

Hans van Manen (1932, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam Hans van Manen always wanted to be a dancer. He managed to become a pupil of Sonja Gaskell, but discovered soon that his talent as a choreographer surpassed his dancing ambitions. In 1955 he made Swing, a choreography for the Scapino ballet. It was the prelude for his first independent ballet Feestgericht (1957) which was the starting point of a long and successful career. From 1961 till 1971 he was artistic director and choreographer of the Netherlands Dance Theater and in 1973 he became director/choreographer of the National Ballet in Amsterdam. His work is on the repertory of over fourty international ballet companies. In total he made almost a hundred ballets, of which the National Ballet is still dancing thirty-six. Van Manen has always been careful with movement, putting emphasis on reduction and invention of passes and gestures. One of his most innovative ballets is Live/Live (1980) in which a dancer is followed by the camera outside of the theatre. In 2000 Hans van Manen received the Erasmus-prize for his entire oeuvre. To use the sound of dancing feet as a music composition for Loud & Clear must be seen as a tribute to the beauty of all the movements he has invented. Dancer: Yumiko Takeshima /\ John M Armleder (1948, Switzerland) lives and works in Geneva Solo exhibitions, a selection 2002 Seven, new wallpaintings, De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan 2001 Galerie Issert, Saint Paul de Vence Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg John M Armleder, Galerie Edition Kunsthandel GMBH, Essen 2000 MoMA, New York (with Pjotr Uklanskii ) 1999 At any speed, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Mondo Tiki II, Galerie Tanit, Munich The Box, Turin Anselm Dreher, Berlin Ace contemporary exhibitions, Los Angeles Ace Gallery, New York Artspace, Auckland Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam Group exhibitions, a selection 2002 Malerei ohne malerei, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig 2001 John M Armleder, Magasin, Grenoble De Keeshond hapt, Biënnale Leuven, Leuven (B) L'Esprit de famille, Mamco, Geneva Art > Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, curator: Sue Cramer Affinités, Le Quartier, Quimpern (Fr) Floating abstracts, really, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2000 Ich ist etwas anderes, Kunstsammlung Nordrein - Westfalen, Düsseldorf The world is not enough, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin L' oeuvre collective, A.M.F., Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse 1999 GS3: Face to face, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin Autour de R2/12, Attitudes, Geneva 00, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Rotorura Perpetual Glow Machine, 2002 Co-author Sylvie Fleury /\ Fastland/Ground founded in 2002, Reykjavik Fastland/Ground is a young agency at the extreme edge of the habitable part of the world. Internet connections are good. The people are experienced, bright, and happy almost all the time. We have fun, but rarely at the expense of our clients. We love what we do and we try not to fuck up. Advertising tries to capture and convey imaginative qualities for commercial purposes. We don't always have to comment or intrude. As advertised, Armleder's piece made our minds wander: we thought of war, popcorn, diving, drowning, meditation machines... So who are we? Thorvaldur Sverrisson, managing director, Dóra Isleifsdottir, creative director, Styrmir Sigurdsson, director and creative, Haraldur Civelek,creative, Jeff Ramsey, graphic designer, 'Asmundur 'Asmundsson, webdesigner, 'Asmundur Thòrdarson, media, 'Olafur Borgthórsson, controller. And a couple of guys in London, Börkur 'Arnarson and Viggo' Jónsson, creative. Everyone did their part. We believe people should do what they do best and then get out of the way. Credits We have friends. Sometimes they get paid, sometimes we cost them.This time we thank Styrmir Sigurdsson (director), G. Magni Agustsson(director of photography), Kjartan Kjartansson (technical assistance), Margret Einarsdottir & Dyrleif Orlygsdottir (costumes), Frida Maria Hardardottir (make-up), and the cast: Matthias M.D.Hemstock, Valgerdur Runarsdottir, Asmundur Pall Asmundsson, Jeffrey C. Ramsey, Gudrun Ragna Sigurjonsdottir, Vala Thorsdottir, Kjartan Kjartansson, Katrin Johnson /\ Theo Loevendie (1930, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam Having little affinity with serialism, Theo Loevendie at first sought and found his way in jazz. As a composer/improviser (on soprano and alto saxophone) and leader of the Theo Loevendie Consort he became one of The Netherlands most prominent jazz musicians, his success spreading to other countries as well. A belated entrance into the realm of art-music came in 1968 with the composition Scaramuccia for clarinet and orchestra. Since then he has become a composer whose work has achieved wide recognition and is performed all over the world. He has won many awards. Loevendie tries to avoid all dogmas of a political, social or musicological nature as these would deflect the composer from the path marked out by his intuition. He has never propagated any ideology that would influence his composing, let alone dictate the rules. This attitude also determines Loevendies point of view regarding tradition and innovation. He says: "Traditions, in my view the many musical traditions that have graced humanity, are valuable because each artist stands, so to speak, on the shoulders of his predecessors to reach greater heights. Innovation is an inevitable and usually unintentional by-product of creative personalities who add something new to the existent. Innovation as an ideology, just like conservatism, is a sign of stagnation." Loevendie has been a professor at The Royal Conservatory in the Hague since 1988 and at the Amsterdam Conservatory since 1995. Musicians Percussion: Johan Faber Harpsichord:Thora Johansen Sound engineering: Reynir Thor Finnbogason & Kristin Waage /\ Pierre Bismuth (1963, France) lives and works in Brussels and London Solo exhibitions, a selection 2002 Galeria Sonia Rosso, Turin Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg 2001 CAC, collaboration with Jonathan Monk, Vilnius Centre d'art contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR) Closed (special guest Jonathan Monk), Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam 2000 Galerie Mot&Van Den Boogaard, Brussels 1999 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Group exhibitions, a selection 2002 2-2-2 and other love stories, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam Kunsthalle Basel, Basle Open, Jonanthan Monk (special guest Pierre Bismuth), Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam 2001 Galerie Christine König, Vienna Nothing, NGCA, Sunderland Touring to Contemporary Arts Centre,Vilnius and Rooseum, Malmö Psychical therapy and Leisure: London based art, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid This does not last more than one second (Angus Fairhurst with a guest contribution from Pierre Bismuth), Spacex, Exeter Biennale di Venezia, Venice Communicative tubes, Center for Contemporary Art, Linz 2000 Film/video works - Lisson Gallery at 9 Keane Street, Lisson gallery, London A shot in the head, Lisson gallery, London Korean biennale, Seoul (curated by Jeremy Millar and Barbara London) Photopolis, Kanal 20, Brussels Be seeing you, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR) Cinema without walls, Museum Boymans- Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1999 Cinema, Cinema/Contemporary art and the cinematic experience, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Patch work in progress/expositions monographiques, Mamco Musee d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva Selected video works, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg Special thanks: Thijs Kauffmann /\ Strawberry Frog founded in 1999, Amsterdam Dylan Ingham (1970, New Zealand) lives and works in Amsterdam Dylan Ingham is partner and creative director of Strawberry Frog, a semi-virtual agency in Amsterdam. They are positioned between the nationally oriented creative agencies on the one hand, and the multinational dinosaurs on the other. "Its always been the small, the highly focused and the passionate teams who have made things fresh and new happen" he says. The agency uses new media and technology tools to be able to work daily around the world with staff and clients. Dylan Ingham's previous work includes campaigns for Tango, Guinness and Paramount Comedy Channel. More recently he advised Ericsson and Motorola on future content, new audiences and brand development. At the moment Igham is developing holistic campaigns for such clients as Credit Suisse, IMD, Sprint, Elle.com and Microsoft. Credits Writer, director: Dylan Ingham Producer: Chiara Donati Account: Vanessa Dolan Actress: Henriette Needers Bronkhorst Editor: Keith Parsons Director of photography: Remco Schnorr /\ Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952, Japan) lives and works in New York Ryuichi Sakamoto has made a career of crossing musical and technological boundaries. Sakamoto has experimented with many different musical styles, making a name for himself in popular, orchestral and film music. As a founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), Sakamoto's film work includes Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and, most recently, Brian DePalma's Femme Fatale. This year Sakamoto joined his frequent collaborators Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum at the home of the late Antonio Carlos Jobim (the master of Brazilian bossa nova) in Rio to record Casa, a collection of hidden treasures and some previously unrecorded material written by Jobim under the group name Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto. Casa was released in August, 2002 by Sony Classical. "The whole experience was spiritual, as if Tom's spirit came into me through the fingerprints on the keys of his piano" he says. "During one of the recordings at his house a bird suddenly sang in the middle of the song. We all thought that was Tom." With Ryuichi Sakamoto the only constant is change. The sheer breadth of musical styles he explores - even within one album - is central to his being as an artist. He feels no need to exist within musical boundaries, and he celebrates tearing them down. "This global view of different cultures is just part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures. Instead of building walls or borders, I always try to combine different things. To me, it's challenging and exciting." Composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto /\ Marlene Dumas (1953, South Africa), lives and works in Amsterdam Solo exhibitions, a selection 2002 Name no Names, De Pont, Tilburg, (NL) Name no Names, New Museum, New York 2001 Nom de Personne/Name no Names, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 100 Models and Endless Rejects, I.C.A., Boston 2000 Marlene Dumas: MD, Camden Arts Center, London 1999 MD-Light, MUHKA, Antwerp Group exhibitions, a selection 2001 The Contemporary Face: From Pablo Picasso to Alex Katz, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 2000 12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney strippinggirls, SMAK, Ghent Das Gedächtnis Der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH) 1999 Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Credits My daughter, 2002 Post production: Julian de Keijzer (50 FPS) Editor and executive producer: Alex Mar /\ KesselsKramer founded in 1996, Amsterdam, by Erik Kessels and Johan Kramer Erik Kessels (1966, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam Since 1996 Erik Kessels is creative director of KesselsKramer, an international advertising and communication agency. At this moment, around 30 people work at their office, a former church on the Lauriergracht. Half of them are Dutch, the other half have roots in China, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Scotland, England, Sweden and the United States. Kessels gained international success with campaigns for Nike, Audi, Levis, Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, ONVZ, Het Parool, Ben, Bol.com, Heineken, The Coffee Company and Diesel. He is seen as one of the most original creatives in the international advertisement scene. Part of his philosophy is crossing borders between art and advertisement. He asks artists for campaigns and moves around different areas himself. Recently he curated Dutch Delight, the opening show of FOAM, edited the books In almost every picture and was asked by the Dutch Post Office to design a series of stamps. Solo exhibitions, a selection 2002 Curator Dutch Delight, FOAM, Amsterdam Useful Photography #2, Galerie W139, Amsterdam In Almost every Picture, Galerie RAS, Barcelona In Almost every Picture, Fotofestival Rencontres, Arles 2001 Useful Photography #1, NFI, Rotterdam Useful Photography #1, Galerie Fototheek, Antwerp 1999 The Instant Men, Art Book, Amsterdam Group exhibitions, a selection 2002 Art in Ads, Galerie de Meerse, Hoofddorp (NL) 2001 The best of European Advertising, Puck Building, New York Best verzorgde boeken, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2000 Curator PANL Exhibition, Lisbon Do create, Salone di Mobile, Milan 1999 Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans- van Beuningen, Rotterdam Smaak, Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht De Bijenkorf, Arnhem Shopping bags, Carnaby Street, London Credits My sister, 2002 Production: Francine van der Lee/KesselsKramer Editor: Jacques de Koning Post production: Julian de Keijzer/50 FPS /\ Steamboat Switzerland founded in 1997, Zurich With their strange mix of hardcore rock, free improvisation and contemporary composition Steamboat Switzerland toured Europe and Northern America since 1998 very successfully. Making optimal use of their varied musical educations and careers, the trio traced the ancestry of Swiss Art Brut master Adolf Woelfli (1864-1930) and developed their musical language in the direction of spontaneously confronting multi-idiomatic modules - descending from on the one hand (post-)serialistic structures and on the other noise-core power grooves - with free textures. They perform at festivals, in concert halls and in museums of contemporary art in various contexts including Jazz, Rock, Avantgarde, Improvisation and New Music. Their first CD Live (Unit 4104, 1998) was received very well. Besides the usual concept of written structures interacting with impovised textures, their current repertoire features British composer Sam Hayden's tremendous composition 'dB[I-VII]' (premiered at Gaudeamus 99). Steamboat Switzerland received the Music Award 2000 of the City of Zurich and last year released two new CDs Budapest and 'ac/dB[hayden]', both on the Cologne-based label GROB. Musicians Steamboat Switzerland Prepared amplified piano, KORG MS 20, Leslie speaker: Dominik Blum (1964, Switzerland) Prepared amplified classical guitar: Marino Pliakas (1964, Switzerland) Drums, percussion: Lucas Niggli (1968, Switzerland) Credits Hans Martin Müller and Christian Heck of Loft/Cologne, Dan Suter of Echochamber/Zurich, Peer Seemann /\ Pierre Huyghe (1962, France) lives and works in Paris Solo exhibitions, a selection 2002 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz 2001 Le Chateau de Turing, Pavillion Francais, Biennale di Venezia, Venice Interludes, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Even More Real Than You, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2000 Tramway, Glasgow Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg Galerie Shipper & Krome, Berlin The Third Memory, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Two Minutes Out of Time, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Third Memory, Renaissance Society, Chicago Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich 1999 Museu de arte Contemporunea de Serralves, Porto Some Negociations, Kunstverein München, Munich Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica L'ellipse, Index, the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm Le proces du temps libre, Wiener Secession,Vienna Motion Study, a choreography, INOVA, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee Group exhibitions, a selection 2002 Documenta 11, Kassel Shoot the Singer, Music on Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2000 Conversation: Recent acquisitions of the Van Abbemuseum, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Academy of Fine Arts, Athens Presentness is grace, Arnolfini, Bristol In many ways the exhibition already happened, ICA, London The Gift: Generous Offerings, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienne Forms follow fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin Animations, P.S.1, New York International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Dèvoler, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR) Double Life, Generali Foundation, Vienna Vivement 2002, Mamco, Geneva Exploding Cinema/Cinema without walls, Museum Boijmans- van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2000 Vicinato 2, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin Voil, ARC Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Le jeu des 7 familles, MAMCO, Geneva As it is, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Dial 33 then 1, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 1999 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg Close Ups, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen Moving Images, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Hitchcock, Art, Cinema and Suspense, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford Travelling exhibition Soggettivit e narrazione, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin Díapertutto, 48. Biennale di Venezia, Venice Remakes, Le Parvis/Centre d'art contemporain, Tarbes (FR) So Far Away, So Close, Encore Bruxelles, Brussels Liverpool Billboard Project, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Cinema, Cinema, Contemporary Art and the Cinematic Experience, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven /\ Tyler Whisnand (1968, United States) lives and works in Amsterdam 2002 KesselsKramer, Amsterdam In almost every picture Hayden Jacob Whisnand, Amsterdam Miss It can't get any worse, but we'll do our best 2000 Ground Zero Advertising, New York Super pure water from Norway 1999 Ben phone book Check in, Check out Terminals BBDOAsia, Hong Kong Hong Kong Citizens exhibited Oil City, Hong Kong What on Earth is Going On? Cole Stockwell Whisnand, New York 1999 COLORS magazine, Treviso, Italy, 2002 31 water, 32 night, 40 trash, 43 elderly, 45 fucture, 46 volunteers, 48 school, 49 tours 1998 Do future 1997 Married Suki Diamond do 84 I not included DreamGreen 1996 KesselsKramer, Amsterdam Now Even Less Service Are you re-tuned 1994 Faces in the Metro In touch on Air 1991 Young & Rubicam Advertising New York Credits Moment no, 2002 d.o.p.: Bert Haitsma Production: Francine van der Lee (KesselsKramer) Post production: Julian Keijzer (50 FPS) /\ Haukur Tòmasson (1960, Iceland) lives and works in Reykjavik After his graduation in composition at the Reykjavik College of Music Haukur Tòmasson continued to study in Cologne, Amsterdam and at the University of California, San Diego. Among his composition teachers were Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Ton de Leeuw, Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. Tòmassons earliest composition, Spiral (1992), is considered a vivid example of inventive lyricism, with its rich use of flute, harpsichord, oboe and vibes. One of his later works, Stemma, was described by music critic David Lewis as an evocative tone poem that confirms why Tòmasson is that rarity - an inventive composer with a pop diva's touch. Besides a large body of chamber music, Tòmassons work includes five orchestral pieces, two concertos and several pieces for the theatre. Tòmasson has received numerous commissions and his music is widely performed. His composition Spiral was nominated for the Nordic Councils Music Prize in 1995 and his orchestral piece Strati won the Icelandic National Broadcasting System Music Prize in 1993. Other prizes include the 1996 Bröste Optimistic Prize and the 1998 Icelandic Music Award. Musician Cello: Eduard van Regteren Altena Sound engineering Reynir Thor Finnbogason and Christin Waage /\ Yayoi Kusama (1929, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo Solo exhibitions, a selection 2001 Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris 2000 Serpentine Gallery, London Le Consortium, Dijon 1999 Yayoi Kusama: beyond my illusion, Media of Modern Art Le Contemporary Gallery, Fukuoka In full bloom: Yayoi Kusama, years in Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MoMa, New York Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles Group exhibitions, a selection 2001 Triennale de Yokohama, Yokohama 2000 Sydney Biennale, Sydney Kusama participates in various activities other than art, such as photographic collaboration with photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, an appearance in the film Topaz written and directed by writer Ryu Murakami, and collaboration with musician Peter Gabriel and fashion designer Issey Miyake. /\ Jung von Matt founded in 1991, Hamburg Oliver Voss (1966, Germany) lives and works in Hamburg 2001 Creative Managing Director, Jung von Matt/Alster, Hamburg 1999 Creative Managing Director, Jung von Matt/Isar, Munich 1996-1998 Copywriter, Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam 1994-1996 Copywriter, Jung von Matt, Hamburg 1992-1993 Copywriter, Deutsch Advertising, New York 1989-1991 Copywriter, Robert Pütz Advertising, Cologne 1986-1988 Junior Copywriter, Rahmel & Partner, Cologne /\ Gudni Franzson (1961, Iceland) lives and works in Reykjavik Gudni Franzson studied clarinet and composition at Reykjavik College of Music. He has performed solo throughout Europe, Brazil, Canada and the former Soviet Union and has recorded a number of CD's. He is a cofounder and artistic director of CAPUT, an ensemble for contemporary music, which is very active in the international contemporary music scene. "We have noticed a change in peoples perceptions of Iceland and the music being produced here in recent years," he says "By believing in her own ideas, Björk has managed to create her own personal style and give us all hope in the process." Formed in a fast food outlet in Reykjavik in 1987, CAPUT has grown to include a membership of over 20 musicians, vocalists and dancers. The composition of the group is always fluid and continually changing. A CAPUT performance can range from a solo set by a single member to a full orchestral improvisation with over 30 guests barely corralled by the attempts of a conductor. In CAPUT's own compositions, Franzson acknowledges the use of new technology in the creation of more classical pieces. CAPUT was nominated for the Nordic Music Prize both in 1996 and 1998. Gudni Franzson has also written music for numerous theatre and dance productions, for children and for unconventional instruments. He has been active on the dance and theatre scene and works with groups like Pars Pro Toto and Bandamenn. Recently Franzson played the role of a dog in Independent People, a six hour long play produced by the Icelandic National Theatre. Musicians Ceramic pipes: Gudni Franzson Double bass: Robert Thórhallsson /\ Aernout Mik (1962, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam Solo exhibitions, a selection 2002 Reversal Room, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam Am in the LAM, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik Flock, Fundacio Miro, Barcelona 2001 Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan (FR) Reversal Room, The Powerplant, Toronto Middlemen, Carlier/Gebauer, Berlin 2000 Primal Gestures, Minor Roles, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Simulantengang, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel Tender Habitat, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3 Crowds, ICA, London 1999 Small Disasters, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam Projektraum, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Softer Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin Group exhibitions, a selection 2002 The Museum, the Collection, the Director and his Loves, MMK, Frankfurt Geld und Wert, das letzte Tabu, EXPO 02, Biel (CH) Stories; Erzählstrukturen in der zeitgenóssischen Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich Tableaux vivants, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2001 Exploding Cinema/Cinema without Walls, Museum Boijmans- van Beuningen, Rotterdam Berlin Biennale 2, Berlin The Peoples Art,Witte de With,Rotterdam Squatters, Museum Serralves, Porto Post-Nature, Dutch Pavillion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice Future land.com, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Loop-Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle der HypoKulturstiftung, Germany and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York WonderWorld, Kleines Helmhaus, Zurich 2000 Territory, Tokyo City Opera Gallery, Tokyo Desperate Optimists, Festival a/d Werf (curated by Moritz Küng), Utrecht Still Moving, Contemporary Photography, Film and Video from the Netherlands, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1999 A Touch of Evil, Metronom, Barcelona Nur wasser lasst sich leichter schneiden, Neumühlen, Hamburg Hollandkindergartenjapanbondage (curated by Camiel van Winkel), De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL) EXTRAetORDINAIRE, le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum, Utrecht Posttragikomik, Palazzo-Delle Papese, Sienne In All the Wrong Places, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa Spread, Galerie Index, Stockholm Credits Directing assistance: Marjoleine Boonstra, Maria Sigurdardóttir Camera: Hreidar Thór Björnsson, Jóhan Jóhannsson, Thorgeir Gudmundsson, Asgeir Gudmundsson Production: Steinthòr Birgisson Special thanks to: Tumi Magnússon and Ragnhildur /\ Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam office opened in 1991 Wieden & Kennedy is an independent advertisement agency that exists to create strong and provocative relations between companies and consumers. They have offices in Portland, New York, London, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Jon Matthews (1958, Great Britain) lives and works in Amsterdam, Nirit Peled (1973, Israel) lives and works in Amsterdam. Jon Matthews is creative director at Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam. The agency's clients include Nike, Siemens, Vodafone, Hypovereinsbank and EA Sports. Nirit Peled is a visual artist/film director. She has been active within the fields of film, animation, photography, installations and interactive design. Besides her work for commercial clients such as MTV, Nike and Levis, she has created work within a wide range of arts organisations (among others W139 Gallery, Amsterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; De Melkweg, Amsterdam, and V2, Rotterdam). Nirit regularly VJ's in clubs and at music festivals throughout Europe. /\ Caroline Berkenbosch (1966, The Netherlands) lives and works in Bunnik (NL) Education 1986-1987 Theatre School, Amsterdam 1989-1992 Conservatory Utrecht (teacher Henk Alkema) 1992-1996 Conservatory The Hague(teacher Louis Andriessen) Works, a selection 1995 Druk for tuba, piano and string trio 1997 Monument 2, for orchestra 1997 Monument 5, for orchestra 1998 Monument 17, for orchestra, organ and chorus 1998 Monument 16, for (entire Doelen-) ensemble 1998 Monument 16, for orchestra 1999 Monument 11, for orchestra 1999 Monument 21, for orchestra 2000 Monument 8, for orchestra and violin Lullaby, 2002, 1:53 Composer and musician Caroline Berkenbosch melodion: Caroline Berkenbosch + birdsounds /\ Pipilotti Rist (1962, Switzerland), lives and works in Zurich and Los Angeles Solo Exhibitions, a selection 2002 Shiseido Foundation, cur. Keiko Toyoda, Tokyo 2001 Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, cur. Rafael Doctor Roncero, Madrid PADT, The 4th Wall, cur. Sandra Percival, London Centraal Museum, cur. Ranti Tjan, Utrecht Tramway, cur. Alexia Holt, Glasgow The Contemporary Arts Center, Scopophilia, cur. Sue Spaid, Cincinnati (Ohio) 2000 Musée des Beaux-Arts, cur. Stéphane Aquin, Montréal Open My Glade a project for Times Square, Public Art Fund, cur. Tom Eccles, New York (with homepage: http://www.squaretimes.net) 1999 Wolfgang Hahn Preis, Museum Ludwig, cur. Peter Allmann, Cologne Remake of the Weekend (french), cur. Laurence Bossé, Paris Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Remake of the Weekend à la zurichoise, Kunsthalle Zürich, cur. Bernhard Bürgi, Zurich Group Exhibitions, a selection 2002 Shanghai Biennale, cur. Yuko Hasegawa a.o., Shanghai Tempo, cur. Paulo Herkenhoff, Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York Pinakothek der Moderne, cur. Dr. Bernhard Schwenk, Munich 2001 Televisions - Kunst sieht fern Kunsthalle Wien, cur. Joshua Decter, Vienna Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, cur. Shinji a.o., Yokohama A Room Of Their Own: from Arbus to Gober, LA Moca, Los Angeles 2000 Media-city 2000, City vision: Electronic Billboard Project, cur. Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Seoul /\ S,C,P,F...is an advertising agency. Just that. We are said to be different from the rest, but that is difficult to show. Maybe it's because of our obsessions. Not believing that consumers are as stupid as they say, for example. Believing that we have an enormous responsibility, as we speak to a lot of people, and that makes us think a lot about what we say. Loving this work, although it's not the same as drumming in a jazz club or painting pictures. Looking for what's different, wherever it is out there, convinced that is precisely our work. It is something that obsesses us so much that it led us to create milmilks, an experimental initiative involved in financing projects related to communication, but which have nothing to do with advertising, and that are developed entirely within our offices, at our side. What for? To learn from others, and to browse through the mechanisms and habits that are different from our own, to contaminate ourselves with other viruses, to avoid being exclusively fed on advertising. To flee from inbreeding and inertias. For that same reason our team is made up of people from a wide variety of nationalities (and cultures). That's also why there are no walls in our offices. Maybe it's things like these that make some people think we are a different kind of advertising agency. But an advertising agency nevertheless. CREDITS: The involvement of S,C,P,F...in the Bifrons Foundation's Loud & Clear project was achieved with active contributions from Patricia Lujan, Carlitos, Rafael Montilla, Bet Roig-Serra, Philippe Rouger and Toni Segarra. /\ Toek Numan* (1971, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam Toek Numan studied composition with Geert van Keulen at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He plays clarinet, saxophone and piano and began composing at the age of eightteen. In 1996 Toek Numan made his debut on Dutch television with Burnout, commissioned by VPRO Television and written for Combustion Chamber. A year later he composed Tovertuin for Het Amsterdams Kwintet and in 1998 he wrote Il Giocoliere Errante for the Asko Ensemble. For the latter Toek Numan received the Encouragement Music Prize 1999 of the City of Amsterdam. Since then, he has worked with musicians and ensembles such as Tomoko Mukaiyama, Ren Eckhardt, Orkest De Volharding, Dutch Wind Ensemble, Ensemble De Ereprijs, Calefax and Noord Nederlands Orkest. One of the highlights was Maantuin (2001), premiered by the orchestra New Sinfonietta Amsterdam in the big hall of the Concertgebouw during the Holland Festival 2001. In addition to concert music, Toek Numan has written several soundtracks for short movies such as Johnny (1997) by young film-director Dylan de Jong. He also collaborated with dancer/performer David Lakein in the performances Breakfast (1996), The Phenomenology of Ennui (1996), and Chapiera (2000). Musicians Percussion: Johan Faber Cello: Eduard van Regteren Altena Bass guitar: Robert Thórhallsson Harpsichord: Thora Johansen Sound engineering Reynir Thor Finnbogason & Kristin Waage /\ Viktor Horsting, (1969, The Netherlands) & Rolf Snoeren, (1969, The Netherlands) , work and live in Amsterdam Solo exhibitions, a selection 2000 Viktor & Rolf, Visionaire Gallery, New York 1999 Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture, Groninger Museum, Groningen Group exhibitions, a selection 2001 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama 2000 La Beauté, Mission de l'an 2000 en France, Avignon 1999 Visions of the body, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Exposing meaning in fashion through presentation, Brooklyn Brigde, Anchorage NY Fashion shows 2002 Ready to Wear F/W 2002-2003 collection 5, Bluescreen collection 2001 Ready to Wear S/S 2002 collection 4, White collection Ready to Wear F/W 2001-2002 collection 3, Black Hole collection 2000 Ready to Wear S/S 2001 collection 2, There's no business like show business collection Defile Haute Couture Winter 2000-2001, Bell-collection Ready to Wear F/W 2000-2001 collection 1, Stars and Stripes collection 1999 Defile Haute Couture Winter 1999-2000, Russian Doll Defile Haute Couture summer 1999, Blacklight show /\ Saatchi and Saatchi London David Droga (1968, Australia) lives and works in London After graduating from the Australian Writer & Art Director College in 1987, David Droga joined OMON as a copywriter. He was also their very first employee. In the years that followed OMON not only became Australia's fastest growing agency, it also received the most awards. In 1993 David was promoted to Joint Creative Director. The following year OMON was named Australian Agency of the Year. In 1996 David joined Saatchi & Saatchi Asia as Executive Creative Director of the Singapore agency and Regional Creative Director of the entire Asia region. He was also given a seat on the worldwide creative board. In just over two years, the Singapore office became the network's most awarded creative agency. In 1998 the Singapore agency was named 'Ad Age' International Agency of the Year. At the beginning of 1999 David was promoted to Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi London. /\ Yello founded in 1980, Zurich In 1979 Dieter Meier and Boris Blank were introduced to each other in a record shop in Zurich. Soon after they set up a small recording studio in Zurich's Rote Fabrik, a haven for struggling artists, and began to experiment. Strange gorilla grunts were coupled with a Latin Cha-Cha beat on a primitive synthesizer, and the duo Yello was born. No one had any idea that they would become Switzerland's most successful modern music group, nor that they would still be together 21 years later. With a stroke of luck, Yello released their first album Solid Pleasure on the independent label Ralph Records in the US. Later they were picked up by Polygram/Universal and in 1985 the album Stella became an international hit. Yello has produced ten successful albums since then and Hollywood also became interested in what the group had to offer. Oh Yeah became a classic after it was played in Paramount's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Race, which was written for Germany's Formula 1 television program and Tied Up have also had similar success. Disney commissioned them to write music for the film The Santa Clause and by now Hollywood has used Yello's songs in over 30 movies. The rock intelligentsia call Yello The Godfathers of Techno because so many DJs and producers have continued to remix their songs during the '90s rave era. In 1995, Carl Craig, Westbam, The Orb, Carl Cox and Moby paid their respect to the Swiss duo with the mix project Hands on Yello which contained new versions of Yello classics. However, Yello is not bound to the confines of techno. Shirley Bassey recorded The Rhythm Divine with them and still performs this song on tour. Music composed, arranged and engineered by: Boris Blank Music published by: Warner/chapel Music GmbH Boris Blank appears courtesy of Mercury Records GmbH, a Universal Music Company /\ Gillian Wearing (1963, Great Britain) lives and works in London 2001 La Caixa Madrid, ARC, Paris 2000 Regen Projects, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati Serpentine Gallery, London Gorney Bravin+Lee, New York 1999 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris Drunk, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL) Maureen Paley Interim Art, London Group Exhibitions, a selection 2001 Inner State of Health: The Person in the Mirror of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein Milano Europa 2000, Palazzo dellaTriannale, Milan Confidence pour confidence, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Video Evidence, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Film Festival Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans- van Beuningen Rotterdam Century City, Tate Modern, London 2000 Autowerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London Puerile '69, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík Tate Modern Collection, Tate Modern, London Sydney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Docudrama, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds (GB) Tate Britain Collection, Tate Gallery, London Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and touring Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin Makeshift, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas 1999 Rewind to the Future, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin People, Le Spot, contemporary art centre, Le Havre Hundstage, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen The Viewing Room, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Moscow Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999, SF Camerawork, San Francisco La Coscienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Garden of Eros, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona Common People, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin Sweetie: Female Identity in British Video, The British School at Rome Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium, The California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland Private Room/Public Space, Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst, Almere (NL) Credits Director: Gillian Wearing Camera: Vron Harris Make up & Prosthetics: Crawley Creatures Dress Print Design: Philip Delamore Dressmaker: Sue Bradley Editing: Kathy Kenny CFS /\ NEW® agency was founded in 2002 in Stockholm by Pontus Frankenstein, Martin Renck, Johan Sandberg and Henrik Timonen Pontus Frankenstein (1970, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm NEW® commissions range from advertising and concept development to brand communication and graphic design. New® acts as a creative task-force, docking with clients and agencies to solve communicative ideas for youth brands. Swedish born art director Pontus Frankenstein graduated from Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm in 1996. After a brief stop at the New York Film Academy and working as an AD at Swedish agencies Garbergs and Bomberos DDB, he founded the advertising agency AMPM/Acne Family in 2000. Other members in the Acne collective were Acne Action Jeans and Acne Film as well as the subsidiaries, Netbabyworld and Elektron. In August 2001 AMPM merged with Acne International to form Acne Creative where Pontus continued as Creative Director until August 2002. He has lectured and debated within the areas of education, art, design and fashion for among others Modern Museum Stockholm, Swedish Style Council and Hallo Academy in Amsterdam. /\ Yan Jun + fm3 + Dou Wei Yan Jun was born in Lanzhou, China, in 1973 and currently lives and works in Beijing. Graduated in Chinese Language & Literature at Northwest Normal University in 1995. He is a performer, poet and organizer and a leading member of the Chinese underground sound/music scene. He released five books and/or anthological essays on musical topics and two books with collected poems. Via his own label he released an album with his own sound-poems and four live recordings in collaboration with others. Runs two well-known labels: Sub Jam label and Kwan Yin label. Yan Jun has been described as one of the most important music critics in China. Selected performances 2004 2pi Festival, Hangzhou, China 2004 '1000 Revolutions per Second', Brussels, with Wu Quan (visual artist) 2004 'Nuit Blanche', Paris, with fm3 and Wu Quan 2004 DDM Warehouse Art Center, Shanghai, with Christiaan and Wu Quan 2004 Com Plus Cafe & Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan 2003 'Impossible', All Sages Book Store, Beijing 2003 'Boiling Dusk', Vibes, Beijing 2002 'Sparta' novel-reading drama, All Sages Book Store, Beijing, with Wang Fan and other artists and writers Fm3 is China's leading electronic act. Founded in early 1999 by Sichuan computer musician Zhang Jian and classically trained punk composer Christiaan Virant, fm3 pioneered digital music in China and remains on the cutting-edge of sound experimentation. Working on the losing edge of perception, fm3 weaves traditional Chinese folk music into a subtle, organic soundscape. Christiaan Virant is a Beijing based sound artist and musician. Active in the Chinese punk underground for nearly a decade, he founded the pioneering experimental electronic act fm3 in 1999. Since then, fm3 has evolved into one of Asia's leading avant-garde duos, performing at the Louvre and at leading underground venues across Europe. Virant records for Berlin's legendary Staalplaat label, and has also released music on Bip-Hop records in France, Nascente records in the UK and Sublime Frequencies in the United States. Zhang Jian was born in 1970 in Sichuan province, China. He graduated from Accessorial Middle School of Sichuan Music Institute, majoring in piano, moved to Beijing in 1995 and joined the front line of China's rock scene. Zhang Jian recorded for innumerable rock albums and composed for theatre plays and films. As keyboard player he joined important rock/new music bands in Beijing. He is a member of China's electronic music pioneer band fm3 and Bu Yi Ding, one of China's leading jazz groups. Fm3 performed in Maerz Musik Festival, Berlin, Dissonanze Festival, Rome, Sounding Beijing, Beijing, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Nuit Blanche, Paris, Impakt Festival, Utrecht. Recently Zhang Jian released a field recording album on Sublime Frequencies label and a live recording album on Kwan Yin label. Dou Wei, was born in Beijing, 1969. He is one of the most famous icons of the Chinese rock scene in 90's and is now one of the busiest leaders in China’s new music scene. He performs and records for different music projects: as founder and drummer of the jazz band Bu Yi Ding, as instrumentalist and programmer for the neo-traditional ambient band Mu Liang Wen Wang and as drummer and keyboard player in collaboration with the experimental electronic duo fm3. In 2004, Dou Wei released 7 solo and collaborative albums on smaller and major labels in China. Credits Music recording and editing: Zhang Jian /\ Anna Blume1937 born in Bork/Westphalia1960 – 1965 studied at Düsseldorf Staatliche Kunstakademie since 1980 photographic performances with Bernhard Johannes Blume lives and works in Cologne and Hamburg Bernhard J. Blume1937 born in Dortmund1960 – 1965 studied at Düsseldorf Staatliche Kunstakademie since 1980 close artistic cooperation with Anna Blume since 1987 professor for art and applied arts at Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende Künstelives and works in Cologne and Hamburg /\ Todd Schulz/ Titus von Lilien The publicity agency International was founded in Berlin in 2003 by Todd Schulz and Axel Pfennigschmidt. The two have worked in leading positions with important international agencies. International started with four current staff members, with whom it also produced a global iconic TV spot for Coca-Cola Atlanta. The agency works with a group of so called ‘Associates‘, international creatives who are among the most outstanding in the market and who join the group for a certain period of creative development and production. Todd Schulz (1958, Germany) and Titus von Lilien (1973, Germany ) live and work in Berlin. Todd Schulz is creative director and owner at International. His commercial background includes positions at agencies such as BBDO Düsseldorf (Minolta Cameras, BUNTE Magazine), Leagas Delaney London (Adidas, Nintendo N64), Leagas Delaney Germany; Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam (Vodafone, Siemens Mobile, HypoVereinsbank, Goretex) . Titus von Lilien (1973, Germany) is art director at International. He joined the agency in 2004. Von Lilien had never worked in advertising before, but was deeply fascinated by the agency’s instant karma. After graduating from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne he has pursued an interdisciplinary path mainly in the field of fashion. He is arts editor for Qvest Magazine and has directed several music clips and short films and is also active as a sculptor. Credits Invitation for wedding ceremony: Mrs. Gesa Jauck Married couple: Liv and Christian von Oppen Mobile phone camera: Titus von Lilien/International Berlin /\ Alex Fahl was born in Frankfurt in 1976. He lives and works in Berlin. Fahl operates in the overlapping space between art, music and digital culture. His music is produced digitally and synthetically, making use of extensive appropriation and sampling. In addition to his own complex arrangements of electronica (a range of sound that is as disturbing as it is seductive), he collaborates closely with the artist Candice Breitz, applying his musical engineering to the development and post-production of her multi-channel video installations. Fahl also collaborates with Florian Wachinger as Opelzoo . He was responsible, along with Ben Lauber of Transporterraum, for the compilation and mastering of Earworm (Ten Songs from Beyond ), 2002. He has made soundtracks for experimental films by Jorinde Voigt ( Rote Sequenzen ) and Janne Schäfer ( The Gospel of the Golden Dolphin ), and was recently given an award for Best Soundtrack at the Schrägspur International Video Festival /\ Candice Breitz Born in Johannesburg, 1972. Based in Berlin Solo Exhibitions 2005 Castello di Rivoli (Turin) Palais de Tokyo (Paris) White Cube (London) Sonnabend Gallery (New York) 2004 Moderna Museet (Stockholm) FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool) 2003 Modern Art Oxford (Oxford) Galerie Max Hetzler (Berlin) 2002 ArtPace Foundation (San Antonio) 2001 De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam) O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz) Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum (St. Gallen) Galerie Johnen & Schöttle (Cologne) Galleria Francesca Kaufmann (Milan) 2000 Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (Geneva) New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) Group Exhibitions 2005 51st Venice Biennale – The Experience of Art – Venice Kunsthalle Wien - Superstars - Vienna Milwaukee Art Museum – CUT: Film as Found Object – Milwaukee Zwirner + Wirth Gallery – Girls on Film – New York Armand Hammer Museum – Fair Use – Los Angeles 2004 Henry Art Gallery – The Work of the Work - Seattle Queensland Art Gallery - Video Hits – Brisbane Villa Arson – Shake – Nice 2003 Kunsthalle Nürnberg - fuckin' trendy – Nürnberg Govett-Brewster Art Museum - Extended Play: Art Remixing Music – New Zealand Dundee Contemporary Arts – Plunder – Dundee 2002 Tate Liverpool - Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop – Liverpool National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - Continuity + Transgression – Tokyo ZKM – Iconoclash: Image-Making in Science, Religion & Art – Karlsruhe Hamburger Kunsthalle - Schrägspur – Hamburg Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain - Vidéo Topiques – Strasbourg Studio Museum in Harlem - Africaine - New York 2001 Kunsthalle Wien - Tele[Visions] – Vienna Museum Fridericianum – Looking at You – Kassel 2000 Taipei Biennale 2000 - The Sky is the Limit! – Taipei Kwangju Biennale Korea 2000 - Man + Space – Kwangju Kunstverein München - The Wounded Diva – Munich /\ KesselsKramer founded in 1996, Amsterdam , by Erik Kessels and Johan Kramer Erik Kessels (1966, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam Since 1996 Erik Kessels is creative director of KesselsKramer, an international advertising and communication agency. At this moment, around 36 people work at their office, a former church on the Lauriergracht. Half of them are Dutch, the other half have roots in China, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Scotland, England, Sweden and the United States. Kessels gained international success with campaigns for Absolut Wodka, The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Lipton Ice Tea, Ben, Bol.com, 55DSL and Diesel. He is seen as one of the most original creatives in the international advertisement scene. Part of his philosophy is crossing borders between art and advertisement. He asks artists for campaigns and moves around different areas himself. Recently he curated the exhibition ‘Confrontation’ which was shown in Institut Néerlandais Paris and FOAM, edited the books ‘In Almost Every Picture’ and was asked by Magnum Photos to edit and curate the book and exhibition ‘Magnum sees Piemonte’. Exhibition Curation,a selection 2005 Magnum sees Piemonte, (amongst others) Frankfurt , Alicante & Paris 2004 Confrontation, Institut Néerlandais Parijs, Foam, Amsterdam 2002 Curator Dutch Delight, FOAM, Amsterdam 2000 Curator PANL Exhibition, Lisbon Solo exhibitions, a selection 2005 In Almost Every Picture#1, Agnes B, Paris 2004 In Almost Every Picture #2, Dutch Photo museum, Rotterdam 2002 Useful Photography #2, Galerie W139, Amsterdam In Almost Every Picture, Galerie RAS, Barcelona In Almost Every Picture, Fotofestival Rencontres , Arles 2001 Useful Photography #1, NFI, Rotterdam Useful Photography #1, Galerie Fototheek, Antwerp 1999 The Instant Men, Art Book, Amsterdam Group exhibitions, a selection 2005 Useful Photography, Photo Antwerp 2003 Remind, Breda Photo-de Beyerd, Breda Loud&Clear, Baltic Museum , Gateshead Useful Photography, Photo festival Rencontres , Arles 2002 Art in Ads, Galerie de Meerse, Hoofddorp (NL) 2001 The best of European Advertising, Puck Building , New York Best verzorgde boeken, Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam Do create, Salone di Mobile, Milan 1999 Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans- van Beuningen, Rotterdam Smaak, Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht /\ Chiel Meijering Born in 1954, Amsterdam Chiel Meijering studied at the Amsterdams Sweelinck Conservatorium and studied composition with Ton de Leeuw, instrumentation with Geert van Keulen and percussion with Jan Labordus and Jan Pustjens. Chiel Meijering is considered an outsider among Dutch classical music composers. He has an enormous output, writes fast and his music is extremely accessible, direct and with a provocative pop-like quality. He has written more than four hundred compositions, mostly for smaller ensembles, which have been heard in concerts in the Netherlands and other countries. Meijering is not averse to making excursions into what he refers to as “light music, whatever that means”. He composed a piece for the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with two rappers (‘Here I come!’) in a series of school concerts and during the2000 European Football Championship the American opera singer Renee Fleeming, conducted by Valerie Gergiev, sang a 4 minute version of ‘You’ll never walk alone’, the football song par excellence, on a large stage in the Maas. For the 100th anniversary of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam he wrote ‘Gedoogzone’ (1988) for two pianos, performed by Wieneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar. To mark the opening in 1996 of the Ajax football stadium ‘De Arena’ he wrote for the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Groot Omroep choir, conducted by Lawrence van Renes, an arrangement/version of “We will rock you” and “We are the campions” by the pop group Queen. Chiel Meijering says about his contribution 'überhappy (1)' for Loud & Clear TOO: "The music immediately opens with an 'überhappy'-motif. A three note bouncing lick on a low E-string of my electric guitar bending up and down for shear lust of feeling happy. A funky bass guitar and harpsichord join in, with on top a vibraphone playing quasi improvised jazzy runs. Since feeling happy or even the word love in music is such a cliché, I decided to use another sort of cliché, a plastic sort of sampled voice you can just buy in any music shop, the female singer yelling "Gotta have it", "need it" and "be there!" Christian Jankowski inspired me to this in one of his emails suggesting I would write something and he "would try to dance to it". Since he thought I would, probably being held for an avant-gardistic composer, write something non-rhythmically and unharmonically like they used to in the last century I decided to tease him with a dance-rhythm in the drums. Music that became so attractive this way you really would like to start dancing to it. Now I became very curious what would be his answer......" /\ Christian Jankowski Born in 1968, Göttingen, Germany Lives and works in Berlin Solo exhibitions: 2005 ‘Oops!...I did it again’, Centro GAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain ‘Everything Fell Together’, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA ‘Hollywoodschnee’, Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy 2004 ‘Christian Jankowski’, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany ‘16mm Mystery’, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany ‘Now Playing’, Maccarone Inc., New York, NY, USA 2003 ‘The Day We Met’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea ‘Christian Jankowski’, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland ‘Bravo Jankowski!’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK ‘Puppet Conference’, Carnegie-Museum, Project Room, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Group exhibitions and screenings: 2005 ‘Situation Comedy: Humour in Recent Art’, Independent Curators Int., New York, USA ‘Getting Emotional’, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA ‘Generation X’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 2004 ‘100 Artists See God’, ICA, London, England ‘Hors d’oeuvre: ordre et désordres de la nourriture’, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France ‘Fade in – New Film And Video’, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA ‘State of Play’, Serpentine Gallery, London, England 2003 ‘Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany ‘Outlook’, Athens, Greece‘Grotesk!“, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M./ Haus der Kunst, München, Germany ‘Shine’, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Überhappy, 2005, 2:28 Personal catalogues: 2004 ‘Oops!...I did it again’, Videonale im Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany 2004 ‘Magic Circle’, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2003 ‘Dramensatz’, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 1998 ‘Mein erstes Buch’, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Credits Cinematography: Max Penzel Focus puller: Nina Scheele Steadycam operator: Benjamin Treplin Montage and postproduction: Andreas Samland /\ DDB Group Germany At 36 years, Amir Kassaei is one of the youngest chief creative officers in Europe. He was born in Iran, brought up in Austria educated in France. He started his career as copywriter for TBWA and Barci & Partner and then became copywriter, creative Director and executive creative Director at Springer & Jacoby. Since 2003 he is Chief Creative Officer and Associate Partner of the DDB Group in Germany, with offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Dusseldorf, catapulting the agency from nowhere to a place among the most creative agencies in Germany. He developed campaigns for Mercedes-Benz, smart, Coca-Cola, Allianz, Apple, Adidas and and currently for Volkswagen, Spiegel etc. With over 500 national and international awards (Cannes, Clio, London International Advertising Award, Epica, Art Directors Club Germany, Art Directors Club New York, Eurobest, Cresta, Golden Award of Montreux, One Show, CCA, and others) he is one of the most renowned creatives in Europe. Amir Kassaei is a member of ADC Germany, ADC New York, D&AD and CCA. DDB was voted the Global Agency Network of the Year by Adweek, and according to the Gunn Report it is "the most creative network in the world". Credits Idea: Amir Kassaei Art director: Michael Milczarek Production assistant: Stefanie Schuster /\ PUPILLA Panni Cserepes, PUPILLA, is an experimentalist singer and composer whp plays various wind instruments and percussion and founded the ambient music band ZUM in 1997. It gave life to a creative group, which created the Cökxpon Ambient Festival that popularised ambient music and a modern, holistic, artistic way of thinking. Around these ideas converged a Society in Hungary, where young contemporary experimental artists could meet, get in contact with each other and work on various projects together. PUPILLA concentrates on experiments with a spherical growth of sound-samples using acoustic and ethno sounds mixed with various everyday noises and human voices. A blueprint is created using computers and then later transformed to a living entity: the song. Conceptually animated films are created by the artists' couple Sfeer, featuring visual imagery using special digital photo, archive film and video techniques. Musicians: vocals: Panni Cserepes electric guitar: Pablo Campos bass guitar: Michael Kentish drums: David Asztalos visual animation: Sfeer sound: Balázs Herczig /\ L.A. Raeven Heerlen 1971 The two artists live and work in Amsterdam Selected projects L.A. Raeven: 2003 'Turbulence', CCA Kiev, Russia; MMK, Arnhem, Netherlands 'Disturbance', curator Helena Kontova, Prague Biennale, Prague 'Coup de Coeur/ a sentimental choice', CRAC Alsac, Altkirch, France 'Deviations', Galerie K&S, Berlin, Germany 'Sad Wings of Destiny', Gallery 400, Chicago, USA 2004 'Sibling Rivalry', Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands Bannister Gallery, Providence, USA Re – enact, Club 11/Casco-Mediametics, Amsterdam 2005 Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (solo), Netherlands 'Critical Society', Badische Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Manuela Klerkx, with Julika Rudelius, Milan, Italy 'Siblings/Brüderschaft', Kunsthaus München; Musée de Beaux Arts, Brussels The artists say the following about 'Prison in me': "Our work often plays with clichés about twins and the prevalent image of women. We want to show that the cute image of twins is an illusion and the mysterious bond between identical twins a prison in yourself from which you will never be able to escape. A bond that is extremely exhausting and continues forever, an bond that binds the two individuals like a rubber band; as soon as you make an effort to split from each other your attempt is intolerably punished by springing back to the other like a magnet, to the one you hate but also cherish so much. A bond that literally and figuratively seizes and exhausts the two girls in the film, so that as viewer you are not sure whether you’re witnessing love-play or a fight. As a child you experience being a twin more as a dream, but as soon as adolescence approaches the dream becomes a nightmare for then you are expected to behave as a responsible individual and you are no longer able to flee back to the unthinking world of children. It is as though you are unable to make your own decisions, since every decision that you take has immediate consequences for the other. The problems that come with adolescence is a recurring element in our work. For an individual in this society it is already difficult during puberty to arm oneself against all the prevailing ideals of beauty and the striving for perfection. With twins these are roused even more strongly by the competition between two individuals. Our work is intended to show that this striving for an unattainable ideal shared by everyone has to be fought against. As a twin you know how important it is to pursue your own ideal and not that of another." /\ Chris Rehberger/Double Standards Born 1970 in Ruit auf den Fildern, Germany 1986- 1989 studied graphic design in Fellbach 1989- 1993 employed in different fields like magazine design, product design and advertising 1993- 1996 self employed in Frankfurt, Germany 1996- 2000 self employed in London 2001 founded the graphic design studio Double Standards, Berlin, Germany 2003 founded Video-Unit Double Standards, Berlin, Germany /\ Thor Eldon Born in 1962, Reykjavik, Iceland Lives and works in Reykjavik With writer and poet Sjón, composer and musician Thor Eldon founded in 1979 the Surrealist Art Ensemble Medúsa. The group was active in the art scene in Iceland and had its own gallery in Reykjavík. Its members published books of poetry, took part in painting exhibitions and performed music and poetry around Iceland until 1985. Founder of the record label Smekkleysa (i.e. “Bad taste”) in 1986, featuring artists such as Björk, Mínus, Múm, Egill Saebjörnsson and SigurRós. Founder of the legendary rockband Sugarcubes in 1986 with Einar Örn and Björk. CD's include: 'Life’s too good', 1987 'Here today, tomorrow, last week', 1989 'Stick around for joy', 1991. Founder of the rockgroup Unun in 1992 with Dr.Gunni. Thor Eldon became producer of various local bands over the years and made music for the Icelandic Ballet Company and for a play written by Sjón. Film music works include songs for the film 'Skytturnar' (1986) and 'Cold fever' (1996), both films directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Other music works have been composed for the documentary films 'Possibihilities' (2002) about Sigurdur Gudmundsson, directed by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, 'Ég er arabi' (2003), directed by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon and Sigurdur Gudmundsson and recently for a documentary film on Icelandic popular music and a crime series on television. Books of poetry: 1983 'Daudaljódin' 1984 'Á vængjum hrokans' 1985 '23 hundar' 1986 'Taktu bensín elskan' Credits Photography: Julie Coadou /\ Tamás Komoróczky Born in 1963, Hungary Lives and works in Berlin and Budapest Solo exhibitions: 2005 Dr.Sample & Mr.Shooter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2004 God speed, acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2003 Turboreflex - Supercut, acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2002 Oscillatory, Compensation, Dream, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil Things fall out now this way, now that, BBS, Budapest Supervision, Galleria U, Helsinki, Finland Group exhibitions: 2005 Focus Istambul, Martin- Gropius- Bau, Berlin, Germany Hungarian Digital Graphic, Millenáris, Budapest, Hungary Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary 2004 Supra - Individual, Schloss Goldegg, Germany Soapoper, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary 2003 AURA, Millenáris, Budapest, Hungary Without Cinema, The House of the Lords, Brno, Czech Republic acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary /\ Guido Heffels / Heimat Born in 1965 Lives and works in Berlin Guido Heffels was born in Mönchengladbach, “in the city of the many times German football champion” as he calls it. He studied graphic design/ visual communication in Düsseldorf and became a copywriter. He worked at Springer & Jacoby in Hamburg for 6 years. He is co-founder of HEIMAT in Berlin, Germany. HEIMAT was declared the "Newcomer Agency of the Year" in Germany in 2001, one year after it was founded. Clients include Siemens, Hornbach DIY-Superstores, Nike, CNN, Gaffel Beer, German Cancer Aid, Salamander, SONY Music and Schott Glass. His work was awarded with Golden Cannes Lions, One Show Pencils and CLIOs. Guido Heffels, Executive Creative Director, is a member of the Art Directors Club of Germany ADC since 1998. Credits and thanks go to: Post-production: nhb Studios, Berlin Flame operator: Daniel Hummer /\