Participating Artists Press Agency
Saturday 20th of April 2024 – page 5
PAPA Lab Rotterdam took place from the 5 th till the 24th of April 2010. Director Lino Hellings. Participating artists are: Nies Medema, Erika Blikman, Jan Konings, Maurice Bogaert, Robin van ‘t Haar and Martijn Nieuwenhuis.
Sunday 11th of April 2010
Rotterdam -
Everytime I enter Rotterdam by train I have to think of a Portuguese friend who -fresh from Schiphol- saw these cottages. She was shocked that in a prosperous country as…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
‘Sick and tired of chewing gum in the city. Rotterdam MUST be clean, intact and safe! WHY? BECAUSE!’ says the text on the rubbish bin. The little white dots…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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In the city I see many heads covered by scarves, but seldom with such tempting red lips!
Location: Market Blaak.
Photo taken by Erika Blikman on April 6th 201.…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
This is where you can deposit your chewing gum as well. On the paradise-like billboards full of promises of what the city will look like in a couple of years…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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Even more Dutch it is to bring your own lunch in a plastic bag. Probably current buns. Eat it in the street while resting on your ‘rollater’ a four wheel…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Another 50ft woman, an angry man and a headless mannequin. …
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
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Everywhere in the Rotterdam centre you will find surveillance cameras.
'Do these cameras make life more safe ?', is the question our guide Godian asks himself. ‘We see you, we…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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Whenever the city planning of Rotterdam reveals some kind of classic harmony (a side street with a charming see-through on a church entrance), the city decides to guide this pitoresque…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
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A way to store your bicycle in the streets. Most bicycles embrace lanternpoles and/or other bicycles in a touching and affectionate way though. ‘Fietstrommel’ sounds like candy box.
On the…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Ugs are part of Rotterdam’s city uniform for women with petite legs. This informal dresscode is not for women with muscular calves. For them there are other elegant variants. Oh…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Everywhere you look, there are bicycles embracing lanternpoles, bridges and each other.
Lino Hellings the 7th of April Rotterdam.…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
I want to be another city. Manhattan Hotel in front of Rotterdam Central Station…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
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Who is watching all these movies? Apparently the camera suggests to be 360 degrees. It is not. It is known only a percentage of the cameras work. Strange idea the…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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Stadhuisplein
Mirrorballs and stage lighting in front of the City Hall.
The streets as a stage, the architecture as a the backdrop? But a backdrop for what?
Maurice Bogaert, April…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
The OK sign is an initiative by the Foundation for Reporting Violence. The Foundation wants to stimulate citizens to call the police when they witness violence in public space. The…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
The man’s posture assumes he is much taller then me. He leans forward to search in a plastic brown box for some old books. Therefore he reveals a brown mole…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
It is very Dutch it is to eat chips with mayonnaise on the street. On the market square there is a stall: ‘Bram Ladage, most healthy chips of the Netherlands’…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Rules and regulations at the entrance of the Koopgoot (Shopping Gutter). The designer has observed the differences in choreography between a skateboarder and a roller skater very well. Chapeau! …
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Are you bored, girlfriend?
[sorry to bother you]…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Hoogstraat
Not that is shows, but apparently this is one of the oldest streets of the city. And for now, Sponge Bob seems to be the only one who is…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
An example of a roadside monument, mostly placed alongside roads to memorize victims of traffic incidents. The ritual often memorizes acts of ‘zinloos geweld’ (senseless violence) as well. In this…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
There are many signs in the city that are a bit peculiar, like the one on this bin. I would describe the sign as a ‘do not walk here’ sign…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
A colorful love declaration to the city Rotterdam. Probably made by a proud young girl or boy.
Martijn C. Nieuwenhuis the fifth of April, Rotterdam.…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Standing with my back to the City Hall. Looking at a picture of the City Hall.A blossoming cherry tree, a 50ft woman and a gigantic bird.Artist impression it…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab