Wall House #2: Newsletter November 2006
• RICHARD SAXTON – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE March-May 2007
In the second week of March 2007, the American architect-artist Richard Saxton will move into the Wall House. He will stay in the House for a period of three months.
Saxton is the founder of the Municipal workshop in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and is responsible for projects involving art in public space there. He integrates many disciplines in these projects (see www.municipalworkshop.org). During his stay, he will give shape, in agreement with the Wall House Foundation, to the proposal he submitted.
• ARTIST IN RESIDENCE October-December 2007
Twenty people enrolled for the artist-in-residence period from October-December 2007. The selection committee, consisting of David Stroband, Mirjam de Meijer and Christine de Baan, has chosen Luis Hernández Galván from Mexico City (www.ungravity.org) for this period. Galván submitted a proposal entitled ‘Spacetime gaming’.
• THOUGHT PROVOKING, SENSE PROVOKING
‘Thought provoking, sense provoking’ (working title), a project in conjunction with Noorderlicht Fotografie.
This project is well under way. Thomas Kellner, Bill Jacobson, Beth Yarnelle Edwards and Isabelle Hayeur have all lived in the house for a week.
The schedule for the last four photographers is as follows:
Mitra Tabrizian (Iran): 13 Dec – 21 Dec
Mitra Tabrizian was born in Teheran and studied film and photography at the Academy of Westminster in London, the city where she now lives and works. In her work she combines documentary photography with reporting and advertising photography, covering particularly the fundaments of cultural identities. In her work, she places people literally in situations where, at first sight, they do not belong.
Wijnanda Deroo (Netherlands, 1959): 2 Jan – 6 Jan
Wijnanda Deroo is one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers. She taught at the Academy of Art in Anheim and at the Academie St. Joost in Breda, and now lives alternately in Amsterdam and New York. She has made series on landscapes, mobile homes, and stylized colourful interiors. Her work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
For more information, please see: www.wijnandaderoo.com
Danwen Xing (China, 1967): will specify when
Danwen Xing is one of China’s most prominent photographers. She began photographing when that medium was still in its infancy in China. Danwen Xing is mainly concerned with the rapid changes taking place in world metropoles. He work was also displayed at the Noorderlicht Fotomanifestatie 2005, Traces & Omens. (www.danwen.com)
Anoek Steketee (Netherlands, 1974): 22 Jan – 28 Jan
As one of the Netherlands’ photographic talents, Anoek Steketee makes portraits that are situated at the interface of fiction and reality. She asked passers-by in Havana and Teheran to act in an imaginary film scene in which they played themselves. With her pictures, Steketee investigates the position of the individual in society to which different regulations (e.g., social and legal) apply.
The exhibition will be held from 20 July – 1 September in the gallery of Noorderlicht and in the Wall House #2.
• OUTSIDER KARAOKE – PETER DE KAN
Peter de Kan lived in the Wall House in the last week of 2006 and the first week of 2007. His assignment concerned a contribution to the debate on the creative city.
The concept of ‘city’ is not a clearly defined one. Each citizen has a different version of the city in his or her head. These are referred to as ‘mental maps’ and the graphic designer and artist Peter de Kan went looking for these.
He gave 100 people the assignment to deliberate on their city. What does ‘urbanity’ look like to them? When do they experience the notion of ‘city’? Where is their city located? Each participant was given a blank map on which he or she could design the mental map. The maps will be displayed in the Wall House (17 February to 3 March 2007, subject to alteration).
• OPEN MONUMENT DAY
The Open Monument Day on Saturday 9 September was a great success. In conjunction with Platform GRAS and Egbert Pikkemaat (illustrator/visual artist) a project was developed for children between 8 and 12 years old.
Egbert first walked around the building with the children. He told them about the shape of the house and the role that the past, present and future play. Inside the house, the walls and floors were covered in cardboard, on which the children could create their own work of art inspired by the past and the future. With regard the ‘the present’, the children made an ‘action painting’. They were given a few minutes to indulge themselves on a large sheet of paper. This sheet was suspended in the door opening. The children stepped from the past, through the paper, into the future. A photograph of this moment was taken and the children were given it to take home.
Photos of this day will placed on the website in the near future.
For more information on Egbert Pikkemaat, please see www.studiofier.nl or www.beroepskunstenaarsindeklas.nl
• PUBLICATION
The photographer Isabel Hayeur has donated the following book to the Wall House:
• AGENDA 2006/2007
13-21 December: Mitra Tabrizian
2–6 January: Wijnanda Deroo
22-28 January: Anoek Steketee
17 February - 3 March: Outsider Karaoke
17 March - 30 May: Richard Saxton
1 June - 14 July: Richard Saxton exhibition
23/24 June: Architecture Day
20 July - 1 September: Thought provoking, sense provoking
16-26 August: Noorderzon
8/9 September: Open Monument Day
October-December: Luis Hernández Galván
Stichting Wall House #2, p/a Hofstraat 21, 9712 JA Groningen, The Netherlands. www.wallhouse.nl
In the second week of March 2007, the American architect-artist Richard Saxton will move into the Wall House. He will stay in the House for a period of three months.
Saxton is the founder of the Municipal workshop in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and is responsible for projects involving art in public space there. He integrates many disciplines in these projects (see www.municipalworkshop.org). During his stay, he will give shape, in agreement with the Wall House Foundation, to the proposal he submitted.
• ARTIST IN RESIDENCE October-December 2007
Twenty people enrolled for the artist-in-residence period from October-December 2007. The selection committee, consisting of David Stroband, Mirjam de Meijer and Christine de Baan, has chosen Luis Hernández Galván from Mexico City (www.ungravity.org) for this period. Galván submitted a proposal entitled ‘Spacetime gaming’.
• THOUGHT PROVOKING, SENSE PROVOKING
‘Thought provoking, sense provoking’ (working title), a project in conjunction with Noorderlicht Fotografie.
This project is well under way. Thomas Kellner, Bill Jacobson, Beth Yarnelle Edwards and Isabelle Hayeur have all lived in the house for a week.
The schedule for the last four photographers is as follows:
Mitra Tabrizian (Iran): 13 Dec – 21 Dec
Mitra Tabrizian was born in Teheran and studied film and photography at the Academy of Westminster in London, the city where she now lives and works. In her work she combines documentary photography with reporting and advertising photography, covering particularly the fundaments of cultural identities. In her work, she places people literally in situations where, at first sight, they do not belong.
Wijnanda Deroo (Netherlands, 1959): 2 Jan – 6 Jan
Wijnanda Deroo is one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers. She taught at the Academy of Art in Anheim and at the Academie St. Joost in Breda, and now lives alternately in Amsterdam and New York. She has made series on landscapes, mobile homes, and stylized colourful interiors. Her work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
For more information, please see: www.wijnandaderoo.com
Danwen Xing (China, 1967): will specify when
Danwen Xing is one of China’s most prominent photographers. She began photographing when that medium was still in its infancy in China. Danwen Xing is mainly concerned with the rapid changes taking place in world metropoles. He work was also displayed at the Noorderlicht Fotomanifestatie 2005, Traces & Omens. (www.danwen.com)
Anoek Steketee (Netherlands, 1974): 22 Jan – 28 Jan
As one of the Netherlands’ photographic talents, Anoek Steketee makes portraits that are situated at the interface of fiction and reality. She asked passers-by in Havana and Teheran to act in an imaginary film scene in which they played themselves. With her pictures, Steketee investigates the position of the individual in society to which different regulations (e.g., social and legal) apply.
The exhibition will be held from 20 July – 1 September in the gallery of Noorderlicht and in the Wall House #2.
• OUTSIDER KARAOKE – PETER DE KAN
Peter de Kan lived in the Wall House in the last week of 2006 and the first week of 2007. His assignment concerned a contribution to the debate on the creative city.
The concept of ‘city’ is not a clearly defined one. Each citizen has a different version of the city in his or her head. These are referred to as ‘mental maps’ and the graphic designer and artist Peter de Kan went looking for these.
He gave 100 people the assignment to deliberate on their city. What does ‘urbanity’ look like to them? When do they experience the notion of ‘city’? Where is their city located? Each participant was given a blank map on which he or she could design the mental map. The maps will be displayed in the Wall House (17 February to 3 March 2007, subject to alteration).
• OPEN MONUMENT DAY
The Open Monument Day on Saturday 9 September was a great success. In conjunction with Platform GRAS and Egbert Pikkemaat (illustrator/visual artist) a project was developed for children between 8 and 12 years old.
Egbert first walked around the building with the children. He told them about the shape of the house and the role that the past, present and future play. Inside the house, the walls and floors were covered in cardboard, on which the children could create their own work of art inspired by the past and the future. With regard the ‘the present’, the children made an ‘action painting’. They were given a few minutes to indulge themselves on a large sheet of paper. This sheet was suspended in the door opening. The children stepped from the past, through the paper, into the future. A photograph of this moment was taken and the children were given it to take home.
Photos of this day will placed on the website in the near future.
For more information on Egbert Pikkemaat, please see www.studiofier.nl or www.beroepskunstenaarsindeklas.nl
• PUBLICATION
- John Gendall, ‘Inside the Wall (House 2)’, Architectural Record, September 2006, 216
- Break through the wall!', Bikbrief, vol. 2 (November 2006), 14-15
The photographer Isabel Hayeur has donated the following book to the Wall House:
- John Hejduk, The Lancaster/Hanover Masque, Architectural Association London & Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1992
• AGENDA 2006/2007
13-21 December: Mitra Tabrizian
2–6 January: Wijnanda Deroo
22-28 January: Anoek Steketee
17 February - 3 March: Outsider Karaoke
17 March - 30 May: Richard Saxton
1 June - 14 July: Richard Saxton exhibition
23/24 June: Architecture Day
20 July - 1 September: Thought provoking, sense provoking
16-26 August: Noorderzon
8/9 September: Open Monument Day
October-December: Luis Hernández Galván
Stichting Wall House #2, p/a Hofstraat 21, 9712 JA Groningen, The Netherlands. www.wallhouse.nl
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