Unsafe interview with musical genius Mohsen Namjoo

Photo: Sina Khani & Mohsen Namjoo (Photo: Steven Bos)

We are very happy to be able to present the recording of the interview of Sina Khani (Creeps from the Middle East), Tarik Sadouma (The Rise of the Unsafe House), and Ruth Spetter (idem) conducted with Mohsen Namjoo after his concert in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mohsen Namjoo is an Iranian musician and poet currently living in New York. In 2025 he is touring the world with his Minooor Show, a multimedia solo show, singing, reciting, playing the setar, and showing images. Minooor refers to the minor scale, according to some the only allowed musical scale in current Iran.

Mohsen Namjoo talks about his show, the use of sound and music, while in the background a selection of images are shown of the Green Movement, an oppositional political movement in Iran emerging in 2009.

This movement came to be after an apparently fraudulent presidential election in which the regime’s candidate, Ahmadinejad, became the winner, which was disputed by the opposition movement. The government arrested around 4,000 people and 72 people were killed during the protests.

Namjoo had already had a turbulent life and career, so it seems. After visiting the Tehran University of Art, he published his Toranj Album, which became a great success among the Iranian people but angered the government. In court he was sentenced to 5 years, in absentia, as he lived in Vienna at the time, for recording music that “dishonours passages from the Quran.”

The album featured nine traditional folk songs including poems of Rumi, Hafez, Baba Taher, and Attar, famous Persian poets of the past. It was mostly produced as underground music.

The story is, Namjoo was sentenced because of making animal sounds while singing the 91st Sura of the Quran. Because of this sentence, Namjoo will not return to his native country until the Islamist regime is sacked.

Inspector Casino´s Detective Show celebrates its 20th year´s birthday in 2025!

  In 2025 it will be 20 years since the foundation of Inspector Casino´s Detective Show with the (in)famous Inspector Casino.

It all started at the cellars of Radio Rietveld in the, at that time, new building of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy. Hans Kuiper started with online radio and was lucky to be around its developments in the age of digitalisation. 

The original Inspector Casino Logo, designed by Babak Andishmand (2005).

Inspector Casino

Inspector Casino became a character in a series of radio plays, a hilarious connotation of the (predictable) detective stories all around (inter)national media. Inspector Casino fastly became a hype in the local Amsterdam art scene. What started as a ridiculisation of the almost traditional narrative soon splattered into associative sound sculptures with undiscernable story lines. The Inspector Casino soundscape was born.

In the meantime, Radio Rietveld was selected by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to be part of the 2006-2007 ´Just-in-Time´-exhibition, the Inspector Casino´s Detective Show was suddenly broadcasted via the airwaves over the whole city of Amsterdam. It would be not the last time. In 2008 the Show was listenable in the ´Kik´- art residence in Drenthe (NL) with a broadcasting reception reach of around 15 km.

Berlin

In 2009 the art radio program was broadcasted  out of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the show was transformed in a talk show on art and with artist guests talking on their work and projects, the participants often taking sound samples, and was listenable almost all over the city. It was one of the few shows solely on contemporary art in Berlin at that time, which made the show quickly famous in the art scene.

Initiator Hans Kuiper was also active at that time for other local TV and radio projects, like Pi Radio & B-Mix, as radio host and editor. He also started a talk show with German writer Tilo Koehler which ran till 2012.

Amsterdam FM

After returning to Amsterdam, The Inspector Casino programs on art were broadcasted at Amsterdam FM in 2012, the show contained soundscapes, live performances and interviews with local and international artists. 

Radio Neverno

In 2015 initiator Hans Kuiper was asked  for setting up another radio project in the art scene with Moritz Ebinger by curators of the ´Tomorrow Never Knows´ Exhibition in Arti et Amicitiae, the biggest art association in Amsterdam with exhibition halls in the center, Radio Neverno was born and the Inspector Casino´s Detective Show was back in the limelights.

After the exhibition and a renewed participation in the Museumnacht 2015, Ebinger left the radio  focusing on his other art projects. Kuiper kept on posting and interviewing artists, galerists and other players in the art scene, often looking for cross overs. Interviews appeared with art dealers, reportages on art and politics and opinion pieces were published, also with new contributors.

Since then Radio Neverno is a Podcast Radio station with occasionally Inspector Casino´s Detective Show in its program list, but in 2025-2026, it plans to go live again and The Inspector Casino´s Detective Show will be in the limelight again, producing live shows and podcasts on a regular basis.

Stay informed for these new series of art shows and updates on the streaming days! 

Some shows will be streamed live via the known streaming channels (Radioneverno.nl, Youtube.com, Twitch.tv & Instagram.).

Amsterdam gebouwd op foto´s: interview met Jos Houweling en Martin Grootenboer

Foto: Martin Grootenboer

Interview met Jos Houweling en Martin Grootenboer over de foto-tentoonstelling in Arti et Amicitiae, die opent op 10 januari 2025.

De tentoonstelling toont foto´s van 1975 tot 2025 en geeft zo een beeld van de stad.

Interview door Hans Kuiper.

Interviews & Soundscapes · Amsterdam gebouwd op foto's

HET GEZICHT VAN DE STAD
Dat Amsterdam schilderachtig en fotogeniek is behoeft geen betoog. Zoals alle steden waar over liedjes worden gezongen heeft de stad een visuele eigenheid die haar soms meer personage dan stad maakt. De stad die fameus op palen is gebouwd, wordt in meer overdrachtelijke zin evenzeer gedragen door de beelden die er van haar door de tijd heen werden gemaakt. Wie heden ten dage op een zoekmachine de naam van de stad invoert krijgt het officiële portret van de stad te zien. Een bijna geheel ontvolkt decor, ideaal als achtergrond voor selfies en vakantie herinneringen. Dit is niet zoals de meeste bewoners de stad dagelijks zien. 

AMSTERDAM GEBOUWD OP FOTO’S toont, als langs een tijdlijn, foto’s van de stad die de periode tussen 1975 en 2025 beslaat, en een beeld geven van de recente geschiedenis van de stad zoals die niet eerder in zulk een samenhang getoond werd. Met aandacht voor het schuwe, het onopvallende en het intieme dat, in een verzameling gevangen, patronen en een levenshouding laten zien die, meer dan die officiële paspoortfoto, het ware gezicht en wezen van de stad onthullen: de stad als speeltuin van haar bewoners, de bewoners als speelgoed van de stad. 

Wat deze foto’s naast de afbeeldingen zelf tonen is dat de makers ervan deze stad en haar bewoners als eigen en zelfs rechtmatig eigendom beschouwen. Een manier van kijken die in haar onbevangenheid plaats biedt aan zo goed als alles en iedereen. Een liefdevolle- en bovenal democratische blik.

TERUGKIJKEN NAAR DE TOEKOMST 
De tentoonstelling komt op een moment dat Amsterdam opnieuw een metamorfose aan het ondergaan is, met grote bouwkundige projecten enerzijds en een ingrijpende verandering waar het de samenstelling van de bevolking betreft. De eens zo rommelige maar ook toegankelijke stad is voor veel van haar bewoners onbetaalbaar geworden. De enorme toestroom van toeristen heeft grote delen van de stad ontzield en tot een cliché gemaakt. 
Deze tentoonstelling laat zien dat dit geen onwrikbare werkelijkheid is. Dat het anders was, en dus ook anders kan. Door terug te blikken op de laatste vijftig jaar, kijken we ook vooruit. In welke richting beweegt de stad zich, en is dat de goede richting? Kunnen we anders leren kijken naar deze stad gebouwd op beelden en er dus anders over leren denken? 

Tekst: Jos Houweling

The Unsafe Election Night

WHERE: The Rise of the Unsafe House: The American Election WATCH PARTY, Amsterdam (NL)

DATE: 5 & 6 November, 2024.

LOVE: YES

The Unsafe Election Night

OMG, I think I was at the coolest place in Amsterdam, even if just for a few intense hours!

To be honest, I haven’t had this feeling in a long time.

Tuesday Night – Wednesday Morning, November 5th & 6th: Somewhere in a shady neighborhood near the famous Bajes—formerly an Amsterdam prison, where I gave a concert when I was 18, with the now-infamous Harm on piano.

Ok, forget the prison and harm—they’re history. The prison closed years ago, Harm moved to the countryside, and the place is now a kind of concentration camp for the underperforming creative class of Amsterdam, as I mentioned before.

But the Wenckebachweg? Sorry, I have to drop a hint for the culture police dogs, so they can catch a whiff of where this real creative scent is coming from. The Wenckebachlaan was the place to be that night. It’s a long street, though, and you’d need a strong nose to pick up the “art drops” sprinkled in the fresh autumn air of Amsterdam.

Enough rambling! I wanted to go incognito. I had a bit of an eye ache, so I wore these nighttime sunglasses to protect me from the ultra-bright film studio lights. But I took them off again because Mr. Sina Khani, the “Main Creep from the Middle East,” walked up and offered me a beer.

There was a strange mix of people in this “Unsafe House.” Mr. Khani seemed to be part of the place’s interior design—he could easily have posed for one of the creepy paintings by Mr. Tarik Sadouma himself, because we were in the domain of the informal “Night Mayor” (or should I say Nightmare) of Amsterdam.

The cast was impressive. As I’m always on the lookout for talent, I was thrilled by this concentration of inventiveness.

Steven Bos, also part of “The Creeps,” was hosting the event, sitting in a comfortable armchair from 1880, next to the couch where Mr. Sadouma reigned as the current “King of Art” in Amsterdam (sorry, Papa Adama, times are changing).

Steven Bos also invited Edo Blaauw to join on the couch, and, man, he became my favorite comedian of the night—even when he was rooting for Kamala Harris as his favorite presidential candidate.

That’s why we were there, in the end—the American Election Night had come to Amsterdam, to the Unsafe House. Edo Blaauw tried to poll the room to see how many were pro-Kamala, but not many wanted to back her, even before her defeat—maybe a sign of things to come.

Earlier today, I watched a very funny AI video of a cursing Kamala and Trump putting everyone down even ruder than he does in reality. Will future presidential candidates be as crudely Bronx-slanged as I saw on that Twitch channel? I missed the “real” election night in the USA because what was happening on the couch was far more exciting. Honestly, I forgot about Trump and Kamala right away.

Sina Khani opened, after a few jokes—though he still claims not to be funny and just a “Sina Songwriter”—with “Let’s Not Hate the Americans” on guitar. The song was almost forgotten by Khani himself, but it’s still a famous underground anthem. I even wrote another song inspired by it during those surreal COVID months in 2020.

Then, things moved quickly. Sadouma leapt off the couch as new guests took his place. Salima El Muslima, whom I’d seen before, brought an award sculpture and began “canceling” a Dutch artist she accused of mistreating her. I had heard his name before, Himmelbach, but apparently, he hadn’t left much of an impression on me. Salima accused Himmelbach of threatening her Ukrainian friend Jelena, who suffers from psychosis, and of manipulating her into stealing the award sculpture he made, only to pressure her to give it back under threat of calling the police. Jelena almost relapsed into psychosis, triggering her trauma. “These fake artists,” Salima said, “offering a woke award only to demand it back, are all about subsidy money. That’s what art is about these days: money!”

Another woman, Sharkurtala,  took a seat on the couch (this is starting to sound very Freudian) and launched into a tirade against Steven Ruitenbeek (from KIRAC), “who nominated a racist for the award.” The atmosphere in the Unsafe “Garage” turned decidedly feminist. Himmelbach and Ruitenbeek “blocked her,” and she responded, “You can talk to my lawyer later!” (The crowd cheered.)

Younes Bouadi showed up, a former campaigner in the US and now a consultant in the Netherlands. He started his career in 2004, working for a voting activation program to increase voter turnout. “You can only do this by pretending to care and be interested,” he said. Edo Blaauw jumped in: “Do you really care?”

The discussion took a more serious turn until Sina Khani asked the audience, “Who wants to see my penis?” Steven Bos ordered him and Blaauw off the stage. Blaauw refused to surrender the mic, but Bos finally succeeded, and he invited Salima El Musalima, Amsterdam’s first female imam!

During the break, Sina Khani came up to me while I was streaming the entire event on the Radio Neverno Instagram and apologized LIVE to the audience for making “racist remarks—it’s a comedy show!”

I got a strong Moscow Mule (vodka, ginger beer, lemon, gin) and got tipsy. After the break, they asked me to join them on the couch myself, but that’s another story…

1 EN 1 IS 1, interview met Jos Houweling en Anne Verhoijsen

 INTERVIEW MET JOS HOUWELING EN ANNE VERHOIJSEN

Jos Houweling en Anne Verhoijsen zijn al geruime tijd samenwerkende kunstenaars. Ze sturen elkaar sinds enkele jaren foto´s, tekeningen en schilderijen die ze om de beurt bewerken en zo ontstaat er gaandeweg een gezamenlijke collectie.

Omdat deze manier van werken, het samenwerken, hun erg bevalt en nieuwe perspectieven doet openen, hebben ze besloten een grote expositie te organiseren en daarvoor professionele beeldend kunstenaars te vragen om, in duo´s, samen te werken.

Ze hebben eerst een eigen tentoonstelling in de´art space´ van Arti et Amicitiae, de kunstvereniging in Amsterdam, waarbij ook hun nieuwe boek wordt gepresenteerd, AJ13, en daarna een grote tentoonstelling op de bovenzalen met tientallen kunstenaars. 

De kunstenaars zijn geselecteerd vanuit hun netwerken en worden dus gevraagd samen een werk te maken, geen sinecure, aangezien veel kunstenaars vaak gewend zijn alleen te werken en controle te houden over hun ´eindproduct´. Het vergt nogal wat aanpassings- en incasseringsvermogen.

Het interview is afgenomen door Radio Neverno´s Hans Kuiper, een van de oprichters van de podcast radio, een station dat bestaat sinds 2015. Eerdere reportages en interviews zijn te beluisteren op deze podcast/blog.

De tentoonstelling ´1 en 1 is 1` loopt van 17 mei tot en met 29 juni 2024 in Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.

Website Jos Houweling

Website Anne Verhoijsen 

Inspector Casino · INTERVIEW JOS HOUWELING EN ANNE VERHOIJSEN

Guest actors save Creeps from the Middle East´s new episode of utter boredom

We know some films can be boring, but when boring becomes a style, we have something eyebrow raising. Now ´Creeps of the Middle East´didn´t already promise much last time and I wonder why I keep torturing myself with watching two characters at the cemetery for 10, I repeat: 10 minutes, but this ´movie´is only watchable at the end of the day, laying in your bed, with beer, chips and cheap apple pie next to your bed, a bed that already hurts your back, and you hope to fall asleep but you can´t because you are mesmerized by this new episode of The Creeps.

If you even then, start trying to find out which cemetery it is, `is it in Berlin, in the west of Germany or in Paris`, then there is some coaching needed for the Creeps team. When a casting director, out of desperation, starts to act, trying to save the ´main character´s performance, you know it´s going to be a tough sit.

My dear friends and radio lovers, I know you are not too fond of video, film or anything visual, being already overwhelmed by the visual pulp thrown at you day by day, so I can´t ask you to have a look at this maybe most boring movie of the year. As I said boringness turns out to become an art form, with here and there a laugh or a strange grin appearing on my face, especially when mr Sina Khani shouts out ´Ouagadougou!´

Now , I happen to have visited that splendid, sandy town in Burkina Faso, stayed in the only 5 star hotel ´RAN´to keep the huzzlers away, also being protected by the King of Art himself, mr Papa Adama, nowadays roaming the streets of Amsterdam, if he survived at least the last winter in the Park in Amsterdam, selling his paintings. Yes, hearing Sina Khani, shout out Ouagadougou, I start to wonder, where the hell did he get that from? 

That can only be inspired by the King of Art himself. ´Putin!´, Khani even starts to shout at his sister, cousin or whoever it is bringing him his old paintings in a Volvo with a Dutch license plate, clearly in one of the outskirts of Berlin in the beginning of autumn. Did it take you so long to create this episode?

Sina Khani, you need another main character next to you (why not mr Papa Adama himself?) in which your humour and brilliance can shine, now there seems to be a void next to you, in almost every image you appear. Ok, I was warned, the announcement before the film of the suicidal thoughts of the main character should have me know better and even, mind you, the viewer is warned that we are going to watch...comedy! 

Are mr. Khani and his team afraid the Woke Thought pölice will come and haunt them? Or, even worse, mr. Putin sends one of his former commie death squads because you are messing with the great leader´s image? Take care, take care, when people like Putin, whether you call your former girl friend that, or the man himself, happens to turn his eye on the Creeps of the Middle East, he might die from ...boredom and by that mr Khani might do humanity even a favour...

In this episode the guest actors, a whole bunch of ladies, appearing to audition for the role of Sina´s girl friend, of which a black haired wild looking girl convinces the most, save the Creeps again on the edge. Bless them. But mr Khani really has to get some more pepper in his acting and use his stand up experience and become free again, like he was in art school at the age of 23. Hoppa!

The Inspector

Image Marie van der Pol , to be seen at the Lentesalon/ Sporing Salon of Kuiperdomingos Projects in Amsterdam, opening coming Friday in Amsterdam, Amstelkerk, Amstelveld 10, Amsterdam.

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Kunstruimte 411 presenteert 'Permutations' van Maarten Rots

 

Op zondag 3 september, van 14.00-17.00 uur,  opent in Kunstruimte 411 de nieuwe tentoonstelling 'Permutations' van Maarten Rots. Kom langs!

Kinderhuissingel 1, Haarlem, gebouw Het Seinwezen.

#permutations #Maarten Rots #Kunstruimte411 @kunstruimte411 

Ontwerp/design @studiovanamsterdam

Willem Vaarzon Morel interview

Hier kunt u luisteren naar het interview met schilder Willem Vaarzon Morel.

Het interview is in delen te beluisteren (zie onder).

Radio Neverno · Willem Vaarzon Morel, eerste deel

Radio Neverno · Willem Vaarzon Morel, interview, deel 2

Radio Neverno · Willem Vaarzon Morel, deel 3

Radio Neverno · Willem Vaarzon Morel, interview, deel 4

New work by poet Arturo Desimone

We are pleased to publish new work of Arturo Desimone at Radio Neverno.

Arturo Desimone is an artist and poet regularly publishing and performing in Europe and South America. 

'In a small Nation (Aruba.)' by Arturo Desimone

Radio Neverno · In A Small Nation (Aruba.) by Arturo Desimone

'Island Inter - Regnum' by Arturo Desimone

Radio Neverno · Island Inter - Regnum, poem by Arturo Desimone

'Aruban Rimbaudian Teenager Firecoral' by Arturo Desimone

Radio Neverno · Aruban - Rimbaudian Teenager Firecoral -Poem by Arturo Desimone

Radio Neverno press @ Berlin Biennale 2020

Radio Neverno's Hans Kuiper has obtained a press accreditation for the Berlin Biennale 2020, which will organize a preview coming Sept. 4th.

WE will inform you via our blog and website via audio/ podcast & video entries. Live streams will partly run via our Instagram and Youtube channel. Check our Twitter channel regularly too!

Hope you will be part of it all!

Radio Neverno, Hans Kuiper, co founder

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Liebe*r Hans Kuiper,

hiermit bestätigen wir Ihre Akkreditierung für die Pressevorbesichtigung der 11. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst am Freitag, den 4. September 2020. Die Pressevorbesichtigung findet von 10 bis 19 Uhr statt. Bitte beachten Sie: Weitere Informationen und Details zur Vergabe der Zeitfenster für Ihren Besuch folgen nach dem 17. August nach Ablauf der Akkreditierungsfrist.

Diese Presseakkreditierung ist personalisiert und nur gültig in Verbindung mit einem Personal-/Presseausweis, um sich als rechtmäßige*r Träger*in dieser Akkreditierung identifizieren zu können.

Presseunterlagen stehen ab sofort und vollständig ab dem 4. September unter folgendem Link online zur Verfügung: https://11.berlinbiennale.de/de/presse
Am 4. September ist keine gesonderte Pressekonferenz geplant.

Anfragen zur Presseakkreditierung:
T +49 (0)30 24 34 59 27
pressaccreditation@berlinbiennale.de

Pressekontakt für alle weiteren Anfragen:
Laura Helena Wurth
T +49 (0)30 24 34 59 130
press@berlinbiennale.de


Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse an der 11. Berlin Biennale. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!

Neoschlager Kindershow

Een leuke podcast, speciaal voor en door kinderen, nu op Radio Neverno.

Met Elise W., Dora W. & Hansi K.

RADIO NEVERNO · Neoschlager Kindershow

Neue Track von Neoschlager: 'Lass uns nicht, selbst wenn'

Neoschlager · Lass uns nicht, selbst wenn

Noise special: Banalytic

A recent discovery, for us, is banalytic, a noise artist making 'experimental electronic sound & music'.

If you want to know more about this artist you can check his soundcloud page or his youtube channel.

Radio Neverno ART PODCASTS

Radio Neverno is an art podcast station. At this blog you can listen to podcasts produced since 2015. Most shows were recorded live at art events.

We started at the exhibition 'Tomorrow never knows' on invitation of Arti et Amicitiae, the art association in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We, that is Moritz Ebinger and me, Hans Kuiper. We both were already experienced independent radio initiators, Moritz with Radio Rood and me with several projects in the art domain in The Netherlands and Germany (Radio Rietveld, my own Radio 3x3, Herbstradio, Piradio Berlin, 2005-2015).

Roam around this blog full of podcasts and you will find little treasures of independent radio!

For info or feedback, please send a message to radioneverno@gmail.com

By Hans Kuiper

Installed in the atelier of artist Bernd Trasberger in Berlin, where I can stay a couple of days, today it's the day of the Berlin Biennale opening. For June, it's quite warm, around 30 degrees Celsius, but I am lucky to be able to take the bike to visit all the Biennale venues.

Radio 3x3 (KIK residence, NL)

Installation in the KW Sousterrain


First, the official preview for the press and other invited guests of this event that will last for 3 months. After a word of welcome by the organisation the curatorial staff explains the approach of this years show with the theme 'We don't need another hero', a title taken by the Tina Turner song of the 80's. Main curator is Gabi Ngcobo, a South African curator, her cv you can find here.
She formed a curatorial team existing of Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Seruberi Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza and Yvette Mutumba.

Curatorial Statement

'We don't need another hero' has been chosen as a title for what the curators consider a strategy to deal with the 'actually spread condition of a collective psychosis', referring to probably international racial and immigrational fixations in current politics and media (this is not so clearly mentioned in the curatorial statement). "The participants face the current ongoing fears and worries in our time - fears that are multiplied by the neglect of complicated subjectivities". To deal with inner conflicts and accepting them as enduring entities is one of the themes of the Biennale of 2018. The "School of Anxiety" is one of the curatorial projects by Serubiri Moses, next to 'Strange Attractors' by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, an "exercise in uncertainty". How to deal with these fears and anxieties? The longing to solve it by clinging to an international heroic figure is rejected, instead of that wish, the curators state 'the political potential of strategies of self preservation'. "Strict knowledge systems and standardised historical narratives" though are rejected not to be the solution also. "Alternative configurations of knowledge and power, that accept contradictions and complications" are preferred.

Installation of Sinethemba Twalo and Jabu Arnell in the KW top floor

I know more or less what is meant and there will be a whole body of thought and theory behind it (unfortunately I didn't see a  literature overview), maybe rooted in experience that will be practically unknown to me, as a 'white' European male, university schooled, with a degree from a prestiguous art academy in Europe, who was able to travel and develop a vision on contemporary art and democratic politics, from a Western perspective, and always having lived in a reasonable affluent society, with many opportunities to be grabbed for a middle class kid at 18.

But why do I get a feeling at the presentation that the curatorial narrative of the current Biennale is rather aggressively blaming the exclusive mindsets of a Western professional artistic class that I do understand but of which, even as an artist, am not really a part of? Ngcobo is even using the phrase "We are in war", seemingly meaning a war of narratives battling for dominance in the professional, institutional art context and thereout, a battle between a postcolonial, African or Euro-post-African (art) elite, trying to conquer the art discours and fighting a class of Western curators that might have had a one eyed view on art slightly too long, being embedded too much in the dominant worldview on accumulation and exploitation on a world scale (as in a famous book of sociologist Samir Amin) and its concomitant symbolic systems, in jargon: 'narratives'?


The claim seems to be stretched to the whole Western , colonial, civilisation, in its past Eurocentric narratives (that need to be reappropriated) and the current post colonial "West", though. Or course I know, in economy and politics, there are still multinational companies, backed by their governments, intervening on a permanent big scale to grab natural resources and waging war when necessary and using cultural dominant narratives that deny the articulation of oppressed groups. Attacking these classes and mind sets would be a bit more specific of the curators although those narratives may be omnipresent in media, educational institutes and even contemporrary art. Now, even a struggling artist or curator who happens to be born in Europe or the Usa, might be part of 'that' mind set, so the not outspoken assertion suggests, as if no resurrections and oppositional movements ever took place in 'The West' and 'revolutionary' views and approaches in the artistic realms never were there. Or is the statement of curator Ngcobo in particular directed against neo colonial mind sets? I guess so, but how do I find out? Not in the curatorial statement which uses terms that are not specified too much.

Video installation in ZK/U

Luckily, when you roam through the exhibition spaces, the artists themselves seem to have focused on their work, not seeming too busy with the discours or narrative battle of Ngcobo's fight going on over their backs. Of course 'we', and I mean we, the artists, whether we are European or African rooted, or both, we, in the end have to make the works that fit our minds and, in the end, are more or less influenced by this 'war'... I think the curator's statement at the press and invited's preview was more of a provocative media statement and I am eager to find out more on the intellectual background of it.

ZK/U is a relatively recently subsidized art space in a former industrial area in the Moabit neighbourhood.




THe Berlin Biennale opens Friday June 8th in the night and runs till September 6th 2018. More information via the Berlin Biennale website.
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Over schilderen, kunst, politiek en Real Estate: met Raquel van Haver, Klaar van der Lippe e.a. REPOST

Een avond vol discussies, optredens, muziek, frivoliteit. discussie over onroerend goed en haar invloed op de kunstsector, een gesprek over schilderen en werken in Amsterdam Zuidoost, het starten van een projectruimte in een zeer groot casco-gebouw, dit alles en meer, hier wederom te beluisteren als podcast op RADIO NEVERNO!

Met Marc van Dijk, Raquel van Haver, Ovidiu Spaniol, KLaar van der Lippe en anderen...

(Dit is een repost van onze befaamde live radioshow in Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam van juni 2015!)


De PODCAST van de 26 juni 2015-sessies zijn hier te beluisteren. Voertaal Nederlands en Engels.

Gasten/ Guests: RaQuel van Haver (painter), Marc van Dijk & Ovidiu Spaniol (artist initiative Paleis van Mieris), Bart Stuart (W139), Klaar van Lippe (W139), Boss Novski (band) , Joep Neefjes (kunstenaar), Wouter van Rissen (zang & gitaar), Hilke & Jan (song)

The podcast of the live sessions of June 26th is online! Language Dutch and English.

Radio Neverno

Radio Neverno is een podcast/radio station. U kunt op deze website en blog alle gemaakte programma's sinds 2015 beluisteren.

Dit jaar, 2019, staan nog een aantal programma's op stapel, waaronder een aantal specials over geluidskunst, een reportage over de Biennale in Venetie en interviews met relevante spelers uit het hedendaagse kunstdomein in Nederland en daarbuiten.

ENGLISH

Radio Neverno is an art podcast station. On this website you can listen to all programs, mostly recorded live on location.

In 2019, we are planning to make specials on sound art, make audio reports on special art events like the Venice Biennial and interviews with relevant players in the contemporary art domain in The Netherlands and abroad.

Allein die Suche ist es wert (Deutschrap und mehr playlist)