Deze laatste nacht van het jaar ligt de Unie vanaf 22:00 uur in creatieve handen van
Hugo&George, Odessa, Roeland Otten (Conclub) en Echoecho Disco Show voor een knal-feest
in brute elegantie. Behalve de Rotterdamse dj’s Kaus & Kosa, Son of A Sheik, Odessa, Afrobot,
Hugo&George en RS Brother zijn de volgende internationale gasten uitgenodigd om het volgende
decennium mee in te luiden: Stabile Elite ( LIVE)(DE), Soft Rocks (UK), Cosmo&Faber (CH),
Matt Moroder (DE) en dj Tako.
Cosmic Space, Italo Disco, Afro Boogie, Acid House, een vleugje New Wave en live Kraut Rock vor-
men de ingredienten voor het explosieve mengsel van deze muzikale trip in twee ruimtes. Laat de
jaren van terreur en recessie achter je en waan je in een New Yorkse club eind jaren '70, of in een
Italiaanse Disco uit ' 83 en dans tot vroeg in de eerste ochtend van het nieuwe jaar!
Vlak na twaalven zal de avond zijn eerste uitbarsting beleven met de band Stabil Elite uit Düsseldorf. Je zou deze
groep de jongste generatie Krautrockers kunnen noemen: hypnotiserende synths met drums en gitaar, duidelijk
geinspireerd door de pophistorie van de stad waaruit zij komen.
Daarna draait dj Tako, die wereldwijd al vele clubs bespeelde en de nodige opzwepende edits uitbracht op labels als
Magick Edit Allstars en Ambassador’s Reception en waarvan begin volgend jaar zijn eerste eigen productie uitkomt
onder de naam Sombrero Galaxy op het label ESP Institute.
Soft Rocks is een collectief van dj’s / producers uit London dat al jaren platen uitbrengt, met een geluid dat net zo
diep is als hun gezamelijke kennis van vinyl uit alle hoeken van de wereld.
Het duo Cosmo & Faber komt uit Zwitserland en dat ligt hoorbaar vlak bij Italie! Ook dj IF is grote fan, aangezien hij
hun mixen dagelijks draait op het radiostation IntergalacticFM.
Matt Moroder draait een warme mix van disco en house, op zijn label Glossy Edits heeft deze man al menig juweel
uit het stof gehaald en opnieuw laten schitteren.
ConClub is a 'total event' on a irregular basis at different locations in the city Rotterdam. Each edition ConClub presents an exciting program with live concerts, art performances, video screenings, dj's, art installations and other things.
ConClub is not an established art institute or a concert hall, but explores an adventurous field in its search for new locations and in its approach to put together an interesting program of new young artists and musicians and their historic inspirations as well.
Gavin Russom is an artist and musician working simultaneously in the media of writing, visual art and music. He produces concerts, exhibitions and recordings, which frequently use and blur the lines between these disciplines. Using self-designed and constructed electronic instruments, he sees his work as an attempt to create new and self-sustaining languages and forms which approach the functionality of ritual and to explore the alleged boundary between tangible reality and a deeper, more archetypal and abstract world. Direct exploration of the medium of sound and its effect on consciousness is critical to his creative practice.
Russom began creating home recordings in 1987 based on simple designs using feedback, mixers and tape loops. Discovering group improvisation in 1991 he began to collaborate with other artists and musicians including Michael Kelley (Kelley Polar) and Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) in numerous free form 'bands'.
Relocating to New York City in 1997 he continued to work on music both solo and in several collaborations and began performing 'magic shows' based on a synthesis of radical compositional structure, ritual and stage magic, shamanic practice and avant-garde performance. Integrating his visual art practice in sculpture, drawing and painting, Russom also created objects which echoed the spirit of the performances and musical works but also existed outside the context of these events.
In 1998 he began creating collaborative works with musician and visual artist Delia Gonzalez. Between 2001 and 2007 the pair engaged in a period of intense collaboration; narrowing their focus and working towards a consistent shared vision. Much of their research, experimentation and creative output was synthesized into the 2005 album 'The Days of Mars' released by DFA records. They also worked with many international galleries and museums producing large scale sculptural installations which gave visual forms to the landscapes suggested by the music.
In 2006, inspired by European disco and electronic dance like the rhythmic psychedelia of 1980's Chicago deep/acid-house music, he began the project 'Black Meteoric Star' as a way to channel the energy and repetition of these forms into a rich sonic landscape, releasing what he sees as the potential power of what dance and dance music can be. Three 12" singles under this name will be released on DFA records in June and July 2009.
ConClub invites the talented producer/dj Roberto Auser from Rotterdam, and if you are familiar with the Intergalactic FM (former Cybernetic Broadcasting System) internet radio, his name might ring your bell ... It's all about obscure disco, Chicago house beats, synthesizers and sci-fi themes, with a special love for accoustic carnavalesque drive. After releasing one track on a compilation by Dixon & Ame's Innervisions label and last year a collaboration with Wally Badarou, the synth guy behind Tom Tom Club, Grace Jones, Level 42 on the Italian label Nature run by Marco Passarani. It is music from the deep space, where drummachines and tapes are the vehicles for warp speed travels and get them robots dancing their pants off!!
Marco & Orpheo have been DJ'ing together for years and enjoy vintage synths & long sets on the beach. They just released a first 12" on their 'Hands of God' label, with a crazy remake of the havily sought after On and On by Mach and they have regular nights in the Flexbar (Cosmic Disco) and Club Up (The Velvet Morning Disco Circle) in Amsterdam.
The main topic of Christoph Draeger's film trilogy 'The End of the Remake' is the turbulent period of the late 1960's. 'My Generation' (2007), 'Blow Up, Stroll On' (2006) and 'Hippie Movie' (2007) were based on three carefully chosen paradigmatic 'scenes' that symbolize the rise and fall of the Hippie era. Born in 1965, Draeger chose to relive these moments in order to enjoy and ironically simulate events that he could not have been an active part of.
The first episode 'Blow Up, Stroll On' was the first art video ConClub screened during edition 1 in 2007. In the same period we made 8 editions of ConClub, Christoph Dreager finished his trilogy that ConClub screens during this evening, ending with the first episode (again).
03:57 - 04:00 The first part of the trilogy, Stroll On, Blow Up (2006, 3 min), consists in an exact remake of the Club scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up (1966), in which Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds destroys his guitar. The remake was re-enacted as closely as possible to the original scene - the entire club was being rebuilt in a studio, the extras and actors wore similar costumes, the acting and camera positions were closely followed. The piece was shot in Birmingham in September 2006 during a residency at Springhill Institute for Contemporary Art.
02:30 - 02:35 The second part, My Generation (2007, 5 min), is the video of a performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon - a remake of the last five minutes of the Monterey Pop festival show by the British band The Who in 1967. Draeger as Pete Townshend and three american musician friends are playing the song My Generation using authentic costumes and instruments- and brutally destroy them at the end in a cacophony of feedback. The explosive power and the inherent aggression of the performance expresses both, the revolutionary optimism and utopic spirit of the era and its foreseeable, dystopic ending.
23:00 - 24:53 Hippie Movie (2008, 53 min) is the most complex and political part of the trilogy. Shot in HD video and Super-8, it is a free-wheeling documentary about a Hippie movement named Tropolicalia, which Christoph Draeger founded as an ironic remake of San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967. During his three months stay in Poland in the summer of 2007, the artist reenacted, and actually lived with friends and volunteers aspects of hippie life and ideology - together they celebrated Love and Peace and Happiness as a public participatory performance. 1960's Poland was behind the Iron Curtain and naturally didn't enjoy anything like the Summer of Love, so these reenactments became a surreal, belated premiere for Warsaw. The film is a celebration of the inventions of 1960's rock music, a hallucinatory, post-psychedelic visual trip, but it also inherently reveals that? it was made 40 years too late: a utopic re-creation of total escape now lost to us.
Hippie Movie is the result of a three-month long residency in the frames of artist in the artists-in-residence laboratory programme at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw in the summer of 2007 and was generously founded by Pro Helvetia, The Swiss Art Council and the City of Warsaw.
21:00 - 22:00 This is How we Walk on the Moon (2007, 27 min / loop)
Johanna Billing tends to stage people in her films, often collectively, engaged in activities that demand great concentration: recordings in sound studios, dance rehearsals, the tension before diving into the water.
The new video created in cooperation with Edinburgh'€™s Collective Gallery centres on the ocean and the experience of sailing. Impressed by the contradiction of the city's proximity to the North Sea and the aloofness of the majority of the population to the ocean, Billing invited a group of local musicians on a sailing trip. The events unroll from the preparations on land through to the journey under the Firth of Forth Bridge to taking down the sails: the instructor's calm directions, the student's first awkward steps in unknown territory. And the commensurate soundtrack: "This is How we Walk on the Moon",¯ a song from the 1980's by experimental New York-based musician Arthur Russell, in an interpretation rendered by Billing on string instruments.
Against the backdrop of the constantly changing weather (storms, rain, sun) progress slowly becomes visible. Steering: two hand cameras now have the optimal course in focus and knowing that one is going the right way.
'Procedures of leaving'¯, 'Tiny Movements' graphic chapter marks, with hand written title links set off the film's rhythm, highlight the poetic-documentary-fictional atmosphere of the adventure: as an irreverent emblem of a departure into the unknown.
Boris van Hoof started his art education at the Design Academy in Eindhoven where he did research in the field of theories about 'visual communication'. After three years he moved to Barcelona where he studied graphic design for one year. During this fase he develloped a special interest in photography. He made series of pictures about the daily life in the city. When he returned to Holland he continued his study at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam at the audio-visual department. In 2006 he graduated with 2 projects: a short super-8 movie about the influence of tourism on Barcalona, and a installation called "Moving Portrait". In 2008 he made a short film with Aaike Stuart and Johannes Dullin. In Character is about a man finding his part in the scripts of everyday life. When does an actor become a person and a person an actor? Shot on the streets of Berlin, Rotterdam and Bratislava, it explores the border between staged and documented film.
At ConClub Boris will present a new installation in the entrance room upstairs.
Marieke van Hensbergen graduated from the TU in Delft in 2005. During her studies she researched the gecekondu neighbourhoods in Istanbul. The gecekondu architecture and approach to life inspired her to address the themes of flexibility and re-use in her work.
Currently she is working for JDWA, Johan de Wachter Architects. In the office she works as well on the urban scale, as the architectural scale as on the scale of the interior.
For ConClub she will focus on one wall. The materials used for this wall are already recycled materials or materials that can be dismantled and used. Her brother Peter van Hensbergen, a graphic designer and street artist is currently helping her with the wall.
Pascal de Man works in a field between engineering and art. He started studying Informatica but he graduated in 2002 at the Willem de Kooning Academy as an 'interactive multi media designer'. In the years after he worked for his website-company Toxit, and assisted several designers with his amazing scripting skills. Also he is one of the members of Holland-interactive, a collective that works on interactive installations, games and devellopment of new web-applications.
Pascal is also our webmaster and for ConClub edition 8 he designs/scripts a psychedelic pattern of coloured squares that evoluates from midnight slowly towards a visual climax in the late hours.
Giant Discoball in Museumpark
This apparat is one with flexible functions, and its sound is as eclectic as its musical horizon is broad. Its emotional chip features an option on happiness and its sound waves are able to tear your heart apart. While sensitively orchestrating his chamber musical qualities on his records or in his studio, his live performances are known for kicking some ass! He can also proudly refer to a John-Peel-Session and is sporadically working with Gianna Nannini on a Rock Opera.
Sascha Ring, aka Apparat runs since 1999, together with T.Raumschmiere, the Berlin based record label "Shitkatapult" – a venturous music catapult that dashes a wild mixture of intentional great music onto the turntables of the world.
Apparat is the bridge over the German gap of melancholic glitch between Manchester and Laptop-USA. His smart wiring of emotions produces a virtual musical reality, which is based upon different genres, depending on the surrounding of the "apparat". In his studio, dense, dark and majestic clouds of elegiac pop and heavy Electronica built up to a coherent and emotionally charged atmosphere. The intensity in Apparat's tracks seems to grow with his own pleasure in experimenting. The charming breaking-up of the mechanical walkover of his Elektronica compositions first being subtle clicks and accidental "sound mistakes", this is now being done by veritable musicians and singers, by classical instruments like violin and cello, saxophone and clarinet, which are then masterly orchestrated by Apparat as the Maestro of his computer. In 2006 his collaboration with Ellen Allien, the Orchestra of Bubbles album, has been worldwide critically acclaimed for having forged new connections between techno, electro and pop music. Sascha Ring is also still working on recordings and live performances with his Berlin buddies Modeselektor as Moderat and just recently started his own band. Daniel Durst (voice, guitar), Simon Berz (drums) and himself (bass, sounds and production) are still looking for a name for this newborn baby!
Daniel Meteo splits his time up between many artistic activities. Along with Tom Thiel, he's one-half of the dub / hip-hop electronica duo Bus (released 2 albums and 3 x12" on Pole's ~scape label). He also runs his own experimental dub label called Meteosound, and stages events in Berlin focusing on local electro-nic music. Shitkatapult and Meteosound work close in one office and share a lot of activities and label events, booking.
On top of all this, Daniel frequently plays DJ sets to accompany Bus shows or with Shitkatapult, Oceanclub Radio or Scape, in which he spins a variety of music. This can include everything from abstract elecronic or mellow reggae, roots and hip-hop early in the night to dancy techno and house music at the end of the night. Actually Daniel Meteo released his first solo album "Peruments" on Meteosound in 2006. From 2006 on Meteosound is part of the Shitkatapult label family.
Selected by Mike Naafs, for those with an adventurous mind and a strong set of eardrums, however, it will prove a one-of-a-kind experience.
Mizui (Asano) and Asahara (real-life musician Nakahara) form a two-man band, an experimental noise music outfit that was once the toast of the town. Today, 2015 A.D., the pair live secluded in the countryside not far from the sea, where they scour the environment in search of waste and abandoned objects to use in their sonic experiments. While on their routes, they blissfully ignore the mountains of corpses that dot the land, victims of the virus dubbed 'The Lemming Syndrome' that is sweeping the world leaving only death in its wake.
Oddly enough, the two men and their only human contact, a lady innkeeper named Navi (veteran actress Okada of Eros + Massacre fame) seem unaffected by the disease, which is exactly why an enigmatic millionaire (science fiction writer Tsutsui, previously seen in Shinya Tsukamoto's Gemini) shows up on their doorstep in a stolen ambulance one afternoon, his gun-toting P.I. flunky (Toda) and teenage daughter (Miyazaki, re-united with Aoyama after her star-making turn in Eureka) in tow. The girl has caught the disease and her father is convinced that Mizui and Asahara's music is the key to beating its symptoms and saving her life.
Producer and DJ, Jacques Renault, was a post-punk Washington D.C. native who moved to Chicago in 1997 to continue his studies of viola, but in turn got a serious education in dance music. Tapping into the well established Drum n' Bass scene, he held a residency at Smart Bar and became a buyer at the legendary Gramaphone Records. This broad, raw exposure to House music lead him straight back to the classics of Disco and to it's heart, New York City, where he landed in 2002 . His distinct sound and ability to gage his audience has made Jacques a stand-out amongst his peers in the elite, international sphere of electronic music. He has performed everywhere from the Guggenheim's Art After Dark event to Berlin's Rio Club - even gracing the pages of Paper Magazine's 2007 Beautiful People. Recently voted as Best NYC DJ for Paper's Night Life Awards, Jacques has held residencies at New York's famed venues Happy Endings and Tribeca Grand while currently hosting a 205 Club party showcasing an impressive line-up of weekly guest DJs. Along with friends at DFA Records, Jacques is pushing the disco conscious sweep into the new dance-punk scene. With his edits, original tracks and collaborative project RUNAWAY he has released music on the internationally acclaimed New York labels, Italians Do It Better, Editions Disco, and Wurst Edits while having EP's slated for Brennan Green's Chinatown, Cosmo Vitelli's I'm A Cliché, and the new internet only label RCRD LBL. As well as getting coveted spots on the Glimmers' Eskimo mix and the Lindstrom and Prins Thomas BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, Mr. Renault appears regularly on Beats In Space, EVR and contributes a weekly show, Runaway Disco, to VIVA Radio.
ConClub is a 'total event' on a irregular basis at different locations in the city Rotterdam. Each edition ConClub presents an exciting program with live concerts, art performances, video screenings, dj's, art installations and other things.
ConClub is not an established art institute or a concert hall, but explores an adventurous field in its search for new locations and in its approach to put together an interesting program of new young artists and musicians and their historic inspirations as well.
22:30 Premiere of the short movie "Enhance Dehance" by Marit
Two female spies emerging from the Black Moon are sent on a mission to find their missing colleague. During action they discover the real intention of their boss. A dangerous plot is being constructed with the help of a monstrous creature. The agents decide to pull out the trigger and manipulate the situation in their own favor, entering a reverse action.
The subtext of the film gives a comment about the condition of contemporary individuals. Those are being sketched as chased and possessed by the cortex of an invisible system. The film points to the possibility of viewing reality in a new light through practicing own judgment.
Lenno Verhoog, a media designer and Marit Shalem, a visual artist work together under the name SpOp. Their work combines computer animation, self fabricated models and live action with participation of actors. For this film they have again joined forces with the musician Lukas Simonis.
Marit Shalem and Lenno Verhoog give a short introduction on "Enhance Dehance" with fragments of films that inspired them and quotes that refer to the story, followed by the screening of "Enhance Dehance" (10 min. 2008).
I-F (short for Inter-Ference; real name Ferenc E. van der Sluijs) is a producer, dj and radio maker based in in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is a former member of the Dutch electro pioneers Unit Moebius. He produced the track "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass", which became a huge underground dance hit and is often credited the earliest example of electrodisco. The album 'Fucking Consumer' was released in 1998 on the Disko B label, followed by 'The Man From Pack' the next year. In 1999 he also made the highly influential 'Mixed Up In the Hague Vol. 1', as being the catalyst that brought renewed interest in Italo Disco. I-F has also recorded as The Parallax Corporation with Intergalactic Gary. He runs a record label called Viewlexx. He is also the man behind the internet new radio station intergalacticfm.com and former CBS.nu
Phoreski came flying into the scene only three years ago, with his high quality brand of edits, quickly gaining him plaudits from many of the top producers and DJs. In 2006 he started producing his own material under the Phoreski moniker and French alter ego Richard Gateaux, for those of a more exotic persuasion - releasing many tracks on his own labels.
Phoreski has been building a huge following for his DJ skills and has spun at party's home and abroad, recently returning from Los Angeles, after tearing up the Top Shelf Records party. As a teenager in the late 80s Phoreski snuck into the legendary Club Havana in the North East of England to hear early house and Balearic music - from that moment he was hooked. Any career plans were thrown into the sea, and he has spent all of his adult life collecting and playing records in Leeds, London, and now Manchester.
A Phoreski DJ set is something so unique in its track selection, programming, and mixing, that it has crowds flocking to the DJ booth to find out what he has just played! With a heavy schedule of releases under both guises Phoreski aka Richard Gateaux aka Neil Dunn is one to watch. Recent DJ Gigs have included Go!Zilla, Secretsundaze, Loose, Oya Festival in Norway and Top Shelf Records party in LA to name but a few.
ConClub presents the French answer to Lou Reed - My Sister Klaus, AKA Guillaume Teyssier. A prolifically talented French songwriter. His musical world is constructed from a multitude of references - we immediately think of the Velvet Underground, but there's also the swampy white soul of Al Green. My Sister Klaus is Serge Gainsbourg meets Jesus & Mary Chain down at the Factory, NYC.
Everything started in a small flat right in the center of Paris, when Guillaume met Joakim on a hot summer night. A chord was struck, and the pair worked on Guillaume's demos, resulting in his debut album 'Chateau Rouge'. He wrote the lyrics to Poni Hoax's song "Budapest," and he sang on "Rocket Pearl," from Joakim's album, Monsters & Silly Songs. Teyssier composes his songs alone with his guitar in a small flat in the center of Paris, with boneless drafts of songs on a hot summer night. Guillaume Teyssier's musical world is full of references: The result is a castle, a "chateau rouge" (Chateau Rouge is actually a tough neighborhood in Paris), a construction that is about urban myths as well as dreams and escape, combining the roughness of the city and the melancholy of a young romantic.
David Vunk started djing in the early 90's and is known for his high quality record choice. Electronic music. Chicago, electro, disco, techno, italo, Acid and house influenced. His energizing and danceble dj sets are always deep, mean, smooth and sexy. Cities: London, Dublin, Prague, Amsterdam, Riga, Toulouse and Rotterdam (his residency at the most wanted clubnight in Rotterdam: Nicola Tesla) are proud to be vunked.
David Vunk's recordlabel Moustache Records brings you the best music made by the finest artists.
Mark brings the pure analogue and uplifting disco sound, mixed with spacehouse tracks from his varied collection that exists of genres like Italo-disco, Chicago-obscurities and new electro releases. The 12-inches, released last year on labels Keynote and Moustache Records, made by the jamming man from Rotterdam already got themselves the dancefloorkiller cult-status. Mark plays for the second time at ConClub, as he was there at the Hilton Hotel edition, and afterwards in Le Bateau.
She likes Italo. disco, Minimal wave, New wave, franse spacerock, cosmic, old chicago houseclassics. Synthesizer disco from around '83-'85 with high energy beats, dramatic melodies, vocoder voices and female vocals with heavy italian accent.
Ivo Vrouwe is a tectonic designer and teaches part-time at TU Eindhoven and ST-LUCAS Ghent / Brussels. Inspired by fashion he is looking for ways to make the building faēade more contemporary. The faēade as a fashion article. His work has been defined as technological art with temporality and the tectonics of the skin as a starting point.
Born 1980, The Netherlands. Studies at the Design Academy in Einhoven, AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede. Graduated in Site-Specific art in 2001. Works in Rotterdam as a visual artist in various projects. Jasper Niens is a builder, he is making installations wherein the contemplator is a part. He's working like an architect using the same methods and materials. But in his work he lets the public experience a spot rather than using or passing it.The work is often made on a big scale as proposals or three-dimensional sketches for a place. 'The work needs to deal with the situation as a whole: the public (and the way public handles public under different roofs) in its various appearances included. What is to make a facility for 'a gathering of people'; an art exhibition.'
Jasper Niens made a project for ConClub edition 2 in Hilton, this time for NYE ConFusion he devellopes a site-specific installation in De Unie.
ConClub 6 starts with a screening of the documentary on Arthur Russell: "Wild Combination" and that's exactly what this complete edition is gonna be! Gabriëlle Barros Martins devellopes a new site specific performance, this time she'll really be there... and we're presenting another fine hot 'hard-rocking' musical line-up with Panico live, punk-funk from Chile, living in Paris, releasing on TigerSushi - bring your dancing shoes - a dj-set by Cosmo Vitelli also from Paris, known from his records on Solid, is currently releasing with Julien Briffaz under the name of Bot'Ox - and keep dancing for sure - because In Flagranti from NYC will rock De Unie in Rotterdam till 05:00!
ConClub is not an established art institute or a concert hall, but explores an adventurous field in its search for new locations and in its approach to put together an interesting program of new young artists and musicians and their historic inspirations as well.
See you November 22 !
ConClub is an initiative by Roeland Otten and Remco Beeskow.
ConClub Edition 6 is supported by:
A Portrait of Arthur Russell (71 min.)
WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf's visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators-including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg-to tell this poignant and important story.
In a nutshell PANICO are quite simply our best hope to ever have some kind of decent rawk-n-roll over here in Rotterdam. Ironic, them being an all Chilena gang that used to haunt the streets of Santiago under the mystic gaze of the South-American sun.
They come a long way and together have been associated with more than ten major releases in their homeland of Chile. Now, after a bizarre chance encounter in a Parisian bookstore, they became full-fledge Tigersushi artists and are quite simply, ready to rock. It's time for Eduardo (lead vocal), Carolina (bass, backing vocal), Memo (Lead guitar) Seba and Squatt (drums, turntables) to launch an onset on the word.
A dashing collection of never heard before singles, Subliminall Kill puts together the best of European electronics (Joakim (TS-Versatile) and Cristian Vogel of Super Collider fame are behind the production desk). It kicks off with the mutant ESG meets Os Mutantes dub of Que Pasa Wey and engulfs maelstrom after maelstrom of noise, superb bass groove, psychedelic mayhem and serious rock-riffing.
Cosmo Vitelli released LPs & singles for Solid rds, Paris, and later Virgin.
Many remixes for the likes of Daft Punk, Cassius, Electronicat, Super Discount, Scratch Massive, etc...and stuffs for labels Kitsune, Source, Marketting...
He created his own label, I'm a cliche, in early 2004, which released materials from Simian Mobile Disco, Aysam, C.H.E, Yuksek, Tacteel, Domenico Torti, Bot'Ox, Runaway, Uncle O and of course Cosmo Vitelli.
He's part of the Bot'Ox duo, playing Guitar & Bass, while Tekel' Julien Briffaz is on drums.They can't remember who is supposed to play keyboards so they both do. He's also working on BOGUS first LP with scottish reject Mark Kerr, a Celtic fan who also plays musical instruments.
In Flagranti is coming at you at full force. They bring No Wave classic sounds interweaved with classic house beats. In Flagranti graces a field which Daft Punk, Justice, and other heavy electronic acts have seemed to ignore. You obviously hear the disco influence without a doubt. It doesn't want to slap you in the face like others try to. It definately has a very punk edge and couldn't be one more that the other. The sounds of their album 'Wronger Than Anyone Else' seem less pretentious and more flexible to the ears of non electronic music fans. You can hear the real drums and the whole album sounds so vintage yet so fucking fresh that it will make your ears bleed. I can picture myself listening to this album on a table top record player with 70's gear, in space. It is that out of control.
With sure dance floor anthems as "We Make Love In A House Made Of Glass", "Bang Bang" and "Genital Blue Room". Actually the whole album is full of dance floor anthems.
Cross ABBA and ADULT. and give the resulting offspring some cocaine and a good sequencer, and you'd get something close to In Flagranti, the alias of worldwide scenesters Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor. Dirty disco punk with a gloss of sex as well.
Gabriëlle Barros Martins just graduated as a visual artist at AKV st.Joost, and she is developing into a performance artist. She ConStructs an image with language. With her spoken words she finds a way to ConFront the spectator with his or her attitude towards the others and the performer at that moment. Themes of her work originate from interest in: the sound of spoken word, human psychology, communication and finally the space where the instructed situation is going to take place.
ConClub is back in town: again 3 editions full of art, music and performances at different locations in the city. Each edition ConClub presents an exciting program with live concerts, art performances, installations, video screenings, dj's, and other things.
ConClub is not an established art institute or a concert hall, but explores an adventurous field in its search for new locations and in its approach to put together an interesting program of new young artists and musicians and their historic inspirations as well.
The members of A Mountain Of One come from the world of underground techno, being studio hounds and beat-masters, and they're familiar with the demands of clubs and dancers. But the music they make as A Mountain Of One would only have value in discotheques with beds: it has already been tagged by those canny folk at Vice magazine as "future Balearic classics". AMO1 themselves recall the experimental dance outfits of the early 90s such as Ultramarine and the Orb, whose epic, exploratory ambient techno was steeped in krautrock and the "Canterbury Scene" of Soft Machine et al. Early-70s fetishists, their songs, often 10 minutes long, are slow and meanderingly melodic, and their ambition is to make the 21st century Dark Side Of The Moon. Their lead singer has the tremulous voice of a latter-day Bryan Ferry and their music is epic with pretensions towards the elegiac and exquisite.
A Mountain Of One love the 70s, only instead of punk and disco it's to the proggy and dreamy, elegant yet enervated West Coast 70s of the Floyd and Fleetwood Mac that they aspire: Ride, their limited-edition debut single from last summer which sold out in days, recalled the luscious MOR motorik of Lindsey Buckingham's compositions for the Mac. The recent EP2, which also sold out immediately, furthered their adventures beyond the ambient-techno ultraworld in fine style: lead tracks Innocent Line and People Without Love (featuring beat poet Jamie Kelsey) are typical of AMO1's serene electronica, reminiscent of Avalon-era Roxy Music, with its sense of a pastoral idyll in the urban jungle. New single Brown Piano is to be lifted as a single from their forthcoming EP compilation, and comes with a remix from Swedish GUM favourites Studio. It was recorded at James Lavelle/Unkle's All Surrender studio with Pablo Clements of Psychonauts, with whom they achieved the song's strange, disorientating effect, making it sound as though it could have come from any period from the last 35 years of sonic British invention. The Studio remix accentuates the slow-but-steady chug of AMO1's dubbishly spacious psych-kraut motorik MOR.
Italian DJ Beppe Loda, pioneer of DJ culture and resident at Brescia's Typhoon club from 1980 to 1987, has been searching for sounds off the beaten path since his first gig in 1973. Playing to as many as 7,000 people a night, producing in excess of 200 mix tapes and pioneering the "italo synth" sound with his MC1 project (just reissued on Synthonic), he has just about done it all. His "Afro" style (also called "Cosmic" or "Cosmic Afro") is as disorienting, funky and inspiring now as it was then.
"Nowadays I play often in Italy, but I'm far from the New Afro or Cosmic music (as many Austrians and Germans call it these days). In recent years my taste for the funk/soul/disco of my roots has returned. I've been to Vienna and Linz recently, playing Soul and Funk 45s and digging for records. It took me back to the days when I used to play all those hard-to-find 45s and LPs—so beautiful.
My first "official" gig (I was already playing for friends) took place at the end of 1973 at the Kinky club in my hometown of Manerbio. Soon after, the birth and rise of the Typhoon club and becoming acquainted with two well-known local DJs would be crucial. As you surely know, at the time there was neither mixing nor beat matching. I had no mixer at all, just two buttons and when you pressed them, a sort of fade-out effect would result. DJs in clubs carried out their "job" as if they were on a radio, dealing directly with the public, playing tricks and introducing the tracks. It was all so friendly, so artless... so beautiful and free! Lamonti and Morris were real masters of DJing this way. The most important thing I learned from them was that being a DJ is a way to express one's personality. Later, this would lead me to what I consider the most important source of inspiration: the musical search.
I started to play at Typhoon even before the opening, while it was changing from a cinema to club. I was the resident DJ there from the very beginning (it opened in December, 1980) until the closing (in September, 1987), with the exception of late 1984/early 1985, when I played at Cosmic, then at a club called Chicago, then Futura. By March 1985 though, I was back at Typhoon.
My short residence at Cosmic would be crucial to what people now call Cosmic music. It was at that time that (fellow Cosmic resident DJ) Daniele Baldelli's electronic style melded with my own Afro style (a term I came up with in 1979 while playing at Le Cupole).
Afro was meant as a sort of container for the potpourri of different music other DJs and I played—into which you could throw all music considered far from the mainstream. For example, I would mix a minimal track, a-la Philip Glass, into a Zaka Percussion track, or a Steve Reich track into an African chant, or again throw on Vangelis' Hypothesis over a drum track, or even Richard Wahnfried mixed into the Arpadys. Many DJs adopted this style and it delights me to no end, because it shows that my ideas about DJing and music have spread and been understood. By 1982 this style had broken out at Typhoon thanks to my Afro tape series and the first Afro gathering."
Tako has been DJing since the early nineties, and currently spins an eclectic bag of disco, funk, house, electronic oddities, afro/space music, without neglecting the classics. He plays rough, emotionally, deeply, and his selection knows no boundaries as he often intends to surprise his crowds. Tako spins alongside numerous greats, to name a few: I-f, Daniel Wang, Darshan Jersani, Intergalactic Gary, Indecs, Dr. Nishimura, Chee Shimuzu, Max404, and of course long-time musical counterpart Loud-E. An internationally acclaimed dancefloor manipulator, Tako has rocked heads from Belgium to Italy, the UK to Japan, Germany to Iceland, and in USA and Canada. Aside from playing out, Tako produces disco edits known as Magick Edit Allstars. His latest edits will be released on Steve Kotey's newest label The Ambassadors Reception, later this year.
Jonas Vorwerk was born on September 1st, 1978 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. After receiving training as a technical engineer, he became a interaction designer at a web-development company. After three years he went on to the Willem de Kooning art academy in Rotterdam. Here he was introduced to interactive installation art.
Currently he refers to himself as interactionist, working in between autonomous art and the applied arts: 'My goal is to provoke interaction.' In the past year this approach has led to various projects amongst them the Great Firewall of China and the audiovisual installation the Lightbox Sequencer. ConClub is proud to be the first to present his new Lightbox Sequencer 2.0
'Vacanzes in Italia' is an unique audio visual performance by 8 mm regular and Super 8 specialist Ton Jansen. During ConClub 5 he comes up with a continuous film montage of vintage Mediterranean summer holiday footage, shot at the Italian coasts in the 1950-1960's. Using 3 projectors he mixes these early private films with old cinema from the time. To complete the ambiance he plays original exotic vinyl with only one (vintage) turntable.
Gilbertine & Georgette is a performance by Lori van Vlerken with her friend Eefje Kuil. They reenact the famous 'Singing sculpture' by Gilbert & George. Develloped as a students work (on video) at the Willem de Kooning Akademie, they will now reenact the piece live for ConClub.
Gabriëlle Barros Martins just graduated as a visual artist at AKV st.Joost, and she is developing into a performance artist. She ConStructs an image with language. With her spoken words she finds a way to ConFront the spectator with his or her attitude towards the others and the performer at that moment. Themes of her work originate from interest in: the sound of spoken word, human psychology, communication and finally the space where the instructed situation is going to take place.
ConClub is back in the new year! We've been invited to organise the opening event of 'Happening', a series of events around the installation of Dutch architect Wiel Arets in NAi (Nederlands Architectuur Instituut). ConClub edition 4 will take place during the 7th Rotterdam Museum Night, March 1st. Again a full program of spatial art, innovative music, video art and (weird) performances...
Before entering the NAi building you can astonish yourself about the spouting pond. A new project initiated and realised by the Rotterdam artist Melle Smets. He creates a huge 'industrial fountain' especially for the pond outside the NAi by using construction work machines. These machines pump and spout the water of the pond with enormous strength resulting in a water ballet that is not comparable to an ordinairy fountain. Slightly based on, or inspired by the Las Vegas' act "This vulcano will erupt every 15 minutes."
The artist Dirk van Lieshout created for ConClub edition 1 a gigantic Blow-up of a Discoball in which 1 person can take place. The artist further developed his gigantic discoball, with a soundaspect: outside you can hear the sound of the rolling ball and the sounds made by the person inside the soft cocoon while experiencing rolling around... We challenge you again!
The 3 meter-high silver living robot "Dronkersbot", the collective Antistrot created for ConClub edition 3, will appear with a brand new performance. With new effects and party tricks! So please put on your most beautiful clothes and watch out! The guys from Antistrot will do their mad show especially for you m-night people!
Interactive video artist Olivier Otten shows a series of new works in an installation "Selfcontrolfreak". On 3 monitors the visitors can play a sort of 'games' concerning the power over the cursor: while moving the mouse it's not easy to stay in control.
Broersen and Lukács create videos that employ footage in a number of ways, including scenes they have filmed themselves, images appropriated from television news reports, and digitally animated segments to create flowing, smoothly edited montages.
ConClub screens Prime Time Paradise: "Every day, news reports and other TV images pass by in an endless stream that numbs the viewer, who, as if hypnotized, does nothing more than watch and watch: constantly zapping to the next image or channel, in a steady flow; there is no more standing still. Attention is fragmentary; identification and reflection are impossible, there is always something happening, and old and new images crop up time and again in different places: behind a mountain a town is burning; a soldier is aiming his gun; a girl is screaming; a (destroyed) beach lies next to the building where a UN top meeting is taking place. Broersen and Lukács have compiled a spatial collage out of innumerable television images, like a scale model. It is not the images that move; they are standing stock-still in a media landscape, the global paradise that is accessible to everyone. Through this décor of simulacra, the weightless viewer flies over hills, through windows and doors and caves, through rooms and across deserts, then under water, only to surface again somewhere else and continue the flight. Devoid of the usual context in which they already seemed to have lost their meaning and effect, the images generate new connections. In an eternal 'now', and within the simultaneity of events, the viewer floats through this infernal landscape, in which nothing is fixed, everything is possible and nothing can touch you. And nevertheless, or perhaps precisely because of this, from time to time it gets to you." Esma Moukhtar
The NAi project "Happening" presents ConClub -edition 4- as the opening event during the Museum Night, and ConClub on it's turn presents Superminifeest -edition 3- in the bar of the NAi. Maybe you remember last years' Superminifeest in the former Gall & Gall, next to galery Mama, it's a small-scale party with an extreme high impact, featering dj's Boonie, Frenky, Basskowski, R303, Charlie and MC Koning van Zuid
Dj Roes (Robin v/d Roest) plays a wide range of music, from 60's garage rock to psychedelica, from krautrock to experimental avant garde, you can expect anything... but be aware of intoxication!
The ambient drones of Zeno van den Broek (Machine Man) and Ewell Juliana (Industrial Passage) create spaces; architecture in sound; images and have involuntary deeply tangible impact. Architect Van den Broek aims with its mechanized side at transporting the auditor from the physical world to a mental spot; broaden, or be - or narrowing. Inspired by artists such as Richard Serra and Anselm Kiefer Machinist works on melting sound, art and architecture and buildings full of machines. Abstraction in sound where the spatial experience acts as the center. They are on one moment pure gothic/industrial darkambient and the other moment they sound like dronebands such as Sunn o))), finally also at a hard alternative of hypnotising kraut/new-age or doomnoise and metal. Machinist & Industrial Passage form the perfect cross-belt on the border area between hell and joy. Without being appropriate only in one direction, Machinist & Industrial Passage with their splendid visuals ensure live a particular and major experience. Hard and gentle, light and dark, mechanically and organic.
OSO EL ROtO is a multi-instrumentalist player who used to play in different bands (around 40 ). He began to make music in 1996 , but he really began in 1977.
The music sounds like between Henry Chopin and Captain Beefheart, Eugene Chadbourne and Boredoms. When he plays under his own name (Oso el Roto ) the formation can change: he can play alone or with one drummer or with a complete band. About playing his music to a live audience he says: "it's important to meet people in travel, I'm touring to make 'changingbrainmusic' ". OSO EL ROtO can play all instruments, but he sang and played guitar most of the time and he makes his own homemade guitars. This night OSO EL ROtO will perform with a drummer in the foyer/bar of NAi.
Born out of the ashes of The Orichalc Phase, The Oscillation is Demian Castellanos' mightiest incarnation yet, a bewildering mix of pop songs and expansive psychedelic freakouts that demands comparison with the harder edge of the 70's grooves, the lambent tones of bands like Spiritualized or Loop at their most medicated, or The Ruts battling their way out of an echo chamber to a background of white noise. To coincide with the release of "Out Of Phase", the debut album by The Oscillation, Castellanos has put together a band who will be playing select dates in the UK and Europe. During the concert artist Julian Hand will project semi-abstract visuals: "Geometric Cosmic Slide Projections and S8mm Hack 'n' Paste".
UpperFloor is looking for proud people in "TrotsteShow"! During the museum night UpperFloor seduces people to take part in an exhibition of their pride. Pride from itself, in attitude, air and conviction. UpperFloor (Floor Margarita Cornelisse) is an expressive artist, performance artist and interaction worker and she presents herself by creating situations and installations which take out interhuman proportions in a facing manner. The functioning of these actions rely on the responses of the public.
Be Proud !
"NEO-KRAUT"...In 2003 Gordon Pohl(electronics) and Gerhard Michel(guitar,voice) founded: musiccargo. The electronic club experience and advanced sequencer programming skills came together with krautrock roots. That happened in Duesseldorf, a city in which electronic music is always something to keep an eye on: KRAFTWERK, PROPAGANDA, NEU!, LA DüSSELDORF are acts from Düsseldorf that builded their own new urban "Zeitgeist". While the dj has been touring Europe, the guitarist played together with Klaus Dinger, founder of Neu!, La Düsseldorf and drummer on the first Kraftwerk Album. These hand-made krautrock experiences combined with the machine-made computer elements are leading both protagonists to their style.called"NEO-KRAUT"
Ultralow basslines, hawaiian flavoured melodies and French reversed synthesized accordion is what 2004 music lovers all over the globe discover as Unit 4's "Bodydub". Although the Unit 4 was never concepted to be placed as a dj's playlist, the charming "Bodydub" groove turned to become one of the year's biggest success stories and a firm favourite with some of Europe's and the US' biggest underground selectors (Black Strobe's Ivan Smagge, Playhouse's DJ Ata, Tiefschwarz, I-F, Ewan Pearson Glimmer Twins, Carl Graig, Francois Kervorkian a.s.o.). In summer 2003 Ralph Beck (programming) and Michael Künzer (deejaying) started the Unit 4. "Bodydub" has been licensed to the Clone Records Label Rotterdam. The copy (inclusive remixes) sold 17,000 copies worldwide.
Tonight at ConClubs NYE edition Ralph Beck, the musician of Unit 4 will come to play live. He has studied sound engineering at the Columbia College in Chicago. He returns back to Duesselfdorf and works with Karl Bartos from Kraftwerk for his bandproject "Electric Music" swallowed by the 90ties rushing global electronic movement he's involved releasing some rare 12"records like the "Singendes Elektron" or his project "Fortunato & Montresor" featured on the "Global Undergroud" compilation as well as releases on Ultra Records NY.
Speculator is William Thomas Burnett from Texas. Born in April 1977, Mr. Burnett spent his childhood buying tapes like Eazy E, 2 Live Crew, AC/DC, Metallica, etc and listening to his walkman on the back of the schoolbus. On the weekend he would watch endless hours of MTV, taking in all of the 80s hits. Later in his youth it was skateboarding and punk, with Fugazi, Minor Threat, and local band, Big Drag, being big. Speculator then began to visit as many live shows as possible seeing every type of music all over Texas. Bands like Stereolab and Magnetic Fields helped with the crossover to electronic and dance music. William did not realize what kind of influence all of the weirder "experimental" stuff he began listening to at the time like Can, Kraftwerk, and Throbbing Gristle would have on him later.After a brief stint in Austin for a little bit of college and record buying and learning to make music, William decided to go a live in San Franciso for more skateboarding, record collecting, and music making. He recorded and released a record with then musical partner, Nathan Guerrero. The band was called A Pair of Horseshoes and was Speculator's first foray into recording music. He played guitar, drums, sang, and made some tape loops for the project. After San Francisco got old, Brooklyn was the next stop. William continued to play in A Pair of Horse Shoes and the interest in electronic music, synthesizers, and drum machines grew to be more important. Soon after, around 1999 a very influential visit to Barcelona (to see now often times deejay partner, Chupacabras) opened William's eyes to modern electronic music. This was his introduction to the music of I-f, Legowelt, Le Syndicat Electronique, and Drexciya. He hasn't looked back since. Shortly after this, Speculator began deejaying in NYC and he helped to organize some events and met the Bunker team.
The rest is history. Speculator has now deejayed all over the USA and Europe as well as organinzing quite a few tours and events in the US for many European and North American artists. Speculator even released a record with Danny Wolfers (Legowelt) called Smackulator and also has a solo project called Grackle. Speculator continues to live in Brooklyn, NY and currenty deejays several times a week and spends the daytime hours sorting records at The Thing (the infamous $2 record store). Speculator and his more often than not deejay partner, Jeremy Rodriguez (Chupacabras), started a radio show on www.eastvillageradio.com called Short Bus Radio where you can here him play every Monday… Speculator will do a DJ Battle tonight with Legowelt's Danny Wolfers.
Legowelt= the name under which Danny Wolfers releases most of his music. What Music you might ask.Well a hybrid form of slam jack The Hague electronix combined with deep chicago trax, obscure & romantic ghetto technofunk, EuroHorror Soundtracks and lots more! You can't quite pigeonhole it but it sure as hell slams the pit!
Already a few years in the business Legowelt has released a dozen or so projects on various formats, most of them on good ol' vinyl released on homebase Bunker records, The Hague's legendary pioneering electronic music label. Sometimes these tracks spin out of the obscurity like an asteroid from a spacebelt and fly straight into the charts; such an event happened with Tonight at ConClub- NYE Danny will do a DJ-battle together with NY DJ Speculator..
ANTISTROT`s members - Paul Börchers, Johan Kleinjan, David Elshout, Silas Schletterer, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva, Charlie Dronkers (video) and Michiel Walraven, have - literally - been working together since 1997. When at work, individuals come second to the collective and the final product is less important than the dynamic process of action and reaction through which Antistrot`s paintings and drawings come about. To Antistrot`s members these sessions form a visual sounding board for reflection on our constantly changing world. Their eclectic, chaotic and seemingly incoherent works mirror the avalanche of images,impressions and temptation to which we are daily exposed. In so doing, the members of Antistrot do not make value judgements. Not only do they react to consumer society, they are also - wholeheartedly - part of it. By completely accepting consumer society Antistrot aims to reveal shades of reality that overabundance and desensitization have rendered invisible. At ConClub's NYE edition these guys will come with performances full of music, weird outfits and freaked out madness.
I intend to make paintings that are autarchic, self-evident and independent of interpretation. I try to set up a method to turn the painting into a set of facts. This objectivity-claim links up with the tradition of minimal-art and fundamental painting - a tradition bristled with axioms : square = neutral, grey = neutral, neutral = no characteristics, neutral = hygienic, without brushstroke = cool, 'Untitled' = autonomous and the ideal exhibition-space is empty, white and silent... . Objectivity by decree.
I try to avoid the dogmas via a procesmatic objectivity. For that purpose I use dice-plunged-in-paint and paintbombs. They produce decisions (no decision / no form). By throwing these decision-generators on the canvas and by applying a transparant procedure to encapsulate the results (the splashes, the marks and the prints), the causes become part of the image presenting ±1m2 of truth. A trans-resistor, resisting transformation and transforming resistance. A painting stopped by its borders, - holding its breath.
With wallworks I intend to strengthen this effect. They should neutralize the context, not by white(cube)washing, but by bringing a counterforce into the exhibitionspace. Artefact against artefact. Although a counterforce, these wallworks themselves are pretty vacant : chance, noise, decoration, damage.
At midnight ConClub welcomes 2008 with 50 Ufo Balloons, that will go up from Deliplein! With kids from the Wereldtuin Katendrecht we try to release the 50 Ufo's at 00:00 exactly. Be on time (23:30!!) if you want take part and have your own balloon to let go and be there before 00:00 to wittness this visual action: a peacefull sign in the heat of all fireworks.
"I was born 1975 in Nieuwleusen, the Netherlands (a small town in the east of the country). Now, I live in Rotterdam where I work on various projects, Sometime I initiate a project myself because I like it so much that I think it just has to be made. Sometimes I am commissioned to do a project because other people like my work and think I am the one to do the job. My main fascination is material and production processes Everything is made out of material and in my opinion materializing is an inevitable but often forgotten part of the design process.
In design I like a flirt with computer esthetics and industrial production methods, but without using a computer (at least not as a design tool) and sometimes also without the industrial production method. Almost all designs come from experiments in materials, old and new."
Especially for ConClub Bertjan creates an interior with a huge light-piece in the John Malkovich-room of the Steinwegkantine.
Bartist and Entertaper Kroko serves delicious Crocktails and Blows some fresh air. As his bar is a part of the interior of De Player, and he can be considered a part of the furniture of the Club, NYE would not be complete without him. Ask for some Talking Heads out of his Cookie Dick (Vraag om wat KletsKoppen uit zijn Lulkoek) or order a Spa, because BAR-IS-ART!
ConClub is a new 'total event': 3 editions full of art, music and performance at temporary locations in the city. These buildings undergo changes of interior by artists or architects who will create site specific interventions and/or installations. Each edition ConClub presents an exciting program with live concerts, art performances, video screenings, dj's, art installations and other things.
Monadnock is a Rotterdam based architectural firm, which was started by Job Floris, Sandor Naus and Floris van der Poel in the summer of 2006. Since then Monadnock has been involved in several projects, ranging from an interior- to an urban scale. The 'Strand aan de Maas' - pavillion on the riverfront was one of their first and most prominent realisations, and was build in may 2007. Meanwhile new projects are under construction and are being developed, see the website for actual information. Besides incidental short interventions- like the Conclub- the architecture of Endurance forms the main question in the practice of Monadnock, in which mainly spatial answers are formulated. Monadnock cares about a vital city-life, and buildings that can accomodate this dynamic permanently.
Born 1980, The Netherlands. Studies at the Design Academy in Einhoven, AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede. Graduated in Site-Specific art in 2001. Works in Rotterdam as a visual artist in various projects. Jasper Niens is a builder, he is making installations wherein the contemplator is a part. He's working like an architect using the same methods and materials. But in his work he lets the public experience a spot rather than using or passing it.The work is often made on a big scale as proposals or three-dimensional sketches for a place. 'The work needs to deal with the situation as a whole: the public (and the way public handles public under different roofs) in its various appearances included. What is to make a facility for 'a gathering of people'; an art exhibition.'
For ConClub Jasper makes a proposal for the entrance-space in the Hilton Hotel.
15:00 Workshop Architecture for Kids - Marieke van Hensbergen & Job Lee (NL)
In the afternoon kids from ages 5 till 12 can join a workshop by architects Marieke van Hensbergen and Job Lee, both currently working for JDWA (Johan De Wachter Architects). Idea is to create big basic constructions, and small buildings out of soft foam blocks. The workshop takes aprox. 1 hour. Entrance for kids is free, but please make a reservation at info@conclub.nl.
A party of American tourists land at Paris Airport and embark on a one-day sightseeing tour of the French capital. The famous landmarks have long since been replaced by towering office blocks and only a few signs of old Paris remain - for example, an old woman selling flowers on a street corner. Meanwhile, Monsieur Hulot has an appointment with an important official, but ends up getting lost in the maze of modern offices. Later, Hulot runs into the tourists at an exhibition of new inventions, which include a silent door and a broom with headlights. Having met up with an old army friend in his modern apartment, Hulot rejoins the American tourists at a chic night club, the Royal Garden. The latter has just opened for business and is encountering more than a few teething problems...
The film that torpedoed Jacques Tati's filmmaking career, effectively marginalising one of France's most inventive and daring film directors, Playtime is now almost universally considered to be a cinematic masterpiece and a work of immense creative vision. With its ambitious sets and striking cinematography, the film paints an initially disturbing picture of technological progress but then goes on to show how human beings can adapt and survive in such an apparently dehumanised world.
It all got started during a winter day walk of Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen in Helsinki. Perhaps it was due to the coldness of the day that they ended up discussing the possibility of transforming the huge energy people put into complaining into something else. Perhaps not directly into heat - but into something powerful anyway.
In the Finnish vocabulary there is an expression "Valituskuoro". It means "Complaints Choir" and it is used to describe situations where a lot of people are complaining simultaneously. Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen thought: "Wouldn't it be fantastic to take this expression literally and organise a real Complaints Choir!"
As complaining is a universal phenomenon the project could be organised in any city around the world. Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen offered the concept to different events where they were invited as artists - but it was only after Springhill Institute in Birmingham got excited about the idea that the First Complaints Choir became a reality.
ConClub now presents the Rotterdam Complaints Choir, and needs your complaints!
Thomas Johannsen will lead the rehearsals of the new choir, assisted by Nina Hitz and Hiekelien van den Herik works at arranging all complaints.
Iueke is Gwen Jamois and lives in Paris. He studied musique concrete with some very cool tutors including Christine Groult, Bernard Parmegiani, Fracois Bayle, Luc Ferrari.
He makes and plays music on his own and with collaborators like: James Trussart, Richard D. James, Tom Chant, Bernard Fèvre, John Tye, Steve Arguelles and many more. Gwen also buys and sells very rare records - check out his website (with soundclips!) for the finest selection on the web: mostly specialized in library, electronic, avant garde and jazz vinyl rarities from around the world. He's also a consultant on various musical project and compilations. Currently playing live with Bernard Fèvre aka THE BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB.
At ConClub Iueke presents one of his infamous Mammoth Concrete Sessions: a 5 hour during session with 4 turntables, together with his girlfriend Sarah Hay - she'll be vocal and effects.
Between 17:00 and 20:00 a dinner will be served, a nice meal is available for E15,- Please make a reservation before Thursday 18:00 hour at info@conclub.nl and choose meat or vegetarian.
Wallner's drawings, manipulate body parts, actions, and expressions to create what he refers to as "a vocabulary of emotions." The images serve as symbols for words representing a compendium of life's experiences. Body language becomes a means for expressing the emotions that derive from human interaction and individual struggle or achievement. The primary protagonist in Wallner's work is a naked male with a mask-like face and empty eyes- a sort of elemental, detached "everyman." His behavior is often vulgar, violent, and self-destructive. The exaggerated nature of the forms and actions, however, allows the work to be simultaneously dark and humorous.
Some say it happened in a dim forest. Some say it didn't. They say it happened in a toilet bowl. Really. When loops intertwined and Philip K. Dick and the Residents met for a ride up Mulholland Drive on an improperly sunny day.
If you're into sci-fi,let's say you'll be likely to call it space rock. Or organic electronic music. Or lo-fi crap.
Otherwise you probably won't.
Or maybe it's the other way round.
Hence, in an attempt to thoroughly define Le Möw Môw's music, let me please bring this little story to your attention - courtesy of Sir Alfred Hitchcock:
[Two men are sitting in a train going to Scotland. Let's call them Passenger A and Passenger B.]
After a while, Passenger A says: "Excuse me sir, would you mind telling what's in that package up there in the baggage rack?"
Passenger B:"Oh.. Not at all! It happens to be a McGuffin."
A: "Oh I see.. A McGuffin.. Obviously... (pause) And... What's a McGuffin?"
B: "That's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."
A: "Oh, all right... (pause) But... I'm afraid there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands."
B: "Well, I guess this is probably not a McGuffin then..."
In his studio he records a series of musical flashes laconically swaying from performed music to electronic music. These long lists of sonic impressions reveal an audio guide to Turzi's introspective journeys. Narcotic and cinematic, they are devoted to mind elevation and expansion of the human soul. A selection of these work sessions is available on EP "Made under Authority" released by Record Makers in October 2005. Thanks to band REICH IV (from Steve Reich's "IV Organs") Turzi is able to bring "Made Under Authority" sweet hypnosis alive and on stage. Often drifting towards atmospheric violence and neurotic tension. Rhythmic section is tight and disciplined. Executing a subversive music score. Turzi's performances have been described as disciplinary rock. At ConClub Turzi performs as a 5-piece band. Their music is a mix of early 70's space-rock, krautrock, psych-garage, psychedelic rock, early electronics and soundtracks. Influenced by Silver Apples, Can, Hawkwind and Ash Ra Temple.
23:00 Marjolijn Dijkman (NL) - Wandering through the Future
A printed timeline of the future with collected taglines and dates of major film productions, forms the basis for a video collage. This film Wandering through the Future consists of fragments of 70 film productions from all over the world. Passing all sorts of apocalyptic landscapes and scenarios, the one-hour video leads you through the future from 2008 until 802.701 A.D. in order of appearance. The film tries to examine the way the Future has been given shape and how the different scenarios relate to eachother. Worst-case scenarios with for instance natural disasters, utopian and dystopian cities, virusses, clones and habitats on other planets give insights in the fear for one of our main exploration still to come.
23:15 Richard Sen (UK) (Padded Cell/ DC Recordings)
Richard Sen and Neil Beatnik are not normal people. Having won notoriety as a Bronx Dog (Heavenly) and a Dirty Beatnik (Wall of Sound) respectively they started Padded Cell partly as a response to the conservatism of early millennium dance music but also to act as a conduit through which they could conduct and realize their most outlandish ideas.
Originally let loose in order to remix Big Two Hundred"s 'Let it Bleed', their first full scale release came in the Autumn of 2005 with Signal Failure, a prowling slab of sub aqua freak funk that reached like an ESP projection from within the Cell to the darkest corners of the dance floor.
With a sound that draws from sources as diverse as Goblin, The Velvet Underground, Arthur Russell, Prince, Carl Craig and label boss J Saul Kane, analogue fetishism and creeping psychosis are key themes, as is a need to create something that is both honest and unique.
It is their intent to fashion a sound that is soulful and emotional, yet also dark and narcotic; something that can be understood simultaneously by the head and the heart, getting under the skin in different ways. Rather than seeking to fit into a pre-existing niche, its about creating an idiosyncratic sound that is peculiar to their respective personalities and reflective of their combined experience.
A shared history as club deejays and producers means that even the most mind bending elements of their sound are conducted through dance floor focused channels; disco breaks and rolling percussion combining with menacing synth work outs, electro sensibilities and live instrumentation to create an unholy brew that has been described variously as 'dark-disco' or 'devils-disco'.
Tonight Rochard Sen will play one of his amazing DJ- sets which he combines all these styles like: art-rock, krautrock, psych-rock, house, no/new wave, disco and... far beyond. Richard blends excellent and knows how to mix old material with the latest avantgarde dance music!
Bogaert's visual work is an investigation into concepts of staging, of reality and fiction, and of origin and effect. The aim of this investigation is a research into the staged situations that are present in everyday social reality.
As a visual artist he uses theatricality to explore the line between fiction and reality, sometimes to reveal how reality is, actually, staged; sometimes to create my own, (re-)staged, reality. In both cases his work focuses on the relation between culturally determined preconceptions of reality and what we actually experience. Bogaert uses theatricality as a means of isolating, concretizing and questioning this relationship.
At ConClub Maurice presents the first part of a new work as an installation: a remake of (the second last episode of last years season) the dutch soap Onderweg Naar Morgen, ONM.
Mark brings the pure analogue and uplifting disco sound, mixed with spacehouse tracks from his varied collection that exists of genres like Italo-disco, Chicago-obscurities and new electro releases. The 12-inches, released last year on labels Keynote and Moustache Records, made by the jamming man from Rotterdam already got themselves the dancefloorkiller cult-status.
ConClub is a new 'total event': 3 editions full of art, music and performance at temporary locations in the city. These buildings undergo changes of interior by artists or architects who will create site specific interventions and/or installations. Each edition ConClub presents an exciting program with live concerts, art performances, video screenings, dj's, art installations and other things.
ConClub is not an established art institute or a concert hall, but explores an adventurous field in its search for new locations and in its approach to put together a fitting interesting program of new young artists and musicians and their historic inspirations as well.
The artist Dirk van Lieshout creates for the ConClub a gigantic Blow-up of a "Buckminster Fuller-discoball" in which 1 person can take place. A small wireless camera shows what the person inside the soft cocoon experiences while rolling throught the club... We challenge you!
For years now the Swiss artist Christoph Draeger (1965, lives in NYC) has worked mainly with the topos of catastrophy as the cathartic fracture of our mediated structure in society.
On the one hand Draeger shows disaster as a receptively usable and already politically integrated "anomaly" within the strategies of mass media, on the other he reveals the aesthetic and psychological mechanisms of how at the fringes of this potential system failure of the collective memory succeeds to inscribe itself in the individual sub-consciousness.
Draeger's work was exhibited recently at the Moscow Biennial, the Festival of Regions in Austria, at the MAC MusČe d'Art Contemporain (Lyon) and the Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris).
This is a remake of the Club scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-up (1966). It was produced during a 2-week residency at Springhill Institute in Birmingham (UK), in September 2006. The shooting took place during one very long Saturday afternoon and featured at its peak more than 70 volunteers.
Michelangelo Antonioni (September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007) was an Italian modernist film director whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film aesthetics.
While making the program of ConClub edition 1, the movie Blow-up and the meaning of the word became a connecting factor in our line-up.
Blow-up (1966)
As a professional photographer, the main character mixes with the rich and famous in the London of the sixties. One day he chances upon two lovers in a park and takes photos of them. The woman of the couple pursues him, eventually finding his apartment and desperately trying to get the film. This leads the photographer to investigate the film, making blowups (enlargements) of the photos. This process seems to reveal a body, but the director cleverly uses the heavy film grain and black and white imagery to obscure the image. This drives the photographer to keep making blowups and try to find the truth.
Poni Hoax are an electronic music outfit from Paris. A five man army of 'jeunes gens modernes', great musicians and extremely talented composers. Their lead vocalist, Nicolas Ker tackles an ambitious and unique style that walks the thin line between a decadent Morrissey or an elegiac Jim Morrisson. This quizzical dandy with an exotic touch (born from French-Cambodian parents in Egypt). The symbiosis he shares with the band's lead composer, Laurent Bardainne is brilliant. Next to this ubiquitous duo, Arnaud Roulin (keyboard/bass), Nicolas Villebrin (guitar) and Vincent Taeger (drums), partners in crime and über-accomplished musicians who have co-oped with the gotcha of French ' Variétés ' (Feist, Romain Humeau, etc.). Together they fuel the fire of an iridescent musical flame laced with infectious, nearly fatal melodies. Their influence is a extatic mix of rock 'n roll music, goth disco, post-rock, italo disco, and noisy garage murderbalads (à la Nick Cave) as in in their song Budapest, from the self-titled album released by Parisian label Tigersushi. The song itself received a remix by electro disco Dj and producer Joakim. In Paris, Poni have played a series of exclusive gigs in as prestigious venues as Agnes B's Galérie du Point du Jour or the more dance inclined scenes of RESPECT and Nouveau Casino. Such a wide array of taste is something quite unprecedented this side of the Atlantic and recalls the exceptional musical genius of the likes of Roxy Music or Sonic Youth.
Kathy Diamond is a singer/songwriter originally from Sheffield, England but now lives in London. She listened to mainly soul and disco at home. As she grew up she was inspired to write and sing herself and has been doing so since 1993, working with many different writers, musicians and producers within many genres. Kathy concentrated on writing a collection of songs in preparation for a solo career in late 2004. Her album is out on Permanent Vacation and is produced by Maurice Fulton, one of house music's true originals and as a musical part of MU.
So tonight real songs within real tracks bringing MISS DIAMOND TO YOU!!
Tako has been DJing since the early nineties, and currently spins an eclectic bag of disco, funk, house, electronic oddities, afro/space music, without neglecting the classics. He plays rough, emotionally, deeply, and his selection knows no boundaries as he often intends to surprise his crowds. Tako spins alongside numerous greats, to name a few: I-f, Daniel Wang, Darshan Jersani, Intergalactic Gary, Indecs, Dr. Nishimura, Chee Shimuzu, Max404, and of course long-time musical counterpart Loud-E. An internationally acclaimed dancefloor manipulator, Tako has rocked heads from Belgium to Italy, the UK to Japan, Germany to Iceland, and earlier this year the USA and Canada. Aside from playing out, Tako produces disco edits known as Magick Edit Allstars.
Born and raised in the UK, Jonny Nash is best know for his involvement in "Discossession", a multi-faceted project which he started with Japanese DJ's Dr Nishimura and Chee Shimizu after moving to Tokyo in 2003. "Discossession" are widely regarded as pioneering the sound of leftfield, electronic disco in Japan through their club nights and their ever-evolving sound has earned them a cult following throughout the globe. Jonny also records under the "Discossession" moniker for cult Japanese label Crue-l, and recently released his debut 12" with an album scheduled for early next year.
Josepha de Jong performs for the ConClub. Last year she experienced an international break-through as one of the 3 girls of "Kimberly Clark". With Kimberly Clark she appeared in Paris, London, Athens, New York and Brussels, at Art Fairs and Biennales where she played a funny game with the artworld, in spontaneous actions and performances. What she creates for the ConClub we keep as a secret, but she has a good nose for surprises!
Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva & Robin Schaeverbeke (NL/BE)
Bruno (bass) forms a impro duo with drummer Robin, also known as BxR. Especially produced for this evening, they play a unique piece inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-up ! While improvising they react on the original soundtrack by Herbie Hancock and give their interpretation on the film.
You might know multi talented musician (bass guitar, electronics, vocal's, bass marimba, piano, percussion) and visual artist Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva from some of his band outfits like Stöma, Dokter Schnitt or Doodoo's Coffee. He did gigs in Germany, London, Neon Gallery (Sweden), Paradiso Amsterdam, Lowlands festival 2007 and supported Tricky in Nighttown. Recently he toured with WEGO a Danish music and dance group. In mid-September Stöma are on their first Russian tour (Moscow and St. Petersburg a.o.) As a visual artist he works solo and as member of the internationally broken through artist collective ANTISTROT.
Bas Helbers (born 1976) got his first 35mm camera when he was 19.
In 1996/97, he did pre-courses at the Arnhem academy of fine arts, but finally went to the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1998.
In 2002 Bas moved to Rotterdam, where he later found out that he is rather taking pictures in stead of designing. Since 2006 he has been working as a fulltime photographer. He worked for Demakersvan, Joris Laarman, Droog Design and has had several publications (Frame, Herald Tribute, Domus).
For his free work, he loves to 'shoot' pictures of people and objects in special environments, and that's what he is going to do during ConClub edition 1: 'Shooting models' inspired by Antonioni's Blow-up.
Nicolas Provost is a visual artist and recently moved back to Belgium after a 10 years stay in Oslo, Norway. Now he lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. His work is to be seen worldwide on both film- and visual arts platforms. His films have earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals as among others The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Filmfestival, Cinevegas and The International Film Festival Rotterdam.
"My field of interest is to analyse and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience."
ConClub screens "Need any help" (2000), filmed in the great Norvegian fjords, this low budget film, inspired by C-film qualities, tells the story of two lonesome people who's encounter is hampered by a chronic lack of time and high altitude.
Blow-up was based on Julio Cortazar's short story Las Babas del Diablo (The Devil's Drool) in which the writer explores the relation between men and reality through language and image. Cortazar, and later on Antonioni, are telling the story of a photographer searching for what he believes is the truth.
Photography appears here as a way of translating the facts, but in both cases the camera becomes an impotent eye, an excited voyeur that can only observe the illusion.
Visual-artist Ana A. Fernandez creates for ConClub edition 1, a video work in which self-suggestion and illusion are the main characters of the story. The audience can decide if what they think they saw was really there or not, while being blindly flashed as if they were the object of a photo-session.
The Rotterdam based collective Holland-interactive works in very different (experimental) ways in the field of interactivity: on-line and wireless projects on information and communication. They will install a vintage (sixties) club-concept: an analogue switchboard, with 8 numbered phones through the entire space. So what do you do during the event: Pick up the phone when it's ringing or call someone else in the ConClub!
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