Actual Information
Hyperrrlinks & Pdf’s:
Routes, KT-Zine en (German)Press Release
Tideliediedom!!!, that means SoundArt Locations. Check out our five menu:
1. KunstTour Belvedere,
2. KunstTour Binnenstad Kunstkwartier,
3. KunstTour Jekerkwartier,
4. KunstTour in Wieck,
5. KunstTour in de Wijk Noord - Oost.
Download the ArtTour Schrift, wich contains all the relevant information!
For the press and PR: the KunstTour 10 Press Release (und hier presse KunstTour in Deutsch). Last but not least the ArtTour promo footage, made by Glasbak.
ArtTour 10
During the weekend following Ascension Day
-Thursday 21st till Sunday 24th of May - the ArtTour celebrates her 10th anniversary. The theme of this jubilee year is: Best before…. Alongside the ArtTour the Euregional Sound Art-project: Best before…(end) is organized in cooperation with and under artistic guidance of Intro in Situ. Read more…
Audioscoop at the Timmerfabriek
and the Sound-ArtTour
Thursday Timmerfabriek 14.30 / Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11.00-18.00 at different locations / Friday-evening ArtSpace Rondeel / Sunday-afternoon workshops Timmerfabriek / June till September Post-ArtTour
Due to a jubilee Intro in situ organizes during the opening of the ArtTour at Thursday afternoon a special audio scoop at the Timmerfabriek. Pianist Bobby Mitchell is playing from the Buch der Klänge of Hans Otte, a composer who was thinking in sound. Also this afternoon performances of Xavier van Wersch and Feedback Society. The Celluloid Guru’s will close the opening with authentic vinyl and 8 millimeter.
The whole weekend of the ArtTour will be marked by sound art. Friday evening is the unofficial opening with installations and performances at ArtSpace Rondeel . Harold Schellinx’Ookoi is making live radio from the Timmerfabriek and will tell more about his project ‘Found Tapes’ at Sunday afternoon. The young dogs of Flopidisk will walk through the city like a fanfare orchestra and illustrate the church tower of Nazareth. In Marres Rod Summers will present a ‘History of Maastricht’ in ten minutes.
Leon Spek makes sound sculptures in the garden house and in the workshop of Intro Kim Laugs presents a light- and sound installation together with the collective Feedback Society. Lumiere will show ‘On the edge of the park’ of Paul Devens. In the delightful chapel Cellebroeders you will find a sound scape of Paul Coenjaarts. Jody Rose will let the Hoeg Bruck sing and give Maastricht the fiftieth version of ‘Singing Bridges. At the Hof van Tilly (the renovated faculty of culture and society science) are three sound artists to see: the student Sjaak Jobses, the Belgium mad-professor Pieter de Buck and Pierre Berthet with his extended loudspeakers. In AINSI Sonja Mishor exposes sound- and light installations. At the Timmerfabriek Gijs Gieskes and Sjaak Jobses will give a workshop interactive technique at Sunday in the afternoon.
10 Years ArtTour Maastricht
‘Best before…..’ : 21st till 24th of May 2009
In 2009 the 10th ArtTour will be held in Maastricht. Enjoy for four days the work of more than 150 professional visual artists from Maastricht and surroundings and from the Euregion (Aachen, Hasselt). Everybody is welcome at the open workshops, the art institutes and the breeding spots. And… it’s for Free
Open mind: the Think-Tank in a dialogue with you
In order to give the 10th ArtTour more input from the hinterland Art2Connect organizes the Think-Tank on 13 March at 17.30 pm and 3 April. At Intro in Situ everybody is welcome to discus in a transparent way about the future role of the ArtTour. The minutes of the first two gatherings can be downloaded here (one or two) as a PDF.
Best before….2018. ArtTour as Bielenmenke?
The jubilee edition of the ArtTour is a good moment to reflect. What is our motivation? What about our aims? Although we don’t want to show ‘easy’ art, we want to stay accessible in the presentation.
Change is the only constancy
…in this instant and ready made tv-diner times. ‘Best before…’ is therefore the (self) critical title in which we challenge the artist, the policy maker and ourselves. Together we want to give form in a pro-active way to the ArtTour, to the earth and the art.
‘Best before…..a better world’. How can the ArtTour rise like a phoenix from his ashes without CO2? ‘Art is allowed to stink’ , said Peter Fabre, who wrapped up stone pillars with raw meat. Products that consume us whisper the message: Forever yours. But is art meant to be forever or does the inevitable fading of the Nachtwacht gives it its everlasting value? What role plays during art according to the cradle-to-cradle principles. And how new are these principles: many participating artists like T. Gobbele, K. König, H. Schellinx or B. Huijbers don’t know different than to work with waste products. How can the ArtTour engage itself for a better world.
Best before….Maastricht cultural capital 2018. Is Mosa Trajectum becoming a Burgundy society of spectacle? Give the people bread and games, steal the art and call it artotainment or creative city. Is this the new hype? But the esthetic bombardment is becoming a race for our minds, with the numbing of our spirits and erosion of our sensitivity as a result. By using art as an instrument for making policies it loses its role as critical and independent watchdog. Is that why we wish a paved road to 2018? Is the ArtTour a misplaced stone on this road or a subversive brick that is thrown of a viaduct? Or the traditional phenomenon like the Bielenmenke, which clears the road for the riflemen?
Together with the hinterland we will search a new perspective. We will formulate a vision on essence, authenticity and urgency. And ask the question: is the ArtTour non-perishable?
