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Kleren maken de man/vrouw
Interview met modeontwerper Ties Princen
July 6th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
Aanstaande zaterdag presenteert ontwerper Ties Princen zijn collectie ‘Le Rossignol de Lilas’ tijdens Golden Nights bij Mediamatic. Recentelijk liet hij deze nieuwe herenlijn al zien op de Mode Biennale in Arnhem. Le Rossignol de Lilas (‘de nachtegaal onder de lelies’) is gebaseerd op achttiende-eeuwse bloemstillevens. Met borduursels, kant en bloemenprints rekt Ties onze veronderstellingen over mannelijkheid op tot het uiterste.
Ook in je vorige collecties La Image Percue en je ArtEZ afstudeerwerk Persuasion (2008) verkende je de grens tussen mannelijkheid en vrouwelijkheid. Naar mijn idee is niet jouw bedoeling om een grens te overtreden. Klopt het dat je juist wil laten zien dat deze grens een illusie is?
Ties: “Het heeft te maken met conformisme. We krijgen van jongs af aan te horen wat mannelijk en wat vrouwelijk is. Ik vraag me af waarom dat zo is. Voor La Image ...
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Party
Michael Jackson Farewell party
Dancing and crying all the way to the bank
June 27th, 2009, posted by: Esther Slotema
Friday 26th of June 2009 Mediamatic hosted a Farewell party for the King of Pop. From all over Amsterdam and other cities in the country people came to the Mediamatic BANK to pay their respects and do what MJ loved to do, dance. We remembered the time with videos and over 40 years of music by this legend. Visitors could sign the Goodbye Michael Jackson condolence register with their ikTag. These sympathies were streamed live to the Mediamatic website and to Twitter. It was a night to remember!
Oil on canvas portrait of Michael Jackson dressed as king -
Signed and dated 1995 by Norman Oak, undated photo released by Julien's Auction
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Expecting the unexpected
A conversation with Osama Dawod
June 26th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
Prior to Osama's artist talk at the Out of Place salon, I spoke with him about his work.
Osama Dawod is a photographer from Egypt. He spent the past two years in the United States to obtain his Master of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute in California. This summer he is returning to Cairo. Next year he is coming back to Mediamatic, together with ten other Cairene artists, who will all be making new work on site in Amsterdam-Noord for the Bint El Dunya project.
Rosetta
We sit down and I ask Osama to tell me a bit about Rosetta (2006- ), one of his long term projects. It is a photo series about a town on the coast of Egypt. As a result of climate changes it has become increasingly difficult for the citizens of Rosetta to continue their fishing and farming industries. Many of the men have tried to reach Europe by boat in search of a better life, but most of them were sent back. Osama’s pictures show desolate views of the town. Som...
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“I don’t think the world is waiting for t–shirts fitted with LEDs”
Interview with Nadya Peek
June 5th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
This month at Mediamatic Nadya Peek is heading a series of workshops about wearable technology; technology applied to clothing. Participants will be working on their own garments, to make it beep when you talk, or light up when somebody touches you. Nadya is a former employee of Mediamatic and currently a researcher at MIT, the Massachussets Institute of Technology in Boston. All workshops are fully booked, but Nadya is also giving a lecture on the 17th, together with colleague Jeffrey Warren. She will now share some information on wearables with us, as well as her thoughts on how this technology might develop in the future.
One of Nadya's most recent projects is Caché. Caché consists of a website and a dress. On the Caché website visitors can click on pictures of a number of body parts; a knee, an arm or a shoulder. This sends out a Bluetooth signal to the area of the dress that covers the body part in question, and it then produces a clicking sound. So whenever Nadya wears her dress, she knows exactly when somebody is checking out her website and her photographs. ...
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Festival , Performance
The End must go on
A performance by João Evangelista and Felix Kubin
May 25th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
"Or how to survive midnight without becoming a pumpkin in 10 easy steps"
During the early hours of Saturday evening, João Evangelista organized a collective choreography in the city, called ‘Sphynx says: Follow the white rabbit’. All participants received cryptic mobile phone text messages that guided them through the streets of Amsterdam.
"Safety helmets must be worn at all times on this site. Last words of Mary Celeste: 23 november 11 hours morning Latitude 36, Longitude 27 good weather".
The End must go on, performance at Mediamatic Bank.
Those who hadn’t lost their sense of direction ended up at Mediamatic around 21:00 hrs for The End must go on. The End must go on was the conclusion of Density +-0, a series of dance performances carried out at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Amsterdam. Density +-0 is the contribution of Violet Bureau to the art manifestation My Name is Spinoza. It takes as a starting point Gilles Deleuze’...
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Festival , Performance
Parallax
Performance by Zhana Ivanova
May 15th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
As the four actors moved around the stage, never noticing one another but never once bumping into each other, I kept holding my nape from curling up. I was looking for two girls that, in my mind’s eye, were controlling these actors from above the stage, like dolls, being played with in the same dollhouse, but refusing to do so with one other.
Parallax by Zhana Ivanova, at Mediamatic Bank on May 13 2009.
But Parallax was no child’s play. The time-based art piece, directed by Bulgarian artist Zhana Ivanova and presented Wednesday at the Mediamatic Bank, offered a meticulously written script, a complex - yet perfectly executed - choreography and wide open spaces for the audience to let go their imagination.
The characters, paired into two opposite-sex couples, give the audience bits of their stories through simple lines and short dialogues that would overlap, flow and occasionally mak...
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