Eric West, MC Wisecrack, Henri van Zanten (director), Chuka, Le Lot

A nice reminder of how wild life can be…& free in true action

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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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I staged it 13 x since 1981. Doing it in Jena was a special experience. There was still the smell of Stasi and distrust. When i started working with my group, they were shy, but after 3 weeks stressdesigning we ended up as a wild bunch together.

Well see for yourself!

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Pretty Evil Autobahn

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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.

• wikipedia about improvisation
• wikipedia about musical improvisation
• 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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Cactoanalysis is not just a fata morgana or an empty well in the desert of psychological stigmatization, pharmaceutical junkyfication and the religion of psychoanalytical diagnosis. Cactoanalysis stands for juicy growth of insight and enjoyment in touchy matters of the human mind and brain. We are not a mental illness! Let’s meet another cactus…

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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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_{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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It was the result of a commission by Stichting De Vrije Parel (Free Pearl Foundation) and the SKOR (Stichting Kunst Openbare Ruimte = Foundation for Art in Public Space)

It was rejected as being too monumental. Then van Zanten and Micke came up with the Wordrattle=Taalratel. Indeed a more transparant and fitting sculpture. See also Wordrattle=Taalratel.

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It’s a great honour to have special guest Otto Wensinckon my site. He made an exception for me. Want to see more? Check Otto Wensinck’s YouTube Video Channel right now! He’ll make you laugh more than I am able to.

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van van Zanten

Download Henri van Zanten’s Nederlandse CV als PDF bestand

>> CURRICULUM VITAE - HENRI CAREL VAN ZANTEN
>> >>
>> >> Omniartist geboren te Rotterdam op 18.3.1957
>> >>
>> >> 1964-1965 verblijf in Canada
>> >>
>> >> 1967-1970 verblijf in Zuid-Afrika
>> >>
>> >> 1970-76  Gymnasiumopleiding aan het Libanon Lyceum te Rotterdam
>> >> schrijft zijn eerste gedichten en neemt vioollessen
>> >>
>> >> 1976-79  studeert Slavische taal- en letterkunde aan de R.U. Leiden
>> >> onder prof. Karel van het Reve
>> >>
>> >> 1979-83  schrijft een aantal toneelteksten, maakt zijn eerste ready mades
>> >> (driedimensionale gedichten) en neemt saxofoonlessen
>> >>
>> >> 1982-83  prive-training Stanislavski-techniek bij Piet Eelvelt
>> >>
>> >> 1983  neemt het initiatief tot de oprichting van STICHTING WELTSCHMERZ &
>> >> KOPFSCHMERZ
>> >> met als doel het ontplooien van aktitiviteiten op diverse gebieden van
>> >> de kunst
>> >>
>> >> maakt de eerste versie van de HAMLETMACHINE van Heiner Muller
>> >> (solovoorstelling)
>> >>
>> >> richt samen met Erik-Ward Geerlings het KROCHTTHEATER op
>> >>
>> >> ensceneert zijn eerste eigen toneeltekst DE VERZAMELAARS (Piccolo
>> >> theater/Rotterdam)
>> >> en maakt i.s.m. Erik-Ward Geerlings een performance/theaterstuk EEN
>> >> VERZIEKTE AVOND
>> >> o.a. uitgevoerd in Stalker, Brussel
>> >>
>> >> medeoprichter van muziekimprovisatiegroep DUSTBIN SILENCE
>> >> die in de loop van 3 jaar 20 concerten geeft in Nederland en Belgie
>> >>
>> >> 1985  eerste expositie van zijn driedimensionale gedichten in GALERIE MES,
>> >> Groningen
>> >>
>> >> organiseert OKTOBER een manifestatie voor niet-keurige kunst met een
>> >> groepsexpositie
>> >> en theatervoorstellingen in GALERIE ALLES VOOR 12 EN 24 VOLT, Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> 1984-86  zanger van de experimentele popgroep GOD KNOWS THE ABSENCE
>> >> die zijn laatste concert in MUSEUM BOYMANS-VAN BEUNINGEN gaf
>> >>
>> >> 1986-87  vooropleiding klassieke zang aan het Rotterdams Conservatorium
>> >>
>> >> 1986  organiseert op verzoek van De Rotterdamse Kunststichting voor de
>> >> opening
>> >> van Cafe DE UNIE het AMFIBITHEATER een projekt met theater, installaties en
>> >> performance in vijf containers aan de Westersingel
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan het PERFO 4D festival met de performance RECITAL
>> >>
>> >> maakt een vierde versie van HAMLETMACHINE, weer als solovoorstelling,
>> >> met videomateriaal
>> >> van de drie voorafgaande versies
>> >>
>> >> 1987  maakt i.s.m. JAN DECORTE (die concept en bewerking leverde van THE
>> >> MASSACRE AT PARIS
>> >> van Christopher Marlowe), Nico Okkerse en Erik-Ward Geerlings
>> >> ONDERTUSSEN IN PARIJS
>> >>
>> >> maakt de eerste 3 afleveringen van de serie KORT&GOED
>> >> theaterclips van toneelklassiekers waardoor het KROCHTTHEATER landelijk
>> >> doorbreekt
>> >> HAMLET, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, DE BLAUWE VOGEL
>> >> speelt mee in de afleveringen gemaakt door zijn collega Erik-Ward Geerlings
>> >> OP HOOP VAN ZEGEN, GIJSBRECHT VAN AEMSTEL, DE MEIDEN, DE VERLOREN ZOON
>> >>
>> >> begint met een Noord-Indiase klassiek vocale opleiding bij USTAD
>> >> MOHAMMAD SAYEED KHAN
>> >>
>> >> neemt het intitiatief tot de oprichting van GALERIE PARADISE REGAINED
>> >> werk- en expositieruimte in Historisch Delfshaven, Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> 1988  werkt mee aan de ontbinding van het KROCHTTHEATER
>> >> en richt NOBODY'S BUSINESS op als zijn onafhankelijke organisatie
>> >>
>> >> maakt i.s.m. danseres Lucie Moormann de bewegingstheatercompositie
>> >> ESTAFETTE, ENIGMA
>> >> in het kader van 3uit88 Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> ensceneert drie versies van DE ZEEVAARDER van FERNANDO PESSOA
>> >> (Nederlandse premiere)
>> >> in Galerie Paradise Regained
>> >>
>> >> 1989  speelt in COMPTONS AND BURNETTS van toneelgroep BONHEUR in Studio
>> >> Bonheur, Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> maakt IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING een bewegingsperformance dat een tweeluik
>> >> vormde met
>> >> PLAT van de choreograaf WYBO PLATENKAMP en dat door henzelf werd uitgevoerd
>> >>
>> >> speelt solo-performance LOT of ON FALLING DOWN WHILE ADDRESSING PEOPLE
>> >> in het SHAFFY THEATER, Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >> speelt in het bewegingstheaterstuk CUORE DI CANE van GUSTAVO FRIGERIO
>> >> in het kader Rotterdam in Beweging in de ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG
>> >>
>> >> ensceneert een theatrale lezing over het werk van de 18de eeuwse
>> >> beeldhouwer
>> >> F.X. MESSERSCHMIDT
>> >> en exposeert tekeningen van de Charakterkopfe, premiere Rotterdamse
>> >> Schouwburg
>> >>
>> >> exposeert lichttekeningen en schetsontwerpen voor een onuitvoerbaar
>> >> projekt (geinspireerd
>> >> op De Storm van Shakespeare) EEN GAT IN HET WATER met een
>> >> openingsperformance
>> >> in FRAU HOLLE,Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 1990  regisseert  ALEX D'ELECTRIQUE in DRAMOLETTE van Thomas Bernhard
>> >>
>> >> pleegt de eerste outdoor CAT-Acts (Contemporary Art Terrorism Acts) met
>> >> zijn geopereerde vlaggen
>> >> op de Dam en voor de Zuid-Afrikaanse Ambassade
>> >>
>> >> exposeert GEOPEREERDE VLAGGEN in GALERIE PARADISE REGAINED en DE BALIE,
>> >> met als openingsperformance de operatie van de Amerikaanse vlag
>> >> d.m.v. 51 revolverschoten, verband en filmbloed
>> >>
>> >> 1991  publicatie van THEATRAAL ONDERZOEK door Uitgeverij De Balie
>> >> een overzicht van tien jaar werk in de beeldende kunst en theater
>> >> ter gelegenheid van een Van Zanten week in de ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG
>> >>
>> >> ensceneert een interactieve lezing over de filsoof OTTO WEININGER onder
>> >> de titel
>> >> GESLACHT OF KARAKTER  premiere GRAND THEATRE,Groningen
>> >>
>> >> verspreid zijn eerste freecards en stickers als autonome kunstuiting met
>> >> zijn organisatie O.O.K.I.K.
>> >> (Organisatie Ongevraagde Kulturele Intimiteiten Komplex)
>> >>
>> >> eerste BLINDMAN'S STICK TRAVEL (Ierland) en expositie in de vorm van een
>> >> serie freecards
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 1992  richt HET INSTITUUT VOOR SOUSREALISME op en benoemt daarmee een
>> >> (nieuwe)
>> >> kunststroming: de kunst van het waarnemen/making art with reality
>> >>
>> >> organiseert DE ZELFMOORDSALON in DE UNIE, Rotterdam en DE BALIE, Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >> 1993  produceert een serie EETBAAR THEATER geinspireerd door een verhaal
>> >> van APOLLINAIRE
>> >> in Zaal DE UNIE i.s.m. KAREN LANCEL
>> >>
>> >> Cd-presentatie van SAMPLEMIND'S SUGGESTIONS FOR A EUROPEAN ANTHEM
>> >> i.s.m. de componisten DON SATIJN, ARTHUR SAUER  e.a.in de grote zaal
>> >> van de AMSTERDAMSESCHOUWBURG
>> >>
>> >> bereikt de halve finale van CAMERETTEN met zijn solo TE LEUK VOOR DEZE
>> >> WERELD
>> >>
>> >> richt het ONGEVRAAGD ADVIES BUREAU en de ANTI-CONSENSUSBOND op
>> >>
>> >> was curator van de ROTTERDAM WEEK op de ARK in het kader van ANTWERPEN 93
>> >> CULTURELE HOOFDSTAD VAN EUROPA
>> >>
>> >> 1994  richt de SALON DER DICHTKUNST op in DE REPUBLIEK, FELIX MERITIS,
>> >> Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >> maakt samen met LISA MARCUS een bewegingstheaterstuk over GALA & DALI
>> >>
>> >> voegt zich als zanger bij YENS & YENS en daarmee is de electronische
>> >> raptrance formatie LUCID TERROR geboren
>> >>
>> >> 1995  groei-expositie van een brein van kauwgom onder de titel
>> >> DE DEVOLUTIE VAN HET COLLECTIEVE BEWUSTZIJN in Galerie Paradise Regained
>> >>
>> >> oprichting SOCIETEIT HARDOP DENKEN i.s.m. Galerie De Brieder
>> >>
>> >> speelt mee in DE BOMEN, HET BOS van ANNEKE BONNEMA bij NIEUW WEST
>> >>
>> >> expositie van de GEOPEREERDE VLAGGEN in de vorm van een serie freecards
>> >> in een oplage 48.000 exemplaren met subsidie van het CBK Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan groepsexpositie NOBODY'S BIZNIZ II met Jos Vermeulen en
>> >> Walter Joris
>> >> in TORCH GALLERY, Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >> opent de Dali-tentoonstelling in de BEURS VAN BERLAGE mer zijn
>> >> Dali-impersonation
>> >>
>> >> BLINDMAN'S STICK TRAVEL PARIS
>> >>
>> >> BLINDMAN'S STICK TRAVEL SPAIN/PORTUGAL
>> >>
>> >> 1996  expositie van FULL COLOUR MOUVEMENT PAINTINGS gemaakt i.s.m.Milena
>> >> Feher
>> >> in GALERIE 2X2, Delfshaven
>> >>
>> >> publiceert een serie maatschappij-kritische freecards onder de titel
>> >> MC WISECRACK GOES DUTCH met fin. steun van het CBK Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan de groepsexpositie FRESH BREEZE in NOVA ZEMBLA, Den Bosch
>> >> met 36 verschillende freecards
>> >>
>> >> maakt een voorstelling over de mens BARON VON MUNCHHAUSEN
>> >> m.m.v. Wim van Egmond
>> >>
>> >> regisseert het jeugdtheaterstuk BLAUW van MONIEK MERKX bij ARTEMIS in
>> >> Den Bosch
>> >>
>> >> opent het TRIPLE XXX Festival te Amsterdam met een concert van LUCID TERROR
>> >> en exposeert BREINEN VAN KAUWGOM
>> >>
>> >> HENRI VAN ZANTEN BRENGT NIEUW AMUSEMENT
>> >> een multi-media week in de ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG en DE NES
>> >> met i.s.m.. o..a. WIM VAN EGMOND (fototheater), A.MOONEN
>> >> (improvisatietheater),
>> >> MILENA FEHER (dans/performance), JAN ZOBEL en DINA ED DIK (een gedanste
>> >> en gesproken
>> >> versie van de Hamletmachine)
>> >>
>> >> 1997-99  bijdragen aan  de onafhankelijke kunstkrant HTV DE IJSBERG
>> >>
>> >> 1997  maakt High-Tech Rap Royal theatre als MC WISECRACK/Support Act Hamlet
>> >> i.s.m. Yens&Yens, de danseressen Ruth Moreno en Milena Feher e.a.
>> >> (premiere NIGHTTOWN, Rotterdam)
>> >>
>> >> 1998  ensceneert PUBLIEKSBESCHIMPING van PETER HANDKE
>> >> als hoorspel met 120 stemmen en een leeg podium
>> >> (CD presentatie Grote Zaal ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG)
>> >>
>> >> speelt i.s.m. Nico Okkerse en Jan Joris Lamers HET APENPARLEMENT
>> >> (naar het boek van Gerrit Paape uit 1798)
>> >> in PERSCENTRUM NIEUWSPOORT
>> >>
>> >> tiende enscenering van de HAMLETMACHINE op straat en in de
>> >> PAULUSKERK/Rotterdam
>> >> met zijn jongerengroep FUTURESQUAD
>> >>
>> >> 1999  formeert UINITED DEMONS INCORPORATED een kreactor van 20 artiesten
>> >> uit verschillende disciplines en generaties (in Bonheur, Rotterdam)
>> >>
>> >> grote zaalproductie van DE BROEIKAS van HAROLD PINTER
>> >> in de ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG met oa. Cas Enklaar, Dik Boutkan, Hugo Haenen
>> >>
>> >> dramaturgie, tekst en zang (Lucid Terror) voor de dansvoorstelling VERGE
>> >> van Frank Handeler
>> >> en Dian Elshout in de Transformatorzolder WESTERGASFABRIEK, Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >> lokatieprojekt BIJ BRAND OF AANRAAD in de LEKHAVEN, Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> 2000  publicatie MC WISECRACK'S STICKERFUN
>> >>
>> >> opent de groepsexpositie SALVA MEA in de NIEUWE KERK als MC WISECRACK in
>> >> harnas
>> >>
>> >> ensceneert DE ZEVEN ZINTUIGEN n.a.v. De Goddelijke Komedie van DANTE
>> >> een drieluik met FUTURESQUAD in de PAULUSKERK, Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> publicatie MC'Wisecrack's BRAINFRAGMENTATION BOMB
>> >>
>> >> concipieert en dirigeert de wereldpremiere van het MONOLOGENKOOR
>> >> in de grote zaal van de ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG
>> >>
>> >> begint met een wekelijks tv-programma KOMKOMMERTV op RotterdamTV
>> >> met kunst, interviews, registraties en satire
>> >>
>> >> ensceneert FUCK SHAKESPEARE muziektheater met FUTURESQUAD voor
>> >> ZAPNATION te Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> doet een openingsperformance voor de groepsexpositie IK BEN EEN PUNKER MAMA
>> >> in SHOWROOM MAMA te Rotterdam met als expositie deelname een
>> >> een nieuwe serie GEOPEREERDE VLAGGEN (in opdracht)
>> >>
>> >> 2001  schrijft en regisseert i.s.m. Niko Okkerse de multi-media voorstelling
>> >> AMLETH/the Original/the Gothic/the Best in DE REGENTES, Den Haag
>> >>
>> >> live performance met Lucid Terror voor de dansvoorstelling DEUCE
>> >> van PIETER DE RUITER in DE JULIANAKERK, Den Haag
>> >>
>> >> tekst en muziek met Lucid Terror voor de dansvoorstelling STOMACH
>> >> van Handeler en Elshout (premiere HOLLAND DANCE FESTIVAL, Den Haag)
>> >>
>> >> 2002  beeldende bijdrage aan de publicatie HARD POP van SHOWROOM MAMA,
>> >> Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel met de interactieve performance RANDOM TAXI  aan de manifestatie
>> >> PARKING DEN HAAG georganiseerd door STROOM
>> >>
>> >> tekst en zang met Lucid Terror  voor MILKY TEARS  van ELAINE KIM
>> >>
>> >> tekst en zang met Lucid Terror voor STOPMOTION  van PIETER DE RUITER
>> >>
>> >> tekst/stem met Lucid Terror en dramaturgie voor NERVES van EDGE
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan ARTIST POSTCARDS van RUCHAN SAHINOGLU
>> >>
>> >> stelt een ZELFPORTRET IN GROEPSVERBAND samen onder de titel
>> >> OH NO NOT AGAIN in TENT te Rotterdam
>> >> een overzicht van 20 jaar werk en samenwerkingen en werk van de
>> >> vijftigtal collega's
>> >>
>> >> 2003  geeft lezing over inspiratie op de ROTTERDAMSE DANSACADEMIE
>> >>
>> >> Publicatie MC WISECRACK'S STICKERFUN 2
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan het SIRENENFESTIVAL in HET ILLUSEUM
>> >> met een stemperformance poezie en drukwerk
>> >>
>> >> archiefonderzoek
>> >>
>> >> 2004  doet het projekt BALANCE IN WONDERLAND op de WILLEM DE KOONING
>> >> met een dertigtal studenten
>> >>
>> >> archiefonderzoek
>> >>
>> >> 2005  neemt deel aan een vijftal groepsexposities in de DORDTSALON  te
>> >> Rotterdam
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan PNEUFORIA van 75+NAP, Den Haag
>> >>
>> >> 2006  neemt deel aan het MENTAL ZIRKUS in SUPAMOLLY te BERLIJN
>> >> als moderator en met een performance en drukwerk
>> >>
>> >> artist in residence in WILLEM 3 te Vlissingen met een groeiinstallatie
>> >> in Gaststudio 7
>> >> en een serie pseudo-toeristische freecards OOIT IN VLISSINGEN GEWEEST?
>> >>
>> >> op 2 april openingsrede DVD-project in de Zware Plaatwerkerij Vlissingen
>> >>
>> >> neemt deel aan de WERKSTATT 2006 van JG Stadmitte JENA
>> >> maakt daar het sculptuur BUCHERSCHASHLIK en ensceneert
>> >> met jongeren de twaalfde versie van HAMLETMACHINE van Heiner Muller
>> >>

_{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 ABSENT 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
www.myspace.com/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

_{Rotterdam, autumn 2007}

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