Floris Tilanus is the other founder of the Paleisje. With Elena Beelaerts, in the context of the Paleisje he creates theatrical events that are total artworks, collages in which quite diverse contributions by others, i.e. scientists, artists and the audience are essential. He is graphic designer and illustrator by profession, sometimes he writes. He also makes jazz compositions for his own trio, in which he plays the piano. He is very much interested in the beauty of science. Recently ‘Chez Adriaan’ was published, a collection of the food writing and recipes by Adriaan Jaeggi, with more than a hundred of his illustrations.

Artist Elena Beelaerts is one of the two founders of the Paleisje voor Volksvlijt. With Floris Tilanus, in the context of the Paleisje she creates theatrical events that are total artworks, collages in which quite diverse contributions by others, i.e. scientists, artists and the audience are essential. In her studio she makes drawings on paper that might grow into spatial collages and installations. Driven by curiosity for how things work, she often deals with our mortality. But she extuinguishes the fear with absurd associations and funny transformations.

Both well studied in computer science and art, Sander Veenhof (1973) concentrates on making art where the digital and the real world touch. Or, to be more precise, Veenhof makes the border irrelevant. With the help of the infinite possibilities of contemporary digital techniques he programmes the world and nullifies every restriction. He exhibited, on his own initiative and uninvitedly, in the MoMa in New York and added a seventh floor to the building. He launched the worlds largest interactive sculpture, consisting of 7.463.185.678 virtual cubes around the earth. And on Terschelling he installed a functioning virtual traffic light. All for the good of smart phone owners, but it won’t take long before the iPhone reality is normal to everybody.

Een woord is de naam van een begrip – en als zodanig is het ook een container: het bevat betekenissen, en alles dat die betekenis heeft, mag ‘erin’.
Een definitie probeert de grenzen van het begrip zo scherp mogelijk aan te geven. Het is als zodanig een talig gat: het scheidt de dingen die er doorheen kunnen van de dingen die er niet doorheen kunnen.
De portable hole is nog een stap ingewikkelder: want hoewel heel eenvoudig te begrijpen, is het ook onbestaanbaar.

“Wat doen we precies als wij de wereld met taal beschrijven? En hoe kunnen we praten over iets dat niet bestaat?” (Dit is de specialiteit van Dr Arianna Betti.)

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The Dutch Circle of Collectors of Jelly Moulds

Almost every collection starts with the fish. Women prefer crockery, men usually collect glass moulds that often have a more architectonic character. The Circle’s magazine has become full colour, it’s in its sixteenth year. Lia Bernaert writes a little portrait of one of the members in each edition. There are seventy of them, including Agnes Jansen-Van Daalen. She wrote the indispensable Pudding in al zijn vormen (Jelly in all its forms) that desperately needs reviewing. Once she inaugurated every mould with a pudding, but after about two hundred moulds the routine wore out. Now she ownes about a thousand. Loes van der Veldt ownes seven hundred. Collecting moulds is more important than making jelly, or eating it. “Although it’s still thrilling. One hopes that the moment the jelly comes out of the mould, its form is intact. ” says Lia, “after all, it’s a bit as if a child is born…”

De Stemming is a relatively young choir of about 25 members. It’s inspiring leader is Joost Schouten, who has attention for musical detail. The love of music can be heard. Through a fresh and honest perspective on classical music the choir through the years has achieved a it’s own sound and atmosphere. The choir was founded in 1995 and quite a few of the members then are still present. Their pleasure and friendship can’t be missed; their enthousiasm neither.

The Easy Aloha’s are two DJ’s specialised in easy tune. They had a hit Aloha and toured the world. But Gerard Jansen and Bas Albers also wrote the book Gaten en andere dingen die er niet zijn (2008) (Holes and other things that are not there), a wide and very accessible survey of all kinds of hole, silence and emptiness.

Martijn van Calmthout (Eindhoven 1961) is head of the science desk at de Volkskrant. He studied Physics in Utrecht and writes about the sciences. He published the biographical Einsteins Licht (2005) and Einstein in een notendop (Einstein in a nutshell) (2008). He is one of the authors of the BètaCanon (2009) – a project and a book covering fifty science subjects that everybody should know – and compiled Brieven aan Darwin (2010). Van Calmthout presents the monthly live KennisCafé in De Balie in Amsterdam and can be heard on fridays at HoeZo Radio by the NTR. Intermittently he is working on the first biography of physicist and war hero Sam Goudsmit.

Jan Langedijk is a mime. He founded en led theatre group De Daders (1993 – 2006). In his work he seeks theatrical forms that balance between thought and act.The misunderstandings that result from thoughtless actions regularly pop up in his shows. Lately Jan Langedijk is more interested in ritual acts. With his father and his son he created a show and visited Asia several times to examine the role of the elder performer within the ritual performing arts. Langedijk nowadays is creating work for GroepRood.

Hij komt naar het Paleisje voor Volksvlijt met bassist Arnold Dooijeweerd – een gerenommeerde oudgediende in de Nederlandse jazz, met wie Goudsmit al jaren samenspeelt en met wie hij hetzelfde gevoel voor humor deelt en voor muziek – en de Schotse percussionist “squeekologist” Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves, een zeker zo verbazende musicus, die met allerhande fluitjes, badeendjes en potten geestige en poëtische muziek maakt.

(foto: Krijn van Noordwijk)

Guitarist Anton Goudsmit is a much sought-after player who does amazing things with whatever music he is presented with or writes. His music can rage, yield steaming funk, howling blues, but also almost abstract, lyrical whispers.And in between: lovely songs with unexpected jagged edges. From the start he was part of the New Cool Collective, he played in different constellations with Erk Vloeimans, with Ernst Reijseger, but mostly with his own group the Ploctones he gained a wider audience. Goudsmit won the coveted Boy Edgar Prize in 2009 for his contribution and standing on the Dutch jazz scene.

He is coming to the Paleisje voor Volksvlijt with bassist Arnold Dooijeweerd – a renowned veteran on the Dutch jazz scene, with whom Goudsmit has been playing for decades and with whom he shares a common sense of humour and music – and the scottish percussionist/”squeekologist” Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves, who makes spirited and poetic music with all kinds of whistles, tub ducks and pans.

(foto: Krijn van Noordwijk)