Furthur Labelz

Sterre van Rossem was picked as one of 35 women writers under 35...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58:01 -0400

Sterre van Rossem was picked as one of 35 women writers under 35 to look out for! They all got a tagline, and Sterre was described as the Dreamer. Nothing wrong with that :)

Erik Sawaya Photography

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:13:00 -0400

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!

It’s a bit late, but here are some pictures of the opening...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:57:00 -0400

It’s a bit late, but here are some pictures of the opening of our exhibition Growing Between Spaces at PUP Gallery. More will follow! Those lines you see everywhere are the red threads from our Red Thread installation, which turned out so beautiful! The exhibition runs till July 4th, so go check it out if you haven’t yet!

Bart Wijsman selected

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:02:00 -0400

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 installation at our Growing Between Spaces expo at Hotel Arena!

So go check it out and yey Bart! Congrats!

I felt like I can’t mention this piece and not show it....

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:47:56 -0400

I felt like I can’t mention this piece and not show it. It’s just an extract, and you should see it in real life of course. But even like this it is beautiful. Btw, Matthew dances in the front and is the storyteller.

Artist Introduction: Peter Leung

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:19:53 -0400

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 Furthur Labelz he is always the one asking questions about what it is we are doing, how we are doing it and why. He keeps us sharp. He is the balance between Matthew and myself and in many ways just the piece that was missing when we started this collective.

Peter is a hard worker who has a very unique and I would say poetic vision. Check out his website and you will know what I mean. He is a very, very talented choreographer. He has one piece, called Black Sea Still, that gives me chills every time I see it. Although he doesn’t really think so, Peter’s work is interdisciplinary in it’s own way. He often collaborates with other artists, and incorporates stories and disciplines in his pieces. He also made a few dance installations, which are stunning. Pearls was shown in De Lakenhal for a few months last year, and Personal Space was also shown at Nuit Blanche.

In directing and choreographing Peter has a way with playing, giving ‘assignments’, with pushing boundaries and confronting the awkward, which gives his pieces such natural poetry.

Aside from being a dancer/choreographer he is also a photographer, with a very strong style.

Most of all, however, he is wonderful friend. Needless to say, we are very lucky.

FEAR NO SPACE: THE VIDEO

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:56:00 -0400

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 comfortable with each other and the uncertainty of their terrain. Most of all the piece is about overcoming our fears, and that one way or another we will get where we’re going, we just may need a little help from the people around us.

Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces: The Dancers

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:44:18 -0400

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 specific dance installation “Fear No Space”: Erica Horwood, Tycho Hupperets, and Clotilde Tran-Phat.

Erica you must know by now- she has participated in many Furthur Labelz projects, both as dancer and sometimes even as actress! She is the beautiful redheaded dancer and muse to Furthur Labelz.

Tycho has been participating in Furthur Labelz projects for almost a year now. In Peter’s piece Autoscopy he is part of the absurd “Flashmob” of photographers. He left the National Ballet in order to pursue this side of his artistic talent, but Tycho also missed dancing himself, and luckily for us this meant that he would participate as a dancer with Furthur Labelz for the first time. He did a great job and we are looking forward to creating more with him!

It is also the first time we worked with Clotilde, who has only been living in Amsterdam a year and a half. She is a young dancer who moves easily on the floor with a lot of attention to detail, which we love.These three dancers have expressed an incredible openness and eagerness which has made Fear No Space what it is- a strange and wonderful journey.

The process of creating a dance piece to be performed on stairs was interesting and challenging but this group helped make it fun, and the end result was for sure a success. Through this post are some photos from Erik Sawaya- the rest are here the video will be up soon!

Also- if you missed it- there is a video installation of the piece in Hotel Arena. Go see it for yourself!

ARTIST INTRODUCTION FOR GROWING BETWEEN SPACE; TREASURE OF GRUNDO

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 05:04:02 -0400

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 synthesizers, guitar and a deep voice, Bert and Yannick create strange, dark yet danceable songs… and we are very pleased to have them with us!

Check out their website here for more info and their soundcloud!

Building up- less than 24 hours to go!

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:44:50 -0400

Building up- less than 24 hours to go!

Erik Sawaya came by Hotel Arena last night to capture some films...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:14:31 -0400

Erik Sawaya came by Hotel Arena last night to capture some films and images of the dancers rehearsing for Matthew’s newest piece “Fear No Space”
Here’s one picture of Erica, Tycho and Clotilde- come by tomorrow at 5 for the performance!

Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces: Celine Manz

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:16:16 -0400

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 photograms made out of things that belonged to her grandparents. Both of them had the habit of keeping whatever could be used again. When clearing their flat she found an extensive collection of neatly stored everyday objects; used wrapping paper, buttons, corks, elastics, nails etc. Fascinated by this telling gesture, which she felt was like being an echo of a distant time, she used parts of this collection for a series of photograms. By lightening the photographic paper indirectly with mirrors, glass and punctual lights, the photograms don’t show the exact imprints of these objects but their reflections. In photometry radiance is the factor indicating how much light is emitted by a surface from a specific angle of view, it refers to the brightness of the object.

We will tell you more about the collaboration she and Sterre have been working on a little later!

For now see more of her work at celinemanz.com

Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces: FOUND

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:37:35 -0400

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 them during Nuit Blanche when they sold their furniture. They now specialize in styling events and used their furniture this time to enhance an installation by creating a homey corner in a transitional environment; the Hotel Arena.

See some of FOUND’s past events and future plans at: www.wearefound.nl

Artist Introduction for Growing Between Spaces: Bart Wijsman

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:18:35 -0400

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 pictures.

Bart’s work often focuses on the tension between the need to get a grip on the world and the desire for a moment of contact.

For Growing Between Spaces Bart will exhibit a new and unique installation in collaboration with FOUND (but about them later) which includes one of his films and three photographs.

We started building it up yesterday and it’s looking great!

Check Bart’s website to see more of his work: bartwijsman.com

Artist introduction for Growing Between Spaces: Julien Staartjes

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:03:26 -0400

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 ways in which we try to seize and frame it. Instead of storing memories in our minds, we tend to project them onto our surroundings. We build archives not to forget. Almost compulsively, we attempt to freeze time into spatial objects. His piece Turning Time into Space exhibited at Growing Between Spaces explores what happens when projected memories start to live a life of their own and create new narratives.

Unfortunately Julien doesn’t have a website where you can read more of his works, however his blog entries for the touring and recording adventures of his band The Vagary should tide you over for a while!

Enjoy!

artist introduction for growing between spaces: Sarah Hermans

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:01:39 -0400

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, nonlinear way. A great curiosity towards the world is the drive behind her photographic practice.

With distance being a returning theme in her work, the series she will show for Growing Between Spaces deals with longing and the uncertainty that it stems from or might bring along.

For more of Sarah’s work check her website and come see her work exhibited in the PUP Gallery at Hotel Arena!

artist introduction for growing between spaces: Adrien Dantou

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:14:00 -0400

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 Daniel Dobbels, Benjamin Millepied and Raimund Hoghe.

His first short film, “L’Aube”, was selected in 2011 for “Coté Court” film festival, Pantin. With his film installation “Darkness comes as the end”, which we will show at Hotel Arena, and his second short film “ L’Atteinte”, he continues his cinematic research.

Check out his website here for more on Adrien and his work.

Artist Introduction for GROWING BETWEEN SPACES: Emanuel de Carvalho

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:33:38 -0400

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, Portugal and after having lived in Milan, Montréal, Toronto and Munich he settled in Amsterdam where he currently resides.

De Carvalho is the author of a series of short stories and drawings entitled “Upper Middle Under Land”. Each fragment offers a glimpse to a deconstructed life filled with extreme situations and states of mind. Euphoria (Upper), Dysthymia (Middle) and Depression (Under) are the basic elements of each episode. The reader is driven to a broken world that depicts the physical raw translation of the human mind and its potential. De Carvalho aims to capture his own psyche at the time of writing. By putting mind on paper, he expects to trigger individual assumptions based on each reader’s personal intellect. The reader’s egomaniac continuum is challenged by the bluntness of the situation presented. De Carvalho defends that one’s psyche is remodeled constantly by experience; his stories being the reflection of his own by-life-carved-mind. The stories are written in a short amount of time and accompanied by coarse, ruleless drawings.

Artist Introduction for GROWING BETWEEN SPACES: Bowie Verschuuren

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:48:00 -0400

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. The latter will be exhibited at the Furthur Labelz group exhibition in Hotel Arena.

“New Landscapes”

In these images Bowie explores the field of landscape photography, but pushing it into the complex inner city structures of the 21st century, resulting in abstract photographs in a time in which the romantic image of the isolated natural world seems a distant past.

The series was recently featured in the GUP New Dutch Photography Talent 2013, and can be seen at the PUP Gallery at Hotel Arena as part of our exhibition Growing Between Spaces which opens April 6th at 17:00.

GROWING BETWEEN SPACES

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:48:55 -0400

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; themes, which are both big as they are small, and layered as they are empty: just as life itself. Placed in the setting of a hotel - which is both a temporal home and an anonymous space; a transitional space between being far away and back home - Furthur Labelz plays with the notion of moving between spaces and what the gap between those spaces can mean. Is it an empty space? Is it filled with light and laughter, or with darkness and regret? Do the temporary beds hold dreams or nightmares? Does the desire for adventure dominate, or is it the longing for a place called home? When confronting the artists with questions about their work in this setting, it seems that we are often between spaces, growing, and that at that moment both sides of the coin exist most strongly. Most of all, “Growing Between Spaces” is being in a state of movement. Yes, we are somewhere, but we’re already halfway gone, reaching for what lies ahead.

You can find more information on the Facebook event page: Here