program film nights on an irregular basis as part of the Pottenkijkers collective of which she is one of the programmers and co-founders.

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UNHALFBRICKING Spring 2023/April 2025

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UNHALFBRICKING
Research Project

Spring 2023
Essay, published in Too Much by the Critical Studies Department
Design by Cleo Tsw, Valter Tornberg and myself

UNHALFBRICKING PT. II
Performance lecture and video, presented at Tempel Amsterdam
Publication spring 2025, by Off Course Imprint
Design by Cleo Tsw

DESCRIPTION

Unhalfbricking is the umbrella term for a research project done in the spring of 2023. The project puts a focus on how city innovation projects and infrastructure development plans shaped the Dutch (city) landscape. I researched several archives at IISG which revolved around the Actiegroep Nieuwmarkt, against the highway through the Amsterdam city center, against the Metro and against the coming of the Stopera, Protests against cars and highways, Protests against Hoog Catherijne in Utrecht and protests to save the Amelisweerd forest.

The project resulted in various works: A Historical city walk accompanied by two lino prints presented as a contribution to the publication ‘Too much’ (2024) published by students of the critical studies department. The second part of the project resulted in an archival video project (9 min. no sound) accompanied by a live reading presented at Tempel Amsterdam. This same text was later published in 2025 by Off Course Imprint and designed by Cleo Tsw.