Nou ja, uitgeverij Trichis (eerder o.a. verantwoordelijk voor het uitgeven van Gyz’ bestselling Rotterdam 2040) in elk geval wèl! Ik heb ’m al minstens drie uur bekeken en ik heb nog steeds niet alles gezien. Er valt verder niet veel over te vertellen dan dat je dat ding gewoon in huis moet halen. Voor € 27,50 is de kalender het perfecte cadeau voor iemand aan wie je meer dan een tientje moet uitgeven, maar ook weer niet te ver boven dat geeltje wil uitkomen. I – de – aal! Mijn werk (met de veels te lange titel ‘Homey Universalis on protest – Word Up’) staat op 24 mei en is gefotografeerd door ome Pim Top. Oewhoooi!

(binnekort, ik beloof het, weer iets dat niet over mezelf gaat. Daar heb ik ineens zin in!)

LAATSTE NIEUWS, De eenmalige Eksit Krant komt uit op 9 september tijdens De Wereld van Witte de With. 76 pagina’s maar liefst… Potverdikkie wat een te gek ding is het geworden. En hij gaat maar 2 euro kosten… Er is de laatste twee maanden enorm hard aan gewerkt. Super blij dat de Eksit Krant naar de drukker kan. Keep you posted en Aquarellll!, Kuifje de reporter…

State-of-the-Art 2011 publication
Essay by Gyz La Rivière and designed by VosBrenner.
for TENT., Rotterdam
will be released in April 2011!

Nu in de winkels!

photos by Pim Top

Let the Buzz begin!

bar dancing Nikola Tesla & WORMing Up! present:

Rotterdam 2040 ~ BOEK RELEASE

ZATERDAG 20 NOVEMBER 2010

RO THEATER
22:00 UUR ~ 04:00 UUR
GRATIS TOEGANG

Bij deze wordt u uitgenodigd voor de release van het boek Rotterdam 2040 van Gyz La Rivière op 20 november om 22:00 uur in het Ro Theater. Het eerste exemplaar van het boek zal in ontvangst genomen worden door Jules Deelder.

Rotterdam 2040, een boek waarin Gyz La Rivière filosofeert over de toekomst van Rotterdam.

Gyz La Rivière doet dit aan de hand van de goeie en slechte dingen uit het bijzondere verleden van zijn lievelingsstad. Hij schetst een mogelijke toekomst waar alle Rotterdammers iets aan hebben, jong en oud, arm en rijk, saai of avontuurlijk, geïnteresseerd of verveeld. Een stad die zowel aan status als aan zeggingskracht een hoop heeft te winnen.

In het Rotterdam 2040 boek staan tekstuele bijdragen van:
De Bubbelebim, Daan Hakkenberg, Elseline Hokke, Erik Brus, Fred de Vries, Geert Mul, Gilbert Curtessi, Hajo Doorn, Hans Walgenbach & Siebe Thissen, Jack Wouterse, Jan Oudenaarden, Jana Beranová, Jeroen S. Rozendaal & Pim van Alten, Laurens Abbink Spaink, Ari Versluis, Pieter Vos, Ramsey Nasr, Rien Vroegindeweij, Sander F. van Hest en Suzanne Allewelt en beeldende bijdragen van o.a. Kim Bouvy, Niels Post, Bob van Persie, Martin Lodewijk, Robert van der Kroft, HuMobisten, Frank Hanswijk, Marie-Claude Doyon, Ron van der Ende, MVRDV, ZUS, Bureau Lakenvelder, Florentijn Hofman, Pim Top en vele anderen.

Flyer big?
front
back

WILLIAM BOOTHLAAN 8
3012 VJ ROTTERDAM

ROTTERDAM 2040 / GYZ LA RIVIÈRE / 2010 / 196 PAGINA’S /
OPLAGE: 1000 / GRAFISCH ONTWERP: STUDIO RUFUS KETTING /
TRICHIS PUBLISHING / ISBN/EAN: 978-94-90608-15-6

WINKELPRIJS: 15 EURO
OP DE AVOND TE KOOP VOOR: 10 EURO

More info & press materiaal, hiero!

photo: Pim Top

From Thursday August the 19th until Saturday August the 21st the city of Rotterdam will present it’s nightlife culture in Shanghai during the World Expo 2010. During these three day’s Rotterdam will present both it’s ground breaking past and innovative present in club culture.

On Saturday the 21st Rotterdam’s presentation will come to an end with a presentation / workshop session at the Dutch Culture Centre.

Rotterdam born and raised artist Gyz La Rivière will host a presentation about the evolvement of the Rotterdam Dance Scene. His presentation will be based on his book flyer’dam that shows flyers from the early days of house music till the most recent club nights in Rotterdam. Gyz has been involved in Rotterdam’s youth and club culture since the early day’s as a VJ, designer, artist and as a clubber. Expect a visually enhanced presentation that will not only consist of Rotterdam’s club culture, but will also look into cultural and geographic connections between the harbor city’s Shanghai and Rotterdam.

More info, go here!

A while ago DC asked me to help ’em out with the art and direction of this book they were makin’ in a collaboration with André Platteel, a dutch well known author on (mostly) visual culture and Dennis Duijnhouwer, who did the (splendid) photography. I had me some fun talking on youth (and with youths) and deciding especially what not to do with form and coming up with this ‘forever friends’ section in which I tried to show the diversity within the similarity of eight of the books main characters.

I think it became an eye opening book on the youth of today and I especially like that it holds the promise of a somewhat more ‘opened up’ future of thought. More info through post editions. Good collaboration, everyone!

Nice to meet you, André Platteel, Maikel van Berkel and Josien Dragt.

Never thought I would be in a school agenda!
hihi, hilarious!

Check the picture (from above) a bit larger over here.
And read what my bro Woei said about me (in the same school agenda)…

schoolagenda: supercharged.tv

In the upcoming japanese WARP magazine there is an article about 12!

I always thought the film Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight – Paul Verhoeven, 1973) wasn’t all that! This of course could never been said out loud in certain company. De Vierde Man (The Fourth Man, 1983) is another one of those films that really didn’t quite do it for me. Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange, 1977) on the other hand is one of my alltime favorites and therefore a film I can quote from in multiple situations. (both Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé in a Dutch W.W.II epic underground resistance drama). Other mentionable Paul Verhoeven films are made in his Hollywood days and include classics such as Robocop (’87, – I saw a piece of it on TV the other day and it must have a scene I had never given that much attention when I was young, but which actually was quite beautiful. Furthermore I think its cult value is pretty strongly underlined -), Total Recall (’90, when Art School kids around me still thought they had to be like Joseph Beuys, guys like Paul Verhoeven and Oliver Stone (because of Wild Palms) were slowly making me see the light.), Basic Instinct (’92, that film’s so fucking great I’m not even going to explain why) and Starship Troopers (’97) about which I will only say this: Hell yeah!

Now my ‘oldest’ friend Vincent van D. gave me this book ‘Jezus van Nazaret’ (Jesus of Nazaret) by the great Paul Verhoeven for my birthday last year and took me to see the man debating with a handful of theologists and preachers in the Remonstrantse Kerk (of which I have told earlier on this blog) and it was just great to see how friendly everyone was, still a bit sceptic but pretty open minded and not at all judgemental. Now this last august I went on holidays and —finally—read the thing and it’s ace!

Now if you, like me, don’t need all the magic and hocus pocus to be all for a beautiful Godly kingdom and have always been looking for a truthful, human Jesus ‘Christ’ of Nazareth, this is your kind of book. Apart from making fucktastic films, Verhoeven was the sole non theologist allowed in the so called Jesus Seminar, a highly respected think tank of around seventy theologists, linguists and bible experts led by one Robert Funk (!), whose main aim was to free the historical figure Jesus of N. from the mythological biblical hero. Or, as Verhoeven likes to call it, free the bible from biblical-political spin added in (mainly) the years just after Jesus’ death by amongst many others Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It’s fun to read how Verhoeven uses nothing but common sense (combined with a whole lot of knowledge of the sacred book, which he first gained as an adolescent intrigued by all kinds of forms of the supernatural) and is sort of a Hercule Poirot, or Lieutenant Columbo in search of the truth behind two thousand years of people taking a run with ancient texts. What is even more important is that once Paul has stripped the New Testament of its lies, slanter and ludicrous magical mumbo jumbo it leaves him with first a pretty exciting book on an underground revolutionary running from large scale opression and second the image of a man/god who is mostly nothing but pure love. A loving ‘god’ supporting a loving message. Not too bad for a religious book now is it?

Especially when you’re brought up in a slightly christian fashion and never knew where to exactly put your mixed feelings on the whole ‘godly’ aspect of Christianity (good – evil, guilt – forgiveness, love – hate, life – death), this is one hell of a read! Peter de K., I just KNOW you’re going to love this!!!