15 juli 2017
Kees Koomen: Bed
Kees Koomen: Bed
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Cloud Force One
15 juni 2017
Vandaag werd ik opgebeld door Quartair met de vraag of ik het leuk zou vinden geïnterviewd te worden tijdens hun live radio stream. Of ik even langs wilde komen als ik gelegenheid had. Toevallig stapte ik juist het huis uit om wat spielatten te kopen dus ik reed naar Quartair om kennis te maken met de radiomaker, wolkenbreier Leo Reinders. Het bleek een Antwerps internetradiostation te zijn dat het jarige kunstenaarsinitiatief had uitgenodigd om deze hele week uit te zenden vanuit hun expositieruimte. Leo houdt van improviseren en ik ook, dus dat moest goed komen.
’s Avonds aangekomen bleek dat een ander interview nog bezig te zijn. Topp & Dubio, waarmee ik gecombineerd zou worden zaten meewarig te wachten bij een kruiwagen die zij zouden gebruiken voor een performance. Toen we eenmaal aan de beurt waren was al gebleken dat de interviewer met lage stem mompelend in een zwaar Vlaams accent steekwoorden aangaf waarop de geïnterviewde diende te reageren met gloedvolle verhalen.
De helft van de tijd verstond ik hem niet en ik was blij dat Topp & Dubio voornamelijk zijn interesse wekten. Die weten daar wel raad mee. Toen ik terug naar huis ging vroeg ik me af wat de luisteraars hier nu van opgestoken hadden, naar bleek was het hele gebeuren live uitgezonden in Antwerpen en omgeving en op internet.
Het publiek in de radioshow
Verspreid hing kunst die niet anders dan Belgisch kon zijn…
èn n.b. portretten van de Friese KABK-alumnus Roeland Zijlstra die naar België geëmigreerd is. Hij schijnt maandag bij de uitzending aanwezig geweest te zijn.
Helaas kon ik daar niet bij zijn àls ik het me al bewust was geweest. De portretten blijven bijzonder gaaf!
Intussen was de uitzending bezig met een interview met een Amerikaanse onderzoeker. het podium van de afgelopen verjaardag bleek nu ingericht als radiostudio.
Ook in live-muziek werd voorzien met een Belgisch trio dat Twin Peaks-achtige muziek maakte.
Voorzichtig tasten Leo Reijinders, Top & Dubio elkaar af
Reijnders heeft wèl de houding van een radiomaker
Ten slotte zongen Topp & Dubio een gedreven Bella Ciao voor het publiek!
En met de publiciteit zit het wel goed!
Malieveld
10 juni 2017
Malieveld
#7: Athens – Platforms Project 2017 – Beton 7 Radio
May 26, 2017
Today is the last day of the Platforms Project. I had an option on my drawing which I sold definitely today. After 15.00 h we cleared out. We decided to visit the Acropolis and to have dinner in the Plaka, it seems obligatory for the ones who came in yesterday. After dinner we are invited at an opening at Beton 7 Radio, together with a Jazz concert by the Blue Note Trio: Jazz Archeology that is! It got to be a nice and relaxed day with another unexpected number of visitors at the fair.
The walk to the venue of Platforms Project is great, with a fantastic view from the hill behind it.
On the way you see a lot of Grafitti that I like
This is a great piece!
On the Spot Stéphan Guéneau and Louise Crawford are working on yet another piece
Which turned out really fine!
and a great poster on the side!
Marian Wijnvoord added a beautiful series of little landscapes
This is the drawing that I sold
Another walk took me upstairs to IFAC arts with this original appropriation
ALISN from Brasil with great music videos
and posters
Geeta Rooparine at Lubimirov/Angus Hughes
and a great teacher from England, St. Martin’s, whose name I couldn’t find back, the drawings are wiped right after he fisnishes and he goes on forever!
Tiny Domingos is getting sentimental about clearing the booth
But EX-MÊKH is it’s usual self about it
KRAATZ is just continuïng to experiment, wonder when they left?
On the Acropolis the light was magnificent
The sun set behind the Parthenon, or the Erechteïon really
A beautiful evening
View on the Acropolis and the tower of the winds at night
Off to Beton 7 Art Radio which appeared to be a rather fashionable place
At Beton 7 Art Radio the show was worth while with work by Mathieu Valade who put well known art manifestos in a Star Wars context
Julie René de Cotret sew hats together, it looks technical all of a sudden, well, soft technics!
Artemis Potamianou is also an artist and this is her work
The stuff you gather,,,
The crowd was all over the place, like in the bar
Or in the concert by the Blue note Trio
#4: Athens – Platforms Project 2017
May 22, 2017
Today was my birthday, so we decided to go and have a swim in the Mediterranian and to have lunch on the beach. At the fair there appeared to be much more public then the day before and in between we celebrated with cake, beer and wine. It was a joyful day for everyone!
Our German neighbours from Berlin bought me a delicious Citronentorte
which was thouroughly enjoyed by everyone, including Petri from Kallio Kunsthalle
Meanwhile the conference had started about the situation of the cultural sector in Greece, lots of local heavy’s present
It was opened by Artemis Potamianou, who miraculously organised Platforms Project 2017 within two months after beïng kicked out of Art Athina for dubious reasons.
KRAATZ in the meanwhile changed their booth again
with a nice intimate wall on the side
Which combines beautifully with Ellen Rodenberg’s work at the EX-MÊKH booth
My own installation also has its merits in the details
and Greeks are particularly enthousiastic about Malieveld, probably because the atmosphere is exotic to them
Ellen Rodenberg, our “communications manager” had a lot of work today
And this poster of the guerilla girls that I missed at the entrance shows engagement on a different level!
#3: Athens – Platforms Project 2017
May 21, 2017
This sunday was to be the longest day of the Fair: from 12.00 untill 23.00 h. Unfortunately it was also a day that some religious nameday was celebrated and that important sportsevents took place. It was very quiet at the fair and it felt desencouraging to have so little people coming by, but everybody made the best of it. I visited some booths that I didn’t see yet as you can see here:
On the way to the Platforms we run into a Documenta project: Rasheed Araeen: Food for Thought: Thought for change – 2017 In this location refugees can have free meals every day. There’s a kitchen in the middle and there are terraces all around.
The design is very efficiënt: recognisable from afar
Arriving at the Platforms the KRAATZ-artists appear to have liven up to their promise: the booth changes, here with added posters by Stéphan Guénau
Marian Wijnvoord and Isolde Nagel are stil in doubt about one wall
But this A-Trans wall is well done
Alexander Peev at Dadada Academy
Klitsa Antoniou: But at the End the Light was Shed on us and it got us to the shore – 2016. A horrible video with a girl that tells about loving her father and how she likes to help him put shrapnel in bombs and how they flee to the west where she gets to know other children of her age
En Flo: Project Xouthou Street – a door from a house in the centre of Athens you can go through
after which you can write down what it brings about in you. Left under is my comment.
Extra Muros from Nantes was good again: they had subtle ceramic works by Cat Fenwick
It’s all about equilibrium
Guillaume Krick showed a very non-commercial installation with an old French flag
And Romain Rambaud was his usual elegant self with these sculptures
That I rather like
Diensgebäude is also present with work from Andreas Martí
and Chloe Cheuk
Elisabeth Wheeler
This work at Harrington Mills Studios was nice
I like the materiality of it
A sneak peak at the new unnoticed art exhibit featuring a small work by yours truly
Haïtian art at Kallio Kunsthalle, cut from car tires
Petri Saariko, the curator did well himself too
In the mean while our publicity was great: Ellen Rodenberg’s picture of her Malieveld piece was in a large national newspaper in an article about Platforms project
And I was interviewed by George Oreopoulos for Beton7 Art Radio (my favourite radiostation)
Our Dutch Globalist Willem Jan Smit made a round through the neighbourhood, created a sculpture
And projected it’s shadow on the wall by means of the dust he took off it
And of course some materials he used
One more view at Lo and Behold in the cellar
With work by Linda Weiss
Ed’s Video from Canada had surprisingly analogue art with him this time
End we ended up nearby in a restaurant during a blazing thunderstorm
Nico Parlevliet from Unnoticed Art joined us from Holland and everybody sang for me after midnight because of my birthday!
