A video shot for Portscapes, a series of art projects along the coast of the Maasvlakte, near Rotterdam.
Dijkman shot the video from a boat circling a newly created island. This video was eventually dubbed with audio excerpts from moviescenes where people are entering land from the water.
Live in front of the audience Dawicki reads a text explaining he’s sorry for the failed performance he’s giving. Finally, to make up for wasting the audience’s time and the curator’s chance of putting on a good show, he hands out sweets while a taperecorder plays the sound of him crying and once more apologizing.
A performance seen in Rotterdam during Witte de With’s performance cycle ‘Let us compare mythologies’. Pictures by Peter Rakossy.
An application that generates a simplified version of the game of seduction..
It starts with two babies, one male, one female. Once adults, they wander around the screen until they bump into eachother. They then have intercourse, after which the male leaves and the woman gives birth. Her baby will grow up, and enter the game.. This is repeated until the screen is fully filled with inhabitants, when everything collapses and the process starts over.
Nikki Koole will be presenting new works at Galerie Gallery tomorrow, Saturday the 3rd of April. You are welcome to join our festivities from 18.30hrs.
‘Relocated houses, Brittons yard’ (2009) by Lara Almarcegui.
On the outskirts of the city of Wellington (NZ) there is a weird collection of houses. The houses are moved there from different places and on display, waiting to be sold (housemoving is a common occurance in New Zealand). The result is a ghost-town like street with empty buildings, some in state of disrepair.
Lara Almarcegui traced the roots of each building in this street. For the One Day Sculpture project she created a tour and a catalogue showing the individual stories and memories connected to each house. By inviting people to visit the yard with her one evening, Almarcegui coaxes us to look not simply at what these buildings are but why and how they are here, and in turn to speculate on the processes of change in our environment.
Tomorrow, Friday the 6th, is the opening of Hedwig Houben’s show @ Galerie Gallery. We would like to invite you all to come to the opening and see new work by Hedwig. Also, she will be doing a live performance, so don’t be late!
Opening @ Galerie Gallery, from 18.30hrs on. Dordtselaan 27e, Rotterdam. (close to metro Maashaven). More info here…
Yesterday night was the Whatfilm night at the Film Foyer in Tilburg, organised by Whatspace. An evening of nice shortfilms selected by Rotterdam VHS Festival and presented by Niels Post of Trendbeheer. After the Read More some blurry photo impressions:
Galerie gallery is a small new initiative/home-gallery with limited space for infinite experimentation. Galerie Gallery is based in the south of Rotterdam and will first open its doors to present new work by Jak Peters.
The exhibition will be opened on the 2nd of October at 1900hrs., and will furthermore be available for viewing on the 3rd and 4th of October.
This will be galerie gallery’s very first presentation and the first in a series of five.
Last Friday I had a chance to look around in the old abandoned neon-factory De Fabriek in Rotterdam. It was squatted until Summer ‘08 and used as a studio-building by the squatters.
Oskar Dawicki
Oskar Dawicki, ‘I’m sorry’ (2010)
Live in front of the audience Dawicki reads a text explaining he’s sorry for the failed performance he’s giving. Finally, to make up for wasting the audience’s time and the curator’s chance of putting on a good show, he hands out sweets while a taperecorder plays the sound of him crying and once more apologizing.
A performance seen in Rotterdam during Witte de With’s performance cycle ‘Let us compare mythologies’. Pictures by Peter Rakossy.
More fine work by Dawicki downstairs….
Read More »