Saturday I performed I-Jesus at the closing party of Someting Raw festival in Theatre Frascati. After hanging for two hours I had swollen feet, almost couldn’t move my right arm but was very satisfied. The party was great and we danced into the small hours.
oproep:
twee ideale kleinzonen opzoek naar 65 date!
wij, rustige, nette, schone, goed opgevoede jonge heren uit Amsterdam willen maandag 28 December heel graag naar de “Niet ver van je bed-show” gaan kijken en zijn vanwege het strenge deurbeleid opzoek naar partners!
mocht u geïnteresseerd zijn in gezelschap, stuur dan mail naar bas_van_rijnsoever@hotmail.com
Wij komen u goed gekleed ophalen!
groet,
Bas & Marc
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (20-22nov 09) I joined the conference for young artists working on Utrecht Artistic Capital 2018, Nieuwe Grond.
As always on these meetings was it difficult to really come together on a practical level. I mean every body likes to talk and meet up but how can we find ways to really work together instead of just talking or making very small on the spot artistic farts. (like create an image of this neighbourhood in two hours) These conference are very good for your network and sometimes give you some energy in the ‘i am not alone ‘ sense but selden really result in something concrete or lasting.
I think the only way a meeting of artists can be more than just some talking is when artists themselves start organising such a thing from a necessity within them. Most of the time these meeting are not organised by artists but by ‘institutes or organisations’ and have a more political reason.
When an artists feels the need to combine forces, to meet and work together he/she will come with a concept. Until that day, we will talk a lot, eat a sandwich, listen to a presentation, do a little art thingy and be let as the sheep we are.
We are now over half way in our project Bejaarden en Begeerte about passion at 65+. We did interviews with psychologists, activity organisers, priests, old people and many more, we made a radio show in an old people’s home, went with a camera on the street, presented a bingo afternoon, and made preparations for more activities the coming weeks to do. For more info on our activities, research and show: www.bejaarden-en-begeerte.nl
Gisteravond, De Groene Engel, Oss. MTG BLONT speelt ZO komt de naakte waarheid aan haar licht. Dave – Sabin – Staring, de waardige doordeweeks vervanger van Floor -Flo- van Dongen, is al de hele dag in touw en steiger als Floor -DDDebby- van Leeuwen en Bas -Spyker- van Rijnsoever het mooie theater in komen wandelen. “4 reserveringen” en een pijnlijke glimlach wordt er bij het Brabants warm onthaal meegedeeld… Na een diepgaand zware mooie doorloop van MTG BLONT speelt zonder zwaartekracht draagt men niets, die middag, komt dit nieuws op een rauw dak en een aantal lachspieren terecht. Na een melig biertje, een zalmmoot, biefstuk en iets vegetarisch met paddestoelen besluiten we uit te vinden hoe professioneel we zijn en er heel erg voor te gaan. De tribune in het donker, een rijtje stoelen op de vloer. De statistieken drastisch aangepast (0,08 van u woont/ woonde op uw 40e bij uw ouders) en performance Kaars1 gesneuveld (voor publieksparticipatie braucht man publik). Toch hangt er door de onderspanning en de diepgang van het nieuwe proces iets bijzonders in de lucht, zet de situatie de voorstelling opnieuw op z’n plek. Ik vond het een bijzonder intense ‘echte’ avond. De 4 dames die kwamen waren er echt en met enkel hen op onze vloer moesten wij daar ook wel zijn en volgens mij waren we er… echt.
‘A hero is a character who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice – that is heroism – for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.’
[Wikipedia]
My name is Pam and I’m doing an internship at Nieuwe Helden.
So am I a Nieuwe Held? A New Hero?
Well, I’m working on it. And I will display courage and the will for self-sacrifice to become one. Or is it, when I do, I already have become one?
For me, after three weeks in company with heroes, it slowly starts to feel like I actually am a Nieuwe Held.
At the moment I’m working on 2 projects: ‘Tot slot/That’s it’ and a performance with Niels that still hasn’t got a name.
In ‘Tot slot/That’s it’ (totslot.stichintgnieuwehelden.nl) I’m designing an installation that will give you the experience of the philosophy and intensity of the project with all the movies. At the moment I’m busy with brainstorming, thinking, drawing, drinking coffee and talk with Lucas, testing ideas, getting more ideas, killing my darlings, drawing more, reading, drinking tea and discuss with Lucas, drinking diet coke and brainstorm with Lucas, searching for images, getting more inspiration, trying to sleep and still thinking about it, talking with people about it, making mistakes, solving the problems…
Yeah, being a hero is not that easy.
I want to end with a proverb:
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Er is niemand maar dan ook niemand op de hele wereld die echt weet hoe het moet.
There is nobody, nobody in the whole world that really knows how it should be done.
And makes this place a whole lot more of fun to live in.
ok, so we’re back. Almost three moths touring through the Balkan, doing performances, meeting artists, writing songs, bringing energy, collaborating energy, making images, thinking, making possible statements about energy…
Being back I noticed myself ignoring our own familiar theatrescene for a while… Maybe cause I needed to be alone for a while, but also because of the fear of loosing connection with this small, but familiar, scene. And now after two weeks of being back home, the night I played with BLONT in Goes, I went for a drink in ‘de Blincker’ (our former home-pub) and fuck I was right to ignore my own base. The narrow-minded discussions about the actions/ images we made, I had to declare (as if I’m a small child begging for recognition) to some colleague-artist… there is one thing I have to blog about: fuck the “I’m an artist, hope my colleague artists see me” vibe here! I’d rather be ignored by my colleagues than be punished for my will to go with ‘just’ some energy, some music and some more energy to roll with, to meet and to deal with… because that’s it! it’s the only thing we’ve got to go/ roll with. It’s a burning question mark that I have to provoke. It’s all I have, It’s all I dare to compare with my audience. The audience I would rather ask to interact with my question marks than to give them any kind of answer. But sadly enough my colleague in ‘de Blincker’ can’t join: he’s to busy with finding the new form for new forms of new forms of making something like ART, bah I’ll try to get some sleep after my will to punch him in the conscience
When we were in Prishtina Kosovo we slept at the popular city radiostation Urban FM. They heard our band LnSaint playing and liked it so much that they played some of our songs on the radio and Bas performed a live version of “nothing”.
Apparently the audience of Urban FM likes us too because today we got an email from one of the radio Dj’s that “Nothing” was requested three times in a week . LnSaint still buzzing through the Kosovo Ether.
We are planning to go back to Prishtina in December to play again with the band and to perform with MTG Blont.
