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Productiewerkplaats Community Arts

In 2010 zijn vier projecten van start gegaan in het kader van de Productiewerkplaats Community Arts, mogelijk gemaakt met een subsidie van de Gemeente Utrecht. De projecten zijn in 2011 allemaal afgerond, de resultaten ervan zijn te vinden op deze website en via de links. Het Community Arts Lab ondersteunt de makers door haar kennis en ervaringen uit jarenlang onderzoek in te zetten. Onderzoek is onderdeel van de begeleiding, aan elk project is een onderzoeker gekoppeld die de makers en deelnemers bevraagt over hun ervaringen, doelen en resultaten. Het onderzoek is gericht op drie onderscheidende kenmerken van community arts: de verbinding van de kunstenaar met de projectomgeving, de manier waarop sociale (proces) en artistieke (product) elementen met elkaar verbonden zijn en hoe er in het project gewerkt wordt aan een blijvend resultaat of effect van het project.  

De vier projecten zijn:

 

biKe Installatie
Theaterwerkplaats De Rest ontwikkelt een plan om contact te leggen met jongeren uit de gemeente Stichtse Vecht. Ze doen dit vanuit de inspiratie die ze hebben opgedaan in de samenwerking met het Peruaanse kunstenaarscollectief Arena y Esteras die ze zowel in Nederland als in Peru ontmoet hebben.

Zaterdag 18 juni 2011 werd op Het Grote Restfeest, de afsluiting van het cursusprogramma van Theaterwerkplaats De Rest de installatie bIKe geopend. Fietsend op een oude omafiets hoor je verhalen van jongeren uit de Gemeente Stichtse Vecht die dagelijks kilometerslange trajecten fietsen tussen huis en school. Je hoort waar ze zich mee bezig houden, wat ze onderweg zien, en je kan je eigen ervaringen als ‘kilometervreter’ inspreken. Die zullen onderdeel uitmaken van de tweede fase van het project, bIKe Live.
De installatie is onderdeel van een driejarig traject rond de kilometervreters. Op 27 augustus 2011 kon je er op Het Polderfeest (tegenover Fort Maarsseveen) naar toe. De installatie is in het najaar van 2011 ingezet bij het halfway café, daar verzamelt De Rest fietsverhalen van jongeren voor het vervolg van bIKe Installatie.

 

El Army Expo!
Via Vinex voert in 2010 en 2011 de derde editie van het project El Amy! uit, nu El Army Expo! geheten. Jongeren hebben onder begeleiding van 2 kunstenaars vanuit verschillende kunstdisciplines (fotografie, architectuur) hun eigen visie ontwikkeld op nieuwbouw en hun eigen wijk Leidsche Rijn. Het kwam samen in een dynamische expositie die de visie van jongeren op Leidsche Rijn toonde. Een zogeheten wereldtentoonstelling op wijkniveau. Dit project is tevens een onderzoek naar de manier waarop je jongeren in deze Vinex wijk kan bereiken en aan je kan binden, en welke rol een werkplek als De Vrijstaat daarin kan spelen.




Spinoza Presenteert
In het Spinozaplantsoen, een klein wijkje aan de noord-oost kant van Utrecht, heeft in 2009 met ondersteuning vanuit de Productiewerkplaats Community Arts een eerste editie van het project Spinoza Presenteert plaatsgevonden.



 

In 2010/11 is een tweede editie uitgevoerd, waarin intensiever is samengewerkt met meer bewoners dan het jaar ervoor. Het project moet het Spinozaplantsoen in Utrecht op de kaart zetten als ‘De staart van Lombok’ (t.o. het gebied dat ‘De kop van Lombok’ genoemd wordt). Er zullen op de presentatiedag 3 grote projecten met een lange aanlooptijd worden gepresenteerd gecombineerd met ongeveer 5 kortlopende intitiatieven uit de wijk. www.spinozaplantsoen.nl
Bekijk hier de making of, gemaakt door Romanesko Beeldproducties.


Ken je mij, ken ik jou
In de wijken Zuilen en Ondiep bestaat inmiddels een bescheiden traditie van participatieve video. Stichting Frappant en Vrede van Utrecht hebben sinds 2004 verschillende videoprojecten in deze wijken uitgevoerd. (Het grote verlies van het kleine wijk, portret estafette en een project rond de geboren Zuilenaar Henk Kronenburg).


 

Femke Stroomer, camerajournaliste en bewoner van Ondiep, Ontwikkelde het project Ken je mij – Ken ik jou, een filmproject waarin jongeren die maximaal 1,5 jaar in Nederland wonen vertellen over hun ervaringen. De jongeren interviewen en filmen elkaar. De films werden genomineerd voor de provinciale film en literatuurwedstrijd Utrecht over Utrecht. Daar zijn ze niet in de prijzen gevallen, maar de reacties van het publiek is steeds heel enthousiast. De films bieden een blik in de leefwereld van de jongeren: hun achtergrond en hoe ze het wonen in Nederland ervaren. Bekijk hier de making of. Mogelijk wordt er in 2012 een vervolg op het project gemaakt.

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  • Crash course chit chat

    woensdag 16 mei 2012 15:43:55

    Sanja Mitrovic tells me: ”My latest show is “Crash Course Chit Chat” that premiered on the 2nd of April in Theater aan het Spui in Den Haag. We have been touring a lot in the month of April through The Netherlands and next weekend we are at the Festival aan de Werf on the 19th and 20th of May. The show is invited to festivals in Basel, Switzerland in August and will also be shown at Reims Scenes d’Europe Festival in France in December this year. ‘Crash Course Chit Chat’ is and international co-production, a piece for 5 performers from 5 different European countries in search for a common European identity. It is based on the one hand on the performers’ stories about their homelands, families and personal experiences and on the other hand on historical facts, clichés and prejudices relating to nationality. In this new work I continue my investigation of documentary in theatre and focus on the relation between the national and European identity.” ‘Chrash course chit chat’ is on show twice at this Festival aan de Werf, with a debate on European identity following the show at the 19th. Starting point for the debate will be the performance itself. See you there?  

  • Hip hop in Morocco

    woensdag 16 mei 2012 15:18:42

    With the birth of hip hop behind us for almost three decades it seems like the wave of political and generational demands it put forward back then now make a comeback. Earlier on, this blog posted about the new street art scenes in Northern Africa and the Middle East, and more recently we paid attention to Omar Offendum, who came over to Utrecht to perform at the Liberation Festival. His presence didn’t go unnoticed as shows the feature on the national television here. But this new wave of engaged and empowered hip hop artists may look very strong to us, outsiders, the new regimes in many of the post Arab Spring countries aren’t the biggest fans. Unfortunately the case of Mouad Belghouat, a rapper who goes by the name El Haqed — Arabic for “The Enraged” or “The Sullen” —in Morocco proves just that. He was sentenced last week in connection with his song about the country’s police force, “Dogs of the State.” In the song, about police corruption in Morocco – widespread, and hated among the Moroccans – one of the police officers heads was replaced by the head of a donkey. This insult was too much for authorities – the text wasn’t the biggest problem apparently. Still, lyrics as “You are paid to protect the citizens, not to steal their money,” “Did your commander order you to take money from the poor?” were not allowed at all a few years back. A video clip without donkey heads is still viewable, click here. The 24-year-old Mouad Belghouat, who also writes his name alphanumerically as l7a9ed, is an outspoken critic of the government and his music is closely associated with Morocco’s February 20 protest movement. He was jailed in September for fighting with a supporter of the Moroccan government, released after four months, and he was arrested again in late March for the song. The great people at Freemuse wrote a good piece about it. Human Rights Watch condemned his trial and harsh sentence as a breach of Morocco’s constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression. For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Morocco and Western Sahara, please visit their site.  

  • Wait … What? Shame?

    woensdag 16 mei 2012 14:03:01

    Shame: “a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety” The Standaard, a Belgian newspaper known for its highly informative and qualitative news coverage, recently paid attention to the topic ‘shame’ in one of their specials. Besides the written articles on the topic ‘shame’, nineteen photographers chose one image that, in their opinion, represents the topic. They were asked to choose one image out of the impressive Magnum photo collection, a collection often described as hard, engaged photography. The result: Nineteen different kind of images (for an impression of the photos chosen, see following link): from the food distribution at the Salvation Army (NYC, 1979) to a dog pooping on the street (Paris, 1973) to a sex tourist in the Thailand (Pattaya, 1991). One photo caught me: Yes, this photo and no, I am not one of those people who usually get touched by photos of crying kids (not even mentioning the third world underfed crying kids – photos). With great attention I have been paying attention to the current debate, mainly in NGO-field, around ethics and photography (the blog of Linda Raftree highlights the NGO-point of view) and I am certainly one of those people arguing in favour of showing the defensibility of kids instead of their vulnerability. Back to the photo, which was taken by Steve McCurry, an American photojournalist best known for his ‘Afghan girl’-photo which appeared on the National Geographic front page in 1985. On this photo, we see a young boy standing in front of a building. He has tears in his eyes and holds a gun in this hand pointing at his head. I see a picture that doesn’t fit: A sad, angry little boy and a gun that’s way too big and pointing in the wrong direction. Shame? I see no shame neither do I feel any shame. I can only imagine some people might feel something we’ve called guilt.

  • Europeana. Day of Europe

    woensdag 9 mei 2012 13:25:00

    All over Europe festivities take place – for the ninth of May is Europe Day. In Utrecht, home to this blog,  an European literature festival took place two weeks ago already. At the website of City 2 Cities you will find an exhausting overview of the program of that festival: writers, poets, critics, and the likes all were enjoying eachother’s company, the fine arts and some sunshine. One of my personal heroes, Patrick Ourednik, was one of the guests. His great book Europeana got a reprint in the Netherlands, and will be distributed by publishing house IJzer. The organizers of the festiavl were as kind to ask me to introduce Patrick Ourednik and his book to the Dutch audiences. It is with their friendly consent that I can share that introduction with you here: “It is a great honor to have been invited to introduce this second print of the book “Europeana. A Brief History of the Twentieth Century” in the Netherlands. In preparation for this occasion I have been reading the paragraphs of the little treasure, such as I consider Europeana, for the so manieth time in my life. There are parts in the book where I even don’t need reading to know what’s written. In repetition the sentences and images of Patrik Ourednik have gained such a continuous flow, such consequent wanderings, that my brain while reading jumps in happy advance of what is to come. Because people, it is a great book. A book to cherish. A book to buy your friends. For many years, since 1998, the first phase of the Kosovo war, I have been keeping a little published letter to the editor from a Dutch daily in my wallet. It is a small anecdote written by a mother. She wrote: “Whilst watching the evening news my eldest daughter, seeing Albanians fleeing, asked me whether some of those refugees would be allowed to come to the Netherlands. My affirming answer was responded with a spontaneous exclamation: Yippie, more people in the Netherlands, there might be good friends among them.” 
It is a little story, and no quote for eternity, but apparently it is one that sticks to me. Like parts of Europeana reading this little piece of paper reminds me there are numerous ways of dealing with a fact. 
Fact: war in Kosovo. First reaction: there always was war. Another reaction: future friends. A bit absurd perhaps, but friendly. 
Although the little girl’s stream of thought is divisible into what, when, where, who, why and how, she just doesn’t, but rather thinks of a because. Picking two dots on the thread of history she made a decision – the other possibilities don’t matter. It is a certain kind of naivete which Ourednik shares with her. But since he wasn’t a young boy anymore writing Europeana his view is different. Rather than focusing on his personal story, Ourednik in Europeana concentrates on the Twentieth Century. Along the girl’s line of thought chronology is not too important for Ourednik. He moves from one era in the century to another, in an irresistible rhythm. Neither [...]

  • Afghanistan by donkey

    dinsdag 8 mei 2012 15:47:09

    Both Foreign Policy and NRC, one of the leading Dutch quality newspapers, dedicated a valuable article to the recent work of war correspondent Anna Badkhen and photojournalist Thorne Anderson. In short: For a year, Badkhen travelled through the remote Northern provinces of Afghanistan without protection from neither American nor Afghan troops and wrote down her experiences in an e-book titled “Afghanistan by Donkey”. Anderson, on the other hand, was responsible for the visuals, the photographs (see following link). The project of Thorne Anderson and Anna Badkhen is not war journalism in the conventional sense of the word. It’s not some kind of “disaster porn”, on the contrary. It gives a unique view into the lives of Afghans living in a conflict area and is in sharp contrast to most of the often bloody images we receive about Afghanistan. Peter Bergen, a well-known journalist specialized in topics concerning international security, wrote the preface to the book and states that “If you can’t understand a country just from looking at the cities, you certainly can’t understand a war just from reading about the battles.” In a way, he’s right: Many diverse stories create a more objective image. Nevertheless, war journalism, whether disaster porn or not, is and will always be a one-sided view. It’s about telling a story, one story. The story of Badkhen and Anderson touches upon the story that, to my knowledge, has never been extensively described before and is, in that sense, a must read!

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