March 25, 2004
hottentottententententoonstelling
Some time ago I co-curated a show at mama (showroom for
media and moving art, Rotterdam) called ‘Hottentottententen-
tentoonstelling’ (november, 2002 - january 2003). They call
it co-curated, but it basically comes down to whispering some
of the right names in some of the right ears. Because of the
shows’ theme ‘putting the craft back into craftsmanship’, we
wanted to make a sort of late fourtees / early fiftees Jenever
picture...
Unfortunately participants Robert Rosenau and Jan van Nuenen
couldn’t make the shoot because of busyness. Present on the
thing we* made anyhow (clockwise from upper left corner:
Hidde van Schie, Vincent van Duin, GeeJee van der Akerboom
and myself wearing the excellent Pipilotti Rist T-Shirt by 75b.
We didn’t know what to do with it, but taking the actual picture
seemed more important than its purpose later. In the back
you can see some of a fantastic ‘jungle’ painting by Hidde.
Turned out to be excellent log-material, eh?
*we didn’t make the picture, Rick Messemaker did. Thanks!