Club de Gootsteen
2010 | Public Audio installation | Metal | Tiles | Speakers | PVC | Posters | Stickers
An underground music club that exists in the imagination of the participants .
A home recording was done in the house of each participant.
I installed two speakers under two street tiles fitted with kitchen sinks and invited 7 local amateur musicians and 1 singing class for children. I recorded their music and played it for 8 consecutive months. Day and night out of the music club under the street tiles.
poster by Bert Scholten for Primary school : De Pendinghe
Every month I invited an artist to design a poster to announce that month’s musician.
During the period of eight months the club started to be known in the neighborhood and people started to advise me where more home-musicians could be found or they would inquire about the last musician they heard "playing" in the club. In the night teenagers hung around the sounds coming from the tiles under their feet and when snow covered the streets a muffled trumpet or elderly choir could be heard somewhere under the snow.
Stickers of the club were spread around the city and can be found in many toilets of bars and clubs in Groningen.
The club gave rise to some form of perplexity among it's spectators, but worked socially binding among it's participants.
Club de Gootsteen | Solo show | 8 posters | Audio recordings | 2 sinks installed in street tiles | PVC pipes | Gallery SIGN, Groningen, NL
All the physical parts were finally presented in the SIGN gallery together with a newspaper that reported about the events that happend during the eight months of existence.
Musicians: O.N.S. - Willem Jan Stienstra - Heleen Ytsma - Frans van Rijn - Yar Mohammad Alizai -Eddy Kamstra - Sebastiaan Vos - Basisschool de Pendinghe Poster Designers: Bert Scholten, Marijke ten Caat, Bart Nijstad, Gijs Deddens, Martine Rademakers, Astrid Florentinus, Alfred Boland, Waynehorse
Location: Noorderstation, Groningen
Many thanks to MJ, Ron and Klaas Koetje
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