Frank Koolen filming on site
LOCALISMS, Observations by Richard Wentworth, Marjolijn Dijkman, Savage, Eric Van Hove, Melle Smets, Maurits Hertzberger, Frank Koolen, Sara Kolster, Derek Holzer, Marc Boon, Kristin Posehn, SoundTransit, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Julie Peeters and the LA Urban Rangers
Period: 6 April 2008 - 19 October 2008
Location: Museum de Paviljoens, Odeonstraat 3, Almere, Netherlands
Organisation: Museum de Paviljoens and Marjolijn Dijkman
During the last week of the exhibition At Random? Networks and cross-pollinations a workshop will be held in Museum De Paviljoens. The artists and designers participating in this workshop share a common interest in the singularities and peculiarities of specific locations. The workshop focuses on the area F-7, the only plot of land in the heart of Almere that hasn’t been rulerdrawn yet. It is home to temporary buildings and activities: youth housing, coffeeshop De Blowboot, a building materials storage site for the Municipality of Almere, youngsters, school for lower secondary professional education Villa Parkhurst, De Muur – Almere’s grafitti hotspot, carnival trailers and Museum De Paviljoens. This workshop is a follow-up of an earlier workshop in November 2007 in THE ANNEX at the Jan van Eyck, Material Gathering #3
The workshop forms the upbeat to LOCALISMS, an exhibition that focuses on the poetry in the street, the discovery of the (urban) landscape, unnoticed sounds, the investigative look, archives of image and sound, wanderlust and world travellers. The exhibition LOCALISMS starts with a workshop on the 1st of April 2008 with the artists Richard Wentworth, Marjolijn Dijkman Savage, Eric Van Hove, Melle Smets, Maurits Hertzberger, Frank Koolen, Sara Kolster, Derek Holzer, Marc Boon, Kristin Posehn, SoundTransit, Maarten Vanden Eynde en Julie Peeters. During the run of the exhibition new work is developed and new participants will add their observations.
Selection of works:
Claim (2008), Richard Wentworth
Rite for Almere, 2008 Maarten Vanden Eynde
Reclamation, Kristing Posehn (2008)
Frank Koolen recorded a fictional nature documentary at the surrounding area around the Museum. The documentary presents a giraffe, a crocodile, and several other animals that all live around the museum ... This film will be presented next year in the summer at the second edition of Festival Site2F7.
Entrance of Museum the Paviljoens
Gestures, Marjolijn Dijkman / Julie Peeters (2008)
Richard Wentworth, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Frank Koolen
Remains of youngsters underneath the museum are mirrored with the same but new products, Savage (2008)
Pavillion with Olympic Trade Mission by Melle Smets and Maurits Herzberger