Auke Hulst schreef met ‘Motel songs’ een indringend en muzikaal reisboek over de kracht van kunst en de schaduw van de dood. âTime held me green and dying / though I sang in my chains like the sea.â â Dylan Thomas Medio 2016 reed Auke Hulst van de Amerikaanse Oostkust naar de Westkust, dwars door het achterland van Trump, op zoek naar sporen van literaire en muzikale helden, met een auto vol muziekinstrumenten en opnameapparatuur. Motel Songs brengt hem van F. Scott Fitzgeralds graf in Rockville, Maryland naar diens geboortehuis in St. Paul, Minnesota, naar Memphis, Tennessee, waar Jeff Buckley in een shotgun shack woonde en in de Wolf River verdronk; naar Ketchum, Idaho, waar Ernest Hemingway zich door het hoofd schoot, en naar Seattle, waar Kurt Cobain hetzelfde deed. Daarnaast bevat het verhalen over Philip K. Dick en Prince en essays over zelfmoord, opgroeien met Amerikaanse soft power en urban exploration. Motel songs gaat vergezeld van het gelijknamige album, dat Hulst onderweg schreef en opnam in motel- en hotelkamers.
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Riksa Afiaty
Power & Other Things
The project takes its name from the demand for the transfer of power and other things to the newly independent Indonesia in 1945. It travels through time, from European colonial occupation through the development of the republican state to the trans-national contemporary cultures of today. It looks at the various international exchanges that happened in the territories of contemporary Indonesia, through the images and ideas of artists. These exchanges were of different kinds: trade, culture, religion, ideology and war. They produced a variety of results: violence, oppression, racism, creativity, spiritual awakening, and other things. The ideologies and challenges of modernity are common ways in which Indonesia has been depicted by others and has defined itself over the period. As this modern period recedes into history, the project will seek ways to remember how it has influenced contemporary understanding and ask the current generation of artists to look back in order to rewrite the past and potentially create the conditions for a different future. The catalogue and the exhibition will follow a broad chronological narrative, allowing readers and visitors to learn more about how this huge archipelago has changed over the past two centuries and to observe how it has responded and adapted to influences originating from both inside and outside the islands. The influence of the imperial Dutch and Japanese occupations naturally form a significant element in the narrative of the exhibition as does the constant struggle for different forms of independence or equal treatment by the Javanese and other Indonesian cultures. The importance of Chinese and Arab influence on Indonesia's cultural history will also feature as the exhibition tries to look for alternative ways, alongside the post-colonial, for understanding the present. The presentations will include work made during the residencies as well as new commissions.kunst
Mark van Schaick
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De grungebeweging stond nog in de kinderschoenen toen Pearl Jam-zanger Eddie Vedder zijn eerste telefoongesprekken voerde met journalisten in Europa. Na de release van de single Alive en debuutalbum Ten ging het keihard met de band. Nog voor de eerste keer dat Pearl Jam in Nederland zou optreden, reisde Mark van Schaick als verslaggever van 'Oor' naar Seattle voor een ontmoeting met Eddie Vedder. Dankzij dit vroege contact kreeg Mark de band de daaropvolgende jaren nog een handvol keren te spreken, zij het binnen steeds strakkere kaders. De gesprekken tonen het bijzondere groeiproces van de band. Andere bands uit Seattle stegen tot grote hoogten maar doofden ook weer uit. Pearl Jam raakte echter stevig verankerd in de muziek business en groeide uit tot een van de vaste waarden van de Amerikaanse rockmuziek. Mark sprak met Eddie Vedder en andere leden van Pearl Jam, met Chris Cornell en de rest van Soundgarden, met Layne Staley van Alice in Chains en met een aantal mensen om deze bands heen. Samen schetsen de verhalen een beeld van de kleine, hechte muziekscene waar Seattle in de jaren negentig wereldberoemd om werd.kunst
America in black and white
'America in black and white' is the stunning early work of John G. Zimmerman, a true icon of American photography. His massive oeuvre gives a unique panorama of American life and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. This publication presents a selection of black-and-white pictures, shot between 1950 and 1978, which show the rough and uncut visual ingenuity of Zimmerman. Zimmerman was a man of many facets and his pictures cover a diversity of subjects, ranging from sports, fashion, arts and architecture to politics and the Jim Crow South of the 1950s. From producing whimsical ads to covering exclusive stories for mainstream magazines such as Life, Time, Sports Illustrated and Paris Match, from photographing the Beatles to shooting the disastrous fire at a General Motors plant. Zimmerman could do it all and did it ? always pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium. In his endless search for a new visual language and the essence of movement, he created whatever he needed to make the seemingly impossible possible. John G. Zimmerman was a refined chronicler, who wanted to depict every sphere of society, but above all wanted to see, to see more, to see it all.kunst
