The sky is gray en it drizzles; not the perfect circumstances to open the Wereld van de Witte de With festival. Despite the rain it is a crowded affair on the festival terrain at Museumplein and on the Witte de With street. Crew members, volunteers and artists pass you by surly: busybusybusybusy. While the men from Exyzt drive by with carts full of wooden furniture and houses, the communication team…
Gyz La Rivière published the famous Rotterdam newspaper The Eksit one more time especially during Wereld van de Witte de With. He interviewed the old Guard of the Eksit pop venue and the Eksit paper from the 70ies and early 80ies. But he also asked the young Rotterdam scene who have their own ideas on the paper and Rotterdam. This piece is an interview with one of the…
Via a high wall and a rickety stairs we enter the shed where Protei is being build. Protei is the brainchild of artist Cesar Harada who lives in New Orleans that was hit by the oil disaster in 2010. BP’s DeepWater Horizon drilling platform broke down and tons of oil flooded the ocean which also hit New Orleans. Cesar took this disaster as starting point of his project where…
The city and how it is established and ordered does not only play a central role in the minds of government employees, urban planners and architects: designing and ordering the built environment with all its implications is also a central topic of discussion of a new generation of young visual artists. They see the city in all its chaotic beauty and challenging diversity as their most important laboratory for experiments. …
