Stefaan Dheedene installed his work today at KOP.
WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?
- Pietmondriaan.com presents:
Opening: Friday March 12, 20:00h.
KOP, Breda (NL)
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André Kok
‘Event used orr’ (2009) by André Kok
André Kok will participate in ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?‘ !
Tris Vonna-Michell
Tris Vonna-Michell, ‘The trades of others’. Performance still (2008)
Vonna-Michell’s performances and installations function as chapters within a non-linear story, combining personal myth with historical traces.
Interview here
Martin Boyle
Martin Boyle, Untitled (2008)
Click the picture to see the video.
Martin Boyle produces work that is both playful and performative. He re-presents mass produced quirky objects and packaging in multiple forms to the viewer through video installation and sculptural pieces. His work highlights a preoccupation with ideas of value, or lack off, through his use of packaging and consumer goods…
No love in an elevator
Watch the top right surveillance screen.
This is sped-up footage of mr. Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building for 41 hours, after having a cigarette for lunch outside.
The story and some more facts about elevators, as featured in the New Yorker, here.
Kalup Linzy
Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Clermont, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Linzy was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007. Linzy’s best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. He also performs many of the same characters on stage.
Kalup Linzy, excerpt from ‘Keys to our heart’ (2008)
Interview here
Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin, ‘Nuit Blanche’ (2009)
The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event.
‘Every version belongs to the myth’
And so we stop by the Project Arts Centre to see the exhibition
‘Every version belongs to the myth’
Below is a selection of a few of the works.
Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body. A documentary by Jörg and Ralf Raino Jung (2001).
More from this documentary:
Dussen
More action:
Old news from 2007;
In Dussen (Brabant, NL) a man drove around in a cornfield for hours on end under the influence of cocaine. The result was the piece above.
Zimoun
‘25 woodworms, wood, microphone, sound system’, a very nice work by Swiss sound-artist Zimoun.
Video:
Momoyo Torimitsu
Momoyo Torimitsu, ‘Miyata Jiro’ (1997)
The Japanese (but New York resident) artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a robot that resembles a businessman. It can crawl the streets of whichever city he places it. Video:
Now, the Japanese have put quite some more time and effort into building weird animatronics/robotics. Click on Read More to see a few more examples.
Hedwig Houben @ Galerie Gallery
Just to remind you all:
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…
Palle Torsson
Whatfilm 2
‘America we stand as one’ (2002) by Dennis Madalone. One of the highlights of Whatfilm 2!
Check www.americawestandasone.com with sing along karaoke version!
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:
(More photo’s on Whatspace and Trendbeheer!)
Al Martino (RIP)
‘Volare’ (1976) by Al Martino (*October 7, 1927 – †October 13, 2009).
See the ‘Volare‘ post from about a month ago.
Chris Burden
‘Shoot‘ (1971) by Chris Burden.
Chris Burden was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters. Burden was taken to a psychiatrist after this piece.
Francis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs, ‘Night watch’ (2004)
Alÿs released a fox, called Bandit, into the deserted gallery at night. Seen from the high viewpoint of the security cameras, the fox looks a little puzzled among all the paintings of the great and the good. Like the guards, the fox is out of context; an intruder, observed dispassionately.
Frederik van Simaey
Frederik van Simaey, excerpts from ‘Together we are one’.
Van Simaey’s work is on view from Friday 20hrs on until the 18th of April, during the exhibition ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?’
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