Our four-channel film installation Catastrophic Structures will be on view on the 22nd of March at V2_ in Rotterdam. 'Catastrophic Structures: listening to the hum of distant machinery' is the first presentation of Numina Gneisspecker's long-term audiovisual research into catastrophic structures and their immanent slow violence. For V2_, they've developed a new multi-channel audiovisual installation to draw 'attention to catastrophic acts that are low in instant spectacle but high in long-term effects' (Nixon). Come join us on this special occasion! More info can be found on V2_'s website.

The two-channel film installation While the Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky will feature in Kristina Benjocki's exhibition The Warp and Weft of History at Looiersgracht 60 in Amsterdam, opening on the 12th of October. More info can be found here.

Great review by Annosh Urbanke about Kristina Benjocki's exhibition Portrait of a Mountain and our film While the Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky can be read here.

Pleased to announce a new, two-channel film installation: While the Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky will premiere in Kristina Benjocki's exhibition Portrait of a Mountain at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Belgrade, opening on the 9th of June. More info can be found here.

Together with Sjoerd Leijten, I have been working on an audio-visual installation called Catastrophic Structures. We've recently received funding from Nederlands Filmfonds and Stimuleringsfonds, which means we can continue developing this work. All funded projects can be found here. The first presentation will happen in the Spring of 2024.

Pleased to announce my video Open water will be part of the exhibition Horizon, Interrupted at Garage Rotterdam, curated by Fadwa Naamna. Other artists are Lana Čmajčanin, Jan Dibbets, Xandra van der Eijk, Manal Mahamid, Josef Schulz and Giuditta Vendrame. The opening is Friday 2nd of September, 19.00h. More info here.

"A masterpiece of a wakeup call." Maya Merberg wrote a great review of our film and album A RATIONAL WORLD. You can find it here.

The unofficial soundtrack of our short film Ansage Ende has arrived! A RATIONAL WORLD is a beautiful tape with improvised music by Verena Barie, Gerri Jäger and Sjoerd Leijten, mixed with field recordings by Malu Peeters, Sjoerd Leijten and Stijn Verhoeff, combined with climate activist statements by Andreas Malm and other activists. It is a fierce, joyful and poetic call to arms in times of ecological collapse. You can see, listen to and buy it here!

The 4th and 5th of September our film ANSAGE ENDE will be screening. On Saturday in Cologne, Germany and on Sunday in Amsterdam at De Ruimte. Musicians Verena Barie, Gerri Jäger and Sjoerd Leijten, who feature in the film, will perform live. Come join us. More info can be found here.

Our film ANSAGE ENDE will be screening the 1st of May at Lichtturm, Solingen, Germany. More info can be found here.

We are pleased to announce our short film 'The seas are rising' is nominated for the Best Experimental Award at Shortcutz Amsterdam. The ceremony will be held on Sunday the 14th of March at www.shortcutzamsterdam.com

I'm currently writing a series of short stories: on wild fires, civil disobedience, climate justice and other topics. More to be shared during the course of the year..

Now that the first wave of corona is behind us, we can slowly see films in cinemas again. Shortcutz Amsterdam will present The Seas Are Rising on the 6th of October. ANSAGE ENDE will screen at Klimaatfestival Antwerpen, October 17, 2020.

ANSAGE ENDE will open the Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival in Gainsville, Florida, US. The festival will run from February 13 - 16, 2020.

For the radioprogram Trashkot at Radio Centraal in Antwerpen, and together with Sjoerd Leijten from Trashlinie I made a podcast about the recent streetoccupation of Extinction Rebellion in Amsterdam. The episode is the 3rd of Trashlinie's episodes called 'De klimaatblokkade van Extinction Rebellion in Amsterdam' and can be listened to here.

We are currently working on our ANSAGE ENDE music album. The LP fuses experimental music (by Verena Barie, Gerri Jäger and Sjoerd Leijten) with field recordings of the animal world and acts of activism. More info soon.

Today we will screen our film ANSAGE ENDE at artspace Stroom in The Hague. We are part of a two-day programme called Uncertainty Seminars. More info can be found at their website.

!!! ANSAGE ENDE won the Best Experimental Award at the Rome Independent Cinema Festival !!!

After a productive ánd emotional 2018 we are currently finishing the film In Search of the Future (working title). The edit is done, the only things we still have to do is finalizing the sound and designing the end credits. Also, we yet have to make the final decision on the title. Very very soon there will be more to share from us.

The audio installation De toekomst ligt in zee is currently featuring in the outdoor exhibition Lûd. With audio works by amongst others Dora Garcia, Matt Mullican and Falke Pisano. From August 15 till October 15, 2018.

Documentation of our audio installation Seinsters at Oerol Theater Festival will come soon. Here a first picture by Robin Alysha Clemens:

Sunday 8th of April, from 15.00h to 16.30h, I'll be making radio with Sjoerd Leijten at Radio Centraal, Antwerp.

Listen in and around Antwerp at 106.7 FM. Outside Antwerp you can listen via the stream: http://streaming.radiocentraal.org/

trashkot is a bi-weekly radio program by Jo Caimo and Sjoerd Leijten on Radio Centraal in Antwerp. A rancid tissue of sounds, conversations and thrash forms a shaky bridge between music and politics.

‘Time turns metaphors into things’

Please join us on Sunday the 1st
of April for an afternoon of presentations and discussions with

— Alena Alexandrova, with whom we'll think about how "time turns metaphors into things" **;

— Clara J:son Borg, who will take us on a compressed logo-motional odyssey concerning defence identities, pacifism, and the social contract based on hygiene;

— and Adrien Lucca, who will show us why "the Blue and the Violet are in some way more colors than the Red and the Yellow; and red more than Yellow..." ***.

We will open at 12.30 when there will be some food and drinks. The presentations and discussions will start at 13.00 and end at around 16.00.

We hope you can join us, Phil, Jasper, Roos, Stijn, and guests.

Studio 167
Loods 6
KNSM-Laan 167
1019 LC Amsterdam

* ‘The Aleph’ is the title of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which the protagonist is brought into contact with a point in space that shows all the places of the world simultaneously and immediately.

** Robert Smithson

*** Louis-Bertrand Castel

The audio installation De toekomst ligt in zee will feature in the outdoor exhibition Lûd. With audio works by amongst others Maria Barnas, Dora Garcia, Matt Mullican and Falke Pisano.

From August 15th to October 15th, 2018.

Together with Olle Kruijt and Sjoerd Leijten, I am currently working on a sound installation for Oerol Theater Festival. On view from June 16th to June 24th, 2018.


You can find a short video about the project at Omroep Friesland.

‘I was thinking to prepare something raw and something cooked and use the meal as a prompt to introduce ideas around experimental processes, unconscious cognition, plants, networks and alternative modes of living. What do you think?’

Please join us on Sunday the 11th of February when our guests

— graphic designer
Line-Gry Hørup,
— psychiatrist Olle Kruijt, and
— writer and artist
Sumugan Sivanesan

will share some thoughts on their practices and interests.

We will open at 12.30 when there will be some food and drinks. The presentations and discussions will start at 13.00 and end at around 16.00.

We hope you can join us, Phil, Jasper, Roos, Stijn, and guests.

Studio 167
Loods 6
KNSM-Laan 167
1019 LC Amsterdam

* ‘The Aleph’ is the title of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which the protagonist is brought into contact with a point in space that shows all the places of the world simultaneously and immediately.

...‘so now’, she said, ‘you must really start to tell me about yourself.’

About a month ago we witnessed the first re-appearance of the Aleph. We’re very happy to introduce our guests for the second event in this new series:

— artist Rosa Johanna;
— artist Rutger Emmelkamp;
— artist and writer Miek Zwamborn.

For those of you who hear about this initiative for the first time: between 2009 and 2011, Jasper Coppes and Roos van den Eerenbeemt organised a series of talks, readings, and presentations, usually hosted in the living rooms of friends, under the name Meeting the Aleph. We (Jasper and Roos, along with Phil Baber and Stijn Verhoeff) have decided to revive Meeting the Aleph, this time with our studio at KNSM-Laan 167 as the location. Our intention is to create a space where friends and acquaintances can share work, ideas, research, interests, etc., without the pressure associated with more formal or institutional settings.

The meeting will be held this coming Sunday the 17th of December. We will open at 12.30, and there will be some food and drinks. The presentations and discussions will start at 13.30 and end at around 16.00.

Studio 167
Loods 6
KNSM-Laan 167
1019 LC Amsterdam

We hope you can join us,
Phil, Jasper, Roos, and Stijn

* ‘The Aleph’ is the title of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which the protagonist is brought into contact with a point in space that shows all the places of the world simultaneously and immediately.

In het voorjaar van 2018 zullen componist/muzikant Sjoerd Leijten en kunstenaar/schrijver Stijn Verhoeff resident zijn bij Kunsthuis SYB. www.kunsthuissyb.nl

Voor hun filmproject IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE zijn zij op zoek naar geschreven verhalen over de toekomst. Heeft u ideeën over hoe de toekomst er uit zal zien? Heeft u voor ogen wat er met het landschap is gebeurd? Hoe de mensen met elkaar spreken? Waar men in gelooft, welke rol de dieren op zich hebben genomen of hoe de technologie zich heeft ontwikkeld? Schrijf dan een monoloog, dialoog of groepsgesprek van maximaal 2000 woorden.

Richtlijnen zijn: a) het gesprek vindt in het heden plaats en gaat over de toekomst, b) de verbeelding van een mogelijke toekomst staat centraal, c) het kan een impressie zijn en hoeft geen uitgewerkt verhaal met karakterontwikkeling of plot te zijn, d) de tekst hoeft geen complete, coherente wereld te verbeelden, maar mag één onderwerp belichten (bv. de toekomst van het platteland, de relatie met het verleden, een nieuwe ideologie, interseksualiteit, eten, …), e) het gesprek vindt op een eenvoudige plek plaats (bv. in het café, op zolder, tijdens een wandeling door het bos) en f) de tekst kan zowel in het Nederlands als in het Fries geschreven worden (bij een Friese tekst s.v.p. een korte synopsis in het Nederlands).

Voor vragen mail Stijn Verhoeff: svff@protonmail.com

...‘so now’, he said, ‘you must really start to tell me about yourself.’

Between 2009 and 2011, Jasper Coppes and Roos van den Eerenbeemt organised a series of talks, readings, and presentations, usually hosted in the living rooms of friends, under the name Meeting the Aleph.

We (Jasper and Roos, along with Phil Baber and Stijn Verhoeff) have decided to revive Meeting the Aleph, this time with our studio at KNSM-Laan 167 as the location. Our intention is to create a space where friends and acquaintances can share work, ideas, research, interests, etc., without the pressure associated with more formal or institutional settings.

We’re very happy to invite you to the first event in this new series, with:

— artist Emilio Moreno;
— poet Nguyễn Nam Chi;
— and writer Will Pollard.

The meeting will be held this coming Sunday the 12th of November. We will open at 12.30, and there will be some food and drinks. The presentations and discussions will start at 13.30 and end at around 16.00.

Studio 167
Loods 6
KNSM-Laan 167
1019 LC Amsterdam

We hope you can join us,
Phil, Jasper, Roos, and Stijn

* ‘The Aleph’ is the title of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which the protagonist is brought into contact with a point in space that shows all the places of the world simultaneously and immediately.

Dear Friend,

On Saturday 30th of September we will open our studio to you. We have organised a small programme from 17.00h till 19.00h in which we’ll present some of our (recent) work, including:

• a 35 mm film-screening by Jasper (Flow Country);
• a reading by Phil (We Shall Have Worked, an essay on Peter Handke’s Repetition);
• and an excerpt from an audio work by Stijn (De toekomst ligt in zee)
There will be drinks and music too!

All the best,
Jasper, Phil and Stijn

Note: From 12.00h our whole building with other artist studios will be open for the public, so feel free to come earlier and roam around at Loods 6, KNSM-laan 167, Amsterdam.

Dear Friend,

after a summer full of inspiration and relaxation, we want to start the new year well by coming together again!

Some might be familiar with the format of the Socratic dialogues, for others it might be new. In any case, Wouter Klein Velderman will introduce and lead the dialogues. Don’t worry tough, you don’t need to be a philosopher at all.

We have two dates coming up: Sunday 27th of Augustus and Sunday 24th of September. Both days we come together at KNSM-laan 167 and start at 16.00 hours. The dialogues will take 2 to 3 hours.

Do you want to join? Please let us know (we have place for 10 people each date). Or do you know somebody who might be interested? Feel free to forward.

All the best,
Wouter and Stijn