Monday, May 18, 2020

BrotherTill

Halfslaap - Lisa Weeda & BrotherTill


BrotherTill is an amalgamation of spoken word, electronic music and visual art. The two brothers have been working together in the performance arts for years. A concert? A performance? A performance with video? Or everything together? The duo has made a name for itself in recent years with intense multimedia, quite alienating and sometimes absurdist concepts where music, spoken word, video and performance art go together. The concept of the brothers van Til stimulates, bites and chafes, deeply appeals to the senses on several layers and is spectacularly colorful and visual. 

Lisa Weeda writes, has made the literary program Beautiful Words in Utrecht for years, is co-host with the literary podcast Ondercast, moderates, interviews and teaches at ArtEZ and the Rockacademie Tilburg. Her work has appeared in Das Magazin, De Titaan, De Revisor, Tirade on De Optimist and Hard // Hoofd. In 2015-2016 she was part of the Slow Writing Lab, the talent program of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. In the summer of 2016 she traveled with deBuren to Paris. At the end of 2016, De Nieuwe Oost published her chapbook "The legs of Petrovski", which was awarded in NRC. In May 2017 she signed with De Bezige Bij for her debut. With team zzzap.me, she worked on a non-fiction VR installation about a woman in the village of Rozsypne, where part of the MH17 crashed.
LINK BrotherTill  LINK Halfslaap

Saturday, May 09, 2020

Locked up voluntarily, Paris 1975

@ Collège Néerlandais 
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) 61 Boulevard Jourdan



The five of us went into town. Stayed at an Algerian restaurant after dinner until late at night. We had left a window open @ Collège Néerlandais from the Dutch architect Dudok. I didn't go to a disco after that meal around three nights. With a taxi I arrived @ Boulevard Jourdan, climbed over the wall and hit the window. And fell into a deep sleep. A few hours later, Robbie and Berend tried to open the window. Unfortunately! closed and after banging on the window I was unable to wake up! Cité Internationale Universitaire was closed! They did not sleep that night! 

Collège Néerlandais, was built on land located at the corner of Boulevard and Rue Emile Jourdan Faguet, rue de la Tombe Issoire in 1927, the western end of the northern buildings destined to within University City, in the south of Paris, France. Its northern side faces the Boulevard Jourdan, west to rue Emile Faguet laterally delimiting the set of the Cité, the south side look at the College of Indochina and East facing the Armenian College. The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris is located in District XIV of the French capital, between Porte de Gentilly, east and west Porte d’Orléans. Northern boundary serves Boulevard south Jourdan and the Boulevard Périphérique. LINK (CIUP)