EnterTheMothership.com

Lille Film festival 22 and 23 November 2008 - curators Jan van Nuenen and Jeroen Everaert

Digital media artist Jan van Nuenen and art producer Jeroen Everaert of Mothership presented a program at the Lille Internationale Film festival (www.festivalducourt-lille.com). Mothership and Jan van Nuenen were asked as inhabitants of Rotterdam (a sister city of Lille) to put together a film programme. Van Nuenen's work (www.janvannuenen.com) consists of photo-, video- and audio samples, cut, processed, and combined into digital animated worlds, which refer to mankind, nature, technology and the future. Also shown were movies by their favourite animation artists, like Floris Kaayk (www.floriskaayk.com), Sil van der Woerd (www.silvanderwoerd.com), Studio Smack (www.studiosmack.nl) and Arno Coenen (www.arnocoenen.nl).

LoadingReadyRun - artists Maurer United Architects and Geert Mul

Geert Mul and Maurer United Architects (www.geertmul.nl, www.maurerunited.com) have joined forces to create an artwork for the cultural institutions in the Las Palmas building (Rotterdam, NL). An interactive artwork is being created inside the old porter's lodge, which refers to the concrete columns inside the building. Visitors can influence the work of art by uploading their own pictures and set it in motion through their body movement. The work of art will be completed in January 2009.

Graffitibriljant Kralingen-Crooswijk, Rotterdam (NL) - artist duo Transister

Vivid pink is the entire ceiling of the underpass where the Oostzeedijk Beneden passes underneath the Willem Ruyslaan. Nelleke Boerkoel and Hanneke van Leeuwen of Transister (www.transister.nl) have visited the borough several times to create a lot of different portraits. They discovered students of different nationalities, various sub-cultures, but also the elderly in the service building Oostmaassteyn and got permission to use their portraits for the slanting walls of the overpass. The elderly people told Transister about their early childhood and gave them a glance at the old picture albums with portraits of forgotten times.

In February of 2009 the slanting walls of the overpass will be beautifully decorated with drawings by Transister. This "Graffitibriljant" is commissioned by the CBK Rotterdam, dS+V and the borough of Kralingen-Crooswijk.

A Mothershipper in Nieuwegein (NL) - Nataša Heydra

As of November of 2008 Nataša Heydra has been appointed as programme manager Cultural Activities City Centre for the municipality of Nieuwegein. Together with cultural parties and the inhabitants of Nieuwegein Nataša will develop numerous cultural activities. We are very proud of the fact that Nataša is reinforcing the Mothership team!

Hoogvliet illuminated! - artist Arno Coenen

After being about one-and-a-half year in the dark, the mosaic "Helemaal Hoogvliet" by Arno Coenen (www.arnocoenen.nl) will be illuminated. Thanks to the borough of Hoogvliet the mosaic will be permanently illuminated from December of 2008. Visitors and inhabitants of Hoogvliet will now also be greeted by the work of art in the evening and at night. The work was created by hundreds of inhabitants of Hoogvliet.

Parting intern Cynthia van Nijburg

From September to the end of November of this year, the team of Mothership was reinforced by Cynthia van Nijburg. Besides the loads of works she has carried out, like the feasibility study for STARS by Studio VollaersZwart (www.vollaerszwart.com), she also did a study for Mothership. With the results of this we will be quite busy in 2009! Cynthia's final presentation will be in February of 2009. After completion she will have her Bachelors degree in Media and Entertainment Management.
Cynthia, on behalf of everybody at Mothership: thanks and a lot of success!

Plaque Feyenoord - artist Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk

Commissioned by the borough of Feijenoord, artist Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk (www.cirque.nl) set off to create a plaque for the location where the soccer club Feyenoord was founded. The plaque will be placed on the façade on the corner of the Persoonshaven and the Damstraat in Rotterdam (NL), where café De Vereeniging once was established. Unfortunately we cant show any pictures of the artwork yet. We'll keep you in suspense until the next newsletter.

GRAB YOUR AGENDA AND BLOCK FRIDAY 16 JANUARY 2009!!!

Mothership would like to propose a toast to the new year.
On Friday 16 January 2009 from 18.00 until 21.00, you are cordially invited to join us at café De Unie on the Mauritsweg 34 in Rotterdam. Afterwards there will be a party, organized by FNNNN (www.myspace.com/fnnnn), 5 female dj's, among them our very own Nataša! Of course all our guests are invited to go crazy!
We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Mothership closed

Mothership is closed from 25 December 2008 up to 4 January 2009. Happy holidays!