The august break is over, and we’re back at drink­ing beers in gal­leries and open­ings instead of plain bars. We’ll rewire our cul­tural neu­rons start­ing tomor­row at the lec­ture at the NAI of José Oubrerie about his work with le Corbusier:

The archi­tect José Oubrerie (72) worked for Le Cor­busier from 1957 to 1965. In this lec­ture he will talk about his coop­er­a­tion with Le Cor­busier and in par­tic­u­lar about one of his last works, the build­ing of the church of ‘Saint Pierre’ in Firminy, France. This was a long-​term project that was only brought to a final con­clu­sion, under Oubrerie’s super­vi­sion, last year. “We never stopped fight­ing for the project,” José Oubrerie com­ments. “We came back to the work again and again, like an actor who must bring the same fresh­ness to a play even at the 200th performance.”

This Sat­ur­day (1st Sep.) you’ll find us at the open­ing of River­ine, a media instal­la­tion of my friend Philipp (aka Videogeist – check his web­site and beau­ti­ful work on flickr) from Berlin. The event is hosted by club 11 in Ams­ter­dam, DJ Schege from Tied&Tickled Trio takes care of the music.

In his video-​room instal­la­tion ‘RIVERINE ZONES CONNECTED’, mul­ti­me­dia artist Philipp Geist dis­plays video record­ings and video stills from national and inter­na­tional rivers. Using under­wa­ter video cam­eras Geist has filmed the world beneath the sur­face. It is an attempt to get in touch with our imme­di­ate real­ity; an artis­tic exam­i­na­tion about the ubiq­ui­tous ele­ment of water. Geist man­ages to show a part of our real­ity that is usu­ally hidden from us.

The week­end after the Wereld van Witte de With fes­ti­val starts fea­tur­ing heroes as a theme.

Fes­ti­val De Wereld van Witte de With is tra­di­tion­ally set in the second week­end of Sep­tem­ber: from Friday the 7th till Sunday the 9th of Sep­tem­ber 2007. For three days this arts-​festival will show you the present art along the Witte de With­straat and the Muse­umpark quar­ter during the open­ing of the cul­tural season.
Again you can watch and enjoy fine arts, the­atre, pho­tog­ra­phy, film, music, lit­er­a­ture, dance, fash­ion, debate and per­for­mances. The fes­ti­val offers a plat­form to art-​institutions, city-​dressers, art-​galleries, artists and fash­ion ini­tia­tives to show their work in a dif­fer­ent way to their new and exist­ing audi­ence.
In short, the fes­ti­val is an unique inter­dis­ci­pli­nary mix­ture of art forms, lifestyles and sub­cul­tures. Be sur­prised on the bound­aries or sim­i­lar­i­ties of the dif­fer­ent disciplines.

And we’re already look­ing for­ward to the sky­scraper week­end on the 20th to 22nd of Sep­tem­ber. Learn more about it and the upcom­ing art­park and the last days of Fol­ly­dock in our Dys­turb Cal­en­dar Section!