{"id":2215,"date":"2019-12-20T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T10:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:51:13","slug":"brabant-road-trip-day-1-tilburg-oisterwijk-breda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/brabant-road-trip-day-1-tilburg-oisterwijk-breda\/","title":{"rendered":"Brabant Road Trip, Day 1: Tilburg – Oisterwijk – Breda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our road trip begins on 12 November\nin Tilburg at\nKunstloc<\/a> Brabant. The day\u2019s moderator, Nils van Beek, invites\nattendees to have a seat on the stair-scape of LocHal. Anneroos Goosen of\nliterary organisation Tilt<\/a>\n(Tilburg)\nbriefly talks about the organisation\u2019s desire for writers to connect with their\nenvironment, which resulted in the creation of a writer-in-residence programme.\nAs a first step, Tilt invited Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer to their festival, which\nyielded far more than an attractive publication. As a writer, Pfeifjjer\u2019s\npresence in the environment spurred many encounters and stories. They have continued\nthis thread at different locations and also with companies through the Tilt\nInc. residency programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second place we visit, also in\nTilburg, is\nGastatelier\nLeo XIII<\/a> where Hanneke Bedaux welcomes us along with artist Gilly van\nZanten<\/a> , now in residence here. The Gastatelier is a bit hidden, but, as\nis often the case for Tilburg, it is an oasis of peace in a residential area.\nLeo XIII was founded in 1995 when assorted artists began using the building as\na studio and a home. Only the auditorium was given a specific purpose. It was\ndesignated as an artists\u2019 residency for those artists who focus on the\ncontinuation of the 20th<\/sup> century avant-garde, for which research is\ncentral. Though peace and concentration are undeniably important here, Leo XIII\nalso regularly draws attention by publishing extensively about their programme\non their website, in arts magazine Metropolis M and on social media. For its\nresidency, Leo XIII has partnered over the last two years with a curator to\nnavigate the process of the working period as a duo, which provides a\ntheoretical deepening and positioning of the artistry in the here and now,\nfollowed by a presentation weekend. The organisation also collaborates with\nprofessional arts education programmes and fellow institutes, such as\nKunstpodium T. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda K\u00f6ke from Kunstpodium T<\/a> explains how this platform\nwas created in 2007 out of the desire to connect with the Fontys students in\nTilburg. It all began with an Apprentice\/Master\u2019s programme before spreading to\nmore and more academies; initially in Brabant, then throughout the Netherlands\nand beyond. Logically, other projects were soon to follow that assisted young\nartists in their professional practice. Bringing practical matters to the fore,\nfor example, in the programme ART part<\/em>\nor the annual Day of the Young Artist,<\/em>\nwhere, based on a current question, a curator invites various professionals to\nshare their knowledge with young artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The road trip continues with the bus\nheading toward Oisterwijk and Sundaymorning@ekwc<\/a>, where Ranti Tjan welcomes\nthose present with a lunch. Afterwards, Ranti leads a tour of the impressive\nspaces in this international ceramics work centre. Everything has been thought\nout. Where it should be entertaining; the shared kitchen, and where it should not:\nthe sober workplace, because this forces you to really get down to work; a good\nthing. Though it is expensive to work here, this is where you can find the best\nexperts and a certain openness about the knowledge acquired by the residents,\nsixteen of whom can live and work here at the same time. That has also been\ntaken into consideration. The residency selection begins with the applications\nthey receive from all over the world that are assessed with a simple, but\npromising premise: it has to be an impossible plan. Why? Otherwise, nothing new\nwould happen. However self-evident the existence of EKWC may be now, it took considerable\neffort to get here because, when Ranti joined the organisation, the importance\nof EKWC had been a bit forgotten; even the name had been spelled incorrectly. EKWC\nleft Den Bosch to embark on an adventure in this old factory that is perfect,\nexcept for the floor \u2026 which was the biggest investment. And the name Sundaymorning<\/em>?\nFor that, we have the Velvet Underground\u2019s iconic song to thank. Just like\nthat, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Oisterwijk onward to Breda and\nour house call\nWitte Rook<\/a>\n, an\nartist-in-residence programme that literally straddles the border between the\nintimacy of a quiet neighbourhood and the hectic pace of the big city. Artist Aalt van de\nGlind<\/a> talks about his residency and photographic research for which he\ninstalled an on-site darkroom. In addition to the physical location, Witte Rook\n(represented by Esther van Rosmalen) sees opportunities to use the online space\nas a platform where artists and fellow institutes can swap stories about their\nprocess.  It is also a place where new\nforms of art can arise precisely because they are physically unbound. This facilitates\nnew collaborations, such as those with CEASUUR<\/a>, a space in Middelburg in the coming\nyear. Artists will be invited here by Witte Rook for a year to explore their\nwork and its relationship to online opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The day comes to a close with a visit to Stedelijk Museum Breda<\/a> , where Dingeman Kuilman presents on how, as the youngest city museum in the Netherlands, it had to reinvent itself after the dissolution of two previous museums. A finding from this process was that the visual arts had to be unconditionally chosen again. Due in part to the high-calibre artists who live and work here or feel connected to the city and their need for an institutional stage and partially due to the people and organisations that support the visual arts and artists with word and deed. The current exhibition The Witch of Dongen<\/em> was developed in collaboration with guest curator Ron Dirven. Dirven is also the director of the Van Goghhuis<\/a> and the Van Gogh AIR programme (both in Zundert), which partnered with contemporary artists in the accompanying exhibition Dongen Revisited<\/em>. For Stedelijk Museum Breda, the connection between the cultural history of the city and region and contemporary art represents an important starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the subsequent discussion, led\nby Nils van Beek, talk surfaces of the organisations\u2019 desire to adopt a\npositive activist stance in relation to the current artistic climate.\nCollaboration, as Meike Veldhuijsen of KOP<\/a> notes, is especially vital in a city to give the young artists, on\nwhom they focus, the feeling that there is a place for them too. Do not wait,\nadds Anthonie Peeters of Club Solo<\/a>, create the urgency yourself. When Lokaal 01 disappeared,\nthere was insufficient presentation space, especially for the mid-career\nartist, and there was a lack of connection with the outside world. But the city\ncouncil will not fill that for you, as an artist you have to do that yourself.\nYou also have to take other paths that you initially did not have in mind as an\norganisation, and then you have to mobilise the politics, while staying in\ncontrol yourself. Club Solo and Witte Rook organised a debate and a discussion\non this topic to hold up a mirror to the politicians, reminding them that they\nhave to delve into the matters that they make decisions about. Theo Andriessen\nof Breda Photo<\/a> agrees that a city has to invest in climate and talent by\nattracting young photographers from all over the world with an international talent programme<\/em>. A\nsituation wholly unfamiliar to Marieke Habraken-Meijers from AnnAtopiA \/ De Boshut<\/a>\nlocated in\nthe relatively calm village of Baarle, where the residency is set back in the\nwoods. A place where artists can be completely removed from the hectic pace of\nurban life and its pressures. With that, day 1 of our road trip draws to a\nclose, but it will continue 14 November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Esther van Rosmalen Editor:\nKyki Vermaire Photographer: Tim Meijer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is North Brabant the de-facto development region for the arts? How do the various organisations collaborate \u2014 the workshops, presentation institutes and artist-in-residence programmes? During a two-day bus trip, manifest special sites were visited, and we gained insight into the dynamics of the cultural field in this province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airbrabant.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}