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And i did all that without any help of Helmuth! So, having become independant in a certain way, my thanks will be independant too.

Ziegenmalte is a gentleman, with a sharp mind and a kind heart. His sense of humour is quite tricky for those not paying attention. Above all he has patience. With that he defragmented my scattered knowledge of computer and internet, and made me within a year a true cybernaut and internet/computer-fanatic. Claustrofobic as i am, i now have ’a stage’ on which i can play my play and show my show to the whole world.

I cannot express my gratitude for that training in any other way than with two clips. Thank you Helmuth!

Immer wach! is our motto… 

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Normally my function as the webmeister of this blog takes place behind the scenes: Besides maintaining the technical aspects of the weblog I hope that my media training sessions with van Zanten will continue to be as fruitful as up to the present. Although I could mention some points of critique. At the moment I don’t want to write about irregularly posting intervals with long breaks, keeping the interested readership in a painful state of uncertainity.

But now it’s not the time for criticism, first things first. The Grande Opening of the second edition of the Depression Promotion Centre was overshadowed by a dramatic incident. After an inspiring speech by DPC veteran and PvDA polititian Ronald Motta the notorious Curator X appeared in public and addressed the audience from the balcony. Maybe he got upset about the general Dutch cultural and political climate moving to yet to be explored low pressure areas, maybe he got overexcited about the mental, spiritual and certainly physical expansion space he created together with curator Verbrugge, resulting in the convincing manfestation of Depression Promotion Centre 2 in the former Dutch Photomuseum.

I heard rumors about a latent valvular heart disease of Curator X but actually I cannot confirm this by any official source. Anyhow, after a few opening sentences Curator X caught a conceptual heart attack and collapsed all of a sudden. The public grew stiff by this apparently unfortunate calamity. Even the floating pancakes of our fellow artist Hugo Lammerink couldn’t comfort the frightened listeners, but who knows…

Probably inspired by this substantial rural meal, the art loving farmer Harm Koeimaar from Het Boerenbond entered the scene like a Deus ex machina from a Greek tragedy. Thanks to this brilliant stylistic hat trick the instant surrogate of Curator X succeeded in boiling down pretentious musings and intellectual reflections (about art and its function in society) to the very essence, hereby increasing awareness and enlightment at a larger part of the audience than Curator X possibly ever would have managed to. Although I have to admit that his dialect in combination with the reverberation of the hall complicated the understanding slightly:

• “Art? What is art? something about quality that is supposed to generate quantity, right?
• … [unidentified dialectic articulalations] … !
• Everybody is able to appreciate art, therefore you don’t need to understand art.”
• “Art can be … [more unidentified dialectic articulalations] … as well as at the farm.”
• One obsession of the average taxpayer seems to be the notion that “the artist” is wasting exactly that particular fraction of the taxpayers’ money which he paid himself. Based on this false assumption the average taxpayer is claiming a certain decisive power regarding the artist and his artistic fate, … [more unidentified dialectic articulalations] … leads to some sort of public tribunal.”

In a final attempt to silence any possible doubt and upcoming discussion about his bold claims our substitutional farmer used a little help from Godwin’s law, he referred to the rather unsuccessful painter A. Schicklgruber from Austria, who gained quite some fame for the substitution of his artistic failure with a rather “turbulent political career”.

After these nothing hindered the art loving farmer Harm Koeimaar from Het Boerenbond to open the exhibition.

Please leave your “Get well soon!” wishes in the comments! Flowers, gifts, cards and other signs of appreciation for Curator X you can send or deliver to:

Curator X
Witte de Withstraat 63
3012 BN Rotterdam

Thanks in advance. Curator X, get well soon!

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We are the source of the flow we follow. That is the essence of improvisation. Breathing in the ever unknown present (yes, a present!), unprepared in that sense, if we are excited and curious. It is the first and last chance to fathom the depth of the present’s towering challenge (Yes, it’s like poetry). Challenge of unforeseen clairvoyance. That’s what Zen also is about. Not the chains and handcuffs of control freakiness produced by fear.

Breathing out our presence and presentation …

It is the challenge to give every second, every breath, every heartbeat, every action, thought, situation and emotion the freedom of it’s uniqueness and generosity.

One grows with the flow, you know. Grows wings too! For the imagination and the joy of being on this planet. Often in spite of a lot of nasty, ugly, stupid, evil shit happening around us and to us. The art of improvisation is dealing unprepared with the unforeseen. That’s contained in the etymology of the word itself. Unforeseen, but always unprepared, because seen it is no longer as it was foreseen.

By the way, if you think about it, your conception was an improvisation too, even if you were planned.

Having gained this freedom of flow and improvisation, reality starts improvising too, because it does no longer have to resist the interpretation forced upon her.

For example this landing dodo, being the result of a bottle of sour milk I knocked over by accident, while I was laying in utter despair and depression on my coach, suicidal even in my disbelief in any meaning in life, my life etc. Totally unable to be creative. And see what happened.

Improvisation is the natural ability to be part of the unknown, to be amazed, to accept that questions aren’t always necessary, that interpretations can be destructive, that being itself is enough to give the mystery a reason to shine…

Enough for now. We don’t possess our life, we should be possessed by life. And death is our bodyguard anyway. We share the convergence of matter, emptiness and a stuttering second we call eternity. We don’t need future to be complete. No past to make pain last. The present we do need, to become our presence in such a way that it’s a present to pass on….and I pass on my presence as Omniartist, with improvised and improvisational interpretations of theater, music, writing, visual arts, video, television, graphic design, journal, webactivities and yet unknown expressions. Here you are!

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LATEST ENTRY > An explosion of timereleased fun

You can book Henri van Zanten improvising as

Zombie Disco

My latest discovery in life was “being” a zombie in a disco on Monday evening….

48 Hour Movie “Droog Krijt” from Jochem van der Heide

In Jochem van der Heide’s 48 Hour Movie “Droog Krijt” I just found myself acting: Droog Krijt from Jochem van der Heide on Vimeo.

Improvisations within the Flow of Existence

Existence is all about improvisation… if you dare to enjoy it! Look at nature! Improvisation is like breathing for me. In my life and so in my art, there’s no distinction. Panta Rei, everything flows. Heraclitus, the brilliant pre-socratic Greek philosopher said one can never dive twice into the same river, because the river flows and changes. Never the same. As is the river of our life, of our time, of our art, of our flow… One take perfection!

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Initially I looked for Tymen Visser at the gallery Dek22, but he wasn’t there. By coincidence we met in the supermarket. He kidnapped me and brought me to the Rotterdam<Art>Shield headquarters. I had no reason to complain as I am the Devil’s father of the R<A>S. From the open window, the many schoolgirls, which were passing by from or to various learning institutes in the neighborhood got judged and estimated by the other R<A>S-members Jacquelino Teixeira and Jasper, with rigorous scrutiny. And some secret mutiny of scrotum’s and bubbles in testicles. All of a sudden the meat inspection ended . The windows had been closed. A security woman had entered our company and we started a discussion – the man~woman~thing!

Probably in an attempt to escape this unpleasant situation, I looked out of the window and among the school girls I saw an elegant man with – what I thought was – a lute in a case on his back. I opened the window in a hurry and asked him: “Lute? Dowland.” – “No, an ud.” the then still for me nameless Mehmet Polat said. The ancient Middle Eastern string instrument oud is called “the king of instruments” In Arabia, often considered as the predecessor of the Western lute. Mehmet himself is studying North Indian classical music as well as I did. From 1985 to 1990 I had been a student of the famous classical Indian singer Ustad Mohammed Sayeed Khan. So I asked Mehmet if he had time to come in. “Yes, only short, otherwise my girlfriend will kill me.”

The impro that followed you can see and hear for yourself. It was like kite-surfing on a tricky wind. I think we felt no longer as strangers: We passed from Turkish music to flamenco to gypsy to Japanese, to us.

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First Aid

In case you can’t handle it

• stressdesigner
• dipity

Music

Improvisations and compositions of my bands

• mcwisecrack on soundclick with all his bands
  
• mcwisecrack in soundcloud with fulllength presence
• mcwisecrack on his first myspace
  
• mcwisecrack on youtube
• yokocola on reverbnation
• myspace/godknowstheabsence
• myspace.com/frauduleus
• myspace/prettyevil
• myspace/handsomeofabitch
• myspace/theblackoutsyndromeclub
• myspace/popupshits

Video

Cinematic improvisations between fiction and facts

• youtube/henrivanzanten
• youtube/mcwisecrack
• youtube/stigmadome
• youtube/zegmaarOW
• youtube/ICCComedians
• flickr/photos/henrivz

About Improvisation

Read more about the art of improvisation.

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• wikipedia about improv theatre
• definition of improvisations according to the merriam-webster online dictionary
• theatre on a shoestring – improvisation games and tutorials

Collaborators

Artistic interactions with colleagues

• fuckthewriter
• myspace/fuckthewriter
• tjalling visser
• wim van egmond
• wink van kempen
• ferri ronteltap
• ziegenmalte
• inherited delusions
• boszoomsolutions
• humango
• ka yee li

Worldwidewebspidery presence

Interests & Info

• anarchism

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As omniartist I do many things at the same time. In that way I can keep my creativity on a high energy and concentration level – like a permanent orgasm. And of course, having a skull filled with fireworks, every ‘explosion’ (spark of the big bang) is a message looking for it’s medium. So no time for a dull moment! Life is to be discovered, dis-covered, otherwise it will be suffocated and then suffocate.

It is in fact a happy story, because it never ends. This part we – the spirits we are – choose to be in a body on the earth.

Tabula Rasa Perpertuum Mobile …. Status Quo Vadis?….Utopia Fata Morgana Deja Vu …don’t call in the desert it’ll make you thirsty …. There is no centre that’s the point…/>

Blank or blank again without end / were do we go with what stays the same / utopia a fata morgana which is a deja vu / …………………………/ ……………….

Now the first line just came up and then the quotes came together into this quatraine. Like the 4 winds. West ahead of sundown/East into the sunset/South sunbathing and famine/North snow and white seals… And then the line in the centre!?

My Webmeister Helmuth Ziegenmalte started complaining that I neglected my website.The last page was my first journal entry, ‘god knows how long ago already’. It is true, I confess. But, yes BUT …take a look at http::/www.youtube.com/henrivanzanten and you will see for yourself what I have been doing with what i have been doing…

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It was edited by Ferri Ronteltap for the occasion of the art exhibition “Oh No Not Again!” which HvZ organized in Tent/CBK Rotterdam in the 2002. It was a selfportrait in the context of collaborations. More than 50 artists participated.

HvZ:Untitled Program #1 (S)

HvZ:Untitled Program #2 (M)

HvZ:Untitled Program #3 (L)

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Today i will start my journal at last. Have been too busy up to now. That’s what i said to myself all the time. But time is our own decision. A decision to make an incision in oblivion.

Last friday i gave a concert for the first time since 20 years with my band God Knows the Absence. It was in the Arminus Church in Rotterdam, as part of a revival party of the antiscene in the 80’s, also in Rotterdam. A book of photo’s of that period by Carla van Marel was presented. It was not back to the past or the future. It was back to the present. A Merlin-machine action.

Check God Knows The Absence – I Could Give. This was our final song of the concert.

I’ll keep in touch with more bedtime stories.H.

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_{Omniartist born in Rotterdam the Netherlands on 18-03-1957}

_{1964-1965 lived in Canada}

_{1967-1970 lived in South Africa}

_{1970-76 went through high school – Libanon Lyceum in Rotterdam (with latin and greek) wrote his first poems and took violin lessons with Tom de Vree}

_{1976-79 studied Slavic languages at the University Leiden with prof. Karel van het Reve}

_{1979-83 wrote a few plays in the tradition of the theatre of the absurd created his first ready mades (3d poems as he calls them) started taking lessons on alto saxofone with Ben Vrauwdeunt}

_{1982-83 trained privately by Piet Eelvelt in the Stanislavsky technique}

_{1983 initiated the Weltschmerz & Kopfschmerz foundation a non-profit organisation for activities in many forms of art}

_{staged his first version of the Hamletmachine (solo) by Heiner Müller the East German dissident}

_{founded together with Erik-Ward Geerlings Krochttheater which proved to be so experimental that it became infamous}

_{staged his first play The Collectors (De Verzamelaars) in Picollo Theater Rotterdam}

_{created in collaboration with E.W. Geerlings a buddhist performance A Spoiled Evening (Een verziekte avond) which was also executed at Stalker in Bruxelles}

_{co-founder of the improvisation band Dustbin Silence that gave 20 concerts in 3 years in the Netherlands and Belgium}

_{1985 first exhibition of his 3d poems (readymades) in Galerie Mes�in Groningen}

_{organized�October a manifestation of Non-Neat Art with a group exhibition and theatre (M�ller and Majakofski) in�Galerie Alles voor 12 en 24 volt in Rotterdam}

_{1984-86 singer of the popgroup God Knows the Absence that gave it’s last concert in Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam}

_{1986-87 classical singing training at the Rotterdam Conservatory}

_{1986 organized (commissioned by the Rotterdam Art Foundation) for the opening of Cafe De Unie a project called Amphibitheatre consisting of theatre, installations and performance in 5 containers}

_{took part in Wink van Kempen’s Perfo 4D festival with his performance Recital}

_{presented his 4th version of the Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller with video fragments of the first 3 versions}

_{1987 staged in collaboration with Jan Decorte (who made the adaption) A Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe (title: In the meanwhile in Paris) the other actors were Nico Okkerse en Erik-Ward Geerlings}

_{created the first 3 theatre-clips of the series Kort & Goed (Short & Good) with which�Krochttheater became famous
Hamlet (Shakespeare),�Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf (Edward Albee), The Blue Bird (Maeterlinck)}

_{started his training in North Indian classical singing with Ustad Mohammad Sayeed Khan}

_{founded Gallery Paradise Regained a work and exhibition space in Historical Delfshaven in Rotterdam}

_{1988 collaborated in demolishing�Krochttheater and founded his own independant organisation Nobody’s Business}

_{created in collaboration with the dancer Lucie Moormann Estafette/Enigma a movement theatre piece with a group of youngsters in Lantaren/Venster Rotterdam}

_{staged 3 versions of The Sailor by Fernando Pessoa in Galerie Paradise Regained (Dutch premiere)}

_{1989 acted in the play Comptons & Burnetts by�Bonheur in Rotterdam}

_{made�It Goes Without Saying in collaboration with choreographer Wybo Platenkamp}

_{performed the� solo performance Lot or On falling down while addressing people in Shaffy Theater in Amsterdam}

_{performed in the movement theatre piece Cuore di Cane of Gustavo Frigerio}

_{gave a theatrical lecture on F.X.Messerschmidt the first artist to take himself as (expressive) subject for his sculptures that were later on��called��Charakterk�pfe and exhibited drawings of Charakterkopfe in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg}

_{exhibits ‘lightdrawings’ and setsketches for an inoperable project A HOLE IN THE WATER
(inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest) which he presents in FRAU HOLLE in Amsterdam}

_{1990 directs ALEX D’ELECTRIQUE in DRAMOLETTE by Thomas Bernhard}

_{commits the first outdoor CAT-Acts (Contemporary Art Terrorism Acts)
with his operated flags on the DAM square, Amsterdam and the South African Embassy}

_{exhibits OPERATED FLAGS in GALERIE PARADISE REGAINED and DE BALIE, Amsterdam
opens with the operation of the USA flag with 50 gunshots, bandages and filmblood}

_{1991 publication of THEATRICAL RESEARCH since 1984
a review of 10 years work in the theatre and visual arts
on the occasion of the VAN ZANTEN WEEK in the Rotterdams Schouwburg}

_{gives an interactive lecture on live and work of the philospher OTTO WEININGER
with the title GENDER OR CHARACTER premiere GRAND THEATRE in Groningen}

_{distributes his first freecards and stickers as autonomous art}

_{FIRST BLINDMAN’S STICK TRAVEL (Ireland) and exhibition of it in the form of freecards}

_{1992 founds THE INSTITUTE FOR SUEREALISM and in doing so gives a name
to a ‘new’ art movement: making art with reality/the art of observation}

_{organizes and leads THE SUICIDE CLUB in DE UNIE in Rotterdam en DE BALIE in Amsterdam}

_{1993 produces a series of EDIBLE THEATRE inspired by a story of Apollonaire
in Zaal DE UNIE in Rotterdam in collaboration with Karin Lancel}

_{Cd-presentation of SAMPLEMIND’S SUGGESTIONS FOR A EUROPEAN ANTHEM
in collaboration with DON SATIJN, ARTHUR SAUER e.a.in the AMSTERDAMSESCHOUWBURG}

_{got as far as the halve final of CAMERETTEN (a cabaret/stand up competion)
with TOO FUNNY FOR THIS WORLD in Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam}

_{establishes UNASKED FOR ADVICE CONSULTANCY and ANTI-CONSENSUS UNION}

_{was curator of the ROTTERDAM WEEK on the ARK in ANTWERPEN 93
CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE}

_{1994 founds the SALON FOR POETRY in the DE REPUBLIEK, FELIX MERITIS in Amsterdam}

_{creates in collaboration with LISA MARCUS a movement theatre play about GALA & DALI}

_{starts as singer with YENS & YENS the electronic raptrance formation LUCID TERROR}

_{1995 exhibits a BRAIN OF CHEWING GUM in Galerie Paradise Regained, Rotterdam}

_{actor in THE TREES, THE FOREST an peotic play by Anneke Bonnema with NIEUW WEST}

_{exhibition of OPERATED FLAGS in the form of a series of freecards (48.000)}

_{takes part in groupexhibition NOBODY’S BIZNIZ II with Jos Vermeulen en Walter Joris
in TORCH GALLERY, Amsterdam}

_{opens the DALI exhibition in the BEURS VAN BERLAGE, Amsterdam
with his Dali-impersonation}

_{BLINDMAN’S STICK TRAVEL PARIS}

_{BLINDMAN’S STICK TRAVEL SPAIN/PORTUGAL}

_{1996 exhibition of FULL COLOUR MOUVEMENT PAINTINGS
made with Milena Feher in GALERIE 2X2, Delfshaven}

_{publishes a series of social critical freecards with the title
MC WISECRACK GOES DUTCH with financial support of Centre for Visual arts, Rotterdam}

_{takes part in the group exhibition FRESH BREEZE in NOVA ZEMBLA, Den Bosch
with 36 different freecards}

_{makes a solo about the historical BARON VON MUNCHHAUSEN
in collaboration with photographer Wim van Egmond}

_{directs the youth theatre piece BLAUW by Moniek Merkx with ARTEMIS in Den Bosch}

_{opens the TRIPLE XXX Festival in Amsterdam with a concert by LUCID TERROR
and exhibits his BRAIN OF CHEWINGGUM}

_{HENRI VAN ZANTEN BRINGS NEW AMUSEMENT a multi-media week
Rotterdamse Schouwburg and DE NES, Amsterdam
in collaboration with Wink van Kempen and Wim van Egmond (phototheatre), A.Moonen
(improvisation theatre), Milena Feher (dance/performance), Jan Zobel and Dina ed Dik
(a version of the Hamletmachine combing dance and acting)}

_{1997-99 contributes to art magazine HTV DE IJSBERG (The Tip of the Iceberg)}

_{1997 creates High-Tech Rap Royal theatre as MC WISECRACK/Support Act Hamlet
in collaboration with Yens&Yens, the dancers Ruth Moreno and Milena Feher and others
(premiere NIGHTTOWN, Rotterdam)}

_{1998 stages PUBLIEKSBESCHIMPING of PETER HANDKE
as soundtrack with 120 voices and an empty stage
(CD presentation in Rotterdamse Schouwburg)}

_{plays together with Nico Okkerse (Silent Disco) and Jan Joris Lamers (Discordia)
THE MONKEY PARLEMENT (an adaption of a book by Gerrit Paape 1783)
in PERSCENTRUM NIEUWSPOORT where the Dutch premier also reports}

_{10th version of the HAMLETMACHINE in the station, on the street and
the PAULUSKERK/Rotterd with youngsters of the FUTURESQUAD}

_{1999 forms UNITED DEMONS INCORPORATED a CREACTOR of 20 artists
from different disciplines and generations (in Bonheur, Rotterdam)}

_{directs his first large stageproduction of THE HOTHOUSE by HAROLD PINTER
in the ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG with Cas Enklaar, Dik Boutkan, Hugo Haenen etc}

_{dramaturgy,lyrics and vocals with Lucid Terror) for VERGE by EDGE dance theatre}

_{locationproject BIJ BRAND OF AANRAAD (In case of emergency) in LEKHAVEN, Rotterdam
(a combination of Verkommenes Ufer and Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller)}

_{2000 publishes MC WISECRACK’S STICKERFUN}

_{opens the group exhibition SALVA MEA in the Big Church, The Hague
as in MC WISECRACK in armour, singing gregorian and swinging a flail}

_{stages THE SEVEN SENSES inspired by Dante’s THE DIVINE COMEDY
a triptych with FUTURESQUAD in the PAULUSKERK, Rotterdam}

_{publishes MC Wisecrack’s BRAINFRAGMENTATION BOMB}

_{conceives and conducts the worldpremiere of the MONOLOGUES CHOIR
in the large house of the Rotterdamse Schouwburg}

_{starts a weekly programme KOMKOMMERTV (Cucumber TV) on RotterdamTV
with art, interviews, registrations and satire}

_{stages FUCK SHAKESPEARE (Hamletmachine) music theatre with FUTURESQUAD
for ZAPNATION, a cultural youth festival in Rotterdam}

_{openingperformance for groupexhibition I AM A PUNK MAMA
in SHOWROOM MAMA , Rotterdam in which he takes part
with a new series of OPERATED FLAGS (commissioned)}

_{2001 writes and directs in collaboration with Niko Okkerse the FLASH THEATRE play
AMLETH/the Original/the Gothic/the Best in DE REGENTES, Den Haag}

_{live performance with Lucid Terror for the choreography DEUCE
by Pieter de Ruiter and Eva Villenueva in DE JULIANAKERK, The Hague}

_{lyrics & vocals with Lucid Terror for the choreography STOMACH
by EDGE (premiere HOLLAND DANCE FESTIVAL, The Hague)}

_{2002 contributes drawings to HARD POP a publication by SHOWROOM MAMA
on streetwise and wild art in Rotterdam}

_{takes part with an interactive performance RANDOM TAXI
in the manifestation PARKING DEN HAAG organized by STROOM, The Hague}

_{lyrics & vocals with Lucid Terror for MILKY TEARS by Elaine Kim, Buenos Aires}

_{lyric & vocals with Lucid Terror for the choreography STOPMOTION by Pieter de Ruiter}

_{lyrics & vocals with Lucid Terror and dramaturgy for NERVES by EDGE dance theatre}

_{takes part in the project ARTIST POSTCARDS by RUCHAN SAHINOGLU (Istanbul)}

_{composes a SELFPORTRAIT IN GROUP FORMATION with the title OH NO NOT AGAIN
in TENT in Rotterdam~ a retrospective of 20 years of artactivities and collaborations
with work of 50 colleagues (including Pasi Grandquist)}

_{2003 gives a lecture about inspiration at the ROTTERDAM DANCE ACADEMY}

_{publication of MC WISECRACK’S STICKERFUN 2}

_{takes part in the SIRENES FESTIVAL in THE ILLUSEUM, Amsterdam
with vocal performance, poetry and printed matter}

_{research in his records}

_{2004 conducts a workshop BALANCE IN WONDERLAND
at the WILLEM DE KOONING ACADEMY, Rotterdam}

_{research in his records}

_{2005 takes part in 5 different groupexhibitions inDORDTSALON, Rotterdam}

_{takes part in PNEUFORIA organized by 75+NAP in The Hague}

_{2006 participates in MENTAL ZIRKUS in SUPAMOLLY in BERLIJN
as moderator and with performance and printed matter}

_{artist in residence in WILLEM 3 in Vlissingen with an exhibition
and produces a series of pseudo-touristic freecards OOIT IN VLISSINGEN GEWEEST?
(Ever been in Vlissingen?)}

_{takes part in the WERKSTATT 2006 van JG Stadmitte JENA
makes his sculpture BUCHERSCHASHLIK and stages the 12th version
of the HAMLETMACHINE with local youth}

_{2007 takes part in the group exhibition PILLARS IN THE MUD II in LOCUS 010 in Rotterdam
it was curated by Hugo Lammerink BOSZOOM SOLUTIONS
at the opening van Z. sang with his free jazz group THE BLACK-OUT SYNDROME CLUB}

_{is narrator in U RAGING STANDSTILL by CREW in the NEW TERRITORIES festival in Glasgow}

_{gives workshops at the WILLEM DE KOONING ACADEMY and HRO in Rotterdam}

_{runs the DPC (Depression Promotion Centre) in Galerie POOL 120 in Rotterdam
collaboration with the PKV (Passive Art Society) a 2 month project
with exhibitions, concerts, poetry readings etc.}

is the correspondent in the city of rural art-community KANTJE BOORD
and supports ZIEGENMALTE’s video report as stressdesigner

_{is guest teacher at the TU DELFT for concept developement, storyboard analyses, acting
and directing in connection to the minor IMAGINATION for animation technique}

starts Youtube channels as outlets for current and past creative ‘utterings and stutterings’
of himself and alter-ego’s, including a new one: /Stigmadome, for the extreme experimental
expressions, thus protecting the general public with ’splendid isolation’

is active again as singer and rapper in various musical formations and creates Myspaces for them: /theblackoutsyndromecluboeuvre (natural bron free jazz), /hardonlove (pretty evil ballads with Fuck The Writer on guitar), /hoab (=Handsome of a Bitch with Theo Wesselo/RemboT. with thoughtful songs), /popupshits (anonymous forum for scary musical shit!)

reunion of GOD KNOWS THE ABSENCE his anti-scene band popular 1986-1991
for the presentation of the ANTISCENE photobook by Carla van der Marel in Arminus Church Rotterdam

2008�reads from his Dutch poetry in de RIDDER DICHT on 9th of march together with Frans Vogel

makes and performance a satirical interactive short play Who is fooling who? about alternative psychiatry with Paul de Breet for “the Week of Psychiatry”

is senoir vocal advisor and stressdesigner of the www.ktre.nl (the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble)
and was the grandmaster judging the musical battles on the 27th of march in Zeebelt in the Hague

exhibits glam-collages in IEZ cafe Rotterdam along side prints by Denis Oppenheim in the month april
organized by EhbeltoArt

creates and performes together with Rita Vilhena artistic leader of Baila Louca (Crazy Dance)-the performance Justification inspired by ‘the Death and the Maiden’ theme of Hans Baldung Grien in the former Photography Institute in Rotterdam (on 25th of april )
the black metal band ‘..of melancholy burning” from Rotterdam played live during Justification

founds with Prof. Sidhy Idiopath the PRC (Punk Research Centre) presenting it in public as
Frauduleus on the 1st of may in Exit Rotterdam

appointed as stressdesigner and creative coach at the Pameijer in Rotterdam
an organisation for social and psychological support

takes part in the 48 hour film project as Featherson in Zeer by pepperpopcornproductions in Amsterdam

starts poetry workshop Zegiswat (Saysomething) in collaboration with Pameijer an organisation for reintegration

exhibits SoftenonNaziWindmill in De Aanschouw Rotterdam

organizes the Depression Promotion Centre 2 in the former Photomuseum in Rotterdam

performes Green Love with Rita Vilhena during the Wereld van de Witte de With festival in Rotterdam

takes part in the 48 hour film project as�loner in Droog krijt (Dry chalk) in Utrecht

forms with Kaat Nouwen the vocal formation Tunneltunes

definitely joins the Rotterdam Free Jazz Ensemble

guestteacher at the Technical University Delft for the minor Imagination 2 for animation

2009 joins the band Yokocola as singer and royal rapper MC Wisecrack

organizes Phototheatre presents… in the former Photomuseum in Rotterdam, a group exhibition with 21 artists

gives a video workshop in the Urban Studio 2009 at HRO Rotterdam

presents with Floris Schönfeld the KTRE at the Balie Amsterdam as Master of the Scream

leads as The Master of the Scream the RFJE in the second Jambattle with robot at Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam

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A good example of balanced collaboration is this website. Helmuth Ziegenmalte is a precise, modest and friendly person. I am a wild, self conscious and most of the time friendly person. The modest, but wild result you can see for yourself..

Now, in this category i will show different kinds of collaborations. Either I was asked to participate or I asked to participate. And then there are  collaborations that were or are a result of the wish to find an artistic symbiosis on equal basis.

Another beautiful example of an organic collaboration: the PKV, which translates into Passive Art Society: Lonneke Laurijsse and Laura van Putten were attending a workshop i gave at the Willem De Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. The theme given was The future. My personal theme: the book about the pamflets and posters during the student revolts in May ‘68 in Paris. Title of the book: Be young and shutup! Already the first day i was struck by their way of working together. There was a lot of silence, and that is a sign of trust. I joined them in silence. And very soon we started joking. Humor and silence, that combination. In the summer of 2007 we ran a Depression Promotion Centre together in a the Gallery Pool 120 hosted by the Harmen Verbrugge. He was a perfect example of how involvement and feedback lead to beauty and joy and bloody good exhibitions and an atmosphere in which art can thrive and demonstrate it’s power. The following series of photographs represent the 4 stages of a life or a process. Seasons as it were…

Birth/Spring

Summer/Life

Autumn/Sadness

Winter/Death

But luckily it’s a cycle….

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In January 2007 Fuck the Writer was producing a few songs by copycat Akward I in the Medley & O.D. Studios. I was omnipresent as ‘nanny and nuisance’, making coffee and professional positive remarks. I had no choice,  because living in the same building.

After a week of highly concentrated creativity – yeah better than sex (lovesongs) – and with even a few songs written on the spot – the gentlemen concluded that their girlfriends respected their isolation with the muses. Then the phone rang. Awkward I dissappeared for half an hour and came back in a bad mood. Complaints and accusations the cause. Phone rang for Fuck the Writer. Same story.

I – having just escaped an attack of lovesickness ( and being bachelor !) tried to cheer them up with some wisecracks. Awkward I left the studio. FTW grabbed his guitar and commanded : “Sing whatever you want!” And so in one long musical copulation of pain with pleasure Hard on Love was born. This songbook is spot-on. The rest of the trouble taken was in vain. A blessing in disguise. How ironical !

Have a nice trip!

Fuck the Writer and MC Wisecrack – Hard on Love

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Music Will Save The World might sound pretentious to those who doubt the fact we live in the music of the spheres. Trained in the Western and Indian classical vocal traditions, i have become addicted to the freestyle and instant composing approach to music of the latter. Improvisation is awareness, being a medium in the spheres of matter and spirit. I try to be the echo of what i sing. Undeniable presence i pretend to bring, and you’re lucky if you like it! I can’t sell myself. The resonance would renounce me. You hear what i am saying? As example of what i hopefully clarified, you can listen to the first CD with the same title as above: Music Will Save The World, by my raptrance formation Lucid Terror. It’s one of my hibernating bands.

More music and the “God knows the Absence revival” – reverse engineering a patented fluid conservation process

Nowadays I am trying to save the world sing with my natural born free jazz band called: The Black-Out Syndrome Club. At least our free jazz improvisations didn’t destroy the world as we know it either. Besides that I also sing in more intimate acoustic impro sessions with Fuck the Writer, Watch out! Brick!, Handsome of a Bitch, Venus’ Favourites. Ballads, blues improvisations, love songs, rap royal etc. And last but not least: God Knows The Absence reunited after 20 years.

Rotterdamned Unterground music: www.antiscene.nl

Our blood is music. Let it flow!

Here are some tracks from Lucid Terror’s album Music will save the world. For starters.

Tracklist Music Will Save The World

1. I Think I Am About To Say Something
Lucid Terror – I Think I Am About To Say Something

2. Time to leave
Lucid Terror – Time To Leave

3. I want to think as a bomb
Lucid Terror – I Want To Think As A Bomb

Listening to Lucid Terror, you comprehend that Music will save the world is more than a famous quote of the divine Catalan cellist Pablo Casals. My webmeister especially likes Casals’ interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites. It’s maybe a bit like Angela Merkel after a couple of too much Vodka with Red Bull, steaming through the streets of Pamplona… or something.

Well, for me it’s time to stop now with a certain anti climax: Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake conceived and produced together a promising DIY video podcast AKA music video how to save the world in 4 minutes. And 4 seconds to be precise.

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