Extrapool is an art space in Nijmegen where character, experiment and conceptual base are of importance. As ‘Knust’, Extrapool is a (stencil) print workshop and publisher. As performance and exhibition space, Extrapool explores and crosses the frontiers between music, visual art, performance and film/video. The Extrapool staff is comprised of artists, and this implies that artists’ projects are realized when we find a clear connection in vision and mentality with Extrapool. Unlike most other cultural organizations, they are a generator rather than simply a purveyor of art.

Extrapool introduced an open invitation to artists of all disciplines to create a proposal for the redesigning of their building’s facade, one reflecting their mentality and activities. First prize is the realization of the plan.

I entered the following proposal for this competition:

“Although a lot has to happen to the facade of Extrapool to communicate the character of the activities inside to the outside world, I’m still very positive about the typography above the entrance, even after all these years. I especially like the way the upside down A points out the entrance. This is why I chose to use this typography as a starting point for my proposal.

The design consists of a striped plating that is fixated 10 cm outside the present facade of the building, so drainpipes and other projections can be placed behind the plating where possible. At the same time this distance makes the plating break away visually from the facade. The plating sort of hovers in front of the facade like a shell.

The plating consists of a large number of long pieces of material, that emphasize the lines of the reversed A in the original typography. This way the whole facade points to the entrance. The attention is optically drawn to the entrance which can make it easier to venture inside. If the entrance itself can also get a somewhat more open character in the future reconstruction of the building, potential visitors will find their way in so much easier.

The design of the facade can be perpetuated in the side facade as well. This way the whole building is focused towards the entrance, instead of ‘just’ the front.

The plating can be an ideal framework for all sorts of publicity materials and attention grabbers. Besides the nessecary space next to the entrance with the programme, one could think of billboards, flags, lighting (in front and behind the plating), color, and so on. A world of possibilities.”

All participants take part in the contest exhibition during a ‘Anderhalf Wit Avond’ in Extrapool and are published in a contest release. You can still look at some of the other entries overhere. The winners could very well be Eugenie Bakker and Joost Kok, with a truly marvellous plan!

Toegang Vrij, Salon and Atelier Route in Deventer. The Salon shows works by local artists and takes place in the former Stamacon building in St. Olafstraat, Deventer.

J’ee-haw! participated in the Salon with a new installation: two portraits of ourselves wearing cowboy hats, both accompanied by our randomized J’ee-haw! yell. The former Stamacon building is very large, so we decided to place the two portraits and audio bursts in two seperate parts of the space that was available. This way you could here the yells echoing through the whole building and they sometimes even seemed to communicate with eachother over the great distance between them.

The atelier route is divided over 2 weekends: one for the individual ateliers and the ateliers in the surrounding area of Deventer, and one for the ateliers in the larger atelier buildings. This means I participated in the atelier route two times. Together with Jeannette Knigge in our own private atelier at home, and together with WILLIE in the IJsselhotel.

A catalogue was published about the salon.

J’ee-haw! expo in Kunstcentrum Hengelo. J’ee-haw! presents ‘Disco Disco Tralala (The J’ee-haw! Dancefloor Experience)’ and ‘Vrienden van J’ee-haw! Galerie Prints’.

‘Disco Disco Tralala (The J’ee-haw! Dancefloor Experience)’ is a very small wooden dancefloor with a disco light overkill that responds to the random occasional sound bursts of J’ee-haw! Compact Disc.

Other participant in this exhibition is Jeroen Diepenmaat with some weird turntable related installations. Jeroen Diepenmaat also happens to be living in the same street as Jeannette and me. We live on number 38 and he lives on number 30, hence the title of the exhibition: 30/38.

J’ee-haw! echo-o-o-kelder at Kelderkunst, Deventer: audio installation in a very old and small basement. The installation accumulates new audio layers every day the exhibition is open. The following day these layers are integrated in the existing audio structure. Located in the basement of Grote Overstraat 21, Deventer. The entrance is located IN the street, below the store window of Antique-shop Mona Lisa.

The exhibition was open for four days, resulting in a final recording with four overlapping audio layers. J’ee-haw! released a short edit of this audio registration.

Foundation Kelderkunst organizes yearly exhibitions and performances by local artists, poets and musicians in several basements in Deventer. Other interesting participants in the 2005 edition were Jeroen Diepenmaat and Femke Teussink.

Holodeck & J’ee-haw! event at Holodeck in Groningen. J’ee-haw! expo in gallery Brak with Vrienden van J’ee-haw! Galerie Prints, J’ee-haw! Remixed (with listening cabines), J’ee-haw! Compact Disc (with J’ee-haw! Audioburst and Cowboy Bodybuilder Billboard) and ZZZZ-Monument.

J’ee-haw! and Holodeck programmed performances by several J’ee-haw! remixers for the 3 year anniversary of Holodeck’s Clubplus+, which is Holodeck’s smashing club night. J’ee-haw! fitted Clubplus+ with a striped decor, similar to the J’ee-haw! trademark.

There were performances by Radboud Mens (live), Jos Smolders (live), HuMobisten feat. Der Versucher (live & dj), Toxic Chicken (live), Harco (dj), The Common People (dj), visuals by Zafari and special J’ee-haw! bites & drinks by Café De Plak.

Listen to my dj-set through VPRO 3voor12.

Jos Smolders (live) – ‘From 0-120 bpm: Everything Must Go’, a very abstract and experimental set.

Radboud Mens (live) with an extremely danceable minimal dub techno set.

Jos Smolders and Radboud Mens also improvised a live set together, a strong minimal dub techno set on acid.

Harco with a Rather Interesting vs. Nonplace dj-set.

‘Humor’ and ‘mind your own business’, that’s what it’s all about for the HuMobisten (Gyz la Rivière and Rufus.K). The HuMobisten take humor very seriously and use it to subtlely address social problems, important mondial events or remarkable social tendencies. But sometimes they just stop by a club and mix a bunch of records. Der Versucher is MP3J and plays along for this evening. They also made ‘HuMobiza 2005′, a special brand new remix of the original HuMobiza track on J’ee-haw! Remixed, including fab video and absurd but solid stage act! Check the video overhere or overhere.

Toxic Chicken with his sister Serafina Ouistiti (live) – rough electro, disturbing breakbeats and absurdistic strip act. Dare to be chicken, very pok!

The Common People, electro-pop dj’s from Maastricht.

Visuals by Zafari. Check a sample overhere (quicktime movie).

Special J’ee-haw! bites & drinks by Café de Plak: Kat’ A Klop (sandwich on a stick), Whinny (vegetarian sandwich on a stick), Sushi Á Koko (vegetarian sushi), Daltons (non-alcoholic fruit punch), T’Plan (non-alcoholic cocktail with fresh mint), Piña Colada (secret recipe!), Lucky Shot (tequila with effervescent vitamin C tablet) and so much more tasty goodies…

You could listen to a live Clubplus+ stream through www.nauticradio.net and the whole event is very well documented by VPRO 3voor12 (thank you Ron!). You can still listen to a lot of audio overhere. Photography by Jitske Annema and J’ee-haw!