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Tokyo Symphony ‘Vollendet’ Extensive reviews appeared in major newspapers such as NRC Handelsblad and De Volkskrant within the first week after the opening. The exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam will run until June 20, and is now available to travel in different configurations thereafter. Tokyo Symphony was realised with the generous support of: SNS Reaal, the Sem Presser foundation, Fonds BKVB and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation. Please contact Frank Ortmanns for more information: fo@paradox.nl
ANGRY:
The Representation of Radicalisation What is radicalisation? Who is radical and who says so? Is radicalisation (always) a threat to our society, as the media contends? Is the violence of fundamental Islam among young Muslims embedded in the religion or an expression of a generational phenomenon that is part of all cultures in all times? ANGRY: The Representation of Radicalisation will deal with these questions in the form of an exhibition, a website, an educational programme, debates and lectures. Paradox has teamed up with a number of partners for this project: the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam (the exhibition venue), Kosmopolis Rotterdam (platform for intercultural dialogue), Lantaren Venster (cinema) and Prospektor (research journalists). Dutch film director Marjoleine Boonstra (who directed Britanya in the framework of Go No Go in 2003) has been approached to make a series of video portraits. This work will show various generations of radicals who talk about their motives for liberating animals, picking fights with supporters of other football teams, threatening to place bombs in public buildings or organising racist rallies. ANGRY is scheduled to run at the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam from January till May 2011. More information: Iris Sikking (is@paradox.nl)
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After his death the slides were moved to the Nederlands Fotomuseum for conservation; the sound recordings were believed to be lost. That was until researcher Frank Ortmanns, then a student on the Master’s in Photographic Studies programme at the University of Leiden, discovered them while conducting research into Van der Elsken’s influence on Japanese postwar photography and vice versa. After about six months production time by Paradox and nearly a year preparatory research by Ortmanns, the audiovisual installation opened triumphantly at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam on April 10 in the presence of Anneke Hilhorst (Van der Elsken’s widow) and their son Johnny.
The 17-minute installation consists of over 400, mostly unpublished, images edited by Peter Claassen and Ortmanns and accompanied by a soundtrack composed by Mark Glynne. All of this can be experienced on three room-sized screens. Van der Elsken’s relationship with Japan is illustrated with various unique publications of known Van der Elsken work , magazine features and, more importantly, excerpts from his personal correspondence with various people and organisations in Japan.
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Twenty years after his death, Tokyo Symphony, Ed van der Elsken’s tribute to Japan, finally saw the light of day. Van der Elsken started working on what was to become an audiovisual installation in the 1980s. Due to his sudden death in 1990, he was never able to complete the piece. All that remained were some 1,600 little-known colour slides, a notebook with rough ideas and audio footage.
WATW
天下一家 exhibition opening, book launch and round table in Shanghai The travelling exhibition The travelling exhibition We Are The World, a collaboration between Paradox, the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing and the Guangdong Museum of Art, was launched in Shanghai on April 3. In WATW Chinese and Dutch photographers contribute to notions of globalisation and consumerism. The exhibition was part of the seven-month programming of Dutch art at the Dutch Cultural Centre (DCC) in Shanghai during the World Expo 2010. Paradox director Bas Vroege presented Machtelt Schelling (Communication and Cultural Affairs >
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