May 2013
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Erik Sawaya Photography →
More pictures of the dance installation Fear No Space at the opening of our exhibition at the PUP Gallery.
Furthur Labelz’s Matthew Sky choreographed this piece for the PUP Exhibition opening: GROWING BETWEEN SPACES in Hotel Arena.
Photography by the amazing Eric Sawaya!
Bart Wijsman selected
We are very happy to report that Bart Wijsman’s experimental film Vlekken & Lijnen has been selected for the finale of the Premio Combat art competition in Italy!
If you are curious about this film but don’t really have the time or budget to fly out to Italy to check it out, don’t worry. There is a much better way to experience his film because it’s part of an...
April 2013
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Artist Introduction: Peter Leung
Peter is more than one of the artists in this collective. When I held my little speech at the Hotel Arena I actually introduced him as one of the founders of Furthur Labelz. Although this may technically seem untrue (it was Matthew and myself, combined with musician Thijs Havens, who started the collective) Furthur Labelz really only exists the way it does today because of Peter joining. Within...
FEAR NO SPACE: THE VIDEO
You’ve seen the pictures, you’ve met the dancers, and so here it is: the video of Fear No Space.
Choreographed by Matthew Sky specifically for the beautiful stairs of the Hotel Arena this video by Erik Sawaya is currently in the PUP Gallery at Hotel Arena in our exhibition Growing Between Spaces.
Fear No Space is a piece about exploration and discovery- the dancers becoming...
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Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces:...
As most of you must know by now, the opening of our new exhibition in collaboration with PUP at Hotel Arena was Saturday evening. It was a great success and we’re really happy so many people came to see what we were up to and of course super grateful to all the wonderful artists who contributed to the exhibition. This includes of course the dancers who performed in Matthew’s new site...
ARTIST INTRODUCTION FOR GROWING BETWEEN SPACE;...
Meet the boys of Treasure of Grundo. An interesting, entrepreneur-ing musical and independent duo, who not only create music together but also hold a recordlabel and the house Geertruida, where many a memorable night happened and many great ideas took form.
They have played for us before, and have the rare talent of creating a space within a space with their music. Through the use of...
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Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces:...
Céline Manz (1981) is a Visual Artist born in Switzerland and currently studying at the Rietveld Academie. We met Céline last year when she and Sterre were asked to collaborate for FoamLab. Since then we have been looking forward to exhibiting her work, and also to collaborating again. Both of these will happen in Growing Between Spaces.
Céline will exhibit “Radiance” a series of...
Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces:...
We’ve said it before and we will say it again… we are all about collaboration. As mentioned in the previous post, Bart will collaborate with FOUND for Growing Between Spaces.
The girls behind FOUND are Laura and Inge; twin sisters and partners in crime, self-proclaimed lovers of all things vintage and pre-loved.
FOUND is a boutique event styling business based in Amsterdam, you may have met...
Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces:...
Like many of our artists for Growing Between Spaces, you may also remember the next one from Nuit Blanche last summer.
Meet Bart Wijsman (1987, The Netherlands). After having studied Media & Culture and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, he now lives in Brussels, where he is studying Audiovisual Arts at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design. He writes, films and takes...
Artist introduction for Growing Between Spaces:...
Today we bring it all back home with the introduction of a North-Holland born and raised artist:
Julien Staartjes (1989) is a musician (The Vagary, Summer with Monica, Les Singes) and writer living in Amsterdam. He is currently finishing MAs in Cultural Analysis and Literary Studies at the UvA.
Julien is interested in the ways in which we experience and perceive time and especially in the...
artist introduction for growing between spaces:...
As we said with Adrien, we are so happy with the diverse group of nationalities represented in our group exhibition opening this Saturday! That being said we would like to introduce you to our fourth artist for Growing Between Spaces:
Sarah Hermans (1990) is a Belgian photographer, currently living in Brussels. She received her BFA in 2012, and has been focusing on telling stories in a poetic,...
artist introduction for growing between spaces:...
We are very excited about the international nature of our coming expo; we have artists from all over the map. Adrien is a French beauty who has the typical Furthur Labelz multi-talentness. He is a dancer, filmmaker and photographer.
He studied contemporary dance at The National Conservatory of Dance in Paris. Adrien graduated in 2008 and has been working with several choreographers including...
March 2013
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Artist Introduction for GROWING BETWEEN SPACES:...
As with Bowie, you may have seen Emanuel before, at Nuit Blanche where he hung and read his stories and moved many in the audience.
Here is an update on Emanuel, come to Hotel Arena to see some of his new drawings and stories. This time, they are for sale!
Emanuel de Carvalho (1984) is a Portuguese-Canadian short story writer, draughtsman and medical doctor. He spent his youth in Braga,...
Artist Introduction for GROWING BETWEEN SPACES:...
Every now and then Bowie Verschuuren (1985, Berkel-Enschot) collaborates with the Furthur Labelz collective in projects that combine his photographic images with the written or spoken word, music and performances. Having focused mainly on documentary and portraiture in the past, his work is shifting more and more towards the staged scene, together with an exploration of the non-figurative image....
GROWING BETWEEN SPACES
Here is some more information about our upcoming expo in collaboration with PUP at Hotel Arena on Saturday the 6th of April 2013. Artist introductions to follow all week!
GROWING BETWEEN SPACES is the title of this Furthur Labelz group exhibition, representing international artists of multiple disciplines. All the works interpret and investigate the themes of space, time, distance and growth;...
PUP and Furthur Labelz; GROWING BETWEEN SPACES
We proudly pronounce our upcoming exhibition in Hotel Arena, a collaboration between PUP and Furthur Labelz! Hope to see you april 6th!
Upcoming Expo in Hotel Arena!
Today we will visit Hotel Arena, a pretty awesome hotel where PUP has a gallery space. We have worked together with PUP before and will continue our collaboration in a different and more intense fashion as we will curate an exhibition April 6th in Hotel Arena in the PUP gallery. We are really excited about this, it’s the first time we will really have an expo!
More info about the theme, the...
So much to see this weekend
February is over and Spring is in the air. It’s time to come out of that winter hibernation and see whats going on in the world around us. Thankfully there are a couple of festivals this weekend to help with that!
Tonight Beehives hosts NOMADICA: the opening of their newest location in the East of Amsterdam. There will be art exhibited, films screened, stories told, songs sung, and food...
February 2013
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Video clips of Walls - Nuit Blanche 2012
I guess those rainy days have payed off; we finally came around editing some videos of Nuit Blanche. This here is a dancepiece choreographed by Matthew and danced by Erica Horwood and Wolfgang Tietze. The music was live and both created and performed by Trümmerwüste. The dance piece was really special because both the musicians as the dancers could start phrases to which the others (the dancers or...
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January 2013
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Inspirations
Here is another peek into our inspirations folder. Surreal, romantic, magical images that prompt our own imagination.
(ps. we do not own the rights to any of these images. We just want to share them with you. They are often well-known, sometimes less well-known, but not ours. We have these images in our “inspiration folder” and no clue where we got them from, therefore the lack of source.)
Filmproject by Luke Shirock
I believe it’s fair to say that most our friends are pretty ambitious, but out of all of them, I would say that Luke is pretty high up the list for being most ambitious. Perhaps primarily because he is what we in Dutch call a ‘duizendpoot’ (centipede, or: man of many trades). His new project Sponge is a film which he directs, shoots, edits and for which he wrote the music also....
CALL FOR ARTISTS -NOMADICA
I work parttime for an organization called Beehive. Among other things, Beehive rents out all kinds of beautiful, smart and interesting spaces for artists, entrepreneurs, start-ups etc. We have a large community of artists and many new locations. For the official opening of one of these locations (the same where Furthur Labelz curated for Nuit Blanche) Beehive organized a festival called Nomadica....
Happy new inspiration
It’s here! 2013. We survived 21-12-2012 (as expected, we have to say) and heading for a new and exciting year filled with projects, ideas, collaborations and promising New Year resolutions.
I love writing Christmas cards and emails and I especially love being creative with my good luck wishes for everybody. This year however, I realized that no matter what I wish for someone, I almost...
December 2012
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Ilja Keizer new website
Ilja is one of those successful self-taught photographers that we collaborate with every now and then. He took some really beautiful photographs of Sterre and there is a shoot in the planning that will involve more Furthur Labelz members. Ilja has a very clean style, no muss, no fuss, showing the very true nature of the one in front of his lens. Aside from being a photographer he is also...
November 2012
3 posts
Back from NYC
I just got back from New York and, despite feeling crazy jetlagged, I still feel the energy of that amazing city buzzing inside me. I go to NYC every year to visit my friends and breath in the atmosphere of that city. I had somehow never been in the fall before, and it was stunning. Despite Sandy, the city was so together and beautiful, and I was really impressed by how - especially in Brooklyn...
October 2012
14 posts
Even when it rains
There truly is no end to ways of collaborating and of inspiring each other. Today another interesting collaboration will take place between danser/choreographer Peter Leung (whom by now we suppose you all know, but also see blog), the wonderful phographer Stephanie Pistel (see website), and fashion designer Hans Ubbink (see website). Stephanie wanted a photoshoot with a different kind of director,...
But I found you anyway
Céline and I immediately bonded in our conceptual take on the short cut and decided to play with the notion by focusing on the flipside of the short cut; the process. In the exposition we did not show the final product, but enlarged the process of getting there, in audio, video, photography and text. (Yes, very Furthur Labelz-style in a way. But hey, once you’re an interdisciplinary artist, it...
De tijd begint te tellen...
To read Sterre’s second update about Foam Lab’s Shortcut one day expo challenge on smileinyourface click here.
First update about Shortcut by Sterre on...
Last night Sterre wrote her first update about the Foam Lab one day expo challenge Shortcut which she is participating in alongside Photographer Céline Manz and curator Alexander Tempel of Brilliant after Breakfast.
“Ik fiets, ik ben bijna laat, ik ben eigenlijk altijd bijna te laat. De zon valt laag en fel in mijn ogen, mijn vingers tintelen, het is koud, het is herfst. Ik word...
Super Excellent High Speed Collaboration
Our favorite local Amsterdam photography museum foam has organized a very exciting and interesting event via it’s experimental chapter foam lab in collaboration with Trouw Amsterdam.
“Shortcut: A one day expo challenge” is a high speed experiment in collaboration. Three photographers, three curators, and three bloggers will be assembled into teams and given their assignments...
Loving the pre-loved
Creativity comes in many forms, and being an artist is a concept open for interpretation. Because we at Furthur Labelz have a profound love for collaborations and since we also get weak in the knees for anything that has to do with recycling and broadening our green consciousness we had already introduced to you as artists the cool girls from Found who have a knack for picking the prettiest...
September 2012
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