Do not forget to turn on the bluetooth connection on your mobile phone as you enter the Gashouder location at Kunstvlaai A.P.I. Het Kattenbak Collectief has chosen to use the project originally developed by artists Gerco Lindeboom and Danny Jeroense that creates temporary areas in which passers-by are offered videos on their mobile. This media project […]

Travelling Laboratory for Contemporary Archaeology (originally: Het reizend laboratorium voor hedendaagse archeologie)
Toine Klaassen calls himself a barbarian. He distrusts all that is too slick, too clean, and prefers the rough and the earthly for its natural self-evidency. In his Travelling Laboratory for Contemporary Archaeology (originally: Het reizend laboratorium voor hedendaagse archeologie) Klaassen researches this friction […]

Five attempts to break a painting over my head (Cadmium Red, Ultramarine, Permanent Green, Yellow Ochre and Titanium White)
Feiko Becker’s contribution for the Hedah Maastricht stand is a video in which he continues his research into the role of the romantic, struggling artist and his failure to resemble this cliché; his non-dramatic character just doesn’t […]

Original (2006) and Reenactment (2008)
Artspace Sign from Groningen shows two videos by Rik Möhlmann. The first, Original (2006), is one of six with which he graduated from Minerva Academy. It is an intuitive mixture of both video material he shot himself and of footage he found on the internet. By combining the funny and […]

Door Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei en Jonas Staal. Uitvoering door: Göksel Çakir, Olivier Deriga, Farid Jedid, Jason Nguyen, Ayala Telehala en Selim Ulusoy
Het staged event ‘Vandalizations’ dat plaatsvond tijdens de opening van de Kunstvlaai afgelopen zaterdag, bestaat uit een groep hangjongeren/acteurs die drie geparkeerde auto’s vernielden met diverse werktuigen (knuppels, messen, sloophamers, etc.) binnen […]

Gemma Pauwels and Mees de Jong, No Title, 2008
This work has no official title, but Gemma Pauwels prefers to call it the Destroyer.
In the beginning, Gemma Pauwels and Mees de Jong where planning to show their own individual work at the Kunstvlaai. Then the idea came up to combine their works into one, due […]

Aukje Dekker and Pacôme Beru, 2008, Video DV PAL
Aukje Dekker and Pacôme Beru got to know each other during a residency at the Mobile Institute in Brussels. During their stay the idea arose to make a film on the never ending human struggle to achieve happiness. Working hard, making decisions that may or […]