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Cut For Purpose
AGENDA
PROGRAMME
February 18 – April 23 2006
21 FEBRUARY – 26 FEBRUARY
Watched, Described and Caught
for Purpose
Cut For Purpose is the first
project of Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen’s Stadsredactie
(City Editorial Board). This project, produced in collaboration
with Stealth.[u]ltd, examines
how urban dynamics can find
their way into the museum
space.
(dates may vary)
Susanne Kriemann, The Crooswijk Meteorite
Films on Monitor: Bruce Nauman
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
FEB 22
S.R. Kucharski, Signature of the City
FEB 24 /7.30 PM
Curious Little Sister Throws a Meteorite
(evening programme The Crooswijk Meteorite by Susanne
Kriemann. Guests: Monika Konrad, Franz Brandstätter
and Neil Leach)
28 FEBRUARY – 5 MARCH
Films on Monitor: Bruce Nauman
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
Act1:Strange Attractors at work, Big Type Says More
MARCH 1
To facilitate this, a grid of
larger than man-sized cardboard sheets fills the entire
space of the Straatgalerij.
Within this structure, spaces
will be purpose-cut to house
a variety of activities. After
the nine weeks the remaining
structure will represent an
imprint of all the activities
that have taken place.
The cardboard structure
creates a temporary condition
in the Straatgalerij that invites
exploration, participation and
reflection. Its programming
examines the interests and
needs of the Stadsredactie,
the artists, the museum and
the city itself within the framework of this cardboard structure and consists of a variety
of activities including film
screenings, solo interventions,
video presentations and
gatherings. There will also
be residencies for a writer, an
artists’ initiative and a design
studio. Out of interest as to the
needs, discussions and questions current in Rotterdam, the
Stadsredactie has also issued
an Open Call to artists, designers and theoreticians to react
to the cardboard structure.
Three of the respondents have
been invited to make a contribution to Cut for Purpose and
to implement their proposal in
the Straatgalerij.
S.R. Kucharski, Signature of the City
MARCH 4
About Stealth.[u]ltd:
STEALTH.unlimited is a Rotterdam-based practice comprising Ana Dzokic, Mario Campanella and Marc Neelen.
Stealth conceives tools that deal with the complexity of the
contemporary urban condition and specifically the relationship between planned and non-planned urban processes.
Their projects experiment on the borderlines of cultural and
technological domains.
Stealth developed the spatial structure Cut For Purpose and
the transformative process that guides the interventions
within it during the coming nine weeks in the Straatgalerij.
www.stealth.ultd.net
Annemartine van Kesteren, Patricia Pulles and Bregje
van Woensel. Since May 2005 the Stadsconservator (City
Curator), a function that was created in 1987, has been
replaced by a three-person team – the Stadsredactie. In
addition to its stated remit of preserving the Stadscollectie
(City Collection) and showing as much Rotterdam-based
art and design as possible, the current team wants also to
explore the identity and infrastructure of Rotterdam’s art
world, incorporate it within the museum and send it out
around the world.
Signature of the City
EACH WEDNESDAY UNTIL MARCH 29 & APRIL 22
In the S.R. Kucharski Project, a component of Tomorrowism,
S.R. Kucharski (NL/USA) explores the role of the artist as
Art Star within society. Following his submission to the
Open Call to Cut for Purpose, the Stadsredactie selected
Kucharski to implement his proposal Signature of the City.
He will invite people to sign the cardboard walls of the installation. He will then punch out the signatures and allow
people to take them home free of charge. In this way the
pieces of cardboard – transformed into artefacts by the art
institution’s authorisation – are given a place in the city’s
infrastructure. Kucharski: “Who owns this place/space?
The artist, the viewer, the museum? And if the act of
signing the ‘work of art’ denotes ownership, can this place
– the Straatgalerij – be a collaboration by all for all?”
www.tomorrowism.org
Cuts and Layers. Composed Time Cuts
and Time Layers of the Inside and Outside Sound over a 9-week period
7 MARCH – 12 MARCH
FEBRUARY 28 – APRIL 23
APRIL 21 & APRIL 22(SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION)
Edwin van der Heide (NL) works as an artist in the fields of
sound, space and interaction. His original background is
in electronic music. He graduated from the Institute for
Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 1992.
His current work is hard to define in the traditional terms
of music, sound art or media art. Van der Heide operates
on the edge of the medium and incorporates its characteristics. In this sense the medium does not just mediate but
is also explored, redefined and finally composed using a
musical approach involving a new language of communication. The fact that qualities inherent to musical language
are employed in developing the work does not mean that
its final presentation form is related to the conventional
concert; it may also take the form of an installation, a
performance or an environment. During Cut for Purpose he
will re-compose the sounds made in the Straatgalerij over
the course of the nine weeks, creating new relationships
between them. He will zoom in on (or out of) time: Cuts
and Layers. Composed Time Cuts and Time Layers of the
Inside and Outside Sound over a 9-week period.
www.evdh.net
Wendelien van Oldenborgh (NL) was selected through the
Open Call to take part in Cut for Purpose. In her work she
observes processes in the public realm that display broader
social conditions. For Cut for Purpose she will set up a live
shoot within the cut-out spaces of the cardboard installation. Here the moment of presentation is subsumed within
the moment of production. This moment takes the form of
a meeting between several performers within Rotterdam’s
musical community and particularly those voices that are
not directly represented in the museum. Without wishing
to create a harmony of the various forms, which represent
diverse lifestyles and distinct positions within the urban
space, a soundtrack of friction and connection can be
created. Texts, sounds and video images generated in this
situation will be directly processed and projected, but also
recorded to enable the production to proceed to the next
stage in this process of filmmaking without a frame.
www.acertainbrazilianness.net
Films on Monitor: Bruce Nauman
Act1:Strange Attractors at work, Big Type Says More
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
Frank Bruggeman, Essential Plantscape
MARCH 8
Start Fruitport at Work
Start Cucosa at Work
S.R. Kucharski, Signature of the City
14 MARCH – 19 MARCH
Films on Monitor: Trans:it: Moving Culture
through Europe
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Cucosa at Work
Fruitport at Work
Strange Attractors at work, Big Type Says More
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
Frank Bruggeman, Essential Plantscape
MARCH 15
S.R. Kucharski, Signature of the City
Cucosa at work
MARCH 8 – APRIL 2
21 MARCH – 26 MARCH
Film on Monitor: Trans:it: Moving Culture
through Europe
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Cucosa at Work
Fruitport at Work, production studio
Robbert de Vrieze, Ambition
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
Frank Bruggeman, Essential Plantscape
MARCH 22
S.R. Kucharski, Signature of the City
MARCH 24
Duplicates Pre-sale (6 pm – 10 pm)
Sale of duplicate publications from the museum’s library:
20 metres of book on sale.
MARCH 25
Duplicates Sale (11 am – 5 pm)
Sale of duplicate publications from the museum’s library:
20 metres of book on sale.
28 MARCH – 2 APRIL
Film on Monitor: Trans:it: Moving Culture
through Europe
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Robbert de Vrieze, Ambition
Strange Attractors at work, Big Type Says More
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
Frank Bruggeman, Essential Plantscape
MARCH 28 /7.30 PM
Curious Little Sister Opens Uncommon Places
An evening with Bartolomeo Pietromarchi/ Fondazione
Olivetti, Rome and Studio Popcorn, Rotterdam
MARCH 29
S.R. Kucharski, Signature of the City
MARCH 29
Final event Cucosa & Fruitport at Work
Film on Monitor: Francesco Jodice, The Secret
Traces
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Robbert de Vrieze, Ambition
Strange Attractors at work, Big Type Says More
Frank Bruggeman, Essential Plantscape
APRIL 5
LLink 747 AM live radio transmission
with John Buijsman and guests
11 APRIL – 16 APRIL
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Robbert de Vrieze, Ambition
Film on Monitor: Francesco Jodice, The Secret
Traces
Frank Bruggeman, Essential Plantscape
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
APRIL 11 – APRIL 14
Act 2: Strange Attractors at work,
Big Type Says More
18 APRIL – 23 APRIL
The Stadsredactie:
Ernest van der Kwast (NL) made a burka-clad assault on
literature in 2004 with Man zoekt vrouw om hem gelukkig
te maken (Man seeks woman to make him happy). Last
year saw the publication of his tragicomic novel ‘Soms zijn
dingen mooier als er mensen klappen’ (‘Sometimes things
are better when people applaud’). Ernest van der Kwast
lives and works in Italy and is the organiser of the Rotterdam’s most straightforward literary event: Nur Literatur.
At the invitation of the Stadsredactie, Ernest van der Kwast
will be locked in the Straatgalerij for eight weeks. He will
keep a diary about the project Cut for Purpose and will
post columns and other snippets of writing in unexpected places. Nobody will escape his gaze. The visitor, the
curator, the gallery attendant: everyone is potential prey
for Watched, described and caught for Purpose. Whoever
takes the bait will be caught on paper and exhibited.
www.ernestvanderkwast.nl
Museumnacht
Curious Little Sister Goes Exclusive
4 APRIL – 9 APRIL
Cut for Purpose will end with a
finissage on Saturday April 22
at which the results of the
project will be presented.
FEBRUARY 28 – APRIL 23
Cut for Purpose. It will then be sited in Crooswijk in an environment designed by the architect Monika Konrad.
The meteorite is now somewhat concealed within the
cardboard structure in the Straatgalerij but, little by little,
more of it will become visible as ‘cuttings’ take place in its
vicinity. The permanent siting of the meteorite at the beginning of May will be accompanied by a publication.
Edwin van der Heide, Cuts and Layers
Robbert de Vrieze, Ambition
Films on Monitor: Francesco Jodice, The Secret
Traces
Strange Attractors at work, Big Type Says More
Ernest van der Kwast writes Watched,
Described and Caught for Purpose
APRIL 21
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, A Certain Brazilianness: The Sound Track Stage (production)
(date to be confirmed)
APRIL 22
11 am – 5 pm
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, A Certain Brazilianness: The Sound Track Stage (event)
(subject to confirmation)
5 pm – 11 pm
FINISSAGE with all participants
Cucosa is one of Rotterdam’s rich assortment of artists’ initiatives. Founded in 1998, the group now comprises sixteen
individuals who work together collaboratively. The group’s
multidisciplinary composition results in a diversity of
visions, which take the form of workshops, exhibitions and
other collaborative projects in the Netherlands and abroad.
Examples include Cucosa Export, De Lauwseizoensexpo,
Vreemde Eenden, Nieuw Space and z.t. (Project Rotterdam).
Cucosa has always been independent and autonomous.
The group has no director and no centralised policy.
Each individual action or decision leads to the development
of a contribution to the whole. The Stadsredactie has invited the artists of Cucosa to implement their practice within
Cut for Purpose.
www.cucosa.nl
Fruitport at work
MARCH 8 – APRIL 2
The design collective Fruitport has worked in Rotterdam’s
Fruithaven since 2005. In this 3-week period they have
been invited to create an installation in Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen. Surrounded by classic design objects from
the museum’s permanent collection and imprisoned within
the cardboard installation they will work on the position of
their own practice.
www.theseflocks.com
www.demakersvan.com
www.jorislaarman.com
Strange Attractors at work:
Big Type Says More
ACT 1: FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 10
ACT 2: APRIL 11 – APRIL 14
Ryan Pescatore Frisk (USA) and Catelijne van Middelkoop
(NL) are the founding partners of Strange Attractors Design,
an international studio specialising in typography and
(brand) communication for print, motion and interactive
media. This year they were included in I.D. Magazine’s
world-renowned list – the I.D. Forty – of the world’s most
promising new talent. In his article – in the same magazine
- on the duo, Max Bruinsma describes them as two young
designers with a mission: the de-criminalisation of ornament! Having earned graduate degrees from Cranbrook
Academy of Art, they know their trade and its history, but
happen to disagree with some of its bedrock doctrines.
Strange Attractors hopes to bring new eyes to bear on what
Modernism once rebelled against: the traditions of craft,
calligraphy and decoration.
In Cut for Purpose Catelijne van Middelkoop and Ryan Pescatore Frisk bring the cardboard to life with a larger than
man-sized 3-D billboard. Inspired by the (surroundings of)
Rotterdam, they function as the project’s graphic masters
of the vernacular: Big Type Says More.
www.strangeattractors.com
The Crooswijk Meteorite
FEBRUARY 18 – APRIL 23
The Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam commissioned
the artist Susanne Kriemann (D/NL) to make a work for a
site on the canal in the Crooswijk district of Rotterdam.
Because Crooswijk is a neighbourhood in flux with a
multi-cultural population, she wanted to make a work that
would be recognisable to all and would speak to everyone’s
imagination.
In 2004, via the internet, Kriemann discovered the trail
of the Willamette meteorite, which crashed to earth in
Alberta, Canada and is now housed in the Museum of
Natural History in New York. When Ellis Hughes discovered
the meteorite at the beginning of the twentieth century,
many pieces were hacked off it and sold; they are now in
museum collections all over the world. By email Kriemann
did a lot of research about the various fragments, both
originals and copies. She finally had a replica of the
meteorite made in China based on all the photographs and
descriptions of its many parts and had it shipped to Rotterdam. It is a story of re-location, in which the original
and replica are combined. This fusion is an important motif
in Kriemann’s work, in which she establishes relationships
between elements such as ‘fact’, ‘fiction’ and (virtual) time.
Until the end of April the meteorite will be housed within
A Certain Brazilianness:
The Sound Track Stage
Ambition
MARCH 21 – APRIL 23
Since 2003 Robbert de Vrieze (NL), the third person
selected from the Open Call, has worked under the name
Gevonden Ontwerpen (Found Designs) in Rotterdam on a
broad range of products, interiors and buildings. The challenge of these designs and projects is to give form to the
existing potential of a space, a site, a thing or an organisation within a functional solution. For Cut for Purpose De
Vrieze will be captured on a high-speed camera as he leaps
over a crowd-control barrier. The freeze-frame silhouetted images of his run-up and leap will be transferred to
the cardboard walls and cut out. Like the photographic
experiments of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), this will
result in a sequence of frames that describe the movement
in cardboard. As he comes to a sudden standstill at the end
of the run, the silhouettes crash into each other creating a
sculpture of collided frames.
www.gevondenontwerpen.nl
SPECIAL EVENTS
Curious Little Sister Throws a Meteorite
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 AT 7.30 PM
An evening about fiction, simulation and science. Susanne
Kriemann made a replica of the famous Willamette meteorite, which will be sited in Crooswijk in Rotterdam in the
spring. She gives an introduction to the various manifestations of the Willamette meteorite: the original, the copies
and the various fragments of the meteorite that can be
found in museum collections around the world. For her
evening on Friday February 24 she has invited the following people to the Straatgalerij: architect Monika Konrad
will talk about ‘crater zoom design’ the future site she has
designed for The Crooswijk Meteorite. Franz Brandstätter
(curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna) will
bring along an original piece of the Willamette Meteorite and will talk about the collecting and ‘exploring’ of
meteorites within museums and beyond and the theoretician Neil Leach will use examples such as Venice in Italy
and The Venetian resort, hotel and casino in Las Vegas to
discuss concepts such as assimilation, mimesis, mimicry
and identification.
Duplicates Pre-sale
MARCH 24 (6 PM – 10 PM)
Pre-sale of duplicate publications from the museum’s
library: 20 metres of book on sale.
Duplicates Sale
MARCH 25 (11 AM – 5 PM)
Sale of duplicate publications from the museum’s library:
20 metres of book on sale.
Curious Little Sister Opens Un-Common
Spaces
TUESDAY MARCH 28 AT 7.30 PM
Guests include Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, artistic director
of the Fondazione Olivetti in Rome and initiator of the
project Trans:it and Studio Popcorn’s Alex de Jong and
Marc Schuilenburg from Rotterdam.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi has explored with the project
Trans:it the definition of public space from a geo-cultural
perspective. Studio Popcorn will discuss the changes to
our built environment and public space. In their book
Mediapolis. Popular Culture and the Physical City (2006)
they describe how architecture and public space are made
manifest within a society whose concept of public space
since the 1970s has been governed by control.
www.fondazioneadrianolivetti.it
www.transiteurope.org
www.studiopopcorn.com
747 Live
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5 FROM 2 PM– 3.45 PM
747 Live (LLink) is a radio talk show with live music presented by John Buijsman. It is transmitted twice a week.
On Wednesday April 5 John Buijsman will make a place for
his studio and a special programme in the Cut for Purpose
structure.
747 AM / www.llink.nl
Films on monitor
A presentation of works by Bruce Nauman, Francesco
Jodice and three films from the Fondazione Olivetti.
During Curious Little Sister Cuts for Purpose a monitor will
show films that elucidate various aspects of the concept
‘space’. The works explore the experience of space and
the relationship of the individual to space; the definition
of public space and (artistic) interventions in the public realm; the exchangeability of urban space and Rotterdam’s
place in a global network of large cities.
Three films by Bruce Nauman (USA)
from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
FEB 21 – MARCH 12
In the three films Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a
Square (1968), Bouncing Two Balls Between the Floor and
Ceiling with Changing Rhythms (1967-68) and Walking
in an Exaggerated Manner on the Perimeter of a Square
(1968) we see Bruce Nauman traversing his studio space.
He explores his environment through repetitive movements
employing his own body as his medium thus establishing a
sense of intimacy with the viewer.
Fondazione Adriano Olivetti presents:
Trans:it: Moving Culture through
Europe, 2003 – 2005
MARCH 14 – APRIL 2
- The Invisible Community, 46 mins.
- Ruins for the Future, 46 mins.
- Fluid Cities, 33 mins.
Three years ago the Fondazione Olivetti’s artistic director
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi initiated a research project into
the meaning and definition of public space in various
European countries. This resulted in three films and the
publication The (Un) Common Place. Art, Public Space and
Urban Esthetics in Europe (Actar, 2005). The exploration
took the form of a journey starting in France and proceeding through various countries including the Netherlands,
Germany, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.
Pietromarchi and his team visited artists’ projects in the
public realm and talked to a variety of artists, architects,
curators and critics about the significance of public space in
their countries.
The project ‘Trans:it’ is a reflection on the artistic, creative
and political situation in various European countries dealing with concepts and phenomena such as multicultural integration, urban gentrification, identity, collective memory,
community and alienation.
www.fondazioneadrianolivetti.it
www.transiteurope.org
Francesco Jodice, The Secret Traces,
Perth, Naples, New York, 1998 - 2005
APRIL 4 - APRIL 23
DVD installation
In his ongoing project The Secret Traces Francesco Jodice
has so far explored twelve different cities around the world,
including Paris, Rotterdam, Naples, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Vancouver, Buenos Aires, Perth and New York. As a detective with a small camera at waist level, Jodice follows a local
person on his or her journey through the city. As his starting
poiny Jodice always selects a house that is typical of the
city. However, the destination is always unknown to him as
he simply follows the person on their way. The three hundred or so photographs that Jodice takes during the journey
are laid out in a sequence like an animated film. In the
background you hear the soundtrack of the city. Jodice’s
aim is to research the nature of an individual’s daily habits.
It is a comparative method of registering and measuring
people’s relationship to his or her (urban) environment.
www.francescojodice.com
For more information about
Curious Little Sister Cuts for Purpose
please contact Mirjam Gouweloos.
T +31 (0) 10 441 9561
E gouweloos@boijmans.rotterdam.nl
www.boijmans.nl