Mothership Newsletter September 2007
Festival 'The World of Witte de With'.
Festival 'The World of Witte de With' is traditionally held during the second weekend of September: from the 7th until the 9th of September 2007. The arts festival will show the arts residing in the Witte de Withstreet and the Museumparkquarter, during the opening of the cultural season in Rotterdam. 'September in Rotterdam' has commissioned Mothership to produce a part of the programme outside. Below you'll find a selection of the artists and their work.
- The Barking Dog. Snodevormgevers deliver the first Joint Strike Fighter to the Netherlands and they park it in the Witte de Withstreet.
- It aren't their deeds, personality or view on the world that turns them into heroes, but that what has happened to them. The disposable monument by Melle Smets, is a victim-hero-monument.
- Anatomy of a bomb wreck by Jonas Staal and Jack Segbars. They will be placing two car bomb wrecks from Bagdad in the Witte de Withstreet as works of art.
- Fool Series by Dstruct. Hero or Anti-hero? Visitors of the festival can judge for themselves on people like Osama Bin Laden, Britney Spears, Dr. Phil and Jan Peter Balkenende.
- Livesaver. Lying in the inflatable dome of Rob Sweere, one will have the idea of floating on the ocean. The ideal place to relax and contemplate one's own heroic acts.
New commissioned artwork for Centre for Visual Arts (CBK) Rotterdam.
Next 8th of September, a wall painting by Navin Thakoer -a.k.a. NaferLovesYou- will be revealed in the Boomgaardstreet in Rotterdam.
He works from a popmodernistic view and uses sample techniques. It has no title yet; it is up to the citizens of Rotterdam to give it a title. The artwork is an initiative of Residents organisation Cool and CBK and the production was done by Mothership.
Estate Tessloo in Oisterwijk is finished!
A former soccer field has been transformed to a beautiful garden by initiator and garden architect Bert Huls. On 1 September 2007, the exhibition “TEGENDRUK” (Counter pressure) was opened.
For this exhibition, Mothership was asked by gallery Majke Hüsstege to present two works of art.
The works are the mosaic “Understand where I'm coming from” by Arno Coenen and “Merry go round” by Michiel Reesink.
Estate Tessloo – Zwarte Wegje 1 – Oisterwijk – The Netherlands
Mothership has landed at Delftsestraat 25.
We are very happy here in our new office!
The invitation for the official opening will be send later this year.
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