pencil quincy aka raoul dore , artist and musician(hamburg) was on a residency mission @ our andergrond territory…….
he hid himself away in the woodenroom for nearly a week only showing himself shortly to go shopping for the basics of food…..
these are some pictures of the works he made during this exile….
it was an exciting 2 weeks @ KABK den haag.. all the nominees, all these prices.. who was going to win..Well
we are proud to announce this year winner of : De Andergrond Aanmoedigingsprijs
Here a picture of the winning artwork:
yes finally …. it is there and ready to be read/looked@ & listened too
the documentation booklet OOG OM OOG that came out of the drawing event august 2009 under the same name…
here have a peep….
ah yes and ofcourse…..
Straits Records label & shop Singapore
the ricecooker shop in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Today is the second debate (altough i would hardly call it that) in the parliament of the Netherlands, about the prohibition of Squatting. The contents of the 1st debate was already so surreal, ‘who’d fall for this‘ i thought, getting more and more angry hearing all the stupid words coming out of the stupid mouth’s….. that my expectations about the second is .. none…
Anyway the debate is about an initiative-law (iets wat van hoge democratische waarde beschouwd wordt.. de ironie) by conservative right, ultra-right wing and ultra conservative right-wing coalition, to prohibit squatting under any circumstance. It is not a law to solve any cause, but more as a way to get rid of the last bit of Dutch culture we should be proud of!
Some 5 years ago there was a landwide discussion about Dutch identity and culture (it was the 1st years after 9-11 and the painstaking are of ‘Pim’ .. u know who we are talking about, don’t you?!). Since they have been collectively gettin’ rid of all things i would mark as typical Dutch..
A step forward in time.
Ownership and property-right have always been the ideological bible of the right liberals, and now they have a new chance to put this (also) holy rule to practise.. The salty thing is, the ultra-right wing party that keeps both national media and politics in a spasm (no names here) are the one pulling the string….. AGAIN? yes.. again..
they want minimum penalties of 4 years for squatting a house…. yes 4 years… the sillyness of it all (i just really cannot believe there is people taking their lives… so unimportant seriously, that they stand for this new law), dissapears with the idea, that there are really loads of people supporting this.. all based on lies and fairytales, that everyone seems to swallow…
ooooh yes…………… i forgot.. something about ‘majority rules‘ and ‘post democratic democracy’
Now that there is a mega-majority of right right and ever more right wing conservative in the Dutch Parliament, Dutch Proggie’s have to see their (and mine) Netherlands been torn to pieces and replaced by a bunch of rigid morons, wanting to save everyone from personal freedom(not permissiveness) and well thought choice, the liberty to be different, act healthy weird or be left wing (rigid).. all this in the name of…
jawohl: LIBERTY
yesterday a start was made with the latest Andergrond project…… a containerproject with 10 other artists located behind trainstation Den Haag HS.
from 9 till 4 the 12 containers were shifted from one location to the next and at the end of the day it was done.
it was fascinating to see an empty space slowly turn into a kinda village
the container village has to become a free.zone were all kinds of events will be happening. participants for now…. Andergrond, Motorwolf/Guy Tavares, Mr-Machine a.o.
