POORTGEBOUW
SATELLITE
DURING DUTCH ELECTRONIC
ART FESTIVAL
NOV. 17-21 2004
OPEN
ACTIE CAFÉ
16.00 - 20.00 DAILY
EVENING
PROGRAMS
WED.
NOV 17
THURS. NOV 18
FRI. NOV 19
SUN. NOV 21
LINKS:
Het Poortgebouw Stieltjesstraat 38
Kop van Zuid
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Metro Wilhelminaplein,
Tram 20 & Bus 49
[ Contact ]
[ 16.00 - 20.00 ]
The monumental Poortgebouw is a living and working space for international artists, musicians, students and others. After 25 years, the existence of the group is threatened by the current owner’s plans to develop the building into expensive offices. The Poortgebouw invites visitors to the five-day Open Action Café to experience the benefits and struggles to sustain an “open social system”. Diverse installations enable interaction with the stories and strategies implicit in an urban freespace. With performances, films, guided tours & more.
A SMALL SELECTION:
The
Ancestral Gallery 1980-2004
Embark on a journey
through almost 25 years history of the Poortgebouw living group and the
broad range of cultural and political activities and actions which emerged
from this dynamic social network. Climbing the monumental staircase with
the visitor is a 50 meter long installation of collaged archive material
with portraits of various individuals who were and are involved. A work-in-progress
by many generations of the Vereniging Poortgebouw.
The
Great Spectator Distortion Project
- Bart Meijer (2004)
Interactive Sound Installation/Performance consisting of 15 intercoms
and babyphones. Deconstructed microphones and intercom loudspeakers are
strategically spread throughout the 1000 m2 attic space of the Poortgebouw
to create feedback. In improvised performances, the various devices are
triggered to create a soundscape integrating the input and reactions of
the visitors.
Banner
Throughout the years,
the unique design of the Poortgebouw with a busy street running underneath
this "gate building" has been appropriated by the inhabitants with banners
to express their views and concerns to the public. An installation of
a beamed "banner" through a prism animates 3 of the distinctive windows
over the street with various messages, video art and improvised shadow
plays. Collaborative work: Aron den Boer,
Marieke Haandrikman,
Jup
de Heer, Innbetween.
and much more...
[
19.00 - 21.00 ]
Poortgebouw
Eetcafé
A connecting thread
throughout the decades has been the vegetarian eetcafé every Sunday
and Wednesday. It is the primary “open window” of the Poort
offering a “gezellig” meeting place for inhabitants and friends
to share an affordable three course meal. The “eetcafé”
is a common strategy of urban freezones of Holland —perhaps less
familiar for international visitors— and plays a key role in networking
amongst individuals and groups involved in such “open social systems”
as the Poortgebouw.
[ 21.00 - 23.00
]
FILM:
European Newsreal
Screening episodes13-15
of Monthly Indymedia Video Magazine.
The European Newsreal is an independent media network of regional production
and screening groups for the European wide distribution of copy-left videos
covering issues ignored or distorted by the corporate media. The European
Newsreal will be a platform to promote and empower groups and campaigns
working towards positive social change, a world without repressive borders,
exclusion and exploitation of human beings and our environment. Independent
video makers from all over Europe contribute short video clips to a production
team which puts them together to form a monthly video program of half
an hour.
http://www.antenna.nl/organicchaos/enr.html
[ 19.00 - 24.00
]
BLACK LODGE FILM: Century
of the Self
Black
Lodge promotes, organizes and participates in cultural events that
deal with the darker side of art and life providing an alternative to
the existing mundane cultural circus by staging events that are perhaps
not easily digestible, but are challenging in every possible artistic
and psychological aspect.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.” —Edward Bernays
CENTURY OF THE
SELF (243min.
- 2002)
“To
many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate
expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people.
Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really?
The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story
of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States.
How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund
Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public
relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund’s devoted daughter; and present-day
PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud. Sigmund Freud’s
work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the
world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud
provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses.
Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political
spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society’s belief that the pursuit
of satisfaction and happiness is man’s ultimate goal.”
Text from
BBC4 Page
episode
1 - Happiness Machines
episode 2 - The Engineering of Consent
episode 3 - There is a policeman inside all our heads: he must be destroyed
episode 4 - Eight people sipping wine in Kettering
RELATED LINKS
- OBSERVER 2002 - How Freud got under our skin
- GUARDIAN
REVIEW OF ADAM CURTIS’ NEW PROJECT:
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
- INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD BERNAYS
- BILDERBERG.ORG - “The High Priests of Glovalisation”
[ 20.00 - 24.00
]
DARK
ELECTRONICA PROJECTS:
Der Unsichtbare + Analogue Pagans
+ Kassen + Signograph
Der
Unsichtbare (D)
The leading man behind
“Der Unsichtbare” is BEN ZOL from Augsburg, South-Germany. BEN
ZOL is dj-ing since 1986 and was involved in various musical projects
before he founded “Der Unsichtbare” in 2001. BEN ZOL often works
together with his co-producer C.KENT (Charly Kent) from Düsseldorf,
North-West-Germany. For Live-Gigs of “Der Unsichtbare” BEN ZOL
and C.KENT basically perform as a duo. Their music they release mainly
on the german electro label “Kommando 6”. “Der Unsichtbare”
composes music in various styles, - from more soundtrack-like atmospheric
tracks (containing movie samples), across electronic pop to pumpin’
tracks for the dancefloor. The musical roots of “Der Unsichtbare”
can definitely be located in the “German New Wave” music, which
happened between 1979 and 1982. Besides there are influences from “british
heavy metal”, Electro and Movie Soundtracks. As yet they have released
a limited LP on Kommando 6 in 2002 (“Die elektronische Kindheit”)
and some contributions on compilations of other labels. Beginnng 2005
there will be finally released new tracks on Kommando 6. It will be a
Split_Ep with C.Kent, called “Echtzeitreise”.
http://www.der-unsichtbare.de/
Analogue
Pagans (R:DAM)
A performance by Analogue
Pagans is a journey through a continuously changing sound landscape. A
journey to an unknown territory in improvised elektro-acoustic music.
Everyday objects transform into exceptional sound sources, familiar noises
are manipulated and transform into phonation from another world and new
sounds are summoned from diverse instruments: pre-digital sound machines,
recent electronics and unique self-made generators.
Kassen
(NL)
http://kassen.mine.nu/
Signograph
(D)
http://www.suburbz.de/
[ 19.00 -
21.00 ]
Poortgebouw
Eetcafé
A connecting thread
throughout the decades has been the vegetarian eetcafé every Sunday
and Wednesday. It is the primary “open window” of the Poort
offering a “gezellig” meeting place for inhabitants and friends
to share an affordable three course meal. The “eetcafé”
is a common strategy of urban freezones of Holland —perhaps less
familiar for international visitors— and plays a key role in networking
amongst individuals and groups involved in such “open social systems”
as the Poortgebouw.
[ 21.00 - 23.00 ]
Film
& Discussion:
Establishing and
sustaining self-run spaces
The inhabitants of the Poortgebouw are currently working on an alternative
renovation plan and usage concept. This evening looks at recent innovative
plans of comparable urban “freezones” such as the Grote
Pyr in Den Haag. Experts and special guests from our network illustrate
their experiences establishing sustainable living and working forms for
the 21 century. Including film of Poortgebouw’s recent visit to the
Grote Pyr by Jup de Heer.
POORTGEBOUW
OPEN ACTIE CAFÉ
MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
Amt der NÖ
Landesregierung Abteilung Kultur & Wissenschaft
INNBETWEEN