tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34620884757491193672024-03-18T21:09:01.599-07:00 Sonja van Kerkhoff - art, travel, eventsOccasional blog articles that are usually related to art projects or events or travel.Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-26601849049078729532014-06-10T04:22:00.004-07:002014-06-10T05:51:01.525-07:00Museums and places of interest in the Netherlands
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<font color="#F78F09"><b>Agricultural / Domestic / Cultural</b></font>     <a href="#art"><font size="2">Art galleries + museums >></font></a>
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<font color="#E309F7">About 10 km NW of Emmen</font>
<a href="http://www.boerderijenfestival.nl" target="_blank">het Ottenshoes - an old farm that serves as a museum</a>. <br>There are regular events, such as candle making, weaving, and cooking.
<br>Open: 10-5 p.m., April till mid October, Tuesday to Sunday and open daily in July + August
<br>Entry costs 4 Euros per adult.
<br>Address: Dorpsstraat 3a, 9441 PD, Orvelte, Drenthe.
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<a href="http://www.orveltepoort.nl/index.php/contact" target="_blank">Information about where to park in Orvelte village which is a short walk from the museum</a>. It costs 3 Euros and can only be paid with coins.
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<a href="http://www.boerderijenfestival.nl" target="_blank">Schaapsscheerdersfeest / Wolfestival - Shearing and wool festival</a>, 6 July 2014, 10:00 - 17:00, Orvelte, Drenthe
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<a href="http://www.boerderijenfestival.nl" target="_blank">The 'farm' festival (boerderijenfestival.nl)</a>, 16 July 2014, Orvelte, Drenthe
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<font color="#F78F09"><b>Art Museums + Galleries</b></font>
<br> <br>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-63480175611213724232012-12-01T06:25:00.000-08:002012-12-01T09:29:17.174-08:00Only 9 countries voted against recognizing Palestine as a state!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #99ffff;">Results of the 29 November 2012 U.N. election recognizing Palestine as a "non-member observer state." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UN_Resolution_of_Palestine_as_Observer_State.svg" target="_blank">Image is from wikipedia</a> Click on the image for a larger view. <br><br>Brown indicates the nine countries which voted against: </span>Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Palau, Panama, and United States.<span style="color: #99ffff;"><br><br>Yellow indicates the countries which abstained.<br>Green indicates those for and blue indicates those absent. Grey: non-UN members.<br><br></span>
Yesterday 138 out of the 193 countries who are members of the UN (United Nations General Assembly) voted to recognize Palestine as a state, giving it the status of “non-member observer state” and so now with this recognition Palestine can apply to join the UN as a member state and therein lies the potential for more rights for its citizens.
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To quote Juan from his blog, <br><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/palestinian-legal-strategy-against-israel-the-real-prize-is-europe.html" target="_blank">Informed Comment - thoughts on the middle east, history and religion</a>
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"The UNGA vote will not have a big immediate effect on the lives of Palestinians toiling under Israeli occupation. But over time, if the Palestinian leadership deploys it wisely, the new status could have an incremental effect, especially affecting Israel’s relationship to Europe."
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"Many European countries have elevated the Palestine mission in their capitals to the status of full embassy. Palestine’s new status as UN observer state could well become a basis for it being given further embassies in Europe. Being an embassy rather than a mission strengthens the legal status of Palestine, including in national courts and EU tribunals."
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Read <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/palestinian-legal-strategy-against-israel-the-real-prize-is-europe.html" target="_blank">Juan Cole's blog</a> for more about these implications or see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19#Voting" target="_blank">wikipedia entry</a>.
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A few responses to this were:
<br>"After the resolution was approved, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu went up and gave Abbas a hug."
<br><br>"There were celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza with people waving the Fatah and Hamas flags respectively."
<br><br>"In response for the statehood vote, Israel authorised the construction of 3,000 Israeli settlement houses in a Palestinian area of East Jerusalem."
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19#Voting" target="_blank">Accessed on 1 Dec 2012 from the wikipedia entry</a>.
<br><br>See also: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20552391" target="_blank">"Israel to build 3,000 settler homes after UN vote"</a> BBC 30 Nov 2012, news report which has more details.
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See also this article: <br><br>"<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20552391" target="_blank">UN vote gives Palestinians new diplomatic powers</a>"
<br>...Palestinians see the scale of the vote as clear evidence that a tide of opinion is turning their way. Whether they can translate that sentiment into some sort of concrete political progress is hard to determine. ....<br>(<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20552391" target="_blank">BBC 30 Nov 2012, news report</a>)
<br><br>Of kijk op de NOS website: "<a href="http://nos.nl/artikel/446122-vn-verhoogt-status-palestijnen.html" target="_blank">VN verhoogt status Palestijnen</a>"
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For the next few months I am involved in a few art projects which have their own blogs. See: <a href="http://sensonja.wordpress.com" target="_blank"> sensonja.wordpress.com</a> <br><br>I've recently written <a href="http://sonjavank.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/ai-weiwei-the-multi-tasker/" target="_blank">a review of the Ai Weiwei documentary here</a> and a few <a href="http://justabahai.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Bahai related blogs</a> here.
Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-81947511932683726442012-11-15T15:44:00.000-08:002012-12-01T06:25:55.516-08:00Our travels for 21 August - 30 September 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b>21</b>: Vuren + de Waal + Reed roofed houses (about 50 km south of Utrecht), Bemmel (dinner at Sonja's cousin's place), Nijmegen
<br><br><b>22</b>: Lineke's place, Indonesian dolls, Oploo haystack + camel, Deurne (to visit Sonja's 98 year old aunt), Venray (<a href="http://www.mindmapvenray.nl/" target="_blank">Mindmap exhibition</a> at the St. Anna psychriatic complex)
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<b>23</b>: motorway stop about 10 km north, Venray: 19th century shrine (St. Annakapeltje, monumentje van devotie nr. 47 (St Anna Chapel)), <a href="http://www.odapark.nl/page=site.home" target="_blank">Odapark</a> + <a href="http://www.mindmapvenray.nl/" target="_blank">Mindmap exhibition</a>).
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<span style="color: #99ffff;"><i>21 Aug</i>: Parked at Vuren, a village beside the Waal river about 50 km south of Utrecht.</span>
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<br><br><b>24: <i>Germany</i></b>: motorway stop about 200 km east of the Dutch border, then a sprinkling of small villages:
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<br><br><b>25-27</b>: <a href="http://d13.documenta.de/" target="_blank">Documenta</a>, Kassel. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documenta" target="_blank">About Documenta</a>)
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<span style="color: #99ffff;"><i>26 Aug</i>: Sen is asleep in our tent in de D-Occupy camp in front of the Fridericianum</span>
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<b>27-28</b>: 30 km east of Kassel, villages, Eisenach, forest 30km nth of Bayreuth
And that's it folks! No time for more.
Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-24492690084536024152012-08-10T11:20:00.002-07:002012-11-15T15:47:03.617-08:0011th Aug: Our final and 4th jam session inside a sculpture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #99ffff;">Photo: 4 August, Koen on clarinet, Toroa on book, Sen in thought.</span>
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Jam session between 2 and 4 p.m. on August 11th at Breestraat 46. This will be our 4th and final jam session in the gallery.
<br><br>Watch a <a href="http://youtu.be/2qId4vFCry4" target="_blank">5 min video clip of the July 15th</a> jam session.
Besides the sculpture "House of Worship" (<a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/how_de_pieter.htm" target="_blank">more photos</a>) you see in the image above there is also a <a href="http://www.sonjavank.comm/essencev.htm" target="_blank">6 min video</a>, 50 <a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/window_c.htm" target="_blank">small drawings</a> (along the windows) and a relief sculpture as well as work by 41 other artists in the gallery.
>> <a href="http://www.galeriedepieter.nl" target="_blank">Galerie de Pieter</a>
<br>Breestraat 46
<br>Leiden
<br>Last weekend, Saturday + Sunday, 11-12 August
<br>1 - 5 p.m. (On Sunday work is removed from 4 p.m. onwards)Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-64268045442589352982012-07-21T03:27:00.001-07:002012-07-21T03:32:34.453-07:00Another jam session on 22 July in our sculpture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://youtu.be/2qId4vFCry4" target="_blank">Watch the 15th of July 5 min video on YouTube</a>
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Come and go as you please between 3 and 5 p.m. and bring your instruments.
Galerie de Pieter, Breestraat 46 (voormalig postkantoor), Leiden
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Our works in this exhibition are the 9 seated sculpture, "House of Worship", "<a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/conversa.htm" target="_blank">Conversations</a>" drawings on the windows, "Hidden Words" a wood relief and the video "<a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/essencev.htm" target="_blank">Essences and Particularities</a>" are also in the group exhibition. <a href="http://www.galeriedepieter.nl/huidige-expositie.htm" target="_blank">More about the exhibition and the gallery</a>
<br> <br>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-1324326784952605712012-07-14T10:55:00.002-07:002012-07-14T11:05:30.252-07:00Jam session inside our sculpture @ Breestraat 46, Leiden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br>3-5 p.m. in
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(voormalig postkantoor).
Bring your own instruments or come and listen.
<br><br><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Breestraat+46,+Leiden,+Nederland&hl=en&ll=52.162587,4.487228&spn=0.011241,0.027595&sll=52.16,4.487218&sspn=0.011242,0.027595&oq=Breestraat+46,+Leiden&hnear=Breestraat+46,+Leiden,+Zuid-Holland,+The+Netherlands&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A" target="_blank">Location on google maps</a>
<br><br>We are in Aalmarkt 15B from 14.30 to 14.50Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-9841660082865266052012-07-03T14:40:00.000-07:002012-07-03T15:02:52.897-07:00new sculpture for 9 people to sit inside - on show at galerie de pieter, Leiden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDmvS05gbTI67WoHh-uq1evX3-eVWHDUse3VweRzOsCDHVSsFHNBMdrMyb9AuiK4qF4imgO3bvAVlFt2W5SmDmjCjKXt2f5vh8z23aef_WYrjDu47iB-CJ0RR-qyE4F_otKWrzhY4dmU/s1600/07021854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDmvS05gbTI67WoHh-uq1evX3-eVWHDUse3VweRzOsCDHVSsFHNBMdrMyb9AuiK4qF4imgO3bvAVlFt2W5SmDmjCjKXt2f5vh8z23aef_WYrjDu47iB-CJ0RR-qyE4F_otKWrzhY4dmU/s400/07021854.jpg" /></a></div>New sculpture made in nine moveable parts for sitting inside. Our 'house of worship' is on show along with 3 other works by us in the "Zomergasten" (Summer guests show) at <a href="http://www.galeriedepieter.nl" target="_blank">Galerie de Pieter</a>, Breestraat 46 (<a href="http://www.galeriedepieter.nl/index.htm" target="_blank">old post office building</a>), Leiden (see <a href="https://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=en&q=breestraat+46+leiden&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47c5c6ed76e23b4b:0x84d253e961139eac,Breestraat+46,+Leiden&gl=nl&ei=h2vzT7KIGdGM-wb6k4TTCQ&ved=0CAUQ8gEwAA" target="_blank">googlemaps</a>)<br><br>42 artists are participating in the show and we are lucky to be able to have such a large work here.
<br><br>The show will be opened by Bartel Brussee on Friday July 6th at 7 p.m. and all going well, Toroa McGlinn will do an hour long performance during the opening.<br><br>
The Gallery is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 1 - 5 p.m. and I will there on July 8th.
<br><br>The show closes on August 12th.
<br><br>And we (Sen, Tama, Carmen and myself) will continue working in the Openmakers Studio until September 1st.Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0Breestraat 46, 2311 Leiden, The Netherlands52.1600004 4.487218252.1575654 4.4822827 52.1624354 4.4921537tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-16961670622853706502012-06-27T06:07:00.000-07:002012-08-10T11:26:02.685-07:00"OpenLuchtHotel" was a great success despite the storm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; float:left">
<img border="0" alt="Detail of Room of Memories by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff" height="359" width="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_kcNqZDnVOANzS639bbLRIjChPxKFEv4OHXnpoObzprvsg-fZnceq_VyAia5TWSkfSubrsYi-KsSske-JWtatQGWAXqOs8VQVt_OKFaKewYIpq5lFSfjAXBi6tl9p03SU1wrmh_ypqs/s400/06211801l.jpg" />  </div>Scroll down this blog to views of our bed for the <a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/">Fields of Wonder</a> (this links to their website), <a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/projecten/2012/openluchthotel_leiden">Plein Air Hotel</a> event (theatre, music, dance followed by a sleeping in a bed in the open air). <br>Most of the 36 beds were situated in the <a href="http://hortus.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/midzomernacht_2012/">Leiden Hortus Botanicus gardens</a> (about 10 minutes by foot south-east) and ours was in the courtyard flanked by two 15th century buildings from the days these served as part of the Aalmarkt school for the poor as part of the "Sint-Catharinagasthuis" complex for the poor of the city of Leiden. See <a href="http://sonjavank.blogspot.nl/2012/06/room-of-memories-on-location.html">my blog for June 18th</a> for more about the history of this location.
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"Room of Memories" by Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff (<a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/sensonja">www.sonjavank.com/sensonja</a>) is a house-like structure inside which a double mattrass was fitted. It was made out of wood and old furniture found on the streets of Leiden in May 2012 except for the suspended window which was made from sticks engraved with texts from wood Sonja collected in Romania in 2002. The text which could be read from the front read: "Trees that yield no fruit have been and ever will be for the fire."
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The mirror swivels around and we made some hooks for hanging clothes and there was a small platform for glasses.
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We had a few hiccups in building this work because we didn't get permission for the actual location in this courtyard until 10 days before it had to be finished and then we could only begin construction on site 4 days beforehand. However the construction went very fast and it was so easy to work in the <a href="http://www.openmakers.nl">OpenMakers studio</a>, so in retrospect it all went very well and we discovered that our work could also be quickly relocated as well.
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The weather forecast was for heavy heavy and wind and so we needed to make a plan B. <br><br>The four of us easily lifted the whole house and moved it to underneath the concert hall verandeh and then we made covering for the south-westeries that were expected.
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<br><br>Then it rained and rained. Everyone got wet and many beds were soaked at the Hortus Botanicus but the rain stopped by 11 p.m. <br><br>Our guests wanted to sleep under the stars and to take the risk of getting wet, so the four of us quickly moved the bed-house back into the middle of the courtyard. <br><br>Meanwhile our 'reserve' bed was used by another couple because some beds were too wet to sleep in at the Hortus Botanicus. They slept between a piano and a park bench in the studio and Sen even mopped the floor to make it a nicer atmosphere for them.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcCdSyKZ6bna6odaZLSxJIuuWFietNXVHoY4J5XiewoAQFHTETfuYr2irVMn8cSJF0SABWMwe-T-_LS7QXoM_EhPduvQIAm6BWbqo0E8rQ_j0g31psmvGr96CSxazsGz2Y1d1Qsv9B4qs/s1600/06211850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="309" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcCdSyKZ6bna6odaZLSxJIuuWFietNXVHoY4J5XiewoAQFHTETfuYr2irVMn8cSJF0SABWMwe-T-_LS7QXoM_EhPduvQIAm6BWbqo0E8rQ_j0g31psmvGr96CSxazsGz2Y1d1Qsv9B4qs/s400/06211850.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #99ffff;"><< We put plastic coverings over the front and side and they were needed. Just as we finished the rain poured down and so Sen's clever angled shelter for the front proved to be necessary to stop the rain beating into the interior. </span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQ1E-yx6VrpG40CFKGk-Qx6_uLxUSAoLBPas56H2Kkj385gNsj5-GVJtKPaB0vopC3_oVxtJjFZHGz5foqZbJ77whoyJRO5CToOewGNGW5b6g_WVtNzdYznxLS73OGRxbiSmz1fycqUU/s1600/06211925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQ1E-yx6VrpG40CFKGk-Qx6_uLxUSAoLBPas56H2Kkj385gNsj5-GVJtKPaB0vopC3_oVxtJjFZHGz5foqZbJ77whoyJRO5CToOewGNGW5b6g_WVtNzdYznxLS73OGRxbiSmz1fycqUU/s400/06211925.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #99ffff;"><br><br><br>>> A new view from underneath the verandeh. Carmen and Tama 'in reflection.' </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGbgoZj2E1eak5koO1nWzxZxz1GA_txUHVmdr9fLC0NEqfkaGP7PTFjGgDclfVYtlUVgFFpARDSp_JiIUfarW9g8Jb1evKL73kIi7ULleQ2uTCbcOBCxhTkUwC5tQzR-mWerYkp6nOoU/s1600/06211730.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="292" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGbgoZj2E1eak5koO1nWzxZxz1GA_txUHVmdr9fLC0NEqfkaGP7PTFjGgDclfVYtlUVgFFpARDSp_JiIUfarW9g8Jb1evKL73kIi7ULleQ2uTCbcOBCxhTkUwC5tQzR-mWerYkp6nOoU/s400/06211730.jpg" /></a>  </div><span style="color: #99ffff;"><< And earlier that afternoon Tama and I did a performance which Carmen and Sen filmed. More to come about this in July. First we are now working on our next sculpture, a 9 part dome-like temple for reflection.</span>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-12062498740816592622012-06-21T04:19:00.000-07:002012-08-10T11:25:42.140-07:00Open Lucht Hotel - Open Air Hotel, Leiden<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7GmAcLIYHwT4kE2V0nd81V470xdhnszPG2V5RrEkkwpsDjOzz0W5GbaGg4ry5KRpohBJ9yNhp3RvokkZDqJEkLXcVGxhKP5WtZY8H6SPr4RK5upra4yojfJKKgZ0zl8ilZzgGjtCnwQ/s1600/06201130.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7GmAcLIYHwT4kE2V0nd81V470xdhnszPG2V5RrEkkwpsDjOzz0W5GbaGg4ry5KRpohBJ9yNhp3RvokkZDqJEkLXcVGxhKP5WtZY8H6SPr4RK5upra4yojfJKKgZ0zl8ilZzgGjtCnwQ/s400/06201130.jpg" /></a><br><i>June 21st:</i> Binnenplaats LCV / Gehoorzaal / OpenMakers.
<br><br>The Aalmarkt School courtyard flanked by a Leiden pop theatre, the Leiden Concert Hall and the Openmakers studios. More information about this location is in the <a href="http://sonjavank.blogspot.nl/2012/06/room-of-memories-on-location.html" target="_blank">June 18th</a> entry.
<br><br>This is one of 36 beds made by artists or designers in various locations around the the historic city of Leiden for the <a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl" target="_blank">Fields of Wonder</a>, Open Air Hotel event.
<br><br><a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/projecten/2012/openluchthotel_leiden" target="_blank">More information about the OpenLuchtHotel project in Dutch is here >></a>
<br><br>I've also put a summary of this and the programme in the Hortus Botanicus
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<br><br>After we had the first eave in place, a manager from the Concert Hall emerged, worried that we might be silly enough as to put nails into the wooden terrace.
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He then lent us a ladder and gave Sonja a mini-tour of the Concert Hall Chambers while we looked for the ladder. A truly impressive building (see their <a href="http://www.stadspodia.nl/programma/">programme on this website</a> (in Dutch only). <br>The <a href="http://www.archiefleiden.nl/index.php?option=com_memorixbeeld&Itemid=127&view=record&id=lei:col1:dat33417:id127&ststart=" target="_blank" alt="This link leads to a 1872 photo in the Leiden city archives of the front entrance">front entrance</a> dates from 1826 (see photo of this on <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadsgehoorzaal_Leiden">wikipedia</a>) and the terrace at the back is a later extension. Next to this is the "<a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Catharinagasthuis_(Leiden)" target=_blank>Gasthuiskerk</a>" (visible in the photo on the left - the church was part of hospital and poorhouse in the middle ages but these days serves as part of the concert hall chambers), and while we were working we heard an organ being played which was from either this church but more likely from the one next to this, the Waalsekerk which has amazing organ which Tama played on once a week in 2008-9.
The two buildings (see photo on left) on the northern side of this courtyard also date from the middle ages and were part of what was known as the Aalmarkt school which in turn served as part of the "Sint-Catharinagasthuis" complex for the poor of the city of Leiden.
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<br><br>And now the framework for our "room of memories" is almost finished we will work on the bed and bed covering, which will fit exactly into the inner space. The window that hangs above bears engraved texts: "Trees that yield no fruit have been and will ever be for the fire." and "Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting." (these and the other texts you can see in part if you stand underneath the window and look up, come from the <a href="http://www.bahai.com/Bahaullah/hiddenwords.htm" target="_blank">Hidden Words</a> by Baha'u'llah, and on the left there is a mirror which turns reflecting the inner and outer memories :)
<br><br>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-16211805536649809642012-06-18T03:11:00.002-07:002012-06-18T03:16:14.083-07:00"Room of Memories" tryout in a studio<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAnW387_HEDYp7v_R5LWEejGG2z-85-U1D0qj4yZ5CreX1awi3KFc6Uz_NnfnHbfN6-JkkuaOkW-muDaFDRJkKDzHuVZHTaheF55mo5HVfUIK84ULZ7fX1U1t4FE30DR-rPx6YD9hCHHo/s1600/06151706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="317" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAnW387_HEDYp7v_R5LWEejGG2z-85-U1D0qj4yZ5CreX1awi3KFc6Uz_NnfnHbfN6-JkkuaOkW-muDaFDRJkKDzHuVZHTaheF55mo5HVfUIK84ULZ7fX1U1t4FE30DR-rPx6YD9hCHHo/s400/06151706.jpg" /></a>Try-out in the "<a href="http://www.openmakers.nl" target="_blank">OpenMakers</a>" studio in the centre of Leiden (an old shop building at Aalmarkt 15).
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June 15th: The mirror swivels and makes a nice "trick of the eye" play with the oval on the opposite side of the structure. Beyond you see the roof which will be added on top.
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We then dismantled it on June 17th for rebuilding it on location on the Leiden concert hall terrace in a courtyard at the back of Aalmarkt 15.Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-39211505254116532422012-06-12T16:45:00.001-07:002012-06-12T16:56:56.006-07:00Our "bed-sculpture" for the OpenLuchtHotel in Leiden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Our proposal for the <a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/projecten/2012/openluchthotel_leiden" target="_blank">OpenLuchtHotel</a> for 21 June 2012
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We will change this photo or add another underneath as we work on this project.
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We will post the days we will be working on location here as well as any information or progress.
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Our plan is to work on this between 3 June > 21 June and we will organize a few events for volunteers and friends, including a sleep over and possibly other events in consultation with the surrounding neighbours (the LVC (contemporary/pop music theatre), gehoorzaal (Leiden concert hall), OpenMakers (artist studios), residents).
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We are still waiting to hear word from one of the neighbours, the Concert Hall (gehoorzaal) before we actually start building anything.
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<b>1 June: 4.30 - 6.30 p.m.</b>: 15 Aalmarkt, Leiden, All Welcome (<a href="https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=Aalmarkt+15,+Leiden&hl=nl&sll=52.589701,5.515137&sspn=2.369351,5.976563&oq=aalmarkt+15&hnear=Aalmarkt+15,+Leiden,+Zuid-Holland&t=m&z=15" target="_blank" alt="Links to where this is on google maps">directions</a>)
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4 artists + a cultural advisor will give presentations in Dutch (<a href="http://sonjavank.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-temporary-sculpture-in-leiden.html#nl">Nederlands >></a>).
<br>I will give a presentation in Dutch of our plans, a showing of a few past projects we have made and possibly a short film clip from footage Sonja took at the OpenLuchtHotel 2011 opening of performances and bed sculpture.
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<br>16.30-18.30 uur in Aalmarkt 15
<br><br>iedereen welkom
<br>* Michaël Roumen, de nieuwe cultuurmakelaar over plannen voor Leiden
<br>* vertelt zwitsers kunstenaarsduo Van der Plas en Albrecht alles over de “braun Cube” in Aalmarkt 14,
<br>* Bram Schrijnen laat zien en horen hoe ver ze zijn met het kinderboek.
<br>* Diane Lepelaar vertelt waarom zij vandaag al die lege glazen potten in OPEN heeft neergezet
<br>* Sonja van Kerkhoff over de nieuw skulptuur dat komt in de binnenplaats te liggen voor de open-lucht slaapplaats.
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Daarna is er genoeg gelegenheid om elkaar informeel te ontmoeten met een drankje. <a href="http://www.openmakers.nl/2012/05/23/16-open-makers-ontmoeting/" target="_blank">Meer info op de OpenMakers website</a><br><br>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0Aalmarkt, 2311 Leiden, The Netherlands52.1595534 4.490071852.1571179 4.4851363 52.1619889 4.4950073tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-51067995903037293602012-05-07T14:55:00.003-07:002012-06-27T07:11:35.261-07:00A herd of elephants in a Leiden park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left; float:left; width:283px;"><span style="color: #99ffff;"><br><b>Photo</b>: Sonja herds elephants into<br>the Yuchengco Museum, <br>Manila, The Philippines, <br>Nov. 2011.<br><a href="http://nothing2declare2011.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">About the "Nothing to Declare" art event</a><br><br></span></div>
<b>Performances<i></i></b>: <b>10, 11 May 2012</b>, <br>starts at <b>8:30 p.m.</b>
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Bos van Bosman, Leiden, along the path opposite the Roodborst street entrance.
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This "caravan" of origami elephants, first aired in Istanbul as part of <a href="http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/" target="_blank">ISEA Istanbul</a> are made out of print material collected in the countries the artist, Sonja van Kerkhoff, travelled through to get to Istanbul. Then she took the herd to the Philippines, New Zealand and then Australia. New elephants were added en route while others were retired from the herd.
They will be aired for a walk for the first time in her home city of Leiden as part of <a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/projecten/2012/vergezichten">Fields of Wonder</a>'s <b>Vergezichten I</b> open air theatre project.
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Openingsvoorstelling
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Bos van Bosman <i>(entree tegenover de Roodborststraat)</i>, Leiden
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10 t/m 13 mei 2012
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aanvang 20.30 uur
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gratis entree
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More <a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/caravan.htm" target="_blank">information and more photos</a><br />
<br />Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0Bos van Bosman, Leiden, The Netherlands52.1706199 4.474335852.1608814 4.4545948000000006 52.180358399999996 4.4940768tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-29296816192063982222012-04-09T10:15:00.005-07:002012-04-09T10:30:39.961-07:00New video: Transit in a green landscape"On this plane, the traveler meeteth with many a trial and reverse. Now is he lifted up to heaven, now is he cast into the depths. As it hath been said: "Now Thou drawest me to the summit of glory, again Thou castest me into the lowest abyss."<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Valleys" alt="Baha'u'llah, The Four Valleys, p. 52" target="_blank">Baha'u'llah, The Four Valleys</a></span><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hI7a-LHPGbs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Music: "This Is Not All There Is" by Mark Laurent<br /><a href="http://marklaurent.co.nz" target="_blank">http://marklaurent.co.nz</a>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-71750157425265784732011-12-20T16:00:00.001-08:002011-12-21T01:54:34.897-08:00Caravan From Istanbul gets a Christchurch airing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVKgX0nQ7jXpMLcKuFxf0FY2XW8oWPHmpTeWomwuqRbCh_SsXnQxsAo4krDCo8FrV8k7bDe-NsT-ryP6G_HYFFIe3EYf6ukmmYsAXbOSVIaR5lW2TA1TxMk1zoaiGtx-lTe_XzLFgBoE/s1600/112071604a_svk%252B4e%252Btents800.jpg" target="blank"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMJ6KKGG5RZOFB0LRjTkxyN1UZS3UAtDhHuh135oN2pgnbUWTlxld30Bzv8ANwiSOAQO3vbw9-VhkJ6p7spwaioL0stEOIiE5g0mlL6jE2r676zYFfE5_3WX2Vx6g-1rqsnCZZGrhuVc/s320/112071604a_svk%252B4e%252Btents500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688370136233766162" /></a>On Saturday December 24th starting at 12 midday New Zealand-Dutch artist, Sonja van Kerkhoff will give a herd of origami elephants an airing along the <a href="http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/christchurch/-cashel+mall/" target="blank">Cashel Street Mall</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);"><br><strong>Photo</strong>: Sen McGlinn.<br />Dec 7th, 2011, Sonja with her herd in the Octagen, Dunedin, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Click on the photo to see <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVKgX0nQ7jXpMLcKuFxf0FY2XW8oWPHmpTeWomwuqRbCh_SsXnQxsAo4krDCo8FrV8k7bDe-NsT-ryP6G_HYFFIe3EYf6ukmmYsAXbOSVIaR5lW2TA1TxMk1zoaiGtx-lTe_XzLFgBoE/s1600/112071604a_svk%252B4e%252Btents800.jpg" target="blank">a larger view in a new window</a>.<br><br><a href="http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/189719/artist-brings-herd-dunedin" target="_blank">Otago Daily Times article, Dec 8th</a> </span><br /><br />The performance, “Caravan to Istanbul,” was performed in Istanbul while she was there as one of 8 artists in the New Zealand exhibition, “<a href="http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/other-event/uncontainable-second-nature" target="blank">Te Kore Rongo Hungaora” (Uncontainable second nature)</a>, at the international new media festival, <a href="http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/" target="blank">ISEA Istanbul</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);"><br>To see photos of the Istanbul performance to go "<a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/caravan.htm" target="blank">Caravan to Istanbul</a>"<br> </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBSNQ6h1Dnx_y-jnwhHgr_atF7n-xksmxKze5sl_igEXvK-uygftdx5JgtPJZTbUk9Z6NUP08RlaYxapjMDNve3N-vEsqLI767JH3LQ53WPljdLIIJZ9gwXf5b2d_wGPJKreDisyopx3s/s1600/12171236_l.jpg" target="blank"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBSNQ6h1Dnx_y-jnwhHgr_atF7n-xksmxKze5sl_igEXvK-uygftdx5JgtPJZTbUk9Z6NUP08RlaYxapjMDNve3N-vEsqLI767JH3LQ53WPljdLIIJZ9gwXf5b2d_wGPJKreDisyopx3s/s400/12171236_l.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688371258705515074" /></a>As she was driving to Istanbul, via a number of other art-related projects, she was thinking of a way to represent a kind of globalism not dominated by money or economic policies. Caravans, in days of old, were dominated by the practicalities of getting from place to place, by politics and by cultural conditions. Van Kerkhoff believes this is still the case, only that so often what we read as ‘international news’ in our newspapers emphasizes the doings of the global elite. Each elephant in her international herd originates from a particular location in one of over 20 countries she has travelled through with this herd.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);"><br><strong>Photo</strong>: Sen McGlinn.<br />Sonja with the herd from Istanbul in the Nelson Saturday Market, Montgomery Square, Dec 17th, 2011.<br> </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUk9rd_oZbI_4HY8c30s6MCrhnN7vSOShNg5qJx5tLX8HyE3hmlGMmSaQiBIcmkt-_3ysC9Tyt7Y9zlOZ5JsaWx-Dn6PEBhiIwNg4R4W5V0xk8Er8ukqGW3ClrdXqT3wxVJKrOO1tN_g/s1600/12171325_l.jpg" target="blank"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUk9rd_oZbI_4HY8c30s6MCrhnN7vSOShNg5qJx5tLX8HyE3hmlGMmSaQiBIcmkt-_3ysC9Tyt7Y9zlOZ5JsaWx-Dn6PEBhiIwNg4R4W5V0xk8Er8ukqGW3ClrdXqT3wxVJKrOO1tN_g/s400/12171325_l.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688372453767194226" /></a>Art and culture have been the main influencing factors here. For example one elephant in this herd is made from an Italian village church newsletter, from a church Van Kerkhoff visited. Others use printed material from the Venice Biennale, and from galleries in the Philippines. Come see how the herd is faring at its third airing in the country. Previous locations were Dunedin, Murchison and, last Saturday, in between downpours, Nelson.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);"><br><strong>Photo</strong>: Sen McGlinn.<br />Three of the herd in the Nelson Saturday Market, Montgomery Square, Dec 17th, 2011.<br> </span> <br />More photos in various locations: <a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/caravan.htm#related">www.sonjavank.com/caravan.htm</a>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-50015154937365264412011-06-10T09:06:00.000-07:002011-06-10T09:49:18.843-07:00dia voorstelling over aspecten van spiritualiteit in de Nieuw-Zeelandse Maori cultuur<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sonjavank.com/gfx/exhibited/2011/05031806etahi.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 231px;" src="http://www.sonjavank.com/gfx/exhibited/2011/05031806etahi.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Aspecten van spiritualiteit in de Nieuw-Zeelandse Maori cultuur<br /><br />22 June - 19:30 - 22:30<br /><br />Maak kennis met de Maori cultuur door een dia voorstelling van Sonja van Kerkhoff (Taranaki, Nieuw Zeeland). Voorbeelden van Maori kunst; van traditioneel tot hedendaags worden ook getoond.<br /><br><br><br /><h2>ActiVite office building,</h2><br />Simon Smitweg 8<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sonjavank.com/gfx/exhibited/2011/05031802image.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 131px;" src="http://www.sonjavank.com/gfx/exhibited/2011/05031802image.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />(directly behind and across from the Rijnlands hospital)<br />Leiderdorp<br /><br />Ook is er een expositie van Sen + Sonja op hetzelfde locatie t/m 26 juni 2011<br />meer info >> <a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/2011activite.htm">www.sonjavank.com/2011activite.htm</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sonjavank.com/gfx/exhibited/2011/0311activite.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 247px;" src="http://www.sonjavank.com/gfx/exhibited/2011/0311activite.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Sonja will give a presentation on spiritual/cultural aspects of the Maori culture. If English only speakers are present she will do this is English + Dutch.<br /><br />Free entry. <br /><br />Send an email to a.vd.houten [AT] activite.nl before 5 p.m. on June 22nd to reserve a place or click "yes" or "maybe" on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232767993404425">Facebook event</a> by midday on the same day.Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-51661740025730651732011-06-06T07:46:00.001-07:002011-06-16T13:13:53.064-07:00Open air Hotel in Utrecht, Leiden + Delft - OpenluchtHotel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_MhlkwFQzED8HwD3MqwPEkUTmV8WKmaPIIzscKEUqFjx1tdmnFmofi63au9qLqfCtOTezoCSmA-yHTj023UdIFU2CkHzySIEP5avxR2MUl2Bkt19gdVcv30TR3rSmW0REE7ziaYQEsg/s1600/06161753c.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_MhlkwFQzED8HwD3MqwPEkUTmV8WKmaPIIzscKEUqFjx1tdmnFmofi63au9qLqfCtOTezoCSmA-yHTj023UdIFU2CkHzySIEP5avxR2MUl2Bkt19gdVcv30TR3rSmW0REE7ziaYQEsg/s320/06161753c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618912763728866434" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/pages/mei_2011/nieuw_mei2011.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 415px;" src="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/pages/mei_2011/nieuw_mei2011.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Utrecht</span> 18/19 June 2011<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Leiden</span> 21 June 2011<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Delft</span> 10 September 2011<br /><br />Visitors can register to book to sleep in one of these artist-beds in the open air in one of these cities. More info in Dutch only is here: <a href="http://www.fieldsofwonder.nl/projecten/2011/openluchthotel_leiden" target="_blank">www.openluchthotel.nu</a> our bed is an ode to Shakepeare and all of the senses including taste.<br /><br /><h2>"Under perfumed flowers I lie, there I couch when owls do cry"</h2><br />by Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn<br /><br />[with apolgies to Shakepeare's The Tempest]<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrMkha0-61Iv2SwQNRrObxwJkoh6_aXbSkHX3jYUJ9jEvUwagTCyWhyphenhyphen6iF_gmU94Rx5l7HnIXNUYU23rvoXyo-QPeF2ds1dmMG4-yS6w8REKdJI1rlt6vositTTFAHenZ6jHZ3K1ziFM/s1600/06161741b.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrMkha0-61Iv2SwQNRrObxwJkoh6_aXbSkHX3jYUJ9jEvUwagTCyWhyphenhyphen6iF_gmU94Rx5l7HnIXNUYU23rvoXyo-QPeF2ds1dmMG4-yS6w8REKdJI1rlt6vositTTFAHenZ6jHZ3K1ziFM/s320/06161741b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618913323986976194" /></a>Peaseblossom is the name of one of the fairies in Shakepeare's <span style="font-weight:bold;">A Midsummer Night's Dream</span> who serves the Queen of the Fairies.<br />This open hotel location is an interpretation of the type of bed she could have made where you can see, smell and taste "pea blossoms" growing through willow branch forms.<br /><br />Peaseblossom is de naam van een van de feeen uit Shakespeare's <span style="font-style:italic;">A midsummer Night's Dream</span> die de Koningin der Feeen dient.<br />Dit is een interpretatie van het soort bed dat zij had kunnen maken, waarin je de door de wilgentakkenbeelden groeiende (pronk)erwt bloesems kunt zien, ruiken en proeven.<br /><br />In Leiden our bed will be set amidst trees in the Kaasmarktschool, artist studio courtyard, Koppenhinksteeg 13Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-37272883788683025402011-05-05T07:13:00.000-07:002011-05-05T07:24:44.454-07:00Darling Buds exhibition in London<img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kuT3xG2B3i0Ea8LG3HgoywLknOcElOfkGFEikUJfU6y6dyK1DqPNuViifcTRCbeiu2dbRX0-X45tYgEM3OEtctolDVL8q1ob_I1e1z1hVVzVFL4-CB9XorRvT550qzGzRYBpOqO0a70/s0/darling+bud+001+small+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" />For those in or around London, we have two installations in this show curated by <br />Davinia-ann Robinson, Rebecca Hallett, Nelly Curtis, Jessica Mautner, and Boudicca Collins<br /><br />at: <br /><br />Parlour Project Space<br />181-185 Queens Crescent, NW5 4DS<br />London, United Kingdom<br /><br />Open: 6 - 10 May 2011<br />Fri-Tues: 11:00am - 6:00pm<br /><br />installations by<br /><br />Grace Adam, Daniel Bourke, Matt Gee, Sian Griffiths, Melissa Henderson, Sadie Hennessy, Fiona Long and Sonja Van Kerkhoff & Sen McGlinn.<br /><br />There's <a href="http://darlingbudsexhibition.blogspot.com/p/about.html">a blog about this exhibition</a> and a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=146163772116780">facebook page</a>.Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-67365241417532149492011-01-27T05:41:00.000-08:002011-01-28T05:20:58.157-08:002 feb video screenings + bijna een laatste kans om de installaties te bekijken<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRwUGgxubTESobeq6ujCEAIm19ejldaQDdt5t_zV_IGQmaGkqdcLGFpDrLByFX0XRdjqhQaIf28RhrEvNuhCMT5Af3mtThQ4zlXbvdBIbPDo-xopG3Ae4AJGP8MZyZm1lYkBx8d2BRzg/s1600/27wrap_colouredeggs_hand400.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRwUGgxubTESobeq6ujCEAIm19ejldaQDdt5t_zV_IGQmaGkqdcLGFpDrLByFX0XRdjqhQaIf28RhrEvNuhCMT5Af3mtThQ4zlXbvdBIbPDo-xopG3Ae4AJGP8MZyZm1lYkBx8d2BRzg/s320/27wrap_colouredeggs_hand400.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566861466097056098" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">2 Feb 2011: <br />19:30 - 20:45</span><br />Sonja presents 4 short videos with discussion in between (in nederlands or English)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20:45 - 21:30</span> <br />Opportunity to view the exhibition <br />"The unwanted land"<br />with installations by Tiong Ang, David Bade, Renée Ridgway, Dirk de Bruyn, Sonja van Kerkhoff<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255); font-size:80%;">Stills from "Wrapping for a Marginal Citizen"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5PF9mtUQg6cHj4rt600e3iZGoTGRDQHAp76b1-sAtqNuoZCZ-A7p-zKzW-KcOjAzWQOjePY8Bh2dcKBE1PIxtbaU6RjrkGqqApplrdJviCXFBdxcMFvw18ZjLrxDHlG-t84uHlUx1i7I/s1600/60wrap_bijzetafel_hand400px.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5PF9mtUQg6cHj4rt600e3iZGoTGRDQHAp76b1-sAtqNuoZCZ-A7p-zKzW-KcOjAzWQOjePY8Bh2dcKBE1PIxtbaU6RjrkGqqApplrdJviCXFBdxcMFvw18ZjLrxDHlG-t84uHlUx1i7I/s320/60wrap_bijzetafel_hand400px.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566864722507691442" /></a>There will also be opportunity to ask Sonja questions inside the installation <strong>Kāinga a roto</strong> (Home within / Innerlijk huis)<br /><br />You can view a 5 minute of footage of <strong>Kāinga a roto</strong> on <a href="#video">YouTube below</a> and there's a page of <a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/unwantedland.htm">photos about the exhibition here</a> and a page focussed just on <a href="http://www.sonjavank.com/kainga.htm">Sonja and Sen's installation here</a> or see: <a href="http://www.theunwantedland.com" target="_blank">www.theunwantedland.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The programme for the evening is</span>:<br />7:30: <span style="font-weight:bold;">"Wrapping for a Marginal Citizen"</span> (13 min), <br />won the regional (Limburg) Gulden Vlam award in 1994 in the category, documentary.<br />The main actors are Sonja's young children, who simultaneously foreground as well as function as background for associative narratives on various levels.<br /><br />5-10 min question and answer session.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Athena"</span> (2 min), 1994, <br />a dance-choreographic work on the theme of wisdom from a feminine viewpoint.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"360 Clockwise around Europe"</span> (3 min) 2010, <br />music by Sandy Hoover (USA) Kath Tait (UK)<br /><br />A response to living in Europe for the past two decades. The footage selected from the EU archive contrasts diverse aspects of European life-worlds: cities, institutions, as well as historical events with stills of our family in diverse places - a mix of private and public worlds; a commentary on how we all play a role in a changing Europe.<br /><br />5-10 min question and answer session.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Essences and Particularities"</span> (6 min) 1994, <br />music by Evren Celimli (USA).<br />Mythopoeic drawings constantly metamorphasize while a choir sing in medival style. We often think of universals as being what connects us to God or to our soul. Here the particular or exceptional are the means for 'stories' or the 'differend'.<br /><br />5-10 min question and answer session.<br /><br />20:45 - 21:30, Viewing of the exhibition <span style="font-weight:bold;">"The Unwanted Land"</span> and discussion inside <span style="font-weight:bold;">"Kainga a roto"</span> (Home within)<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Entrée / entry fee</span> for both museum and the screening > 5 euros<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">RSVP: 7 p.m. 31st January 2011</span> to either:<br />info@beeldenaanzee.nl<br />or ring:<br />070 358 58 57 between 11 - 5, Tuesdays to Sundays.<br /><br />Museum Beelden aan Zee <a href="http://www.beeldenaanzee.nl" target="_blank">website</a><br /><a href="http://www.beeldenaanzee.nl/route.php?lang=nl&item=route" target="_blank">Harteveltstraat 1<br />2586 Den Haag</a><br /><br /><a name="video" id="video"></a><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WfMk7ToHEIk" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-35487842042727019942011-01-25T05:43:00.000-08:002011-01-25T05:46:53.209-08:005 minute footage of our video installation on show<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WfMk7ToHEIk" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br />You can also view it on my channel: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sonjavank">www.youtube.com/user/sonjavank</a>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-57970580819476938442010-12-26T05:13:00.000-08:002010-12-26T07:17:11.929-08:00We come in Peace - on hackers, media and gender<img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-r3Lm7p-ihSPb9WqfzKx23xzsnnTlc-kIgKUI8kDmf7gfD5T3MgLtPidXh6GfSl-nTfRNHOoT0orZWdWCopiJwjusqxcYzjdFbZBaxskeySy9R0HAw9gXsdTp4CrVtxlfwDplWlwUaJs/s320/27dec_ccc.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554983195319193602" /><br />The 27th <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Welcome" target="_blank">Chaos Communication Congress</a> (27C3), an annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/day_2010-12-27.en.html" target="_blank">starts tomorrow</a> at the Berlin Congress Center and is one of the largest gatherings of hackers and proponents of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" target="_blank">open source</a> technologies. <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Schedule" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;">These categories</span>: community, culture, hacking, making, science, society</a> say it all and here are links to the presentators as well as often a link to the material to being presented. The website is a wealth of knowledge!<br /><br /><br />A few randomly chosen presentations to wet your appetite: <br /><br /><a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/track/Science/4183.en.html" target="_blank">Safety on the Open Sea - Safe navigation with the aid of an open sea chart. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/track/Community/4046.en.html" target="_blank">AllColoursAreBeautiful - interactive light installation inspired by blinkenlights</a><br /><br /><a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/track/Society/4244.en.html" target="_blank">A Critical Overview of 10 years of Privacy Enhancing Technologies</a><br /><br /><a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/track/Hacking/4151.en.html" target="_blank">Android geolocation using GSM network - "Where was Waldroid?"</a><br /><br /><a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/track/Making/4006.en.html" target="_blank">DIY synthesizers and sound generators - Where does the sound come from?</a><br /><br />They also promote those around unable to attend to gather and <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Peace_Missions" target="_blank">join the conference remotely in what they have called <span style="font-weight:bold;">Peace Missions</span></a>, which reminded me of a conference I attended remotely earlier this year: <br /><br /><br /><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-WfaHnfV5ZCEMdxXnMMlVYqqpQH6EgvBVHasgiogvLSZ5ncwDr9PdEr7EZbDXaaFeVqKwgRwefAq8DOi6Af-wdMvNKuAonG9EoI8h_wd_FQPS3MIj6PqIQZbOQPPtmqMoGgVTMfH5-U/s320/electrosmog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554989391653732658" /><a href="http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp;jsessionid=F70D14FB521D7007747233104444B827?articleid=356658" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;">ElectroSmog</span></a> << this links to some info about this on de balie website because their actual website is a killer for those with slow connections or on mobile devices. <br />Even on a large computer screen as I have here: I need to first click away the screen filling popup, and then scroll down past another screen-filling image before I reach any links or content (don't get me started on the usability of <a href="http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/about/" target="_blank">this website</a>!) - scroll past all this, click around, and yes there are some interesting articles especially the stuff at the <a href="http://www.distancelab.org/about/index.html" target="_blank">Distance Lab run by Stefan Agamonolis</a> (see a presentation I did on <a href="http://sonjavank.com/text/#papers" target="_blank">a thesis of his on design for interactive media</a>). <br /><br />And the conference itself? ...(sigh)... At the time I was going to write a critique of the conference because it was dominated by a few men sitting in a room in Amsterdam - where some men flew over from London. I am so glad I stayed at home (Amsterdam is half an hour north by train). First I wanted to respect the ethos of the conference, that participants don't use up carbon in travel, and second, I found it much better to feel on equal (as much as one can be 'equal' in terms of bandwidth access) with others around the world who hadn't travelled to Amsterdam. The conference was all bad, (I always learn something), but it didn't live up to what it claimed it was abou. It was a real buzz communicating with Zita in Christchurch and Julian and others on a waka in the middle of the Whanganui river! See <a href="http://greenbench.org/project/waka-wireless" target="_blank">some fabulous photos of <span style="font-weight:bold;">waka.wireless</span> here</a><br /><br />Admittedly the female-male ratio of presentations at ccc is no better than was at Electrosmog but access seems freer and the diversity, well there's no comparision of course, it is completely different set-up. <br /><br />However great things are happening in media worlds such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" target="_blank">WikiLeaks</a> (watch this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk" target="_blank">fabulous documentary produced by a Swedish film company</a> (scroll to 25 mins to the Iraqi footage and you will never doubt the important of freedom of open documentation + it raises big issues on secrecy and accountability. I do think that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning" target="_blank">Bradley Manning</a> is a hero (see 23mins into the documentary) and here you can see why <a href="http://www.openleaks.org" target="_blank">OpenLeaks</a> started (at 29:22 mins into the documentary). The documentary stops suddenly and you can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imkYy_hJ4E&" target="_blank">watch the final part here</a> (6:03 starts at where the previous one stopped.)<br />It is great that there's no real squabble here, WikiLeaks takes the strategy of using the media for greater impact on the world, and OpenLeaks works more on the quiet.<br /><br /><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJnuN-7VdaLhsP9iIFoV5Y4yd8Nuxe6YEaGpg9yyRZEVt2Sn-7gXLg1HjXjFyF7FB7mAuqiI-pS6Ifma0BnIe_qdDeFDNMEtWH4n6kfRsxrdx1_Icrg57FEWfR19H67eEUMlPMojWmLQ0/s320/genderchangers.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554994204905638578" />And in my own backyard <br />there's <a href="http://www.genderchangers.org" target="_blank">Genderchangers</a> <br />and the <a href="http://eclectictechcarnival.org" target="_blank">ECT conferences and gatherings</a>, <br />both run by <br />and for the fairer sex:)Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-36688547069049391202010-11-26T02:29:00.000-08:002010-11-27T02:46:59.007-08:00Crying out for culture (een schreeuw voor cultuur) and Creative LeidenI thought I'd make this a post about some of the creative initiatives happening in my city, Leiden, in response to the Dutch government announcement to cut all culture and arts funding by 20% (c. 200 million Euros). They also announced that they will also remove the reduced sales tax for art and culture (from 6% to 19%).<br /><br /><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3R3_Jvu7RqABljC0fUTtDajC_e_q7FPgwVHNzxSrBC9i6TAFP93lCaqJZUH0UggxYYGZCq8KpVwwneHO9k7WAqXofdZDS9fG9T97KCpJbEy2-K1b5EDp6vpWZIS5-Ct6uV_HtyK5x-rI/s1600/nederlandschreeuwt-omcultuur-500x205.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543819651072826994" />In response to this a national day of protest called, "Holland screams (calls out) for culture" (Nederland schreeuwt om cultuur) was held throughout the Netherlands, on November 20th. In most cities people gathered to 'cry out' or 'scream' -very fitting given that the government just announced just a major cut to all arts funding in the Netherlands.<br /> <br />The <a href="http://www.nederlandschreeuwtomcultuur.nl/" target="_blank">website for collecting petitions of protest</a>, enabled you to scream into the microphone, while <a href="http://blog.nederlandschreeuwtomcultuur.nl/filmpjes-en-fotos" target="_blank">this page has films and photographs</a> of the day of protest.<br /><br />Here is a news item with links and photos from <a href="http://weblogs.vpro.nl/nieuws/2010/11/21/de-vpro-versterkt-de-schreeuw-om-cultuur-2/" target="_blank">the culture oriented broadcasting corporation, the VPRO</a>, <a href="http://www.kunstpers.org/2010/11/screeuw-om-cultuur.html" target="_blank">Photos from the protest in Amsterdam</a>, and <a href="http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/tech/2010/11/schreeuwen_voor_de_kunst.html" target="_blank">photos from Utrecht</a>, and in <a href="http://creatievestadleiden.blogspot.com/2010/11/schreeuw-om-cultuur-luister-naar-leiden.html" target="_blank">this blog has a link on youtube of the protest in Leiden</a> - in summary the first speaker informs us that with a 6 week warning of the increase in sales tax from 6% to 19%, theatres aimed for youth in particular cannot survive. <br /><br />The Leiden city councilor for culture, Jan-Jaap de Haan the second speaker (here at 3'10" in the video in link above) spoke very well: he wanted to sing, but the orchestra is gone, so he has to scream and asks why is culture perceived as a left-wing hobby. Culture informs and shows who we are. The government is focussed on what we are not (very apt reference to the government focus on the fear of migrants and anti-Islamic sentiments).<br /><br />It made me realise, that yes, without culture, expression becomes noise -yelling and screaming. <br /><br />It's ironic that the news today is that yet more criminal records have been revealed of members of the Dutch parliament in Wilders' right-wing extreme nationalist party (PVV 'party for freedom' - oh so <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian" target="_blank">Orwellian</a>!). <br />So the current cabinet remains in power, if Wilders' doesn't remove these individuals who lied about their past 'convictions' (!) from his party. Two weeks ago one member of parliament left this same party because he didn't want yet more limelight put on his past. Ironic that a government needs these people in order to remain in power. <br /><br />And so to Leiden: <br /><h1><a href="http://creatievestadleiden.blogspot.com">Creatieve Stad Leiden</a></h1> is a blog run by Jeroen Maters which often has ideas or thoughts or reports on cultural related issues in Leiden.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqf6eer6pdwwLY9jyzXODWrAQXCgfdeNZhvPY_uKOemAcadL82gKxG706agVlrDuisxIXBel1oATOzUxA0hxrAWTLEP6ZHef7zvMoETgYsEsewErAXmwxjBK2dVOCZukMCIhaQUxRGa4/s1600/Rijnlandblok+nieuw.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqf6eer6pdwwLY9jyzXODWrAQXCgfdeNZhvPY_uKOemAcadL82gKxG706agVlrDuisxIXBel1oATOzUxA0hxrAWTLEP6ZHef7zvMoETgYsEsewErAXmwxjBK2dVOCZukMCIhaQUxRGa4/s1600/Rijnlandblok+nieuw.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>The <a href="http://creatievestadleiden.blogspot.com/2010/06/tijdelijke-projecten-in-het.html">24 Nov blog</a> concerns creative ideas for some ugly architecture along a main street, and his idea there is for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blanc" target="_blank">vertical garden</a>. I came across this via the <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=135331" target="_blank">Linkedin Leiden Network</a> group in response to a call for suggestions for this empty block.<br /><br />The old post office next to this block is now used by a collective of artists as a gallery, <a href="http://www.galeriedepieter.nl/index.htm" target="_blank">de Pieter</a>, which focusses on group exhibitions by Leiden artists.<br /><br />As a result in the down turn in the economy in the past year or so there are more empty spaces in the centre of the city, and so the artists here are able to pay a low rent to the city council for this space. Below is another arts initiative ultilizing empty shops.<br /><h1><a href="http://www.openmakers.nl/open/" target="_blank">Open Makers</a></h1>Early in 2010 I first heard of <a href="http://www.openmakers.nl/open/">OpenMakers</a> which provides temporary studio spaces in the centre of Leiden utilizing empty shops. <br /><br />In <a href="http://sonjavank.blogspot.com/2010/10/oct-11th-coming-out-day-on-aalmarkt.html">September + October Sen and I built our installation</a> in one of these spaces. What is so great about their project is that it is interdisciplinary and invites artists from all levels to have the opportunity to work on a project. So far there's been <a href="http://www.openmakers.nl/voorgangers/wie-waren-open/">theatre, tango, fashion design, poetry as well other visual artists</a>.<br /><br /><h1><a href="http://www.scheltemacomplex.nl/" target="_blank">Scheltema</a></h1> - centre for theatre, visual arts, dance, lectures, events, etc<br /><a href="http://www.scheltemacomplex.nl/">Scheltema</a> is an old wool factory, converted since 2005 into an arts centre.<br /><br />Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-90112177630790621882010-11-18T04:12:00.000-08:002011-01-04T05:47:46.147-08:00New Media Related conferences + publicationsI often am sent interesting links or information about conferences, some I can attend. <br /><br />So I'll add new links to such events and feel welcome to add your own links in the comments. <br />15+16 Jan 2011: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Fiber festival</span>, http://www.fiberfestival.nl/ <br />hosted by:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">MediaLab</span> in Amsterdam whose website has numerous links to media mainly in connection with education: http://medialab.hva.nl/<br /><br />Two things happening in November are:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gameinthecity.nl/2010/" target="_blank"><h2>Game in the City</h2> gameinthecity.nl/2010</a> <br />18 + 19 Nov, Amersfoort, The Netherlands: the Third edition of the Dutch Game Awards, the annual business awards for the Dutch Game Industry. <br /><br />Of interest to me is <a href="http://www.gameinthecity.nl/2010-en/program-november-18th" target="_blank">the conference and the session on Sustainability</a>: <br />* Alma Schaafstal - <a href="http://www.taskforceinnovatie.nl/nieuws/games">TFI</a> (Taskforce Innovatie Regio Utrecht [Taskforce Innovation around Utrecht])<br />(<a href="http://www.globalgamejam.nl/">Global Game Jam > will be held 28-30 January 2011</a>)<br />* Philippe Petit and Rens Vogel – <a href="http://www.greenygames.nl/">Greeny Games</a> (Be Green)<br /> * Jacky Nieuwstraten – Amersfoort (<a href="http://www.yo33.nl/biobattle/">BioB@ttle</a>)<br /> * Derk de Geus – Paladin Studios (<a href="http://www.enercities.eu/">Enercities</a>)<br /> * Bruno Felix – Submarine Channel (<a href="http://www.collapsus.com/">Collapsus</a>)<br /><br />AND in London this weekend the conference:<br /><h2><span style="font-weight:bold;">Besides the Screen: <br />Moving Images during Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption</span></h2><br /><br />New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen; they also promote the reorganization of its logic of distribution, modes of consumption and viewing regimes. Once, it was video and television broadcast that disturbed traditional cinematographic experience, revealing the image as soon as it was captured and bringing it into the home of the audience. Nowadays, computer imaging and online networks cause an even stronger effect to the medium, increasing the public agency in the movie market dynamics.<br />In order to understand how these significant changes in the modes of accessing and distributing moving images might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography, we are obliged to rethink not only of its future, but its past as well. Besides the Screen is a one-day international symposium that aims to map research projects on new and old forms of moving image distribution, exhibition and consumption. The conference will be hosted in Goldsmiths College in November, with the support of the Graduate School and the Media and Communications Department.<br /><br />Their blog has more and they expect to produce a publication: <a href="http://besidesthescreen.blogspot.com">besidesthescreen.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />Programme:<br />Saturday, 20th November<br />10:30 - 10:45 Welcome! [MRB Screen 1]<br />10:45 - 12:30 First Panel Session<br /><br />Panel 1a [MRB Screen 1]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Distribution & TV</span><br /><br />* Keith Beattie, Exhibiting Direct Cinema: The Realignment of US Broadcast Television and the Development of the Observational Mode<br /><br />* JP Kelly, In the “Perpetual Now”: 24 and the Distribution of Real-Time<br />* Melanie Kennedy, High School Musical as a Made-for-Television Tween Musical<br />* Hannah Andrews, The BBC Film Network: User-generated Content and the Public Service Broadcaster<br /><br />Panel 1b [MRB Screen 2]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Marketing and/or Participation</span><br /><br />* Adnan Hadzi, Why Openness Matters: the Deptford.TV Project<br />* Marc Stumpel, File-sharing or attention-sharing? Implications of the hybrid economy<br />* Stephanie Janes, Viral Marketing Strategies in Hollywood Cinema<br /><br />14:00 - 15:45 Second panel session<br />Panel 2a [MRB Screen 1]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">The (Archived) Image</span><br /><br />* Maarten Brinkerink, Open Images: Establishing an Audiovisual Commons<br />* Ana Carvalho, The ephemeral in AV realtime practices: an analysis into the possibilities for its documentation<br />* Evelin Stermitz, ArtFem.TV<br />* Claudy Op den Kamp, The forgotten ones: is audiovisual archival public domain material really freely available?<br /><br />Panel 2b [MRB Screen 2]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Shape of (Image) Space</span><br />* Stefania Charitou, Projection dislocated<br />* Sudeep Dasgupta, The Screen beside Itself: Situational Transformations in Visual Culture<br />* Zlatan Krajina, How to Tame the Sun: Visual Indulgences at a Screen-Place as Strategies of Appropriation<br /><br />16:00 - 17:00 Keynote [MRB Screen 1]<br /><br />* Julia Knight, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Distribution, Diversity and Digitalisation</span><br /><br />Sunday, 21st November<br />10:30 - 12:15 Third Panel Session<br />Panel 3a [BPB 1]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Remix, Appropriation & the Amateur</span><br /><br />* Felix Seyfarth, Television 2.0: Exploring user-generated video and online participation<br />* Marin Hirschfeld, Redacted and the Problems with Appropriating Amateur Digital Discourses<br />* Nicola Evans, Rambo Remix<br />* Patricia Moran, The image time: procedure of cultural remix<br /><br />Panel 3b [BPB 2]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">(New?) Image Aesthetics</span><br /><br />* Patricia Iuva, Trailer aesthetic<br />* Luca Barbeni, Until the End of Cinema<br />* Vito Campanelli, The DivX and MP3 Experience<br /><br />13:45 - 15:30 Fourth Panel Session<br />Panel 4a [BPB 1]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Image on the Move</span><br /><br />* Simone Knox, Besides, On and Through the Screen: The Transnational Distribution and Consumption of Cinema<br />* Laura Rodriguez Isaza, Touring the Film Festival Circuit: Migrating Patterns of Latin American Cinema<br />* Leandro Valiati, Cultural Economics and Movies: Indicators and empirical research<br /><br />Panel 4b [BPB 2]: <span style="font-weight:bold;">As Art: Authenticity, Originality & Exhibition</span><br /><br />* Bojana Romic, New Exhibition Spaces: viral video goes offline?<br />* Frantisek Zachoval, ART-y-CHOK-e<br />* Catrien Schreuder, Pixels and Places: Video Art in Public Space<br />* Dominik Hasler, Party as art? AntiVJ and the migration of VJing into the sphere of fine artsSonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462088475749119367.post-46300008410497630612010-10-13T02:56:00.001-07:002010-10-13T06:13:15.264-07:00Oct 11th: Coming out day on the Aalmarkt, Leiden<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHEnYNWW62lKWsKEdmt4WiIQ9xAq2sUxZxbt0YLulN5RaIIzJCXYPOqF9jN8IGikj1W4tzHKLHDkgE8w8uNozY6MqmsZYngpPY26pXwTptnA5MEfJ-x42mFpiSWuf7Y1gUCRVfU4PrYw/s1600/10111520e_flag.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHEnYNWW62lKWsKEdmt4WiIQ9xAq2sUxZxbt0YLulN5RaIIzJCXYPOqF9jN8IGikj1W4tzHKLHDkgE8w8uNozY6MqmsZYngpPY26pXwTptnA5MEfJ-x42mFpiSWuf7Y1gUCRVfU4PrYw/s400/10111520e_flag.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527466370150185682" /></a>Then Sen took the flag home and it nows flies from our Leiden-north balcony.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgSmAHbbqLJ14NQyOkFxRFtPxQAWl1HyA3KeeBAM-mkGIdD1gY526mo3PlWCHJr1ABo30L0hyphenhyphenIKGwEpwP825Lz2wKUD4vmRAGwbV2Oq4phrKf9RxJQFjSdTKPVtMJnSSkvGZsOAKBDBWE/s1600/11oct.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgSmAHbbqLJ14NQyOkFxRFtPxQAWl1HyA3KeeBAM-mkGIdD1gY526mo3PlWCHJr1ABo30L0hyphenhyphenIKGwEpwP825Lz2wKUD4vmRAGwbV2Oq4phrKf9RxJQFjSdTKPVtMJnSSkvGZsOAKBDBWE/s320/11oct.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527515701577340690" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxE1DzrGOYEpEYFzB4yhyphenhyphen_owNf05kPu0oGimaKXte8Hq-XzffetmxJcSX1ZhIJhle37e2kVqUTNIf71GbmDteA7RP4u7R_cQbFAkzMzPR5iXBnZktsza9W1ozdizEUz-icn9R7Zx29Cc/s1600/11octssen2.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxE1DzrGOYEpEYFzB4yhyphenhyphen_owNf05kPu0oGimaKXte8Hq-XzffetmxJcSX1ZhIJhle37e2kVqUTNIf71GbmDteA7RP4u7R_cQbFAkzMzPR5iXBnZktsza9W1ozdizEUz-icn9R7Zx29Cc/s320/11octssen2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527515632254494914" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSjiPAZcVfUX5YhgLwFGLZL-8NRYkxrpyGW3imQQrnY9n12nvH9aQAFSzDHekhC4O8OAMzQl2OOhUIb3XMAAVTsyrzrA4ON_v8RBQKTSotcOdZ9Re0orRvfbBf3Z7KCusIq8_UViSU6V0/s1600/10111524e.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSjiPAZcVfUX5YhgLwFGLZL-8NRYkxrpyGW3imQQrnY9n12nvH9aQAFSzDHekhC4O8OAMzQl2OOhUIb3XMAAVTsyrzrA4ON_v8RBQKTSotcOdZ9Re0orRvfbBf3Z7KCusIq8_UViSU6V0/s400/10111524e.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527466289586493186" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaJH_eUhM7-nItYGbSHITglw1eAFUowWUqT6atcgpScJgKM11KhDjvtnw_ipoMVdUS-KB1qEFkTAWB5QJ_3tPso3xG8Hq1A4GSyqP2wf-7Pmu5pIl2tNcJFwvNt7uJdGGDTz_aLQnsCJM/s1600/11octsen.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaJH_eUhM7-nItYGbSHITglw1eAFUowWUqT6atcgpScJgKM11KhDjvtnw_ipoMVdUS-KB1qEFkTAWB5QJ_3tPso3xG8Hq1A4GSyqP2wf-7Pmu5pIl2tNcJFwvNt7uJdGGDTz_aLQnsCJM/s320/11octsen.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527515541390970242" /></a>Sonja van Kerkhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528356941124757780noreply@blogger.com0