Smart Project Space is hosting a sound music program titled Ambient Lullabies this weekend. Pay 15 Euros this Friday and Saturday and get some live ambient music + a bed for a cozy evening experience.
Check out the list of Musicians here.
Beds are limited so make reservations at reservations@smartprojectspace.net.
Mediamatic’s latest art show The Great Jerry Springer Rodeo opens this Friday March, 12 from 20.00 till 0.00 at Vijzelstraat 68.
Eight young infamous artists will show us their thoughts on fifteen years popular image culture. Interactive installations as a result. You can throw chairs or get back at your ex. Just let yourself go, feel no shame.
Participating Artists: Wayne Horse, Morcky Troubles, Ottograph, Leyp, Super Sule, SjocoSjon, Gestift en Lamelos.
Music by DJ’s Melly Mel, Cream & Zender
Show runs untill the 25th of April. Open daily from 13:00
I first discovered artist Johnny Kelly through his amazing video, procrastination. Now he has teamed up with the Dutch kids Show Het Klokhuis and created an amazing stop motion opening and closing title sequence. I love it. Behind the scenes making of this can be found here.
“Het Klokhuis” Opening titles from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
“Het Klokhuis” End titles from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
On Tuesday March 8, OT301 will screen the 1964 Japanese Art -House film Woman in the Dunes.
Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic worldview of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eija Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most bristling, unnerving, and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday Sisyphean struggle.
The screening costs 4 euros and the show starts at 20:30 hrs.
Last Friday, Kind Regards hosted a new art show titled “Big Mother Earth” with artists Arnar Ásgeirsson, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Jan s. Hansen. The Danish and Icelandic artists exhibited sculptures, video installations, and drawings that made reference to fairytales and sagas along with with morality and dualism. Tonight, the same artists are having a Publication release. Come around 22.00 and DJ Bush Doof will spin some jams. Art, dj, and drinks! Map here.
Video of the Gallery works below:
Gallery View “Big Mother Earth” from Kind Regards on Vimeo.
What is normal and who decides this? This is the central question surrounding the exhibit : Niet Normaal on display in Amsterdam until March 7th.
As stated on their website, “Niet Normaal questions normality in a society that makes perfection the standard, in which market en economy create new social service groups and (bio) technological developments not only create chances but also limit them.”
Having been to the show last week, I was really impressed with the work on exhibition and the educational aspect behind most of the pieces. From video installations, to interactive works and life size photography, the international artists from all over the globe took the theme to heart and made the audience question this ambiguous concept of ‘normality.’
Graphic designer Mark Andrew Webber created this beautiful linocut type map of Amsterdam. He really took the time to research beyond the street names and major landmarks. Prints can be purchased by contacting his site.
Tonight Kind Regards will be hosting a new art show titled “Big Mother Earth” with artists Arnar Ásgeirsson, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Jan s. Hansen. The Danish and Icelandic artists will exhibit sculptures, video installations, and drawings that make reference to fairytales and sagas but will also deal with morality and dualism. Gallery opens at 8 pm. Drinks, art and fun. Map here.
The thirteenth annual Sonic Acts festival will be held from February 25- February 28. The festival combines the elements of art, space, and sound and attempts to answer these questions:
How is space defined by a work of art? What does a viewer or listener experience? How do technological artworks deal with the visual, auditory and psychological aspects of spatiality? How has the relationship between technology, space and architecture developed over the past few centuries? How have technological developments influenced our perception and representation of space, and how do we relate to the space that surrounds us?
Some Interesting Exhibits are:
21st Century Invisible Architectures: The Poetics of Transactivated Space, Saturday, 14:30 – 15:30, De Balie
Anarchic Spaces,Thursday, Friday & Saturday, from 20:00, Paradiso
Hans W. Koch: two rooms, flipped,Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 17:00, STEIM
Get your tickets here.
SONICACTS trailer from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.
Nature and Technology collides through this art and design exhibition at Club Trouw. The opening will be held on Friday February 19 from 18. 00 to 22.00. Tickets are 7.50 Euros and includes entrance to the Multiplex party after the show.
