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november 19, 2008.
About eight years ago, in november 2000, the trio Lee Wenham, Raymond Betson and William Cockram, orchestrated a spectacular attack on the Millennium Dome. Leading a group of local London villains, they used a JCB digger to break through the perimeter fence, punched a hole in the side of the Dome itself, and next attempted to smash their way into a display case containing a collection of diamonds with an estimated worth of no less than £ 350.000.000, using sledgehammers and nail guns. The jewels that they were trying to get their hands on included a 203 carats stone, the Millennium Star, said to be one of the finest diamonds ever discovered. A spokeswoman of De Beer's at the time called it the international diamond market's equivalent of a Van Gogh or the Mona Lisa.
The London Millennium Jewels robbers' unavailing audacity kept crossing my mind when last
week I went to have a peek at For the Love of a God, that for some
reason I keep erroneously referring to as "the God of Love": a
work by YB postart star Damien
Hirst, who in pictures I continue to mistake for U2 singstar Bono.
FtLoG is a platinum cast
of a human skull covered with 8.601 diamonds. The skull is currently on
show in the Rijksmuseum
in Amsterdam, home to a great many works by Rembrandt
van Rijn and other long dead dutch
masters. The (material) value of FtLoG
is said to be some £ 15.000.000. Its (art-)market value is disputed, but
Hirst claims
having sold the work to a "consortium of businessmen" (allegedly including
himself, as well as White
Cube gallery owner Jay Jopling) for £ 50.000.000.
In cash.
Even though
it does not come close to the worth of the Millennium Jewels, this - one way
or another - still looks like it would make for a highly stealable
object, what do you think? Relatively light, easy to hide, easy to transport
and very valuable.
The Rijksmuseum is in the midst of a painful, long and expensive renovation.
Its main building has been closed for already many years now, and will surely
not open up to the public again before 2013. At this moment only a small
part of the museum's collection can be viewed. That's in the building's
south wing. With also the modern art museum being quite literally out in
the Amsterdam streets while awaiting the just so slackening finish of its
premises, the Amsterdam Museumplein is as much of a building excavation
as is most of the rest of the dutch capital. Little around the Museumplein
would raise less suspicion than the advent of a couple of cranes or diggers.
I suggest you take a crane.
Best way in and best way out will be through
the roof.
Best time? Tuesday morning, around 6h30.
(Don't try to be subtle,
just break on through to the other side.)
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Myself, I went in through the south wing entrance early in the morning of november 6th, past a mobile police post with plate glass windows that probably is
part of the 'undisclosed additional security measures' that the museum took for the time it has to take
care of FtLoG.
Upon entering the museum one also has to pass by an airplane embarkment
type of security and 'luggage' check. These I'd guess are also part of the 'additional measures', and not part of the usual routine. I tried to
make a picture of the security passage and guards with my cell phone, but immediately there came a young and angry one running towards me, shouting and
shaking his finger that it was
"absolutely forbidden!" to take pictures ...
I did not insist.
I went in at a good time. For as a matter of fact there's hardly a thing
that I find more disagreeable than museum exhibitions where visitors, for
the lack of a system with rails and small Disneyland-like trains, are being
driven to shuffle in double or even triple lines from entrance to exit along
the art works. I went through such ordeal in parisian museums more than once
too often. But that morning there were hardly any visitors yet, so there
was no waiting, and there were no lines. ( * ) I followed
the signs that said "For the Love of God". These led me up the
stairs (Rotterdamse Trap), walked me through room #8 ('Rembrandt
and his pupils'), and then through #9 ('The late Rembrandt').
Not yet
thirty minutes later I saw more and more people getting in line
before being allowed near the God of Love. When I arrived there
wasn't anyone waiting, so I just went on and felt my way in. One
has to, because it is pitch-dark and one has to pass through a couple
of small straight narrow labyrinthine corridors to get into the "shrine", which,
apart from the obligatory 'exit' signs, is of a complete and unabridged
black. Only 15 visitors are allowed inside at the same time. I actually
think that's an awful lot. I was lucky to find myself in there alone.
The skull is placed in a cubic glass show case on a black pedestal standing
in the middle of a not so very big room. It is posed a little below the average
person's eye-level, so that most of us will be looking somewhat down
upon it.
It is well-lit.
Very well.
Many viewers when finally standing skull to skull with Love/God,
commented that they find him so much smaller than they had expected. That's
surely due to the mass of bigger-than-life-sized images of it that they saw
before.
For this I came prepared.
With the exception of Rudi
Fuch's somewhat over-pathetic introduction, I think the book is really
good, though. Including tons of fine drawings and pictures, The
Making of the Diamond Skull
Now could
an artist ask for more?
Best of all the faits divers I found the one stating where Hirst
got the skull: he bought it in Islington, North London, from a taxidermy
shop by the name of "Get
Stuffed" ...
The thing is blinking like hell. But that is hardly surprising given the thousands of diamonds
on a such small
surface. There's even diamonds in the nose hole, and also the cavities of the eye sockets have been covered. Like most skulls,
also this one seems to be laughing out loud, an impression that here is even the stronger because of the full-minus-one set of well-cleaned
- original - teeth that line its wide open mouth. The dark, the spot lights and the diamonds make for a very mockingly laughter.
I feel like I have entered Ali
Baba's cave, but I am also well aware that all was set in order for
me to feel that way. The large pear-shaped diamond on the skull's forehead,
surrounded by a number of smaller pointed stones, is like the jewel
in a turban ("For The Modern Prince"). That in turn made me
feel like I had chanced upon the set of a pirate
movie where any moment now Johnny
Depp or maybe even Keith
Richards himself would come crashing through the ceiling. (I actually
do consider Richards as a most appropriate owner for the Love/God
(unlike George
Michael), and I really hope that eventually he will realize as much
and decide to buy it...)
I slowly walked around the cubic glass case, watching the skull's and my
own reflections in the glass from several angles. After a while my eyes
began to get used to the dark, and as I looked around, I saw the walls and
ceiling covered by a great many faint spots, reflections of the
light by the diamonds. And I wished that the skull would start to turn around, slowly, like
the cheap disco balls that were hovering over
depressingly small & empty dancefloors in the back of 1970's village bars...
It was pretty much automatic that I pointed my cell phone camera, and took a picture. It gave me the scare of a life-time when
at that very moment someone suddenly came jumping at me. I had not noticed the guard
that had been there all the time, silently standing and watching me watching the Love/God from one of the dark corners.
She yelled at me
in broken dutch, reproachingly: "Niet foto's, verboden meneer! Nergens
foto's niet! Leest U dan niet, dat staat er toch!?" ...
I shrugged my shoulders, but I did obey and put my phone away.
I did save my 'illegal' shot, though.
Here it is.
I like it. It's black and vague. I find it scary.
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Now let me stay far from the ongoing heated
discussions on whether or not Love/God is 'art'. It is not
the first time of course that that question has been raised in relation
to some work(s) or other, and it will surely not be the last time. Interesting
and intellectually challenging as such debates may be, I do think that in the end they
are just as pointless as the ever-recurring questions about whether this or that
type of organized sound should be called 'music' or not.
As long as 'art' and 'music' remain major cultural categories, all that
is (re)presented in and through the institutions that - whether it is by
administrative force, by economic force or by both - are labeled by these
categories, will be 'art' and will be 'music'. That simply is a matter of
fact, whether one or the other agrees with that fact,
or not.
Largely this is because there can be no
objective ('value-free'), clear-cut definition, other than that, on
the production side, 'art' is what 'artists' do, just as 'music' is that
what 'musicians' do. The postmodern age broadened the category of 'art'
to a pretty much unlimited number of acts and actions, and it opened
up the category of 'music' to pretty much any sound one can imagine. Which
by the way does not mean that pretty much anything is art or music.
Only that pretty much anything can be so potentially.
As a result, maybe 'yes!' that art's become a fair.
I for one never before have found it to be so much fun ...
Several critics and historians find it difficult to accept that in the end there
are no 'uniquely cultural objects', and au fond society and culture appear as being more or less interchangeable.
They then cringe at the sight of a 'culture' that is shaped and created by 'money, the media, and popular entertainment'.
This is at the heart of, for example, Donald Kuspit's essay
The End of Art
It's difficult not to agree with Kuspit's observations on many of the ongoing mechanisms, but I do not share his
fear. Mainly because I am convinced that his conclusion that as a result
"contemporary culture must satisfy mass taste" (emphasis is mine)
is not correct. There are evermore signs that indicate that art itself
is tiring from the enduring mix-up of pop and high culture, and that we actually seem to arrive
on the verge of exit from what Kuspit considers our 'postmodern hell',
in which commercial status and cultural status are one and the same.
(cf.: Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics, Altermodernism, ETC. Monkeybusiness - upcoming)
It's easy enough, as long as one may choose.
Of course For the Love of God is art.
It is also a fine work of handicraft, executed by a whole team of craftsmen from Bond Street Jewelers Bentley & Skinner. And yes that it is extraordinarily extravagant. Which I guess is its main attraction. And no, it is not ´beautiful´. At least I do not think it is.
The Rijksmuseum's new director Wim Pijbes counts on Love/God attracting a new, different, cooler audience for his museal classics, that will continue to suffer from strain by continuing renovations for another five years or so. And maybe taking some inspiration from for example Jan Fabre's recent Louvre show, the museum invited Hirst to make a personal selection from the works of its collection of 17th century art. He selected 16 paintings, that are on show in the room next to the skull's shrine. You saw them all passing along the right side of your window, while you were scrolling down this entry, in the order in which they are exposed (all pictures were taken from the rijksmuseum.nl website). Apart from formal criteria and impulsive 'liking' there doesn't seem to be much of a plan to Hirst's selection. But each painting does come with a dedicated poppy comment by the YB (self acclaimed) art punk-star. Thus with respect to the first painting, the Old woman selling eggs, by Hendrick Bloemaerts, Hirst comments that the egg that the woman holds in her hand is like a naked skull. In view of Jacob van Loo's Bacchant he seems reassured that "binge drinking isn't a new phenomenon", and Cornelis Saftleven had "too many magic mushrooms" when painting his Satire on the trial of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Or maybe he meant the statesman ... Anyway ...
There was nevertheless at least one note that struck me as surprisingly
serious. It comes with an interesting selection of three fine, dark paintings
of dead game. Two of them are by Jan
Weenix, a third one is from the brushes of his father Jan
Baptist.
Here they are again, more or less as Hirst placed them in his selection-room at the Rijksmuseum, on the wall opposite and furthest from
the skull's shrine.
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"The three paintings work like a kind of crucifixion triptych," Hirst comments.
"They are annoyingly accomplished painters, and underneath the physical
skill and beauty of the paint there's always a very dark & cruel view
of life [...]
The weak won't inherit the world."
...
Now here's what I would have liked:
I would have wanted to see that Love/God-skull outside of its fully darkened Ali Baba cave/shrine, and put out there in the light, surrounded by these 16 annotated paintings, with nothing but an additional spotlight from above, put in its glass cube on its pedestal, at, say, three-quarters of the room's length, closest to the wall with the Weenix triptych.
That's the way // uh-huh, uh-huh // I would have liked it.
...
Before leaving I decided to have a quick look at the Rijksmuseum´s most
famous painting, Rembrandt van Rijn´s Night
Watch.
You will find it just a short corridor away from the room with Hirst´s selection.
Viewers have to keep a certain distance from Rembrandt´s beroemde schuttersstuk,
a distance which is marked by a cord stretched between a couple of low metal
poles. Behind these, to the right and a bit in front of the painting, there
stands a uniformed guard. That is not so much to prevent anyone from stealing
the vast canvas, but rather to keep an eye open for art-vandals that
possibly might attack and attempt to damage the piece in some way.
Which
happened thrice over the last century.
...
It was sort of funny, really, to see the short and corpulent guard stand out there in the
dimmed light ... it did look to me as if he was a part of
the work, as if he had just come stepping out.
Very pomo.
I walked up to him and whispered: ¨Het lijkt wel of U net uit het doek
komt stappen, meneer!¨ He looked at me, puzzled. I don´t think he understood what I meant,
for he answered that indeed a number of slices, that together made up almost one-fifth of the original surface, were cut off the
linen in order to fit it between two doors. That was when in 1715 the painting was moved from the Kloveniersdoelen to
the Amsterdam town hall ...
The little fat guard standing there all alone next to that big painting... It would have made for another fine picture, but by then I knew one does not really appreciate photographs being taken in our Rijksmuseum.
I left it there.
...
[ For the Love of God, a copy of an original human skull cast in 2.156 grams of platinum encrusted with 1.106,18 carats of the finest quality ethically-sourced brilliant-cut diamonds, its forehead mounted with a magnificent internally flawless light fancy pink brilliant-cut pear-shaped diamond weighing 52,4 carats, surrounded by fourteen D flawless white brilliant-cut pear-shaped diamonds weighing a total of 37,81 carats and its jaws set with the teeth extracted from the original skull, will remain stealable from the first floor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, until the 15th of december, 2008. ]
[ Next related SB-entry: Kings, Queens & Koons | Earlier related SB-entry: Jan Fabre @ the Louvre ]
notes __ ::
(*) That was around 10h. FPCM actually went there
even earlier on that same day, around 9h, when the museum just opened. Even
less visitors then. He told me workers still were vacuum-cleaning at the
time. [ ^ ]
tags: Amsterdam, postmodernism, postart, Rijksmuseum, diamonds
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Tapage Nocturne, France Musique - 23h Sept. 3 2015 - Har$, Rébus, Mobin - live recording for Radio France July 11 2015 - unPublic #20, Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels (Belgium) July 10 2015 - Perf-ArtK7: Mobin, Rébus, McJJ & Har$ - Recyclart, Brussels (Belgium) July 9-10 2015 - Har$'s String Quartet with windows, open (24 hours) - Recyclart, Brussels (Belgium) June 27 2015 - A Bridge for Jodi - unPublic #19: Rose, König, Rébus, Har$. Paris XI (France) June 14 2015 - unPublic #18: Lee, Abdelhamid, Hutchinson, Rébus. 대부도 / Daebu-do (South-Korea) June 13 2015 - Etc..., Espace en Cours, Paris XX (France). 19h30 May 13 2015 - Bordé, Heyden, Rébus & Har$ - Tiasci, Paris X (France). 20h30 (10€ PAF) May 6 2015 - Rébus & Har$. Lecture-performance: A433, ou le LA de Schrödinger - Gare Expérimentale, Paris XII Apr. 12 2015 - Un-public #17: Kwon, Nick, Carcone, Har$. Galerie 43, Paris XIII. Apr. 4 2015 - Last Supper - Un-public #16. La Générale, Paris XI. Invitation only. Apr. 4 2015 - Har$: Elastic Lecture Nr. 2 - (L'I-m-a-g-e E-s-t U-n O-b-j-e-t E-l-a-s-t-i-q-u-e). La Générale, Paris XI. 17h Apr. 3 2015 - DIKTAT - "Happy Birdday, Dinah!", Panthère Ose, Paris IX (France). 19h Mar. 24 2015 - "Mal Localisé Dans Le Temps et Dans L'Espace" (L'I-m-a-g-e E-s-t U-n O-b-j-e-t E-l-a-s-t-i-q-u-e), Friches et Nous La Paix, Paris XX (France). 19h Mar. 23 2015 - Secret Tape Research Lab, w/ Anton Mobin, Blenno Wurstbrücke & Har$. DIYChurch - Parsons, Paris (France). 18-20h Mar. 05 2015 - Un-public #15. With Jeff Kolar, Dinah Bird, Anton Mobin, E_Rébus & Har$. Paris (France) Dec. 19 2014 - Yoko Miura, Anthony Carcone, Jean Bordé, Rébus & Har$. Tiasci, Paris X (France). 20h30 (10€ PAF) Dec. 12 2014 - Un-public #14. With Rain, Michael Nick, Cécile Zylberajch, Jacques Foschia, Anthony Carcone, E_Rébus & Har$. Paris (France) Dec. 11 2014 - E t c ... (w./ Anthony Carcone, Jacques Foschia, Har$ & Cécile Zylberajch). Semaine du Bizarre - Théatre Municipal Berthelot, Montreuil (France). 20h30 Dec. 09 2014 - Un-public #13. With Abril Padilla, Anthony Carcone, E_Rébus & Har$. Paris (France) Nov. 23 2014 - Un-public #12. Apassionato. With Francis Larvor, Claude Parle, Yoko Miura, Jean Bordé & Har$. Vincennes (France) Nov. 2 2014 - DIKTAT at the Volkspaleis/Zuiderstrandtheater, Den Haag/Scheveningen, the Netherlands. 22h Oct. 25/26 2014 - String Quartet with windows, open - 24 hour broadcast, Radio On Berlin Oct. 16 2014 - Un-public // 11. Free reeds. With Ian-John Hutchinson, Yoko Miura, E_Rébus & Har$. Paris (France) Sept. 21 2014 - Un-public // 10. With Pierre-Jean Vranken, Jean-Jacques Duerinckx, E_Rébus & Har$. Vincennes (France) Sept. 13 2014 - Carcone, Rébus & Har$ (Etc...) Festival Le Gal Gal, Beaumont-sur-Dême (France) July 27 2014 - Un-public // 9. With Kaspar Koenig, E_Rébus & Har$. Gonten (Switzerland) July 24 2014 - Koenig, Rébus & Har$: In Vitrio - The First Great Gutter, Sihlhallenstrasse 4, Zürich (Switzerland). July 22 2014 - Un-public // 8. Appearance and Reality. With Laura Wetherington & Har$. American Library in Paris (France) May 24-26 2014 - (24 hours) String Quartet with windows, open - Har$. World premiere. Kunsttour, Maastricht (the Netherlands). May 10 2014 - Daar & Hier - ookoi/stduio: performative lecture at the Locative Media and Sound Art symposium, Budascoop, Kortrijk (Belgium). May 3 2014 - Rémanence Magnétique - Har$, Rébus, Wurstbrücke & Anton Mobin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris XVI (France). 17h. Apr. 6 2014 - La Physicalité du son, tome 1 - Sonic Protest, La Générale, Paris XI (France). 20h. Apr. 4 2014 - How To Deconstruct Young Lions - ULTRA! Dinner presentation, KuuB Ruimte voor Kunst en Cultuur. Utrecht (The Netherlands) Mar. 24 2014 - Un-public // 7. Rites of Spring. With Andy Guhl, Anthony Carcone, E_Rébus & Har$. Un-derground bunker, Paris (France) Feb. 18 2014 - Un-public // 6. Speaking in tongues. With Vu Nhât Tân, Nguyen Kim, Emilie Mouchous, Marina Goussina, FlexRex, Jean Bordé & Har$. La Générale, Paris XI (France) Feb. 8 2014 - Un-public // 5. Wie die Zeit vergeht. With Jeff Kolar, Hanna B., Anton Mobin, E_Rébus & Har$. Vincennes (France) Feb. 6 & 7 2014 - Séminaire Le Temps Musical, with Eliane Radigue, Jeff Kolar, Rébus, Har$, and others. Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) Jan. 15 2014 - DIKTAT (with Anne-F). Centre d'Animation de la Place des Fêtes, Paris XIX (France). 20h30 Dec. 21 2013 - Un-public // 4. Cassette Ritual (2013=C50). With Anton Mobin, Blenno Wurstbrücke, E_Rébus & Har$. La Générale, 2ème ét., Paris XI (France) Nov. 28 2013 - Un-public // 3. With Mitsuaki Matsumoto, Yoko Miura, Dominique Bertrand, E_Rébus & Har$. Paris (France) Nov. 16 2013 - Un-public // 2. With Yoko Miura, Marina Goussina, Anthony Carcone, Jean Bordé, E_Rébus & Har$. Vincennes (France) Nove. 10 2013 - зáумь / zaum: Marina Goussina, Harold Schellinx & E_Rébus. Espace en Cours, Paris (France) Oct. 18 2013 - Un-public // 1. With Yoko Miura, Doan Tri Minh, Jean Bordé, E_Rébus & Har$. Paris (France) Sept. 25, 2013 - ULTRA in 5 minutes. Ignite #30, Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) Aug. 30, 2013 - Hollands Spoor. 2013 = C50. Tales for Tapes #10, Berlin (Germany) July 20, 2013 - Erébus & Har$ Le Placard First Floor Générale, Sèvres (France) June 29 - 30, 2013 - E t c ... [Carcone, Foschia, Schellinx & Zylberajch]. Festival des Ephémères, Paris (France), 4 x 30 min. June 28 - 29, 2013 = C50. Tales for Tapes #9. (Lang Leve Lou Ottens!) Kobe, Ivry-sur-Seine (France) June 14, 2013 - ookoi, Wandelzand premiere, Ameland (the Netherlands) May 25, 2013 - Loran, Dora, Azuda, Jean & Har$. Chez Adel, Paris X (France), 18h May 18 - 20, 2013 - Re: Table (performance/installation) - Kunsttour 2013, Wiebengahal, Maastricht (the Netherlands). April 19-20, 2013 - Y.Numbr. Rietveld/NASA, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). April 6, 2013 - Cultuurnacht, radio show. Heerlen (the Netherlands). March 17, 2013 - C50 - Lang Leve Lou Ottens! KKWNE web radio, Paris (France). Feb. 1, 2013 - D(emacker), S(chellinx) & M(ertens) - GRAUZONE Festival, De Melkweg, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Oct. 2, 2012 - DIKTAT. Incubatort Arts Project, St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 2nd Floor, 131 East 10th St., New York (USA). Oct. 1, 2012 - DIKTAT, Panoply Performance Laboratory, 104 Meserole St., Brooklyn, New York (USA) Sep. 28, 2012 - DIKTAT @ Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington (USA). Sep. 27, 2012 - DIKTAT @ Martin Art Gallery, Allentown (USA). Sep. 13, 2012 - DIKTAT @ Trashvortex, Ivry sur Seine (France). 20h30 Aug. 30 - Sept. 2, 2012 - ULTRA - De Musical @ Mini-tour + Steve Lake + GW Sok: Maloe Melo - Amsterdam, De Vinger - The Hague, ACU - Utrecht (the Netherlands). July 27-30, 2012 - Har$ @ Placard XV. Paris (France), 4x July 14, 2012 - Har$ & La Vie de Bohème [Smikkelbaard 7" vinyl live pre-view]. Sub071, Leiden (the Netherlands), 21h July 2-4, 2012 - Citynumberscapes: London, Amsterdam Paris. ResonanceFM, Clear Spot (8-9 pm, UK time). June 30 - July 1, 2012 - Arbre Etc [Carcone, Foschia & Schellinx]. Festival des Ephémères, Paris (France), 6 x 30 min. June 17, 2012 - ULTRA @ Bongo at the Bieb - Amsterdam FM. Public Library, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 14h-15h May 19, 2012 - ULTRA Presentation/Performance @ 'This is not a punk lecture', Centraal Museum, Utrecht (the Netherlands) April 24, 2012 - ULTRA@Steim. Ultra-Nu, with Bertin, ookoi + Instruments, a.o., STEIM, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 20h April 20+21, 2012 - YLTRA audio workshop, Rietveld Academy/Club Karlsson, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) April 20, 2012 - ULTRA @ OBA Live, Radio 5. Public Library, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 20h April 7, 2012 - ULTRA 2012 - Final: lectures, panel discussion + events + concerts, De Melkweg, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 19h (tickets: €20,-) April 7, 2012 - ULTRA, presentation + surprise concert, Concerto, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 15h-16h March 16, 2012 - ULTRA Underground Cinema. Galerie De Inkijk, metrostation Weesperplein, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 19h30h March 12-16, 2012 - ULTRA, No Future Nu & Bibikov: 2x daily book readings + performances, Galerie De Inkijk, metrostation Weesperplein, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 8h-9h, 17h30-18h30 March 11, 2012 - ULTRA 2012, events + concerts, Dansmakers, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 20h30 (tickets: €25,-) March 11, 2012 - Opening ULTRA, No Future Nu & Bibikov, Galerie De Inkijk, metrostation Weesperplein, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 16h March 10, 2012 - ULTRA 2012, presentation, events + concerts, Worm, Rotterdam (the Netherlands), 20h March 9, 2012 - ULTRA 2012, presentation, events + concerts, TAC, Eindhoven (the Netherlands), 20h March 8, 2012 - ULTRA 2012, presentation, events + concerts, Extrapool, Nijmegen (the Netherlands), 20h March 7, 2012 - ULTRA, Book Presentation + Schellinx/Duerinckx/Mobin + Minny Pops Drastic Measures, Drastic Movements suite, Ateliers Claus, Brussels (Belgium). 20h30 March 2, 2012 - ULTRA + No Future Nu. Aan tafel bij VPRO's De Avonden tijdens opening God Save The Queen tentoonstelling. Centraal Museum, Utrecht (the Netherlands) (Opening expo invitation only) March 1, 2012 - ULTRA, Book Presentation, W139, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 19h (invitation only) Feb. 29, 2012 - Red Light ULTRA Schrikkelshow, Red Light Radio, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 17-18h Jan. 27, 2012 - Paris Rape Run 2 Presentation, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (France) 20h30 Jan. 22, 2012 - Schellinx & van Alebeek: Hollands Spoor. Le Bouillon Belge, Paris (France) 21h Jan. 17, 2012 - Diktat & guests - Magnetic Remancence. La Générale Nord-Est, Paris (France) 19h30 Jan. 16, 2012 - Diktat - Magnetic Remancence. Songs of Praise, Radio Aligre FM - Paris (France) 19h30 -21h Jan. 14, 2012 - ULTRA, Opkomst & Ondergang. Muzikale lezing. Noorderslag, Oosterpoort, Groningen (the Netherlands). 12h30 Dec. 31, 2011 - Seventy Seconds in the toilets @ Hard Hoofd New Year ' Party , Kriterion, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Dec. 16, 2011 - Seventy Seconds @ Hard Hoofd/Entrée Late Night Café, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 22h30 Dec. 10, 2011 - Geluid als taal en teken. Muziek als paal en perk. Presentation/lecture, (h)ear Festival, Heerlen (the Netherlands). Dec. 15+20, 2011 - Found Tapes @ K7eurs. Tape's Not Dead. ARTE TV, Tracks. Dec. 13-30, 2011 - Found Tapes @ Neue Positionen. Der Fortschritt. Intro In situ, Maastricht (the Netherlands). Dec. 8, 2011 - Raudio ULTRA, met Wiel Seuskens &. Peter Mertens, Red Light Radio, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 20h Nov. 17-26, 2011 - Seventy Seconds @ Hard Hoofd Tentoonstelling, Artpocalypse, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Sept. 24-25, 2011 - Found Tapes @ Neue Positionen (Art Focus Euregio), Atelierhaus, Aachen (Germany). Sept. 11-12, 2011 - Resonance Network meeting, Berlin (Germany) - @resonancenet Sept. 9-11, 2011 - Found Tapes @ Neue Positionen (Art Focus Euregio), Hasselt (Belgium) /soundblog at harsmedia com/ 
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