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!
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