Wall House #2: Newsletter February 2007
• WALL HOUSE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
In connection with the Outsider Karaoke project by Peter de Kan, the Wall House will be open to the public on the following dates:
18 February
24 and 25 February
3 and 4 March
10 and 11 March
Hours of opening: 12.00-18.00
Admission
Adults: €4.50
Children: €2.00
Groningen City Pass (Stadjerspas): €2.00
Groningen City Child’s Pass: €1.00
60+: €2.00
'Wall House neighbour' (with pass): free
Address: A.J. Lutulistraat 17, Groningen
• OUTSIDER KARAOKE – PETER DE KAN
detail of a mental map
The Outsider Karaoke project will be launched in the Wall House on 17 February. Accordingly, the Wall House will be open to the public every weekend from 18 February to 11 March.
Peter de Kan:
‘Eighteen months ago Olof van de Wal of the Wall House asked me to think about a contribution to the ongoing discussion on the creative city. During a stay in the Wall House at the end of 2005 / beginning of 2006 I conceived the Outsider Karaoke project. We all have a city in our heads and this city is different to all of us, because each one of us functions differently, and uses the city in a separate way. This mental city is not restricted to your own city: if you can’t find a particular item, you just take it from another city. In short, the individual mental maps of the city probably do not coincide with the one issued by Falkplan (map producers), which gives us a flat picture of the hardware (streets, houses, parks, etc.). Perhaps the map in your head is three-dimensional instead?
I don’t quite know how it works, but it seemed to me to be worthwhile investigating these mental maps.’
• THOUGHT PROVOKING, SENSE PROVOKING
The Chinese photographer Danwen Xing (1967) is currently the artist in residence in the Wall House, in the context of Thought provoking, sense provoking. Danwen Xing (http://www.danwen.com/) is one of China’s most prominent photographers. She began photographing when the medium was still in its infancy in China. She devotes her attention primarily to the rapid changes currently taking place in modern metropoles. Her work was displayed at the Noorderlicht Photographic Manifestation in 2005, Traces & Omens.
Danwen Xing is the last of the eight photographers to stay in the Wall House.
The result of this photographic project will be exhibited in the Noorderlicht Gallery and in the Wall House.
The opening will be held on 21 July 2007 in the Noorderlicht Photo Gallery, where Meindert Talma will provide the musical backdrop.
• JAAP FELLOW BAKEMA
Tim de Boer (http://www.timdeboer.org/) has won the Jaap Fellow Bakema scholarship. It is a scholarship for speculative and exploratory (design) research, at the interface of architecture, technology, and society. The scholarship is awarded by the NAi. In connection with the research, it is possible to stay in the Wall House.
Tim de Boer will stay in the Wall House from 3 to 23 March. He will study terrorism, the city, and architecture. De Boer is interested in the paradoxes that issue from protecting society from terrorism. During his stay in the Wall House, he will give a lecture on his research. The precise time of this lecture is not yet known, but is will be posted on the Wall House website in the near future.
• NEW PUBLICATIONS
Alexander Levi & Amanda Schachter, Stanze ribelli: Immaginando lo spazio hacker, Rome 2006, 39-45
Stef van ’t Land, Alleen in een huis dat oogt als een kunstwerk, Photoq, 1 February 2007 (http://www.photoq.nl/specials.php?reportid=49)
Auke Hulst, Op bezoek in het polemische gebouw Wall House: Het vissekomgevoel, NRC, 19 January 2007
Elke Backert, Klein-Amsterdam ohne Sperrstunde. Groningen ist eine Kleinstadt der Superlative: jung und herrlich traditionell, in: Kölnische Rundschau 10 January 2007
• AGENDA 2007
4 February – 14 February: Danwen Xing (China)
17 February - 11 March: Outsider Karaoke
18 February: Wall House open to the public
24 and 25 February: Wall House open to the public
3 and 4 March: Wall House open to the public
10 and 11 March: Wall House open to the public
3 March – 23 March: Tim de Boer
25 March - 30 May: Richard Saxton
1 June - 14 July: Richard Saxton exhibition
23/24 June: Architecture Day
21 July - 1 September: Thought provoking, sense provoking
16-26 August: Noorderzon music and theatre festival
8/9 September: Open monument day
October - December: Luis Hernández Galván
In connection with the Outsider Karaoke project by Peter de Kan, the Wall House will be open to the public on the following dates:
18 February
24 and 25 February
3 and 4 March
10 and 11 March
Hours of opening: 12.00-18.00
Admission
Adults: €4.50
Children: €2.00
Groningen City Pass (Stadjerspas): €2.00
Groningen City Child’s Pass: €1.00
60+: €2.00
'Wall House neighbour' (with pass): free
Address: A.J. Lutulistraat 17, Groningen
• OUTSIDER KARAOKE – PETER DE KAN
detail of a mental map
The Outsider Karaoke project will be launched in the Wall House on 17 February. Accordingly, the Wall House will be open to the public every weekend from 18 February to 11 March.
Peter de Kan:
‘Eighteen months ago Olof van de Wal of the Wall House asked me to think about a contribution to the ongoing discussion on the creative city. During a stay in the Wall House at the end of 2005 / beginning of 2006 I conceived the Outsider Karaoke project. We all have a city in our heads and this city is different to all of us, because each one of us functions differently, and uses the city in a separate way. This mental city is not restricted to your own city: if you can’t find a particular item, you just take it from another city. In short, the individual mental maps of the city probably do not coincide with the one issued by Falkplan (map producers), which gives us a flat picture of the hardware (streets, houses, parks, etc.). Perhaps the map in your head is three-dimensional instead?
I don’t quite know how it works, but it seemed to me to be worthwhile investigating these mental maps.’
• THOUGHT PROVOKING, SENSE PROVOKING
The Chinese photographer Danwen Xing (1967) is currently the artist in residence in the Wall House, in the context of Thought provoking, sense provoking. Danwen Xing (http://www.danwen.com/) is one of China’s most prominent photographers. She began photographing when the medium was still in its infancy in China. She devotes her attention primarily to the rapid changes currently taking place in modern metropoles. Her work was displayed at the Noorderlicht Photographic Manifestation in 2005, Traces & Omens.
Danwen Xing is the last of the eight photographers to stay in the Wall House.
The result of this photographic project will be exhibited in the Noorderlicht Gallery and in the Wall House.
The opening will be held on 21 July 2007 in the Noorderlicht Photo Gallery, where Meindert Talma will provide the musical backdrop.
• JAAP FELLOW BAKEMA
Tim de Boer (http://www.timdeboer.org/) has won the Jaap Fellow Bakema scholarship. It is a scholarship for speculative and exploratory (design) research, at the interface of architecture, technology, and society. The scholarship is awarded by the NAi. In connection with the research, it is possible to stay in the Wall House.
Tim de Boer will stay in the Wall House from 3 to 23 March. He will study terrorism, the city, and architecture. De Boer is interested in the paradoxes that issue from protecting society from terrorism. During his stay in the Wall House, he will give a lecture on his research. The precise time of this lecture is not yet known, but is will be posted on the Wall House website in the near future.
• NEW PUBLICATIONS
Alexander Levi & Amanda Schachter, Stanze ribelli: Immaginando lo spazio hacker, Rome 2006, 39-45
Stef van ’t Land, Alleen in een huis dat oogt als een kunstwerk, Photoq, 1 February 2007 (http://www.photoq.nl/specials.php?reportid=49)
Auke Hulst, Op bezoek in het polemische gebouw Wall House: Het vissekomgevoel, NRC, 19 January 2007
Elke Backert, Klein-Amsterdam ohne Sperrstunde. Groningen ist eine Kleinstadt der Superlative: jung und herrlich traditionell, in: Kölnische Rundschau 10 January 2007
• AGENDA 2007
4 February – 14 February: Danwen Xing (China)
17 February - 11 March: Outsider Karaoke
18 February: Wall House open to the public
24 and 25 February: Wall House open to the public
3 and 4 March: Wall House open to the public
10 and 11 March: Wall House open to the public
3 March – 23 March: Tim de Boer
25 March - 30 May: Richard Saxton
1 June - 14 July: Richard Saxton exhibition
23/24 June: Architecture Day
21 July - 1 September: Thought provoking, sense provoking
16-26 August: Noorderzon music and theatre festival
8/9 September: Open monument day
October - December: Luis Hernández Galván
Wall House #2 Foundation, Hofstraat 21, 9712 JA Groningen, The Netherlands, www.wallhouse.nl
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