DeltA Center of Contemporary Art

2011-12-19T11:12:00.000-08:00

THAT WAS INDEED THE VERY WORST PERFORMANCE WE HAVE EVER SEEN FOR REAL!

IT REALLY IS SYMPTOMATIC OF AN ACTUAL ARTISTIC CRISIS HERE AT THE DELTA

ALSO DOES IT PROVE THAT WE HAVE REACHED THE BORDERS AND CROSSED THEM

Never Met Before, Delta Center Of Contemporary Art, 25 November, 2011, 20:30, The Hague

2011-11-24T14:48:00.001-08:00

5 October - The Music of Joe Kudirka

2011-10-03T08:28:00.000-07:00

Acid Police Noise Ensemble, Joe Kudirka, and friends
Play:
The Music of Joe Kudirka, and Other Text Pieces

Wednesday 5 October 2011
Concert Starts At: 20:00
At:
Delta Centre For Contemporary Art,
Weimarstraat 300, Den Haag

FREE ENTRY

Acid Police Noise Ensemble and friends perform a concert centred around the music of the experimental american composer Joe Kudirka.
Joe's music comes from the tradition of composers such as John Cage and Christian Wolff and is often affiliated with the Wandelweiser group.
Eschewing conventional notation for poetic written instructions, his music is beautiful and sparse.
Joe currently resides in Huddersfield, England and will be stopping off in Den Haag as part of a small European tour.
He will be playing with the group, as we perform his work and other contemporary text pieces.

www.acidpolice.com
Facebook Event

STOCKHAUSEN SERVES TERRORISM: TEN YEARS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH

2011-09-11T00:00:00.000-07:00

Acid Police and Anonymous Stateless Immigrants allied forces launches on 9/11!

livestream of 9/11 concert 'Stockhuisen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years of Sodom & Gomorrah' at 19:00 GMT!

A.S.I. Relay Trumpet - Livestream make.tv

An epic evening of music, theater and performance, over 3 hours and 12
pieces, to explore the terrorism, violence, and hysteria of 9/11 and its
aftermaths.

“Extraordinary Renditions” CD release! A “covers album” containing abstracted versions of popular music and détournements of the tracks used to torture to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. The form comes from the Lucifer formula of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s opera Licht. Listen to Second Track of the CD Pup-Dust I
Latest tracks by Acid Police

“Much Too Much Noise” (A Zine for Radical Aesthetics) launch.
Read the full version

Open publication - Free publishing - More 9-11

Live Music Event

2011-06-23T00:45:00.000-07:00

photos by Aleksandra Renska

On behalf of all the participants, we would like to invite you to another exiting event organised in Delta Center of Contemporary Art on Sunday 26th of June 2011.

This time we will have two wonderful ensembles performing live music.

The Concert is in two parts.

Part one:

The Ascoli Ensemble.

Marine Fribourg, soprano
Alejandra Wayar Soux, mezzo-soprano
Oscar Verhaar, countertenor
Ben Eastley, tenor
Niels Berentsen, tenor
Sasha Zamler-Carhart, tenor and direction

...will perform medieval vocal music.

Part two:

Nieuw Blaaskwintet

Zsófia Lázár, flute
Marleen Hoenink, oboe
Enric Sans i Morera, clarinet
Krzysztof Bialasik, horn
Grzegorz Marciniak, bassoon

...will perform music by Paul Taffanel, Antonín Dvořák & Paul Hindemith.

Concert starts at 19:30. Doors open at 19:00.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2011-06-22T08:20:00.000-07:00

Delta Center of Contemporary Art opens its doors for opera!

"Cosi fan tutte" arranged for wind octet with double bass and singers, will be performed on Friday the 24th of June 2011.

Singers:

Lidewij Taat, Fiordiligi
Maria Fiselier, Dorabella
Alexandra Schoeny, Despina
Scott Wellstead, Ferrando
Robert Brouwer, Guglielmo
Tim Maas, Don Alfonso

Instrumentalists:

Antonia Sanchez Medioli, Eva Harthmuthova: oboe
Soren Green, Thomas Carroll: clarinet
Krzysztof Bialasik, Christian Schmitt: horn
Idoia Bengoa, Kim Stockx: bassoon
Tomoki Sumiya: contrabass

Toni Salar-Verdú, conductor
Marie Ross, score arrangement

Don't miss unique opportunity, to hear new arrangement of one of Mozart's greatest opera performed on historical instruments!

Concert starts at 19:30. Doors open at 19:00.

2011-06-02T04:25:00.000-07:00

OPEN GULAG

2011-04-06T09:17:00.000-07:00

ANOTHER EVENT WILL BE TAKING PLACE, ANOTHER LINE OF ARTISTS THAT ARE TAKING YOUR PLACE, ANOTHER SHOW IN YET ANOTHER OFF-SPACE, ANOTHER TIME ALL UP IN YOUR FACE!

DELTA CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART CONTINUES IN THE NEW LOCATION IN WEIMARSTRAAT 300, THE HAGUE, WITH A THREE DAYS OPEN STUDIO!

Narendra Haynes' installation with paintings as a result of his residency program at the Centre.

Hideki Kanno's studio

Machiel van Soest his 1997 painting cut in two.

*Off-Off-Broadway - Sunday 17 April, 19.00.

Off-Off-Broadway is conceived as a concert for any pieces too long, dangerous, unconventional or experimental for the traditional concert settings of the rest of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Spring Festival Concerts.

It will be held at the Delta Centre of Contemporary Art (http://www.deltacentre.blogspot.com/) on Weimarstraat 300, Den Haag on Sunday 17 April at 19.00.

Featuring the following pieces and artists/ensembles:

Robert Blatt/David Pocknee - New Piece

Corné Roos - Ritual Playing Cards/On Electricity

Pernille Lonstrup - Choir of Noise

Ascoli Ensemble

Anna Mikhailova - Ponte de sospiri

Grzegorz Marciniak – I am the Board

Darien Brito - "Throw me" (or logical response to a annoying situation)

Ben Richter - You Are Safe And Not Alone

Maxim Shalygin - Two hours in reservoir

Dagga Dagga

2011-02-11T11:56:00.000-08:00

A collection of images from the 20 harmoniums concert in Den Haag, January 15th. Aside from there being 20 harmoniums, this concert also featured a lot of theatrical antics and was generally an unforgettable and legendary spectacle.

courtesy of www.harmoniumnet.nl

2011-02-11T11:17:00.000-08:00

Rehersal for Test Extra.

layer 1.0, Layer 0.5

2011-02-11T10:35:00.001-08:00

Veniamin Kazachenko's huge banner like painting, made especially as decor for the collaborative Performance of Layer 1.o, Layer 0.5

Getting Tattooed Up with authentic Russian Jail Tattoos!

Lev Kazachenko and Nare Eloyan Tattooing Veniamin Kazachenko for the performance of Layer 1.o, Layer 0.5 by Grzegorz Marciniak.

Now That We Are Even

2010-11-04T06:42:00.000-07:00

Most likely the very last show here in the DeltA
The Finale

HOOGTIJ #23 November 12th

Evidently the moment of truth has come without turns. It is now. It is our responsibility, our opportune response. Now that we are absolutely even, do we strike?

The DeltA Centre of apparently Temporary Art opens their granted structure, and the conditions have always been unreasonable here. Probably and most definitely the last show in this very fashion. Instead of an attempt to avoid certain recurrences. As might be well known to some, the investigation of forms within the art continues.

A multiplicity of forms will be equally encountered upon arrival to the exhibition including Performance, Music, Photography, Sculpture, Painting, Video and Installation.

With participation of:

Maite Louisa
Roos Mikx (cancelled)
Nishiko
Angelique Panday
Sandim Mendes

Laura Van Eeden
Veronica Seidel
Lucas Cantori
Roman Wolgin
Ohad Ben Shimon

Ben Shamir
Floris Schafer
Narendra Haynes
Ehsan Fardjadniya
Juan Giraldo
Lev Kazachenko
Veniamin Kazachenko
Grzegorz Marciniak

and more...

DECOY KAZACHENKO

2020

The Performance

Angelique Panday

SPECTACLE PREMIERE W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y

2010-10-07T23:36:00.000-07:00

10th and 11th of october visitors of the DeltA Centre of Contemporary Art would form the exclusive audience to the satirical and absurd masterpiece of Polish musician, composer and artist Grzegorz Marciniak. Accommodated by the stage design of Veniamin Kazachenko. It was an absolute honour to have had.

"Let us imagine getting old and instead of dying and being buried, we choose to be send in space forever. One way ticket to space. We could still communicate with our family and friends on Earth, but at the same time we would get further and further away from them. Till our time is over. 10 years? 20? 50? Our last experience would be of an endless universe."

The Hand That Feeds You

2010-08-25T04:35:00.000-07:00

You see this show in particular was not a conventional exhibition, where you invite a bunch of artist whom you like and they hang their work up and there is the opening and then. No. The participating artist of any discipline, it can be a writer, composer, photographer, had to redefine his practice, reformulate himself, to position self in society. This was an attempt to develop and correct to a certain extent the conception of the artist and art initiative in the eyes of the beholder, in the eyes of the civil servant, the officer, the council of the prosecution. The title of the show indicates questions like 'who is the hand that feeds you', or 'what do you do to the hand' and was meant to criticize or debate the position of the institute and the functionality of, in this case the new DeltA Centre of Contemporary Art. How would you contribute to the theme of the show?

Introduction

Patrons of Paternalism-waste investment.

Ehsan Fardjadniya

Aftermath of inverted investment that results in inferiority of culture. Thanks to Stroom

Thomas Raat work in progress

Thomas Raat(Untitled) On the other side of the wall were Benny Kazachenko made the mural (Worries in Progress)
Tomas Raat was inspired by our conversation about the open structure of an art institute by being open to everyone for a month 24/7.
Veniamin Kazachenko was more critical about the matter and found a certain structure necessary otherwise the institute might be worries in progress due to the possibilities of party animal invaders.

worries in progress

Veniamin Kazachenko

Ceel M. De Haas

Lucas Cantori

BLACK BILE

2010-06-04T19:00:00.000-07:00

As a conclusion of our previous attempts to establish an audience more receptive than is usual in The Hague, we had been offered a promotional tool. To engage in a live broadcasting in the stand of the organization by the name of Trentbeheer at Art RAI in Amsterdam. For a couple of days we have used this as a means to promote the forthcoming event. The last in a series of three shows entitled BLACK BILE. Once again we managed to be included in the HOOGTIJ, which is a local gallery night and by this point went by the pseudonym Hoog Tijd to indicate the lack of financial support for the art initiatives in general. This time we invited both the initiators of 1646 as well as the underdogs of Stichting Centrum, which are both located at approximate of 5 minutes slow walking from one another. The opening reception on the 4th of June, had resulted in a complete fiasco, damaging the miserable reputation of the DeltA to such an extent, that no mortal could possibly recover from, even if he would. On top of all, without making any sense of the works exhibited, the people from Trentbeheer dare to write a review on the show yet worse than the show. Henceforth we are forced to change our entire style and methods, this is the motivation, as is to be found in the name of our foundation from now on. Why the show was that much of a disaster should be possible to comprehend by viewing the following pictures.

Brothers Kazachenko - External body experience
(HE WITHOUT SIN)

Brothers Kazachenko - External body experience - installation

Mieke van de Voort R.I.P. - Form without content

Nicole O Niel

Simon van Kray

Julia Nitsberg

Ejderkan Tastekin

You Can Have Your Cake (And That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles)

2010-04-30T19:00:00.000-07:00

The second show entitled 'You Can Have Your Cake (And That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles) of which the opening ceremony was held on the occasion of Koninginnedag, accompanied by music, cocktail-bar and BBQ, was a considerable success and mind opener for many of the local people, who had underestimated the influence of DeltA as cultural platform. The audience mostly consisted of local artists and under-aged vandalists (which is bound to be the same). Participating artists did react, one way or another, on a certain idea which is hard to define... In fact, it is believed that you would have to have been there. Anyway, one of the main attractions of the show was the appearance of Amir Tirandaz in the image of Armen Eloyan. The finnissage was held on the 19th of May, to coincide with the afterparty of the Atelierroute of STROOM Den Haag, there and then. The show had resulted in the severe consciousness and awareness of the very possibility of the artist being buried alive. Which subsequently set the tone for the next show, BLACK BILE.

Participating artists:

Camilo Barreto
Marc Claeijs
Nare and Armen Eloyan
Ehsan Fardjadniya
Ramaz Goiati
Lev and Veniamin Kazachenko
Sandim Mendes
Nishiko
Julia Nitsberg
Amir Tirandaz

Ehsan Fardjadniya - mixed media

Ramaz Goiati - mixed media

Marc Claeijs - Oil on canvas

Armen Eloyan (Marker on paper)

Space before IT, or Space between IT and non-IT.
Lev Kazachenko, 2010.

Intervention at Koninginnedag Ehsan Fardjadniya
for more visit the you tube account here

Untitled, Veniamin Kazachenko, painting

Have Your Cake, Veniamin Kazachenko

Camilo Baretto - interdisciplinary installation

Antagonistic Nonconformistic

2010-02-12T09:32:00.000-08:00

The fact is that 'Antagonistic Nonconformistic' was a mystic and prize winning first show in DeltA Center of Contemporary Art on the occasion and anniversary of Hoogtij #20 (Haagsche Rondgang/Gallery Night The Hague). The title was a desperate and satirical determination, of what would be the binding factor between the one and the other participating artist, crossing the words "where are we supposed to go the beauty in the darkness and the darkness in the beauty what are we supposed to do". The show was inspired by a series of events, held in Amsterdam the years before, it was curated by and consisted of the very same people. This time we had considerably more space, and decided to demonstrate the possibilities of the designated, former elementary school. We never came to collect the PRIX DE MER, but the show did create a local fundament for the seemingly new and ambitious organization. The exhibition was partially supported by STROOM and had a moderate success.

Participating artist:

Daniel Bragin

Harold De Bree

Lucas Cantori

Nare Eloyan

The Kazachenko Brothers

Claudia Mannigel

Grzegorz Marciniak

Nishiko

Ton Schuttelaar

Amir Tirandaz

Roman Wolgin

Both established and renowned artists as well as promising up comers, all with whom the DeltA has a close relationship. FRIENDS POLITICS AS USUAL, RIGHT?

Lucas Cantori

Grzegorz Marciniak and Zbygniew Wolny

Daniel Bragin

Claudia Mannigel

Veniamin Kazachenko

Harold de Bree

Ton Schuttelaar