Sonic Youth
SONIC YOUTH live at the PRIMAVERA FESTIVAL in Barcelona, Spain. 05-30-09.
Posts from February 2010.
The Weekly Check-In
My friend Kurt Lane interviewed me for The Weekly Check-In at Rubin Recommends.
“I met Nick Helderman my first week in New York when he was in town shooting Dutch bands during CMJ in 2008. Since then I’ve had the good fortune of visiting him in Amsterdam and seeing his joint exhibition with Shawn Brackbill as part of Le Guess Who? in Utrecht…” Read the full article HERE.
These Pictures Of You.
Together with photographers BEHNAM BORNAK, AMY BARWELL and SHAWN BRACKBILL I participated in the project These Pictures Of You (named after a line in a song by the Cure). Each of us showed our work for a week in art shop DELICATESSEN. And each week different musicians and writers were invited to give their response to one or more of the photos. They were not given a specific assignment, but kept free to interpret the pictures in whatever way they wanted. A week after each opening they performed their response in the gallery.
All of this resulted into a nice small book that features our photos of James Brown, Pissed Jeans, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Mahmoud Ahmed, Lucky Fonz III, Sleepy Sun, Thurston Moore and St. Vincent and the stories and poems inspired by them. There’s also a link to the music compilation that will be updated with more songs in the next couple of weeks.
Participating writers are:
Boris de Jong, Michiel Verburgh, Gert Verbeek, Oscar Smit, Bas Jacobs, Olga van den Berg, Rebecca Wilson and Bernadette Booij.
Musicians are:
Arnold de Boer (Zea, The Ex), Hunter Complex, Case Mayfield, Coen Oscar Polack, The Jack Stafford Foundation, Vicky Lovecat, Andy Moor (The Ex), Showdog, Gerhardt Heusinkveld, Motel Aurora, Dusty Stray, Jacob Arch and Pfaff.
The book is available at the Delicatessen shop for € 10,00 but you can also send me an email through the contact form on my WEBSITE.