Het Wilde Weten
Doors open 6.30 pm.
7 – 9.30 pm.

4 times a year Rotterdam Artists in Residence organizes an Artist Talk at Het Wilde Weten. This evening 8 current Artists in Residence show their work and tell about the plans for their stay in Rotterdam. The presentations are 10 minutes each.
www.hetwildeweten.nl

With: Jean Charles de Quillacq (FR) www.jeancharlesdequillacq.com, Tetsushi Higashino (JP)  www.workth.net, Johanne Birkeland (NO), Ellen Henriette Suhrke (NO) www.ellensuhrke.com, Mathijs van Geest (NL)
www.mathijsvangeest.nl, Inge Aanstoot (NL) www.ingeaanstoot.nl Paula Petroll (GER) www.paulapetroll.com and Simona Da Pozzo (IT) www.simonadapozzo.net

Art Rotterdam event: RAiR#4

Bike Tour
with Rotterdam ByCycle

Time: from 3 until 5:30 PM on Saturday, February 11
Location: In front of Art Rotterdam
Cruise Terminal, Wilhelminakade 699
Price: €6,- Including bike hire
Reservations: info@rotterdambycycle.nl

As an official Art Rotterdam event, Rotterdam Artists in Residence is organising a bike tour for the public to see all of the international artists who are in town for a temporary working period. The tour visits residency presentations and performances at: Re:Rotterdam, Het Wilde Weten’s Open Studios and WildBookMarket and the Echo Park Film Center who will serve us a picnic with film screening in WORM.

Artists in Residence presentations at Re:Rotterdam

Artists in residence from foundation B.a.d, Duende, Het Wilde Weten, Kaus Australis, foundation NAC, CK12 and Kunst & Complex present their work at the RE:Rotterdam art fair.

Re:Rotterdam is one of three side events to the ArtRotterdam art fair, and provides a counter-point to the more established events by bringing vitality, and daring back into the fold. This event is organized by Galerie10 and affiliated galleries, network, artists, artist initiatives and sponsors, all on a non-profit basis. This event runs simultaneously to ArtRotterdam, at the Boompjes 60-68 in Rotterdam.

Artists in residence presenting their work include:
Mercedes Azpilicueta (AR), Jean-Charles de Quillacq (FR) http://www.jeancharlesdequillacq.com/, Tetsushi Higashino (JP) http://www.workth.net , Mathijs van Geest (NL) http://www.mathijsvangeest.nl, Joep Overtoom (NL) http://www.joepovertoom.nl/, Eileen Maxson (USA), http://eileenmaxson.com/ Arie Bouwman (NL) http://theunbearablebeingoflightness.com/, Annabella Cuomo (IT) http://annabellacuomo.blogspot.com/, LucFosther Diop (CM) http://www.mobilityhubafrica.org/en/artists/2455, Ellen Henriette Suhrke (NO) http://www.ellensuhrke.com/, Johanne Birkeland Svendsen (NO), Bebe Beliz (TR), Simona Da Pozzo (IT) Paula Petrol (GER) and Daniela De Paulis (IT) http://www.danieladepaulis.com

Performances during the bike tour: Mercedes Azpilicueta and Bebe Beliz

For more information please visit http://www.rerotterdam.com/
RE:Rotterdam: 08.02.2012 – 12.02.2012. De Boompjes 60-68, Rotterdam.
Opening with preview lunch Wednesday February 8^th at 1pm

Het Wilde Weten – Open Studio’s & WildBookMarket (WBM)

During Art Rotterdam the artists’ initiative Het Wilde Weten will be opening its studios to the public. In January 2012 its residency space moved to the most hallowed part of this former monastery building – the chapel. The bike tour is a unique opportunity to visit the chapel for the presentations of its current artists in Residence Ellen Henriette Suhrke and Johanne Birkeland Svendsen (NO). Ellen and Johanne shall present their artists books and serve waffles. Johanne and Ellen are also founders of the Norwegian residency Hellebou, which since its founding has developed a strong Norwegian-Dutch network and has initiated many residencies for the artistic communities of both Notodden and Rotterdam

http://www.hellebou.net

There’s also an opportunity to visit the WBM (WildBookMarket), where an international collection of artists and publishers shall present their remarkable art books. WBM is the ideal opportunity to explore, buy or exchange artist’s books and this year the focus is on the phenomenon of the monograph.

http://www.hetwildeweten.nl/

The WildBookMarket opens on Friday 10 February at 7pm
Open Studios (+ WBM) Saturday 11^th and Sunday 12^th February, 2-7pm

Echo Park Film Center

Echo Park Film Center is a dynamic creative meeting place in L.A. for filmmakers and film lovers of all ages to come together in celebrating the magic of the moving image. Paolo Davanzo (founder and executive director of Echo Park) and Lisa Marr (operations director and youth film coordinator) have been invited by Worm and Hogeschool Rotterdam for their project ‘The Sound We See: A Rotterdam City Symphony’ – a DIY community filmmaking project for local youth. For the bike tour Paolo and Lisa invite you to their patio to enjoy a picnic with film screenings.

The Echo Park Film Center also runs a residency in L.A. where local film and video makers are invited to utilize their resources in creating and premiering new work over a four-week period.

http://echoparkfilmcenter.org
www.worm.org
www.hogeschoolrotterdam.nl

KAUS-ing Trouble- Sunday 29th of January- 5 – 8 PM
Program:

Work preview, by Joep Overtoom

Film: ‘Forty Shades of Grey’ by Nicky Larkin
The aim of this project was to create an experimental, feature-length, non-narrative film piece, shot on location in Israel and Palestine. Some very black and white ideas and opinions exist, particularly in Europe, when people think of this notorious hot-spot. This project aims to explore the forty shades of grey and the many stories that exist in between the definite black and white opinions that we are presented with daily in our western news media.
Directed by Nicky Larkin, produced by Gary Hoctor, funded by The Irish Arts Council Film Project Award 2010

Performance installation: ‘Tracking Rotterdam on Tour’ Michal Osowski & Karel Doing
An interactive performance installation in which fine arts, sound, video projection and the physical movement of the artist are integrated. Karel Doing will perform the act of live filming and the motion of his camera will be integrated with the sound. The results will be projected on three big screens all around, creating a hypnotic audio-visual environment in which the viewer is immersed.
Tracking Rotterdam is produced by ICU art projects foundation and supported by DKC Rotterdam and VSBfonds

Short performance: ‘sleeping on a chipboard floor’ by Mercedes Azpilicueta
Free entrance
Warm food and cheap drinks
Special thanks to Chris van Mulligen/Kaus Australis

Joep Overtoom
2012, 80 x 200 cm
Cardboard, adhesive tape.

Marijke Appelman was guest at De Derde Dinsdag to promote the bike tour RAiR is organizing as official site event of Art Rotterdam.
The bike tour will start February 11 at 3 pm. in front of Art Rotterdam. Enjoy a visit to WildBookMarket and open studio’s at Het Wilde Weten, RE: Rotterdam, performances and a picnic with films.

This edition of the monthly preview of Rotterdam upcoming art & culture program will be in V2 (7.30 PM) and will host a performance of Mercedes Azpilicueta, current resident of Kaus Australis. Also a preview on the bike tour we organize as official site program of Art Rotterdam (11 February, 3-5.30 PM).

Opening Sunday 22 January 2012, 16:00h
Poetry reading starts 17:00h

And open on 26 January, 18.00-19.00h
27, 28 and 29 January, 13.00-19.00h
(and by appointment, call: 010-4656879 / 06-30874206 or mail: mail@sarojinilewis.com)

The introduction of the ‘Merzbarn’ made by Kurt Schwitters, is the starting point for this solo exhibition. Window views seen from different living spaces are repeated aspects in the photographs that are combined with paintings.

Sarojini Lewis discusses the relationship between ‘state of mind’ and the psychological perception of landscapes. A transformation of feeling, which we have no control over, because it takes place in our subconscious.

Sarojini Lewis (NL, 1984) was guest at Het Wilde Weten in November and December 2011. She graduated in MFA Photography at Edinburgh College of Art in May 2011.

http://proyectorampa.net/rampa-residency-until-feb-1st/
Objectives:
Rampa is looking for artists interested in developing an art project in the context of the city of Madrid. Although it is not a prerequisite, Rampa’s working line deals with authors who not only are capable of producing high quality artistic results but who also question the formats and ways in which contemporary culture is delivered and shared.
Artist Carlos Fernández-Pello is part of Rampa and a former guest at Het Wilde Weten.

We are proud to welcome the new artists in residence of Het Wilde Weten, Duende, B.a.d, Kunst and Complex and Kaus Australis; Ellen Henriette Suhrke (NO), Johanne Birkeland (NO), Jean Charles de Quillacq (FR), Tetsushi Higashino (JP), Mathijs van Geest (NL), Inge Aanstoot (NL) and Machteld Solinger (NL).

Please check our residents page to see who is in town right now!

Untitled from Ellen Henriette Suhrke on Vimeo.

Lot’s of people came to the book launch;

Basel – Rotterdam
Rotterdam – Basel
10 Years of Artists in Residence and Cultural Exchange

And already short review on the website of Metropolis M http://metropolism.com/boeken/basel-rotterdam/

Eleni Kamma & Elliot Collins
Opening 16 December 7pm
Exhibition 17-18 December 2011 1-5pm
Tamboerstraat 9, Rotterdam

Artists Eleni Kamma and Elliot Collins present within the context of their artist-in-residency period at Duende the exhibition ‘a lone a last a loved a long the’.

Eleni Kamma’s work ranges a broad spectrum of media: scripts, videos, books, installations and drawings in which she addresses inherent gaps and contradictions within existing cultural narratives and structures.
These gaps are often objects or stories that, through the omission of their actual history, transform into stereo- types. By revisiting systems of classification and strategies of description and taxonomy, she examines the relation of the cliché, the banal and the stereotype, to the formation of history and the production of meaning. In her recent body of work she examines how words and images can co-exist and create meaning by disrupting it; make sense by seemingly letting meaning collapse.

Eleni Kamma has been working on the Rotterdam-part of a trilogy project. In Duende she will show the part situated in Jämtland, Sweden titled P like Politics, P like Parrots in which the amateur choir of the parish of Bräcke was asked to participate in a collaborative reading experiment of a two-page text. The text, P like Politics, shifts between the famous hand game, Paper-Rock-Scissors, and P-words chosen randomly from a 2003 speech by George Bush.

Eleni Kamma (CY/GR) 1973, lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht. Her work is presented internationally at: Wiels Project Room, Brussels 2010, Villa Romana, Florence 2012, IASPIS, Stockholm 2011, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2011, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht 2008.

Elliot Collins’ work starts from painterly concerns, but his practice is not directed at solely solving artistic issues. The paintings mostly consist of text and paint applied in a seemingly expressionist fashion. The nature of text often seems searching and poetic; probing the tentative space between viewer, maker and medium. Often these texts hint at reflections of a personal nature though maintaining a quality of generality.

Although at first glance expressionistic, his painting expresses a control and restraint. They point to the ambiguousness of them being construed. This apparent contradiction keeps the on-looker searching for the intention of the maker and the artwork, stressing the fact that we are looking for clues and answers, art’s core-business. Art here becomes the backdrop for communication in general. Collins’ concern lies in the space in between, the third space: the space between himself as the producer and the painting, the space between text and the painterly expression, the space between the on-looker and the artwork, the space between personal and the general.

Elliot Collins (N Z) 1983. Since graduating with an MA from Auckland University of Technology in 2007 he has been showing nationally and internationally. He has work in public and private art collections. He is represented by Tim Melville Gallery in Auckland and Bartley and Company Art in Wellington. He lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.

Made possible with the generous support of dKC Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur and Fonds BKVB.

Bubbles and Harlequins, 2009 HD animation, 4 min 51 sec, color, sound, English spoken