Stereo is primitief. Dat weten bioscoopexploitanten al een tijdje, en iedereen met een 7:1 setje bij de tv ook. Twee luidsprekers, hoe goed en groot of klein ook, blijven twee luidsprekers. Nu hebben we natuurlijk ook maar twee oren, maar die kunnen dankzij een paar slimme ribbels en onze eigen slimme hersenen 360 graden geluid plaatsen. Geluid moet je dus…
Ietwat misselijk en met wankele benen verlaat ik de corridor waarin ik zojuist Eight van Michel van der Aa heb beleefd. ‘Heb je het circuit gevolgd op die hoge hakken?’, vraagt een medewerker van het Holland Festival ongelovig. Inderdaad had ik mijn pumps beter bij de ingang achtergelaten. Het mixed realityproject Eight beleeft dinsdag 4 juni zijn wereldpremière in Muziekgebouw…
The dance film occupies a unique place among the film offerings. Not driven purely by psychologising or text, it offers every opportunity for experimentation in form and content. But that also means it is difficult to place. And therefore difficult to make. The second part on the growing pains of the dance film features 2 dancers and performance artist....
Art at a music festival often degenerates into decoration, but that certainly does not apply to Groningen's CLASH. 'We don't want art to be left out of the programming, but rather to be given full attention. We think it deserves that,' says organiser Milou de Boer. Fifty per cent of CLASH's programming budget goes to the arts, and that was too...
Some 400 virtual metres we go up with the dancers. Beforehand, we are warned to look straight ahead if we are afraid of heights. For me, this was unnecessary, I loved flying along in the huge circular space, knowing I was safely ensconced in a chair. Choreography, avatars, architecture and Blixa Bargeld. Those are a few...
According to those in the know, he is a master of glass creations: Dale Chihuly. Dynamic, colourful and fascinating. It is not just glass art, but installation art. The world-famous American artist's works are a feast for the eyes. Sensations of light and colour. Although the name may not ring a bell right away for most people, there is a good chance...
Langzaam maar zeker is het allernieuwste nieuwtje van virtual reality (VR) af en kunnen we gaan nadenken over wat je wilt laten zien, in plaats van hoe. Waar ik op het eerste VR festival nog gierende hoofdpijn kreeg van slechte brillen, kan ik me nu laten betoveren door de schoonheid van het Amazone gebied of prachtige animaties. Filmtheaters als Eye…
DocLab 2018 is no longer about the latest technology, but about the human experience. What menu can artists serve us with digital media and artificial intelligence. Examination of reality, playful installations, the Humanoid Cookbook and collaboration with MIT
Voted best VR experience in Venice, Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang's Chalkroom can now be experienced at Eye. A flying dream in a beautifully designed labyrinth of worlds constructed out of language and characters. Anderson herself is coming too.
Usually when I speak to someone who calls themselves a playwright, they say they are 'only' a supplier of a 'half-product'. I never get that answer from a young actor, and certainly never from a director. It is they who make theatre out of the half-products supplied by writers. Actors and directors prefer to be addressed as 'theatre-makers'. Nothing wrong with that....
Af en toe schuurt het bij Playful Arts, een intiem festival dat spel en kunst samenbrengt. Alles draait om interactie, zelf doen, ervaren. Sommige bezoekers moeten even een drempel over. Maar dan gebeurt er wel iets. ‘Die dansers moeten echt een keigoeie conditie hebben’, hoor ik iemand achter me vol eerbied mompelen. Aan de overkant van de straat wijst een…
Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar-winning virtual reality installation Carne y Arena is coming to the Netherlands. Share the experience of illegal migrants clashing with US border police.
Our Thea Derks sat watching a traffic light for a couple of hours on Thursday 7 June and observed that the music was better. It happened during the opening of the 2018 Holland Festival. In the tradition of Ruth Mackenzie, the opening was of mixed reception, and that is actually a good thing. Even at a time when the Amsterdam Arts Council is in a...
What a grandiose invention to think of breakdance as martial arts dance! In a sense, of course, it has been so from the beginning. Young people in New York's poor neighbourhoods developed their spectacular dance techniques in the 1980s. These were a means for them to express themselves in their own unique way. This was a necessity of life in a society that...
What lies on the ground, spread over a white sheet? Hard to determine. Shrapnel? Aircraft parts? Battered remains? Upon entering A Tale of a Tub, the impression is unsettling, and slightly overwhelming. A crime scene, but unclear who, what or where it is about. They appear to be plants, but magnified and cast in bronze. But that see...
Ging je naar Rome vóór de 17de eeuw dan was je een pelgrim. Ging je de eeuw daarna naar Rome dan was je een zoekende kunstenaar. Ging je vanaf de 19de eeuw naar Rome dan was je een eerzaam ‘Tourist’ op Grand Tour, op zoek naar inspiratie en morele verheffing. Ga je anno 2018 naar Rome dan ben je een…
Is the prevailing flu wave raising the feverish temperature of contemporary art? From today, 8 February, you can come and take the temperature of the current state of contemporary art in person at a positively moody Art Rotterdam. From 8 to 11 February 2018 at the Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam. It is a broad-based art fair where...
Het 47ste filmfestival Rotterdam opent met Jimmie, een vluchtverhaal op z’n kop. Regisseur Jesper Ganslandt over filmen met zijn zoontje en de verbanden met zijn debuut Falkenberg Farewell.
Classic joke about the attendant: "Proudly, the Rijksmuseum's new attendant reports to the museum management at the end of his first working day. 'Mr director, I think you will be pleased with me. I have already sold two Picassos and one Apple today!' " (Source: www.debestemoppen.nl) Thus illustrating the supposed relationship of the traditional attendant to the modern...
With a 500-million-year-old pebble, Jonathan Harris began his lecture. IDFA presents the first international retrospective of this artist. As IDFA's chief guest, Harris gave the 'Master Talk' on Friday, about his life and work. His remarkably analogue vision was also the common thread during Sunday's well-attended DocLab conference. Fundamentally analogue Harris, who once started out in computer science...
Jan Fabre is een beetje de Jan Cremer van Vlaanderen maar dan jonger, vijf keer zo getalenteerd, multidisciplinair en acht keer socialer. ‘Het is een hele eer om Jan Hoet te mogen opvolgen,’ zegt Jan Fabre. Samen met kunsthistorica Joanna De Vos is hij de curator van HET VLOT. Kunst is (niet) eenzaam. De expositie moet het Mu.ZEE en de Belgische…
I actually experienced it once! In the middle of a theatre performance, an elderly lady, who had nothing to do with the story, walked onto the stage. She must have got lost in the interval and ended up behind the wings through a door that was accidentally open. While the actors were engaged in a deeply serious Hamlet, she came laconic
Conny Janssen Danst celebrates its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam will be stage and laboratory for Conny Janssen, her dancers and her team for three weeks. A video installation, performance, live rehearsals and an exhibition will portray the point at which the group has arrived on its development journey. Unorthodox "My start with the group 25 years ago was...
Industrial estates are weird. They lie souring on the outskirts of one city, only to seamlessly morph into the same site on the outskirts of another. Once they were A-locations, places of visibility and the incarnate dream of reconstruction. Now they are low-grade structures, halls with a front door, a visible office for the Dirk and a pathetic...
In een onbeduidend hoekje van West-Vlaanderen vindt sinds 1980 elke zomer een Kunstenfestival plaats. Het ruikt er naar hop en een groeiend aantal bezoekers komt uit Nederland. Wat is het geheim van Watou? Hoe komt een gat van 2000 inwoners, dat met moeite op je autonavigatie verschijnt, in hemelsnaam aan een Kunstenfestival dat jaarlijks twee hele zomermaanden het dorp regeert?…
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