what is art? inside the minds of artists
November 17, 2009
November 15, 2009
August 11, 2009
August 1, 2009
Besides being an avant-garde painter, German artist Mama Baer gives music performances together with her husband Kommissar Hjuler as well (recently they collaborated with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore !).
He proofs that being a headofficer of police is not mutually exclusive with being a great artistic performer. Together Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler frequently perform with their ‘dada-esque sound poetry’.
Saturday the 1st of August this unique duo will amaze Amsterdam with a concert in the iLLUSEUM, starting at 20:30, entrance: 6 euros.
July 7, 2009
July 5, 2009
papa baer and mama baer live at the illuseum
Dear Kaga!
The opening yesterday was great , some 80 people came despite of the heatwave!
Papa & mama Baer are fantastic people. Also great artists. They did an improvisation with 2 art friends on the theme of mama’s paintings all about a deadly virus coming soon ……..here they are on the silver screen:
It’s funny to know papa Baer (pa in the performance with the bicycle pump)is a head officer of the german police, who wants him out! They try to kick him even with the help of the ministry of inland affairs…….But he resists! & the law says they are not allowed to judge his art, whether it’s good or bad! So GERMANY is the land of the FREE!!!
June 19, 2009
cognition factor
Sunday 21st of June 21:00
( door open 20:00 ) Simultaneous Global Screening of:
“Cognition Factor”
- Mike Kawitzky (2009)
entrance 6 euro
(http://www.illuseum.com/agenda/agenda-current.htm)
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See Cognition Factor at participating Venues for the global premier on Sunday 21st June
New York: The Wild Project Theatre - 7PM - 195 East 3rd Street
London: Princess Anne Theatre: BAFTA-[British
Academy of Film and Television Arts] - 6.30PM - 195 Piccadilly
California: Sonoma: The Sebastiani - 3.30PM - 476 First St E
Toronto: The Cineforum - 7.00PM - 463 Bathurst
Amsterdam: The iLLUSEUM - 8.30 for 9.00PM - Witte de Withstraat 120
Cape Town: The Labia Cinema - 6.15 for 6.30PM - 68 Orange Street, Gardens
Byron Bay NSW: Starseed - 7.00 for 8.00PM
For those who liked ‘Bleep’ and ‘Secret’, but need a quicker pace. Cognition Factor is an experiment in conscious cinema during which the viewer is guided through a narrated virtual world in search of answers to the questions relating to the human experience.
Cognition Factor stitches live conversations with Terence Mckenna, brother Dennis Mckenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey and top thinkers of our times into the plot.
The interviewees speak from within virtural worlds, (by Jack Gallagher), and are backed by original compositions from top international musicians and composers, including Lx Paterson, Dom Beken and Phil Le Gonedic, of The ORB, Merv Pepler (EatStatic/Ozrik Tentacles), Colin Angus& Matt Catt (The Shamen/Pablo_Sandoz), Steve Hillage (System 7), brought together by South African ambient composer performer and originator, Mike Martin - Indidginus.
Facing our deepest fears with hope and understanding, Cognition Factor seeks a new way of presenting word, picture, music and opinion to an increasingly informed audience who are bored with media prescription.
Cognition Factor has been independently produced by Headspace Studios. Filmed in HD with a 5.1 surround soundtrack, it will also be available in the new Blu-Ray format. Trailer below.
The world’s first smart movie? You bet!
The ‘contactees’ filmed and appearing in
the movie:
Terence Mckenna (Etnobotanist/philosopher/explorer)
Prof. Dennis Mckenna (Ethnobotanist)
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Biologist - morphic resonance)
Prof. Ralph Abraham (Chaos Theorist/Mathematician)
Dr. Ralph Metzner (Psychology/psychotherapy)
Dr. Stan Krippner (Philosophy/parapsychology)
Prof. David Peat (Phycisist)
Alex Grey (Artist)
John Shirley (Author/Philosopher)
David Jay Brown (Author/rearcher)
Barry Lategan (Photographer)
Prof. Tony Fairall (Astronomer)
Prof. Rebecca Ackerman (Bio-archaeologist/anthropologist)
Dr. Myke Scott (Botanist)
Charmaine Joseph Gwaza (Sangoma)
Dr. Libby Hubbard (Dr. Future education)
Prof. Guy Midgely (Ecologist)
Chris Roland (Film Maker)
Brummbaer (3D Artist)
Dr. Barak Morgan (Neuroscience)
Opening “Dierbaar Bestiarium #1 ( prologue )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ketozHmN7LY
Friday 19th of June 19:00
Works by the iLLUSEUMinati: Grace de la Luna, Sir Dark Green & Alexander van der Woel
starring : Kenzo Kusuda - dance & Philemon Mukarno - music !!!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8y6kBUssI)
entrance free
donation welcome
June 18, 2009
May 26, 2009
May 23, 2009
Frankie Teardrop by asylum lunaticum
you can find more great music by asylum lunaticum on their website http://www.asylum-lunaticum.de/
May 13, 2009
May 6, 2009
April 19, 2009
April 1, 2009
March 22, 2009
March 21, 2009
March 14, 2009
February 9, 2009
the jacob plooij trio @illuseum
Jacob Plooij - violin
Paul Stouthamer - cello - http://www.myspace.com/paulstouthamer
Vilbjørg - voice, puredata - http://www.antidelusionmechanism.org
there will be vegan snacks
January 7, 2009
the illuseum
THE ILLUSEUM is a liminal space, neither art gallery in the strictest sense, nor museum, it’s certainly not a “buurt centrum” or traditional cultural centre in the socialist sense. It is a space inbetween all extant social spaces, a space where all those artists and cultural workers who do not feel at home in the strictly circumscribed “hokjes” of the art establishment can come together and vibrate.
What is this vibration of the Illuseum, this intuitively fluid movement that reminds us that light is always a particle and a wave at exactly the same time? The ILLUSEUM is a shimmering flux - a space that is also a “geest”, but not a “zeitgeist”, because which time would it represent? The Illuseum is not “now”, it never has, it never will be. It’s a space that finds the nowness of time far too shallow, instead the illuseum illuminates a deeper space that finds its best analogy in the dark matter that actually makes up the universe but is invisible and unmeasurable, unlike the superficial stuff that we can see and quantify: the planets, galaxies etc.
The ILLUSEUM doesn’t merely “exhibit” works of art. It is a work of art, a collective gestalt that is never finished, always growing. It’s an organic post gallery-space, an Ur-cave filled with relics, debris and leftovers from a time that has not yet taken place. The Illuseum’s “outsider” status is such that it is placed squarely outside of the recognizable outside.
Intriguingly the ILLUSEUM is also located on the Witte De Withstraat in Amsterdam West, and it is probably the best kept secret about this city. Don’t tell a soul: who no know a go know.
Aryan Kaganof
January 6, 2009
December 12, 2008
December 11, 2008
unexpected dresses
The recycling manifesto
I belong to a family of costume designers. Though I was skillful with the needle in my hands I never touched a sewing machine until I came to Amsterdam and I met the ship of fools in 2004. Their way of living and creating art out of any institutional support touched me. I initiated this activity understanding the costume making legacy left by my father Trinidad who died besides me in September of 2002. I understand his craft passed to me.
With my first sewing machine; a strong Cooler from the sixties 60’s, I started to work on the daily leftovers of Waterloo Plein.
At that time I began recomposing and recycling old or unwanted outfits into something I came to consider beautiful by the mere fact of giving new life to the waste. Here I found a vast space for inspiration, where I could investigate the relation of the mover with her/his outfit. Following two years of pure experimentation and research with different costume designers, in September 07, under my nickname of Murugalas, I presented in Badhuis Theater the first Costume Performance of an ongoing series. This multifaceted event represents a physical experimentation through the use and possibilities offered by the costumes. After the performance the costumes are on sale. You like it, you buy it.
Under the premise of unique outfits, the divinity appears for me in the sense of the embodiment of the second skin by a person for whom it has been tailor made for and the magic impossibility of repetition. This together with the psychological influence that a costume has on a person and the consequent communicative line provided by it.
On the other hand, this idea of recycling, transformation and reutilization, drew me to ponder on political considerations. Analyzing the sense of waste and beauty, capitalism disease and excess expenditure, as well as my drive to revitalize the performing frame, ultimately led me to embrace such craftsmanship.
On closing, the sewing activity appeared as a healing dynamic meditation that provided an experiment in real time for scenography and choreographic ideas.
Unexpected dresses for undefined ceremonies
…we invite u to..come to iLLuseum and try dresses made from curtains, post bags, T-shirts or any bizarre tissue.
….tell us what you think of those transformed kimonos from unemployed geishas.
…….Put on the pilot pyjamas and feel the game.
…….use some hats inspired in the Russian guy who became the postman, the clown and the dreamer.
…………..fight the winter with some color.
…………change for one night your second skin.
………be welcome
