Equinox

Equinox March 23 with Yvo van der Vat and Kathryn Wolkowicz

On March 23 in this year 222 lodge invited performance artists to gather in the Hof in Dordrecht in the Netherlands to celebrate the equinox, the moment the sun passes the equator in spring. There will be a second equinox on September 23. Consequently September 24 there will be another performancefestival in the Hof in Dordrecht. I was not able to attend in spring but this time I will participate with a performance after a new invitation by Frans van Lent.

The first Equinox took place in the rain, I hope this time the weather will be more cooperative. To get an impression of the first Equinox you can watch this!

The places we were

Frans van Lent vroeg me enige tijd geleden mee te doen aan een project van hem: The places where we are (or would like to be)

Hij heeft dat nu uitgewerkt in The places we were:

“On 24 July 2018, while walking in the Perigord, I had phone conversations with friends about the places we were at the moment: The places where we are (or would like to be). During these talks, we sent each other pictures of our surroundings.
For me, this occasion connected the conversations to the specific places; they became inextricably linked.
I cannot walk past these places now without thinking of the person I was talking to there, and of the conversation we had. Today, I revisited three places.”

De plek waar Frans was toen hij me sprak, nu in 2023
De plek waar ik was toen Frans me sprak in 2018
Frans en ik in gesprek in 2018

The work The places we were is related to the works:
The places we are (or would like to be) – 2018
Memory Allocation – 2021

Frans van Lent

MÊKH-web opening

Foto’s van de opening van de EX-MÊKH tentoonstelling MÊKH-web. Ik heb wat leentjebuur gespeeld met permissie…

Met Connie van Driel

Frans van Lent prepareert zijn performance en Niels Post is met maarten Schepers in gesprek

Mijn jongste zusje en mijn nicht, die overigens art-consultant is, waren zichtbaar gelukkig met de expositie.

Met Stijn Peeters, Cees van den Burg, Jeroen Olberts

Met Philip Akkerman

Frans van Lent continueert de performance: “Don’t touch! I’ll come and fix this as soon as possible” – ongoïng.

Gaatje boren….

Hangk

Maarten Schepers met Pim Piët

The Diaries (September 17 – October 6, 2019), een tijdens de tentoonstelling groeiende wandtekening! Elke dag krijgt een nieuwe aantekening.

In mijn dagboek beginnen zich mooie structuren te ontwikkelen!

MÊKH-web

The shortest connection between two points is a straight line. When there are more points, a web will connect. Some connections will be used intensively, others find themselves on the edge of the web. In the exhibition MÊKH-web, Ellen Rodenberg, Kees Koomen and Maarten Schepers, will chart the network it has been developing in thirteen years.

MÊKH-web will take place from September 20 until October 6, 2019
The opening takes place September 20 from 19.00 until 23.00 h
Opening hours: September 21 and 23: 13-17h, September 27,28 and 29: 13-17 h, October 4,5, and 6 oktober 13-17 h
Venue: Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives
Toussaintkade 55, Den Haag, Netherlands
During Hoogtij #58 on September 27 the tracks of MÊKH-web can be followed from 19.00 until 23.00 h
The members of EX-MÊKH, Maarten Schepers, Ellen Rodenberg and Kees Koomen, have invited artists that had an influence on them. These artists are Marian Wijnvoord (Berlin), Frans van Lent (Dordrecht) and Niels Post (Rotterdam)

 

Live-web

During the last weekend, October 4,5 and 6, EX-MÊKH will organize a Live-web with a lot more artists from our network. No week will be the same, interweaving will take place by additions and shifts. The public and artists that have been following EX-MÊKH for some time now will know that it is advisable to keep an eye on social media all three weekends. Developments will be announced there.

EX-MÊKH is on Facebook, Kees en Ellen are on Instagram

http://www.ex-mekh.nl/

Kees Koomen

Ellen Rodenberg,

Maarten Schepers

Met dank aan Stroom, Den Haag
Ontwerp Affiche: Ben Faydherbe