As we stated before, we are preparing a series of projects for Kasteel Duivenvoorde in Voorschoten. One of these projects is Digitaal Duivenvoorde, an aggregate of new media applications and social networking interventions we anticipate to roll out in the near future to upgrade the web presence and accessibility of this 13th century family estate. [...]
A few weeks ago the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage courteously invited us to join them at the ACCESS2CA seminar in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The long acronym stands for ‘Access to Contemorary Art Conservation’. It was jointly organised with Museo Reina Sofia, and wonderfully hosted by the Moderna galerija. Present were conservators, art historians, museum professionals [...]
This Saturday the 10th annual museumnacht (museum night) will be organised in our hometown Amsterdam. Non-fiction will take part with a special marathon on museums and the city, in their basecamp De Verdieping. A wide group of institutions, designers and thinkers will join us at the table to discuss how pervasive urban museums are, and [...]
Next spring and summer we will be organizing several projects at Duivenvoorde Castle, a stately museum-mansion and unique parkland (see below) near the city of The Hague. We received a request from the organization to make a contribution to their yearlong celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2010. After long deliberations and several site [...]
Yesterday we submitted our entry for the so-called Fifth Curator Competition, a jont initiative of the British Council and Whitechapel Gallery in London’s East End. The competition brief stated that: “The Fifth Curator Competition is a unique opportunity for an aspiring curator to select an exhibition of works from the British Council Collection. The winning [...]
What does a contemporary artist do with the vibrant past of a former hiding place on one of Amsterdam’s canals? Is it the aura, the uniqueness and authenticity of this place to be captured and can it be transformed into something new and relevant? Those questions live at the heart of the art project Aura: [...]
The colour and material texture of the charred hulk of the fire-damaged Mandarin Oriental hotel building in Beijing bears a striking resememblance to the traditonal siheyuan, or traditional courtyard residences in China. Ironically, these ancient structures are disappearing rappidly in contemporary Beijing and they are replaced by wide boulevards and high rises, just like the [...]
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