Foto: Thomas Lenden
Nieuw-West Open, het programma dat 60 jaar Westelijke tuinsteden viert, in een reis van 60 weken door de publieke ruimte presenteert:
DIALOOG MET EEN BEELD II
een performance van Danielle van Vree
DE POORT VAN CONSTANT
een dwaling door de tijd langs zeven performers
zaterdag 21 september 18.00-20.00
donderdag 26 september 18.00-20.00
vrijdag 27 september 18.00-20.00
zaterdag 28 september 18.00-20.00
zondag 29 september 18.00-20.00
In June 2013 Anna Mikhailova premiered with her opera Constant Tranzit. She visited the foundation in December of the previous year in search of documentation en information about Constant, his New Babylon project and his contact with Debord.
Anna Mikhailova | Codarts Master Muziektheater
Sarah Creange and her colleagues discussing how to gow about moving this very vulnerable piece of art to its new home, The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
After months of deliberation the curators of the Rijksmuseum decided that Ruimtecircus (Spacecircus) from Constant's New Babylon project was indeed the piece they wished to add to the new 20th century wing.
Le criminel, 1987
Both these images are called Le Criminel, 1987 and supposedly signed by Constant but which of the two is an authentic work of art by Constant? This is one of the many authentication cases that the foundation is presented with each week.
Aernout Mik, Exhibition Architecture (After Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp), Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion, 2011, exterior detail, photo: Victor Nieuwenhuys
AERNOUT MIK (artist, the Netherlands)
Exhibition Architecture (After Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp)