Houseproud is een design initiatief wat zich heeft late inspireren door de alledaagse vormgeving van interieurs, zoals deze zichtbaar zijn door de vensters van woonhuizen in Eindhoven.

Gesloten of open, ruimtelijk of decoratief: door de ramen van woonhuizen kun je naar binnen gluren om te zien hoe mensen invulling geven aan hun privé domein, hun identiteit. Houseproud wil een brug bouwen tussen alledaags design, alledaags interieur van de man op straat en het vakkundig ontwerp en de vakvisie van deelnemende designers. Ze legt een directe link tussen designers en de Eindhovense bevolking.

16 families zijn gecontacteerd en worden gekoppeld aan 23 designers. Samen zullen ze gestalte geven aan het ontwerp van het interieur achter de ramen. De ramen fungeren hiermee als lijst voor een werkelijk en een mogelijk interieur, voor een bestaande identiteit en een mogelijke identiteit. Eveneens wordt er een link gelegd tussen prive domein en publiek domein waarin het samenspel hiervan de verbeelding van de betrokkenen prikkelt. Een sociale omgeving wordt geschapen, waarin de rol van design voor ons alledaags bestaan wordt besproken!

your-space kanaalstraat dient als uitvalsbasis voor de route langs de ramen van de deelnemende Eindhovense families. I your-space wordt een film vertoont die de totstandkoming van het project vertoont.

Open:
Dutch Design Week, 18 t/m 26 oktober
your-space kanaalstraat is open van 13:00 - 22:00

Entree: gratis!

Locatie:
your-space
kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven
Website: http://houseproudexhibition.com
Email: participate[at]houseproudexhibition.com

Houseproud is een initiatief van Saron Paz, Winnie Kwok, Sonja Baumel, Clare Butcher en Rachel Griffin en wordt ondersteunt door your-space.


* ENGLISH *

Houseproud is a collaborative exhibition inspired by the everyday design of residential windows in Eindhoven.

Closed or open, spare or decorative, windows are used by families as a display which projects their personal identity. Houseproud seeks to draw attention to this art of domestic decoration as well as spark a meaningful cross-disciplinary conversation between designers and Eindhoven residents.

16 families will be matched with 23 designers. Together they will collaborate on new window designs, incorporating the core values of the residents while looking at larger ideas of the suburban interaction between private and public and the role of design in a social environment.

Your-space will serve as a gathering point for the route along the private houses. In your-space, a video will be screened displaying the becoming of the project.

The project will be completed in collaboration with Your-Space (Van Abbemuseum) and the City of Eindhoven.

opening hours:
Dutch Design Week, 18-26 October.
open at kanaalstraat 8 between 13:00 and 22:00

Entrance: Free of charge!

Houseproud is an initiative by Saron Paz, Winnie Kwok, Sonja Baumel, Clare Butcher
and Rachel Griffin and is being supported by your-space.

Website: http://houseproudexhibition.com
Email: participate[at]houseproudexhibition.com

Een initiatief van Erosie, Crackrock en Space3.

Uniek aan de Eindhovense streetart scene is de combinatie van lokalisme en globalisme. De scene is ruim, in die zin dat ze verschillende stromen kent in leeftijd en stijl, en tegelijkertijd hecht, door ouwe onderlinge verbondenheid. In tegenstelling tot straatscènes in andere steden kenmerkt de Eindhovense zich door een Brabants, gemoedelijk en artistiek/creatief ingezette cohesie. Deze scene heeft zich internationaal weten te profileren, juist door haar unieke lokale bestaan. Van Lissabon tot Berlijn, in het Palais de Tokyo en elders, in alle voorname internationale streetart boeken zijn grote getale aan Eindhovense werken te bewonderen. De scene heeft zich altijd relatief afzijdig van de gevestigde kunstwereld bewogen. your-space presenteert hen in een expositie en eert hen met een publicatie.

locatie:
kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven
(5 minute walk from Van Abbemuseum and from central station)

Data en openingstijden
Za 18 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Zo 19 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Ma 20 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Di 21 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Wo 22 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Do 23 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Vr 24 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Za 25 okt 13:00 - 22:00
Zo 26 okt 13:00 - 22:00

Toegangsprijs
Gratis

meer info, contact en persmap:
www.plakboek-eindhoven.nl
http://www.space3.nl/
http://www.erosie.net/
http://www.powerblastmovement.com/

* ENGLISH *

EHV Streetart

Unique to the Eindhoven streetart scene is the combination of localism and globalism. The scene is broad, in the sense that it encompasses various age and style streams, and at the same time it is closely-knit because of long-standing bonds of solidarity. Unlike the street scenes in other cities, the Eindhoven scene is charaterised by a typically Brabant, easy-going, artistic/creative-oriented cohesion. This scene has succeeded in creating an international profile for itself, precisely because of its unique local existence. Large numbers of works from Eindhoven can be admired from Lisbon to Berlin, in the Palais de Tokyo and elsewhere, and in all major international streetart books. The scene has always moved relatively apart from the established art world. your-space presents this secene in an exhibition and honours it with a publication.

An initiative of Erosie, Crackrock, and Space3.

Location:
kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven
(5 minute walk from Van Abbemuseum and from central station)

Dates and opening hours
Sat, Oct 18 13:00 - 22:00
Sun, Oct 19 13:00 - 22:00
Mon, Oct 20 13:00 - 22:00
Tue, Oct 21 13:00 - 22:00
Wed, Oct 22 13:00 - 22:00
Thu, Oct 23 13:00 - 22:00
Fri, Oct 24 13:00 - 22:00
Sat, Oct 25 13:00 - 22:00
Sun, Oct 26 13:00 - 22:00

Admission fee
Free admission

more information, contact and press kit:
www.plakboek-eindhoven.nl
www.space3.nl
www.erosie.net/ 
http://www.powerblastmovement.com/

Op 21 augustus wordt de tentoonstelling” zoek het maar uit”... in Your-Space officieel geopend. De tentoonstelling is van 19 t/m 27 augustus te zien in your-space, in het Van Abbemuseum.

Door de kunstobjecten van jongeren met problemen bij Your-space tentoon te stellen, wil het Adviespunt Discriminatie een aanzet geven tot het op nieuw vormen van beelden rondom deze jongeren, en vooroordelen en discriminatie bestrijden. Het Adviespunt Discriminatie Zuidoost-Brabant heeft dit project gestart om jongeren, die vaak betiteld worden als probleem jongeren, de kans te geven een antwoord te geven op de vragen: wie zij zijn, hoe anderen ze zien en waarin dit verschilt . Zien zij zich zelf als probleem jongeren, wat is de definitie van probleem jongeren, welke (verborgen) kwaliteiten hebben ze en hoe maken ze hier gebruik van?

Een 6-tal jongeren vanuit de Jeugdzorg; de Combinatie, doen mee aan dit project. Onder begeleiding van de kunstenaar Kuin Heuff geven de jongeren gedurende 6 bijeenkomsten antwoord op de gestelde vragen. Door zelfgemaakte kunstobjecten nemen ze hun identiteit onder de loep en geven ze dit bloot aan een breed publiek.

Deze werken worden gepresenteerd maar er worden ook werken uit de collectie van het museum vertoond, werken die deze jongeren prikkelden om diverse reden. In een klein boekje, vorm gegeven door Design Academy studente Mari Tosmin op initiatief van De Krabbedans, your-space en het adviespunt discriminatie, komen verschillende creatieve sporen vanuit de jongeren samen: hoog cultureel vanuit de collectie, eigen quotes en opvattingen en meer.

Bent u nieuwsgierig naar de antwoorden van deze jongeren? U bent van harte welkom bij de tentoonstelling 'zoek het maar uit'.

Your-space, a platform devoted to stimulating creative dynamics and social engagement in the region, operating from the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven will invade Belgium’s territory and identity from their residency in Rue Jourdan, Brussels. Your space will work here from 19 untill 21 July, and welcomes everyone to step by when we are there!

The title The return of the Dutch refers to Belgian’s contemporary political context, whilst exploring at the same time it’s historical common roots with The Netherlands, The participants to the residency would try to figure out how Dutch language relates to the present day situation in Brussels, how Dutch heritage relates to the Belgian and, more globally, how current Belgian and Dutch identities relate.

As a residency place, the Garage will be used as studio space; but this studio space is a space without identity or ownership; it’s a place for the people and by the people whom are interested in creative dynamics and social engagement. Happenings, exhibitions, lectures, gigs and working periods will mutually interact, occur and exist. your-space will serve as a platform for artist and organisations from the Eindhoven region, the Brussels region and beyond.

Presentation/Exhibition
Monday 21 July, 14:00-22:00 (Belgian’s national liberation day):

Performances and Happenings

Two and three-dimensional work

Adress
KMPLT – Le Garage
30, rue Jourdanstraat,
B-1060 Bruxelles/Brussel
België

Organisation
Your-space / coördination Freek Lomme
KMPLT

www.your-space.nl
www.kmplt.be
www.vanabbemuseum.nl
www.kolonne.nl
www.wei.nu
www.karinvanpinxteren.com
www.saskiademaree.nl
www.myspace.com/martijnsanders
www.ericaboom.nl

Table, Bed, Chair is een onafhankelijk geproduceerde low-budget documentaire over de levendige kraakscene in Amsterdam. De film combineert historische inzichten in de kraakbeweging met een kort overzicht van van haar hedendaagse structuren en praktijken. Persoonlijke verslagen en analyses geven ons een beeld van een heterogeen sociaal fenomeen.

een film van Robert Hack & Jakob Proyer
2007 No Budget Productions
30 min 41 sec
engels en nederlands met engels ondertiteld
gepubliceerd onder CreativeCommons 2.0 Licensie

TABLE, BED, CHAIR

Table, Bed, Chair is een documentair portret van de Amsterdamse kraakbeweging, een onderzoek naar ideologische benaderingen en in praktijk gebrachte alternatieven voor bestaande sociale structuren. Archiefbeeld toont het historische hoogtepunt van de beweging in de roerige jaren ’80, toen zo’n 10.000 mensen in Amsterdam gekraakt woonden.

Door een groot tekort aan betaalbare woonruimte in Nederland, wordt de praktijk van het bezetten van leegstaande huizen getolereerd sinds het einde van de jaren ’60. De brede acceptatie van kraken heeft een open social klimaat gecreëerd waarin de mogelijkheid zich ontwikkelde om een alternatieve stad binnen de stad op te bouwen, bestaande uit autonome organisatie structuren en alternatieve leefwijzen. De kraakbeweging bereikte haar piek in de jaren ‘80, en is nu geslonken tot een geschatte 2000 krakers in Amsterdam. De Nederlandse regering heeft tegelijkertijd geprobeerd om kraken te criminaliseren. "Table, Bed, Chair" stelt de vraag hoe de idealen van toen nu beleefd worden, en wat de huidige obstakels zijn van een autonome beweging in tijden van politieke extremisme en globalisering.

Met elkaar gecontrasteerde interviews geven een beeld van de pluraliteit aan meningen over thema’s zoals zelforganisatie, autonomie en ideologie, maar ook over de legitimiteit van geweld in politiek conflict. De geïnterviewden, allen krakers of ex-krakers, hebben het over het gebrek aan huisvesting en het gebrek aan alternatieve woonvormen. Zij willen lege ruimte benutten om de utopie van een betere maatschappij buiten de bestaande normen vorm te geven.

De regelgeving is sinds de jaren ’80 strenger geworden en het stadsbestuur heeft langzaam de controle heroverd, via een wortel en stok strategie van legalisatie en repressie. Echter, de infrastructuur van de eerdere beweging blijft grotendeels intact. Tezamen met het nog steeds onopgeloste woningnood probleem vormt deze infrastructuur een essentiële basis voor de hedendaagse kraakbeweging in Amsterdam.

De kijker wordt in een wereld ondergedompeld die door krakers romantisch wordt gepresenteerd als een groene oasis in het hart van de stedelijke woestenij, een legaal schemergebied waar dromen werkelijkheid kunnen worden.

Director & Editor
Robert Hack

Script & Research
Jakob Proyer

Directors of Photography
Jakob M. Kubizek
Peter Sihorsch

Soundmastering
Stefan Deisenberger

2007
Mini Dv
30 Min 41 Sek
PAL 4:3
English and Dutch with English subtitles

A NoBudget Production

www.table-bed-chair.tk

* ENGLISH *

"Table, Bed, Chair" is an independently produced documentary on squatting. It is a scan of the contemporary scene with side steps into the vivid history of this social movement.

The broad acceptance of squatting in the Netherlands created an open social climate in which a city within the city began to grow, marked by autonomous structures of organisation and differing models of life. "Table, Bed, Chair" asks questions how former ideals are lived now and which challenges the movement faces in times of political extremisms and globalization.

At the moment the Van Abbe seems to be squatted by new friends: a perfect opportunity to get to know our them might be the screening of a film.If the weather and the new friends allow us, we'll screen in Het Oog, in teh museum, otherwise we'll screen in your-space.

a film by Robert Hack & Jakob Proyer
2007 NoBudget Productions
30 min 41 sec
English and Dutch, English subtitles
published under CreativeCommons 2.0

 
www.table-bed-chair.tk

opening June 5, 19:00 with peformances and more!

Come and meet up with the folks from Brussels, to link up for July and our 'Return of the Dutch'!

Specially conceived for the your-space platform, From Love, with Brussels, is a proposal by Komplot, which revolves around the very toponimy of this open institutional experiment : « your-space », a museal space that becomes the space of it’s temporary guests and visitors.

As a mobile curatorial platform, infiltrating the public space and / existing structures to foster artistic projects which trespass the usual disciplinary and borders, Komplot vzw likes to explore uncertain environments and fluctuating contexts, new territories and original integrated forms of expressions.

Komplot has always been keen in the development of a strategy of production and diffusion of residual pieces and traces for the events it organised. For From Love, With Brussels, the objective is therefore to presents art works, which convey implicitely and adopt the same infiltrational strategy, both in terms of display and reception.

The statement also acts as a balanced counterpart and response to The Return of the Dutch your space’s special project of residency in Brussels, which, departing from the rough space offered by Komplot, a garage space, will operate with direct ramifications in the public space.

Together, the two projects operate as comments of the process of cultural exchanges and cross-seminations between our two neighboring countries and whose histories have long been intertwined.

In a way, beyond their general and specific grasps, the works integrated From Love, With Brussels, also act as metaphors of specific cultural clichés. Extensive, seminal and integrated Flemish immigration in the Low Countries of the XVI-XVIIth centuries vs. the Dutch more structured and political occupation of Belgium at the beginning of XIXth century.

The following artists are invited to create new works or present adaptation of existing works produced by Komplot for the occasion. They have been chosen for their infiltrating and perturbating qualities :

Rossella Biscotti / Kevin Van Braak
The artists will present their project 'The good life' for the first time in the public space, in the Netherlands. At this stage it consists of a van transformed into a semi-mobile architectural structure whose progressive shapes form an evolutive response to it’s organic use and to the changing aesthetic requisites of the context where it is displayed. Eventually the expansion of this semi-mobile sculptural installation will lead to the construction of a house in Salento a Southern region of Puglia.

High and low culture meet in the work of Aline Bouvy (L) / John Gillis (B). In their paintings, installations, performances or videos, they develop an eclectic “Gesamtkunstwerk” approach where post-punk or contemporary pop music references confront with elements reminiscent of a more established cultural tradition.

Simona Denicolai (I) & Ivo Provoost (B) will diffuse the sound piece ‘Nobody’ that was created for the project Vollevox, in the national fine arts museum in Brussels, in 2004. The sound piece is a recording of an “impromptu” performative concert of cell phone rings. It is to be used as a “jingle” tone for public announcements in the museum, and at the opening and closure times. Denicolai Provoost have also infiltrated the communication of the show by designing the invitation and integrating in it a “mental image” to be spread in the public space. The sentence will also be sung by the curators during the opening of the show.

Sofie Haesaerts (B) develops a sculptural and installational practice often fragmented and integrated in the architecture. For With Love, from Brussels, she will present a slide show of sculptural infiltration she will have integrated in the collections of the Museum. Photographed and transferred into slides these ephemeral images will act as the testimony of evolving and evanescent sculptural gestures.

The pin My boss is Flemish by Kosten Koper (UK) will be worn and distributed by Komplot’s artists and curators on the evening of the vernissage, then sold in the bookshop. This work is a sardonic joke about the Belgian situation by a foreigner living in Brussels. During the opening, Kosten Kooper will also, in collaboration with Douglas Park (UK), organize a live radio broadcast, accessible with headphone set in your-sapce for the  duration of the exhibition.

Grégoire Motte (F) works on the interstices, in the spaces exisiting between or around the artworks in an exhibition, often with elements taken out or subverted from the original context. For with Brussels, from Love, he will use the peripherical spaces of some lavatories to realize a pictorial seductive installation.

Claudia Radulescu (Ro) will show a sculptural neon installation named Incitation à la Vie privée. Seductive, straightforward and semantically ambiguous, it consists of the artist’s first name with her Belgian cell phone number. It is to be displayed in the museum in an area of external visibility, in relationship with the public space.

The book Europäer by Kurt Ryslavy (A) is a self-referential text by the artist, translated into 36 languages spoken in Europe. The artist tells the story of his wine trading, the main ground and topic of his artistic occupation and production. The borders between the two deliberately fluctuate, when he shows documents as paintings or integrates invoices and lists in his work. The edition is to be displayed in the restaurant of the museum and will be for sale in the book shop of the museum.

Christophe Terlinden (B)
'En connaissance de Cause'. This installation conceived by the artist for the eponymous exhibition in le Bonheur, brussels, consisted of a sculptural mountain, made of crumpled paper and of large drawings representing mountains. A « public space » sculpture, to be placed on the street in front of the gallery-shop would act as an « edition » supplier : a candy distributor filled with crumpled drawings in plastic eggs, available for one euro. When unfolded, the sheets displayed further drawings of mountains, all different: With their wrinkled surface, mimicking the rocky surface of the mountains, and playing with shade and light effects, the drawings were conferred with a material texture. Ìt is this candy distributor that will be shown in the Van Abbe, but filled with a new series of drawings.

Michael Van den Abeele (B)
‘Asbak’ is a series of decorative ashtrays that the artist recuperated to place them on plinths in cement; One of them will be shown in your-space, along with a video animation and a drawing. Three video animations are also presented on a monitor in the Museum’s cafetaria.

Freek Wambacq (B) created ‘Stadium IV’ for Komplot’s Garage in Brussels as the first three modular elements of a “in progress” stone sculpture, aiming at reproducing, in a fragmented evolutive fashion, the whole line of starting blocks of the original stadium of Olympia in Greece. A new modular element has been especially conceived for With Brussels, From Love. Freek’s ambition is to create a new modular element and, when possible, to leave them behind integrated in the public space. A list of traditional sauces accompanying French “frites” in Belgium will act as mental colour palette, and is to be distributed in stacks of photocopies in different locations of the Museum

www.kmplt.be

TRANSITIONERS: LE PRODUCTEUR
A module and conference about ideology and design.

Conference:
Sunday, May 18th, starting at 14:00

free entrance from the back: cross pink bridge at the stratumsedijk.

location:
Van Abbemuseum
Bilderdijklaan 10, EIndhoven

Société Réalist and Marko Stamenkovic, independent curator and writer, proposed to present the TRANSITIONERS' 2008 Political Trend Collection module in your-space from May 8th to May 25th, 2008, in Eindhoven. Simultaneous, they proposed a conference on ideology and design. your-space curator Freek Lomme gladly accepted to debate design and ideology, in regard of the design sphere within Eindhoven. There's a need to put design practices in a critical and international perspective, therefore we asked some designers and theoreticians whom work with ideology to step in the arena.

We will discuss present day ideology, social practices and design practices.

With:
- Cindy van den Bremen (designer, Eindhoven),
- Daniel van der Velden (Graphic designer, writer, Amsterdam),
- Annelys de Vet (graphic designer, Amsterdam, head of the man and communication department at the Design Academy),
- Marko Stamenkovic (writer and freelance curator, Belgrade / Amsterdam),
- BAVO (critics/researchers)
- Société Réaliste (cooperative, Paris),
- Marije van der Park (social designer, Eindhoven).

Moderated by Freek Lomme, curator/coordinator your-space.

Objective Module
TRANSITIONERS is a trend design agency, specialized in political transitions. Transposing the principles of prospective design, generally used by professionals in the field of fashion, to the field of politics, Société Réaliste questions the revolution (transition?) as a central category for contemporary Western society. How can a "democratic transition" be produced? What is the role of design in the permanent conversion of political flux into mythology? How can the effect of an event on citizens be transformed into a controlled affect?

Depending on present atmosphere, TRANSITIONERS defines the general climate, in which future social transformation movements will take place, in order to maximize their efficiency. By examining the evolution of revolution as a form, the project offers visual and semantic tools ready to be used by whoever wishes to: logotypes, color charts, lexical fields, etc.

Background
For each new step in the project, Société Réaliste conceives a new trend collection, originated by a precise historical event. In 2007, the inspiration for « Bastille Days » was the French Revolution. The 2008 collection, entitled « Le Producteur » , is based on the utopias developed during the first three decades of the 19th century, by thinkers such as Fourier, Enfantin, Rodrigues, Cabet, Owen, or Saint-Simon. A wide double-side panorama, pictorial and theatrical device inherited from that time, is inscribed in the architecture of Your-Space, allowing the visitors to discover the latest research of

TRANSITIONERS
The central question of the 2008 collection is related to the progressive separation of liberalism and socialism. While they have a common origin and were not differentiated by major utopian thinkers, the events of 1830 and 1848 progressively opposed them. This binary confrontation between liberalism and socialism still constitutes the basis of our common representations. For TRANSITIONERS, the interrogation of this ideological chasm, of its accuracy and its contradictions, is central. The stake of the collection « Le Producteur » consists in knowing how these movements share a common ideological base, and how the later can nourish the design of future transitions.

In 2006-07, the « Bastille Days » collection was presented at Trafo Galéria (Budapest), at the Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), on the occasion of the 2nd Biennale of Moscow, at Mains d'Oeuvres (Saint-Ouen), at Ze dos Bois (Lisbon) and at the Martine Aboucaya gallery (Paris). In 2007-08, Société Réaliste has presented « Le Producteur » at La Synagogue de Delme (France), within the frame of Transmediale 08: Conspire... at the Haus der Kulturen de Welt (Berlin), and within the frame of Utopia Transfer at Kiscelli Museum in Budapest.

SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE
Société Réaliste is a Paris-based cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004. The cooperative manages the development of research and production structures in fields such as territorial ergonomy, experimental economy, political design or counter-strategy. Société Réaliste's practice is resolutely polytechnic, developed through exhibitions, collaborative research projects, cultural events organization, lectures, critical writings or educational interventions. Since January 2008, Société Réaliste is researcher in Design at Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht).

links:
www.societerealiste.net
www.cvdbremen.nl
www.marijevanderpark.nl
www.annelysdevet.nl
www.metahaven.net
www.bavo.biz

A project by Æ (Ramon Hulspas and Erik Vermeulen)

On behalf of the EDIT kunstprijs.

By squatting houses one can gain control over many squire meters. Where storage is normally limited by space, squatters have enough space at hand. All material can be stored and all this stored stuff is at hand, ready to use. 

With the availability of space, huge storage, a bigger spectrum of material can be added to the pallet of object ready to be used or to become functional. Stuff lying around can be used again, possibly with a different usage or purpose and, even more, this stuff can be used to construct something new. Existing objects gain another meaning and new existence. The lifetime of these objects is being enlarged.

‘The first time we had to leave a squatted building, we had to make choices; what can we take and what can’t be taken along. This way, a selection of material remained. The moving that resulted in a selection. Each moving resulted in a new selection. This made us aware of this process. 

The surrounding of our stuff can be exchanged but our stuff is always there. We started to document the whole thing and the collection of stuff; reconfiguring everything depending on the context we could apply the stuff to. This inspired as well. Like Nomads carry around their entire belonging, so we treat our stuff: thereby this stuff gains an evident value, by the energy we put into it.

This way an abstract lifeline of a bunch of stuff developed in an organic way: "De Wereld Vol Met Spullen". The work on display in this exhibition is part of this lifeline.

Ramon and Erik won the 2007 EDIT art prize. The combined art institutes of Eindhoven elected "Een wereld vol met spullen" as best artwork of the exhibition GROOT at the EDIT festival. 

The prize- a presentation in your-space – is made possible thanks to Trudo, the Gemeente Eindhoven and Citydynamiek.

Ramon Hulspas and Erik Vermeulen met each other in the mid 90’s in the Eindhoven Skateboard scene. Besides their skating interests, they shared interest in graphic and video art. Ever since they got acquainted with the Eindhoven underground scene, at 2B and the Zesde Kolonne, their interest in art gained more serious forms. They discovered, for example, the creative possibilities of squatting. When on April 28 2002, 2B was torn down, Ramon and Eric had a reason to squat something themselves and to start a cultural institution of their own: Æ.

link: de wereld vol met spullen.

Smells like Homecooking...

an introduction in contemporary South-African art by Clare Butcher.

20 March, 2008
7pm
your-space
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

‘The truth of the matter is that the cookery of every nation has borrowed freely, often with unblushing audacity, from that of every other nation, and that only where it has succeeded in impressing its own stamp on its cooking technique, by the practice of local methods and the employment of local foodstuffs, can it be said to have reached the level that merits a distinct territorial adjective’

- C. Louis Leipoldt

The above passage, from Liepoldt’s Cape Cookery published in South Africa during the 1970s, seems to capture the essence of both the metamorphosis of cuisine from the region but also perhaps that of the country’s contemporary art. Like food, ingredients and traditions used for centuries locally become mixed and take on new shapes and forms when combined with those brought from elsewhere. The same may be said for these flavours when placed in contexts outside of South African borders – subject to exterior influences and cultures its taste and aesthetic changes.

It is only with this constant shifting, appropriating, development and transformation in mind that it is possible to speak of something called ‘Contemporary South African Art’ on the continent itself and also in diaspora. The multivalence of culture and history from this one country alone is complex enough to provide a feast of contradictions. These contradictions rather than sweeping generalizations are what artists, curators and writers should be engaging with. Your-space hopes to problematise some of the clichés around contemporary South African art practices – heightening the Eindhoven audience’s appetite for the ambiguous.

‘Art is not bound to politics or place. Art is politics and place; art is diversity. A diversity of marginality. This ties us together and makes life so damn interesting. Art is culture, to cultivate!’

(Initiator, only recently)

Artist, currently exhibiting in the region:

Jeroen Kooijmans: at SM’s, Den Bosch
Mathis Lieshout: at the De Overslag, Eindhoven
Jeroen Melkert: at our neighbors: Peninsula, Eindhoven
Annie Draaijer: a bit further down the road: gallery Pennings, Eindhoven
Teun Jansen: out in the Eindhoven country side: Zesde Kolonne, Eindhoven

Artist talks:
On their work, and their exhibition and their lives (Jeroen Melkert will dance a tango, I understood).
Thursday 28 February, 19:00 until 21:00
Entrance is free

Exhibition is open from Thursday 28th February until the 16th of March. Regular hours, regular prices (just buy the museumjaarkaart and you will never have any worries again).

Where:
Location: Van Abbemuseum
Presentation place: your-space

Links:
www.jeroenkooijmans.com
www.sm-s.nl
www.mathijslieshout.nl
http://home.claranet.nl/users/overslag/
www.jeroenmelkert.com
www.peninsula.nl
www.galeriepennings.com
www.anniedraaijer.com
www.kolonne.nl

From present day until the 11th of February.

Norman Beierle and Hester Keijser made several series of photographs: the ‘inside museums’ series. This series consists of photos taken at several museums, showing those parts of the building as seen when resting your eye anywhere but on the works on display. The photographs will not be presented as autonomous works, but will feature as photocopies in a larger installation.

This series received the attention of Freek, whom contacted them to ask if they were interested to somehow present and discuss them. This, since your-space white cube is one of the major institutional concerns and has proven to be a pain in the ass. This pain was topic for elaboration by the Sodevormgevers (see archive your-space) and many others, also in relation to the work by International Festival: the floor and ceiling in the space. At the same time, exhibitions around whiteness and the white cube keep on recurring, while hardly brought together for further elaborations.

Taking the aim, location and function of your-space into account, Beierle and Keijser felt it would be best, also given the limited time and budget, to design a custom presentation plan for the "inside museums" series. The your-space room is converted into something resembling a surrealistic film set, where it is not clear whether you're dealing with a space inhabited by the mentally deranged, by the survivors of a civilization in ruins or simply by those living in extreme poverty and impossible circumstances.

Compared to a regular exhibition in a museum this will look like a complete dysfunctional display. Some visitors might not even recognize it as art work on show at all, but as rather odd bits of paper on dingy walls. There will be no clue as to why these images are there, for what reason they were collected or what kind of person would put them on his walls. What should be clear to the visitor however is their subject, the insides of museums for modern art, including the one they are visiting at the moment.

The white cube, in a sense the subject of Beierle + Keijser’s 'inside museum' series, will only be present in the installation as lo-fi images on cheap photocopies of photographs, abysmal relics of a world no longer there. One of the things suggested in the installation is the possibility of the demise not only of the white cube as a presentation mode or model for modern and contemporary art, but of the art world and its apparatus tout court. Situations, now or in the not too distant future, are imaginable in which society can no longer afford to maintain and support such large, prestigious buildings and institutions. What's the use of worrying about the white cube when the whole context in which it functions could be at stake? How will the white cube fare, for instance, if we don't solve the looming food, water and energy crises, when the climate change wrecks societies or when terrorism in the name of religion turns into a worldwide war? Change it will, that much seem to be certain, but the question is how?

http://www.beikey.net/

Artists, Architects, Designers and their city: Eindhoven. 

Made by Rietveld
Kunstenaars, Architecten en Vormgevers en hún stad Eindhoven.

In 1962 ontwierp Gerrit Rietveld een reclamezuil in opdracht van de gemeente Eindhoven. Vanaf 1990 exposeerden in ‘deze kleinste galerie van Europa’ de Eindhovense kunstenaars, architecten en vormgevers Bert Staal, Arie van Rangelrooy, Domien Coppelmans, Arthur Bagen, Hans de Wit, Piet Dirkx, Aldert Walrecht, David den Breejen, John Körmeling, Marsel Pott, Henk Visch en Robert van Rixtel.

Boekpresentatie 13 december
Het hele verhaal van de Rietveldzuil en haar exposanten is nu vastgelegd in het boek ‘Made by Rietveld’. Dit boek, geschreven door Irene Veenstra en uitgegeven door [Z]OO producties samen met drukkerij Lecturis, wordt op donderdag 13 december gepresenteerd in het auditorium van het Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Video-interviews
Speciaal voor deze bijeenkomst zijn vooraf alle betrokken kunstenaars geinterviewd door Freek Lomme. Deze video-film wordt deze avond voor het eerst getoond.
Daarna zullen initiatiefnemers Arie van Rangelrooy, Bert Staal en Irene Veenstra in gesprek gaan met de kunstenaars over hun werk en hun betrokkenheid bij de stad Eindhoven. Moderator is Freek Lomme. De avond is onderdeel van het your-space programma.

Locatie: Auditorium, Van Abbemuseum, van 19.00 tot 21.00 uur. Inloop vanaf 18.30 uur. De toegang is gratis. Alle aanwezigen krijgen het boek ‘Made by Rietveld’.

Expositie 1 t/m 30 december
In de your-space zaal van het Van Abbemuseum is van 1 t/m 30 december een expositie te zien over de Rietveld reclamezuil, tevens zal er dan aan Eindhoven gerelateerd werk te zien zijn van de betrokken Eindhovense kunstenaars, architecten en vormgevers en zal de video-film met interviews gedraaid worden.

Initiatiefnemers: Hein van Buul, Freek Lomme, Arie van Rangelrooy, Robert van Rixtel, Bert Staal en Irene Veenstra.
Made by Rietveld is mede mogelijk gemaakt door De Gemeente Eindhoven dienst MO, Van Abbemuseum en Drukkerij Lecturis.

Foto bushalte: Norbert van Onna.

N.I.P. - New Interfaces for Performance- zet in op het stimuleren van kunstenaars die werken met nieuwe middelen om interactie toe te passen in live performances. Ze richten zich nu op gebaren en beweging gericht op het interactief betrekken en uitdagen van publiek, in real-time met live media; met geluid, muziek en performance.

N.I.P. is uitgenodigd door your-space en stelt zich voor met verschillende geluidskunstenaars: TokTek, Tom Bugs en Frey. Op 19 december, 20:00 zijn er optredens in het TAC, op 20 december, 19:00 vinden er kunstenaarsgesprekken plaats in your-space, Van Abbemuseum.

Meer info:
http://newinterfaces.net/nip/

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N.I.P. - New Interfaces for Performance is a European tour and workshop series, which will be happening over 2007 in Bristol, UK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Lisbon, Portugal. NIP is about supporting artists who are working on developing new modes of interaction in live performance. The first series will focus on gesture and movement as the means to engage, trigger and interact in realtime with live media, sound, music and performance based works.

N.I.P. is invited by your-space. On the 19th of December several artist will perform in TAC, TokTek, Frey and BOP. On the 20th they will talk at your-space in the Van Abbemuseum. The evenings start at 20:00 and 19:00.

More information:
http://newinterfaces.net/nip/

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An association with N.I.P, your-space and TAC present an evening of artist lectures and presentations on new interfaces for live performance.
www.newinterfaces.net
www.polarproduce.org

Artist Lecture

‘on action, movement and displacement….’
Teresa Dillon (UK)
newinterfaces.net | polarproduce.org | offloadfestival.org

Teresa Dillon is the founder member of Polar Produce a multidisciplinary group of practitioners based in Bristol (UK), who work cross media arts, research and live performance. Her main interests are in revealing the behavioral systems, inter-relations and ecological nuances embedded within particular sites, objects and materials and exploring human/non-human relations to them. Such work has been expressed in her location based radio piece ‘Star Gone Tones’ and in participatory, site-specific performance art works including ‘Enduring Love’, ‘Measc’ and ‘Come Outside’ and the installation ‘The Listening Chair’.
Her work has been shown internationally (Europe, US and Australia) and she has published on various media topics. Alongside Polar Produce she works as an artist and as part of the sound-art duo BOP and as a freelance producer and researcher (BBC), creative director/programmer (OFFLOAD, N.I.P) and lecturer (Cambridge University). She holds a PhD from the Open University on creative collaborative, music technology processes.

Teresa’s will give a short paper titled ‘on action, movement and displacement….’ which discusses the concepts behind the N.I.P 2007 project and it’s thematic focus on gesture based interfaces within live performance.

Artist Presentations

Damien Stewart, Kathy Hinde and Tom Verbruggen will present the outcomes of individual and collaborative pieces, alongside current project developments. Stewart, Hinde and Verbruggen have been part of the N.I.P project, their work in part exemplifies some of the key artistic practices currently been used within mixed media practice.

Damien Stewart aka Frey, NZ/PT
frey.co.nz

Damien Steward makes art with machines using music, code, light and electronics. Having worked across the commerical and artistic sectors, Damien focuses on creating works of art that take their cue from ideas of performance, and that profoundly involve the audience in the experience of the artwork. Originally from New Zealand, Damien is currently based in Europe, where alongside his own practice he works collaboratively with artists such as Chris Sugrue (US), Sonia Cillari (NL), Rudolfo Quintas and André Gonçalves (PT).

Kathy Hinde, UK
kathy.hinde.co.uk

With a background in visual art and music, Kathy Hinde creates work, which combines audio and visual elements. Over the years she has specialized in developing methods for creating, mixing and projecting images live, in public, gallery and theatre spaces. Kathy’s solo and collaborative work has been shown across the UK, Europe, China and South America and she has collaborated with leading contemporary musicians and composers within the UK, such as Joanna MacGregor, Stephen Montague and the international choregrapher Jix Xing. Kathy currently works as part of the sound-art duo, BOP and media collective Polar Produce. Alongside developing her own work, she also tours with Agrare and Joby Burgess and teaches at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

Tom Verbruggen, NL
sonidogris.com

Tom Verbruggen’s work is about the communication and non-communication between electronic devices and humans, focusing particularly on his relationship with such devices.
Drawing on his fine art background, his work explores the relationships between, human touch, memory and everyday electronic objects. Performance such as “Moederkoek”, where Tom samples his mother live as she bakes a cake and his invention the Crackle-Canvas, a series of paintings that produce sound, demonstrate his unique aesthetic approach to sound and image making. Having recently moved to Eindhoven, Tom is becoming well-know on the Dutch electronic scene for his individualistic and stylish live performances, which combined hacked joysticks and everyday objects to create new forms of sound control in live performance contexts.

N.I.P is a practical, artist’s led, European workshop and touring event. N.I.P explores and promotes transdisciplary mixed media arts practice through the presentation, creation and development of interactive and participatory experiences in live, performative contexts. The current N.I.P collective is made up of tweleve practicing artists from the UK, The Netherlands and Portugal, the 2007 tour and workshop series focused on gesture based interfaces within live performative situations.

N.I.P is created and produced by Polar Produce (UK) and funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music, the Mondriaan Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with support from Watershed, Bristol, Steim, Amsterdam and Restart, Lisbon.

N.I.P collective:
Teresa Dillon, Kathy Hinde, Torsten Lauschmann, Tom Bugs (UK)
Isaac Carlos, Sonia Cillari, TokTek (NL)
Ivan Franco, André Sier, André Gonçalves, Rodolfo Quintas and Damian Stewart (PT)

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www.newinterfaces.net
www.polarproduce.org

‘TOFUD Your Space’ is een nieuw hoofdstuk van het doorlopende project ‘de vierde verkenning’ van kunstenaar/architect Frank Havermans. Vanuit een speciaal ontworpen kantoor, gebouwd binnen de muren van de your-space ruimte, onderzoekt Frank het Spoorzone-Strijp-S gebied.

Hij spreekt hier met mensen, genodigden en ongenodigden, doet onderzoek en verricht veldwerk. Dit onderzoek leidt tot een aantal ruimtelijke modellen, zogenaamde ‘autonome impulsen voor een onafffe ruimte’. Deze modellen worden in de your-space ruimte ingebracht door het raam van zijn kantoor. 1 Oktober begint frank zijn kantoor op te bouwen. Op 25 oktober presenteert Frank een aantal autonome impulsen.

De lezing op 25 oktober is deel van de Dutch Design Week / Other Things en presenteerd zich de 25e in samenwerking met ‘Cityplan’. ‘Cityplan’ is een expositie die plaatsvind in het Museum. Ze bespreekt, 40 jaar na dato, de gebleken utopische plannen voor Eindhoven, indertijd opgesteld door architectenbureau Van den Broek & Bakema. Frans Hooykaas zal, in het kader van deze expositie, op de 25e het originele plan toelichten.

Frank Havermans, geboren te Breda 1967, studeerde Architectonische Vormgeving op de Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten St. Joost Breda. Hij maakt low-tech architectonische installaties met of zonder gebruiksfunctie. Op een bevrijdende en stimulerende manier maakt hij met eenvoudig en relatief goedkoop (plaat)materiaal en simpel gereedschap als handcirkelzaag en schroefmachine, bijzonder vormgegeven bouwvolumes. Hierin worden de eigenschappen van het materiaal op constructieve wijze toegepast, zonder tussenkomst van aannemer of constructeur. Er is geen verschil tussen autonome of toegepaste ontwerpopgaven.
In 2006 starte het doorlopende project De Vierde Verkenning, wat op autonome wijze ingaat op actuele stedelijke ontwikkelingen. Met ruimtelijke denkmodellen over stedelijke ontwikkeling en stadsplanning wil Frank het debat over de inrichting en het gebruik van de publieke ruimte stimuleren.

In 2002 stond hij op de longlist van de Prix de Rome beeldhouwen 2003. In 2006 won hij de Houtarchitectuurprijs 2006 met zijn atelierwoning KAPKAR/ TAW-BW-5860 en werd met dit project ook genomineerd voor de AM Nai prijs 2006. Dit jaar ontving Havermans met dit project een eervolle vermelding voor de Nederlandse Bouwprijs 2007 in de categorie ‘Gebouwen’. Het gehele interieur van De Effenaar, waarvoor Havermans als deelopdracht het secretariaat heeft gemaakt werd in 2006 genomineerd voor de Lensvelt de Architect Interieurprijs 2006. Het NAi heeft als een van de vijf deelnemers Havermans geselecteerd voor deelname aan de Architectuurbiënnale van São Paulo, november 2007, waarvoor hij de nieuwe installatie KAPKAR/ TT-C2P heeft ontwikkeld.

www.frankhavermans.nl

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‘TOFUD Your Space’ is a new chapter in the ongoing project ‘The forth survey’ of Frank Havermans. From a special designed office, located in your-space, he investigates the area Spoorzone-Strijp S in Eindhoven, by talks with visitors, research and fieldwork. This research will lead to a number of spatial think models that will be displayed in public space by sending them through the window of his office into the exhibition space.

Frank Havermans will start working in his office in the your-space on the 1st of October. On the 25th of October he will present a number of these autonomous impulses for an unfinished space.

The presentation of the 25th of October is part of the Dutch Design Week/Other Things and will present itself parallel to and in collaboration with ‘Cityplan’. This exhibition of the Van Abbemuseum will discuss, 40 years after date, the proven utopian city plan of architect bureau Van den Broek & Bakema. Especially for this Frans Hooykaas will explain the original City Plan. Whereas Frank Havermans will join the discussion and present his multi-layered models that take up the subject of urban development and the upheavel of creative industries in the city of Eindhoven.

Frank Havermans (Breda 1967) studied Architectonic Design at the Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten St. Joost Breda. He constructs low-tech architectonic installations with or without functionality of use in a dogma liberating and socially stimulating manner. He works with simple, cheap material and tools, like cicle saws, screwmachines and others. He operates witout interference of building constructors, formating building volumes by specially implementing the capabilities of the material. There is no difference between autonomous or applied commissions for his design.

In 2006 he started the on-going project ‘The forth survey’, in which he constructively challenges present city planning and urban development with think models. By settling these models out of a blank and pure starting point, thereby leaving all dogmas on building and constructing an urban environment, he wishes to trigger the debate on public space and spatial planning.
He was on the longlist of the Prix de Rome 2003 and won the houtarchitectuurprijs 2006 with his studioresidence KAPKAR/ TAW-BW-5860, a project that has also been nominated for the AM NAI price 2006. Havermans was honorable mentioned for the Dutch Constructionprice 2007 in the category ‘Buildings’. The NAI selected Havermans to participate in the Achitecturebiennale of São Paulo, sceduled for november 2007, for whom he developed the new construction/installation KAPKAR/ TT-C2P.

The presentation and office activity of Frank Havermans can be visited in the your-space from 1st of October until the 28th of Ocotber.

www.frankhavermans.nl

Duration of project:
1st of October 2007 until 28th of October

Lecture and presentation:
October 25, 19:00
Auditorium Van Abbemuseum.

City Lijf: Under Construction

Beeldend kunstenaar Silvia Russel presenteert van 19 juli – 19 augustus een nieuw project in your-space in het Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven. Door middel van tekeningen, tekst en installaties toont zij de functie van het voormalig Philips terrein Strijp-S voor de stad.

Strijp-S ligt centraal gelegen in Eindhoven en is recentelijk opengesteld voor een breed publiek. Verschillende partijen zijn bezig met plannen om het gebied te veranderen in een modern woon,- en werkgebied met een belangrijke cultuurfunctie.

Silvia Russel wil weten wat de betekenis is van Strijp-S voor Eindhoven en betrokkenen op dit moment. Om een antwoord te krijgen op deze vraag interviewde zij bezoekers van het afgelopen Edit Festival op het Strijp-S terrein. Huidige gebruikers van het terrein zijn positief over de betaalbaarheid en mogelijkheden van de ruimtes. Voor anderen gaan de ontwikkelingen juist te langzaam. Ook vragen sommigen zich af of de stad Eindhoven wel een visie heeft op de functie die het terrein moet krijgen.

Silvia Russel vroeg bezoekers daarom ook naar hun visie op de functie van Strijp-S. Zij verwoordden deze in termen van een orgaan of lichaamsdeel. Deze zienswijze is het uitgangspunt van de presentatie in your-space. Hierin is Strijp-S als levend lichaamsdeel van de stad te zien.

De fascinatie van mensen voor publieke ruimtes in hun privé leven is een belangrijk onderdeel in haar artistieke proces. Daarnaast wordt ook de relatie tussen publieke/privé woon kwesties en de culturele overwegingen van de stad behandelt in Silvia’s projecten.

De artistieke aanpak van Silvia Russel kan in de grotere context van de activiteiten van your-space worden gezien. “City Lijf: Under Construction” refereert in het bijzonder naar de presentatie/tentoonstelling “Strijp-S - The History of the Future of the Museum or where we are now”, die plaatsvond van april tot mei in your-space.

Bezoekers van your-space kunnen reageren op de presentatie en ook hun mening geven over Strijp-S. Dit commentaar wordt vervolgens onderdeel gemaakt van “City Lijf: Under Construction”.

De opening is op donderdag 19 juli om 19.00 uur, met een publieke discussie met Paul van Haren van woningbouwvereniging Trudo, een van de ontwikkelaars van Strijp-S.

Voor verdere informatie, ga naar:
www.silviarussel.com

Contact:
info[at]your-space.nl

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City Lijf: Under Construction

Visual Artist Silvia Russel presents a new project at your-space at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven from 19 July – 19 August. With the help of drawings, text and installations she will show the function of the former Philips terrain Strijp-S in the city.

Strijp-S is centrally located in Eindhoven and has recently been opened to a broad public. Different institutions and parties are planning to transform the area into a modern living and work environment with an important cultural function.

Silvia Russel is trying to find out what Strijp-S means to Eindhoven and the people involved at this moment. To get an answer to this question, she interviewed visitors at the last Edit Festival on the Strijp-S terrain. Current users of the area express positive views about the affordability and possibilities of the available spaces. For others, however, the developments are moving too slow. Another issue raised is whether the city of Eindhoven has a vision on the function entitled to the area.

Silvia Russel has therefore asked visitors for their opinions on the function of Strijp-S. They expressed these in terms of an organ or body part. This way of perception has been used as the starting point of the presentation in your-space. Here, Strijp-S can be seen as a living body part of the city.

The fascination of how people perceive public space in their private life is important in her artistic process. Additionally, the relation between public/private living issues and the cultural concerns of the city are also present in Sivlia’s projects.

The artistic approach of Silvia Russel can be seen in a larger context within the activities of your-space. In particular, City Lijf: Under Construction refers to the presentation/exhibition “Strijp-S - The History of the Future of the Museum or where we are now” that took place from April to May in your-space.

Visitors of your-space can react to the presentation and give their opinions about Strijp-S. This commentary will then be included in the presentation.

The opening is on Thursday 19th of July at 19.00 hrs, with a public discussion with Paul van Haren of real-estate association Trudo, one of the developers of Strijp-S.

For further information, please go to:
www.silviarussel.com

Contact information:
info[at]your-space.nl

Jos de Kroon is Netherlands foremost authority on psychoanalyst with his own practice in Eindhoven. An expert in family therapy, a psychiatrist and with a thorough background both as practitioner and academic in psychoanalysis Jos de Kroon is an exceptional resource in Eindhoven. De Kroon will lead the audience into the wrinnkes of our minds and examine the arts relation to psychoanalysis.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

It is that truth, let us note, which makes the very existence of fiction possible. And in that case, a fable is as appropriate as any other narrative for bringing it to light-at the risk of having the fable's coherence put to the test in the process.

Frank Schipper is the fourth guest to International Festival Universtity took the audience on a journey from road movies to Highway to Hell, from safe paths to way out, from street wise to cruising. Four touch downs offered an adventurous journey from Kamikaze-like early racing, via 30s utopian Italian autostrada with excellent roadside service and to venture for the checkered flag with a flavour of activism and the possible pro's and con's referrencing European net-works. The roads mights seem innocent, but hey hey hey its not a crash now and then that matters - roads are major for how we live our lives. Are you driving on the right or wrong side...

Baby, you can drive my caryes, I'm gonna be a starBaby you can drive my carAnd maybe I'll love youBeep beep mm beep beep, yeahBeep beep mm beep beep, yeahBeep beep mm beep beep, yeah

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Hans Schalkwijk has through his work in Eindhoven reinvented law enforcement’s proce-dures to create a safe environment for sex workers. Through consistent and pro active efforts Hans Schalkwijk and his colleagues at the Eindhoven police has created an exam-ple that is revolutionary in Europe in respect of how society relates to prostitution.

Addressing prostitution require strong partnerships, involving a wide range of enforcement and support agencies. Success in delivering safer communities through a significant reduction in street prostitution and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation will depend on the will and commitment of local partnerships to address prostitution with confidence and energy – confidence that it really is possible to make a difference, and energy to tackle the many challenges involved. Many individuals and communities already pay a significant price for the
existence of a sex market – in those communities we simply cannot afford to ignore the many
problems associated with prostitution.

Powerplant is formed by Krista Burger and Nina Thibo and situated in Berlin (Germany), Belfeld (The Netherlands), and Eindhoven (The Netherlands). Working between performativity, film and installation Powerplant regards itself as a temporary product of this western consumer society. In their ‘expanded cinema’ series instant movies are being made from scenes that take place in various miniature models, forming an installation on it’s own. While each scene is filmed live, it is simultaneously projected onto two large screens, so that all details of the models can be seen as a large projection. For yourspace Powerplant is presenting: ‘Fortune Cookie Fancy Fucking, an ‘expanded cinema’ installation in the centre part of the space, so that the audience is able to witness the artists performing the developing process of these ‘live-films’. A detailed soundtrack supports the instant movies. ‘Fortune Cookie Fancy Fucking’ will be presented live on the 23rd of November as well as during Museum Night on the 25th of November.

At the same time PEK will present the outcome of an investigation to form an artist network in yourspace. PEK (Platform Eindhovense Kunstenaars) is an initiative from Marjan Wester, Anouk Bax, Rachida Post, Marissa van Mourik en Gijs Pape. In the last weeks PEK formed a network between artists, activists, philosophers and other interested parties and asked the invited guests to answer the question: In how far does the place where your artistically work influences your work and work process? PEK would like to invite each participant and other interested parties to come to the Van Abbemuseum and see the results of this questionnaire.

Thursday 23/11/06

Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, 19:00 – 21:00 p.m., Nieuwbouw – yourspace, B006

Admission is free on Thursday night.

Kim Veltman the second guest at International Festival University plays deep down in history to find the roots to creativity and the starting point of the alphabet. Check out the powerpoint: the tempo is amazing.

Km Veltman is strongly engaged in Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institutet

Marshall McLuhan explored historical effects of new media on the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) - or the arts and sciences - and implications for those effects on knowledge and culture then and today. VMMI proposes to continue these explorations, with a new focus: Knowledge Organization and Cultural Computing.

Dr. Kim H. Veltman is Scientific Director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute and co-ordinator of a new European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage. He has worked as a consultant in new media to the CEO of Bell Media Linx (1996-1998), and done research on new media and standards for Northern Telecom (1995-1998). From 1990-1996 he was Director of the Perspective Unit in the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto. He has a doctorate in the history and philosophy of science (Warburg Institute, London) and has spent twenty years as a post-doctoral fellow with support from the Canada Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council of Canada, the Wellcome Trust, the Volkswagen, Alexander von Humboldt, Thyssen and Gerda Henkel Foundations, and the Getty Trust. His research is focussed on the history of perspective, Leonardo da Vinci and developments in new media. He has published three books, 45 sections in books, 25 articles in refereed journals and 15 reviews. He has taught at the universities of Toronto, Göttingen, Siena, Rome I and II, and Carleton. His professional memberships include the Internet Society (Reston), the International Institute of Communications (London), International Society for Knowledge Organization (Amsterdam), International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology (Berkeley), Leonardo Society (London), Museum Computer Network (New York), Visual Resources Association (Harrisburg) and the Wolfenbütteler Kreis für Renaissance Forschung (Wolfenbüttel). He is a member of the International Who's Who of Professionals.

Dr. Veltman has given lectures around the world. In Canada, he has given keynotes at the Ontario Library Association, the Couchiching Conference, the Ed-Media, Ed-Telecom Conference, at the National Gallery, the CIDOC section of ICOM and the Elizabeth Cummings Memorial Lecture. He has spoken at the Europaïsches Forum (Alpbach), the Conference on World Affairs (Boulder) and has given the annual Reynolds Lecture (Boulder). His keynotes elsewhere include Berlin, Brussels, Kuala Lumpur, Munich, Nantes, Paris, Rome, and Vienna.

For the past decade he has been working on a System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS), which was one of 18 Canadian projects at the G7 exhibition in Brussels (February 1995), and the World Summit in Halifax (June 1995). In 1996 it was chosen as part of G7 pilot project 5: Multimedia Access to World Cultural Heritage and represented Canada at the Information Society and Developing Countries (ISAD) conference in Midrand (May 1996). SUMS is also part of the European Commission's Trans European Networks (TEN) project, MOSAIC, devoted to Multimedia Access to Europe's Cultural Heritage. In 1996, he was awarded the International Capire Prize for a Creative Future in the area of science and art integration.

21 November 19.00 - Jos de Kroon - Symptom and Sign

22 November 19.00 - Bishop Anton Hurkmans - Open Church

Who wants to know?

International Festival University (IFU) in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum celebrates knowledge. This pilot project invites the population of Eindhoven to engage in a series of lectures offered by local and international experts over a two weeks period.

For the first time in history the museum is doubling as a university campus, transforming into a platform for production of knowledge outside traditional learning institutes. As art of the exhibition Academy: Learning from the Museum, IFU changes the user interface of the museum into a place of activation and exchange.

The museum as well as the academy or university shouldn’t just facilitate information but be a place where we can imagine life differently, where new knowledge can be produced.
Learning and knowing carries the potentiality for change, it is IFU’s mission to let all participants release their specific desires and potentials.

IFU raises questions around authorisation of knowledge and learning: Who offered universities monopoly on certain categories of knowledge, and who decided that knowledge is stuff in books disqualifying other modes of being and learning from experience?

This autumn IFU engage in contemporary concepts of public space, its use and authorization, and on the other hand in knowledge and its status and quality here and now and in the future.

IFU invites everybody who wants to know to take an active part in a knowledge community created in Van Abbemuseum. Only together and with an active address can we change and imagine a different future.

Our Guests

Hans Schalkwijk has through his work in Eindhoven reinvented law enforcement’s procedures to create a safe environment for sex workers. Through consistent and pro-active efforts Hans Schalkwijk and his colleagues at the Eindhoven police has created an example that is revolutionary in Europe in respect of how society relates to prostitution.

Frank Schipper writes his doctorate thesis at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He is an expert on how the establishment of the European network of roads and international highways has been central to democracy. Frank Schipper will take the audience on a journey from road movies to Highway to Hell, from safe paths to way out, from street wise to cruising.

Jos de Kroon is Netherlands foremost authority on psychoanalyst with his own practice in Eindhoven. An expert in family therapy, a psychiatrist and with a thorough background both as practitioner and academic in psychoanalysis Jos de Kroon is an exceptional resource in Eindhoven. De Kroon will lead the audience into the wrinnkes of our minds and examine the arts relation to psychoanalysis.

Bishop Anton Hurkmans has in his mission created a strong and exceptional social climate in the region. He has opened the church to contemporary society and offered it to his community as a site for hospitality and curiosity. Bishop Hurkmans will focus his talk on how the church is a place for different learning experiences and a prolific site for knowledge production.

On our path to knowledge we discovered something beautiful.