Love, Rob

We nodigen je uit voor een herdenking en viering van het werk van Rob Schröder, visionair documentairemaker en grafisch ontwerper, mede-initiatiefnemer van het activistische designcollectief Wild Plakken, medeoprichter van het Sandberg Instituut en docent bij Sandberg Design, Shadow Channel en Resolution.

Rob heeft vele studenten geïnspireerd door de wereld van het filmmaken samen te brengen met de wereld van design. We nodigen oud-studenten van Rob uit voor een informele avond om samen te komen, twee van Rob’s films te bekijken en Rob te gedenken als de behulpzame en liefdevolle docent die hij was.

15.30 Deuren openen
15.45 Azawad, The Art of Creating a State, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2015  
17.00 Ouwe Hoeren / Meet the Fokkens, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2011
18.00 Informele nabespreking met drankjes
18.30 Einde

Het evenement is gratis. Donaties zijn welkom. Alle opbrengsten gaan naar Syrian Eyes عيون سورية die Syrische en Palestijnse gemeenschappen ondersteunt met voedsel, essentiële producten en tijdelijke huisvesting in BEIRUT, TRIPOLI en BEKAA. Je kunt hier doneren.

Rsvp: design@sandberg.nl 

Georganiseerd door het Sandberg Instituut in samenwerking met W139 en alumni Emirhan Akin, Anja Groten en Juliette Lizotte. 

Azawad, The Art of Creating a State, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2015  

Azawad: The Art of Creating a State offers a unique insight into the everyday struggle of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg), Arab, Fula, and Songhai peoples that have joined the liberation movement. Together with artist Jonas Staal and researcher Younes Bouadi, the directors interviewed the movement’s provisional government, commanders, strategists, historians, and artists, who explain their endeavors in the “art of creating a state”—a state that, up until today, has not been recognized by any other state in the world.

Ouwe Hoeren / Meet the Fokkens, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2011

“In the old days, the local copper would tap on the window if a girl was showing too much ankle, now the girls deal coke from their cubicles.” Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. 

Meet the Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.

Art Market Weekender 2 + Fundraiser Artsakh en Gaza

Tweede editie van twee gratis weekendmarkten, met (onder andere) zelf uitgegeven zines, vinylplaten, kleding, kunstwerken en ambachtelijke producten van lokale kunstenaars, ontwerpers en makers.

Tijdens de tweede Art Market werd er tevens geld opgebracht voor Artsakh en Gaza. Tijdens de fundraiser kraam werd er o.a. Palestijns en Armeens eten verkocht en een bingo georganiseerd met gedoneerde prijzen. Foto’s door Elodie Vreeburg.

Verkopers:

Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum
Hosselaer
People of ISO
Human Fruit Machine
Het Ateljet
Roots to Fruits
Juiciety
Merceria Clara
Bootleg Sjaak
Carmen Schabracq
Iekeliene Stange
Las Primas
WZAR
Vita Buivid
Dulce733
Angel-Rose
Conki Records
Near Mint Haarlem
Rush Hour
De Kaasserie
Dirty Arts
Surfing in Kansas
CHOCHOLACKOVA

Foto’s door Elodie Vreeburg.

How To Set Your Signs On Fire

Fundraiser for Ukrainian arts and artists

On Saturday 2 April W139 will host a fundraiser initiated by Ukrainian artists to support the Ukrainian art scene. How To Set Your Signs on Fire is a mixed event with performances, interviews, DJ’s. Above all, it is a call to action to support endangered Ukrainian art and artists through protest signs and donations.

On Wednesday 23 March a museum in Mariupol containing works of the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi was demolished. Earlier on in the war, a large collection of works by Ukrainian folk artist Maria Primachenko nearby Kyiv was destroyed, and Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre was swept away, killing hundreds of civilians who were inside seeking shelter. For Ukrainian artists Nikolay Karabinovych and Sophia Bulgakova, who are the initiators for the Fundraiser in W139, it is unbearable to witness what is happening in their home country and to see how culture is attacked. ‘Behind each artwork is the fate of a particular human being’, Nikolay says. ‘Helping Ukrainian art to survive – is a necessary effort.’

All proceeds of the fundraiser event will go to the Museum Crisis Center and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund. Besides music, food, and art, there will be a live (online) interview with Olha Honchar in Lviv, director of the Territory of Terror Museum about the position of art and artists in Ukraine.

The day will kick off at 13:00 hrs with a protest sign making workshop led by Ukrainian artists and activists Sophia Bulgakova, Nikolay Karabinovych, Christopher Pugmire and Valeriia Lukashenko. At 17:00 hrs this workshop hits the streets and the freshly made signs will be showcased at Dam Square in Amsterdam where the participants will raise their voice against the Russian war in Ukraine. The protest signs will be auctioned off later on.

From 18:00 visitors can grab a plate of Ukrainian food and join a performative dinner prepared by Sophia Bulgakova & Cemre Deniz Kara at W139. A special edition of the talk show Stampa starts at 19:00 during which representatives from the Ukrainian art scene will be hosted and interviewed, as well as the Dutch Prince Claus Fund, which is currently working hard to preserve Ukrainian art and heritage. From 20:00 hrs onwards expect DJ’s and audiovisual performances by Ukrainian and Netherlands-based artists until midnight. All music and performances are curated by Sophia Bulgakova and FIBER Festival, including (amongst others) performances by Loma Doom (DJ), Mark IJzerman, and Sophia Bulgakova (Live A/V performance.

How To Set Your Signs On Fire is initiated by Sophia Bulgakova and Nikolay Karabinovych and supported by W139, talk show Stampa, Fiber Festival, Lesley Moore, Pictoright, Open Studios and The One Minutes.

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* All proceedings are gathered through the W139 bank account and transferred to the designated organisations and artists in Ukraine.

Programma 2 april:

Protest sign making workshop How To Set Your Signs On Fire

13:00-16:00 hrs, W139, Warmoesstraat 139, Amsterdam

A protest sign making workshop led by Ukrainian artists and activists Sophia Bulgakova, Nikolay Karabinovych, Christopher Pugmire & Valeriia Lukashenko.

Free admission, bring your own material.

Showcase How To Set Your Signs On Fire

17:00-18:00 hrs, Dam Square Amsterdam

Show your signs and raise your voice for the Ukrainian people.

Fundraiser How To Set Your Signs On Fire

18:00-24:00 W139, Warmoesstraat 139, Amsterdam

18:00-19:00 Performative dinner by Sophia Bulgakova & Cemre Deniz Kara.

19:00-20:00 talkshow Stampa, including interviews with museum director Olga Honchar, Prince Claus Fund and others.

20:00-00:00 Music & A/V performances by Loma Doom, Mark Ijzerman, Sophia Bulgakova, Karabinovych and more.

Admission (donation) EUR 5 from 18:00 hrs onwards. No presale, tickets at the door.