29-Jan-2008

ceramics days Gouda May 1st and 2nd, 2008

Here the url with the announcement of the Gouda ceramics days, here people come in with their private pottery for information, background and price estimate. please also consult our colleagues at the museum Gouda to find out if we can plan some actions around this event !

http://www.goudsekeramiekdagen.nl/index.htm

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23-Jan-2008

Ranti Tjan joins us febr. 5th.

Ranti Tjan, director of Museum GoudA, will join us February 5th 11:00.

Ranti Tjan previously headed the presentation dept. of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and was project manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Amsterdam. Among other functions he fulfilled: chair of the Impakt Festival Utrecht, member of the museum commission ‘Domein’ in Sittard and columnist of the Utrechts Nieuwsblad.

Here are some url’s pointing to his work and recent discussions about the work of the Iranian artist Sooreh Hera.

http://www.skor.nl/artefact-3466-en.html

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/01/gouda-bad-showing-at-protest-against.html

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=xvmkKRfRxWk

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17-Jan-2008

planning tuesday 22, wednesday 23 febr.

Coming Tuesday morning febr. 22nd Dick Rijken (lector HHS and initiator of Waterwolf) tells about the background of the project and shares his experiences with you. He will be in Gouda ± 10:30 please don't forget to skype this conversation !

Coming Wednesday febr. 23th the plenary meeting with the institute staff will take place in Gouda (not in The Hague !), they have their intro in Dutch and we'll join them around 11:00 or 11:30 . You are invited to present your 'wild' ideas and inform them about your data and information gathering over the last 2 weeks, maybe our remote colleagues could send us something to show? After that all of the Patchingzone people mix with the staff to work on a portrait of a (given) neighborhood. So please bring along your recording devices and raincoats/sunglasses/walking shoes. The day will be closed with plenary reports and a new assignment.

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15-Jan-2008

plan for thursday

we will meet at concordia at 10.30 and spend the day visiting institution and some of the cultural/social meeting points we have identified. these visits will be super low key, we will go and see for ourselves how they come across.
in the afternoon we will schedule a skype meeting where we discuss and brainstorm our impressions. corinne and piotr, is 15 or 16 [our time] ok for you?

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