we buy white albums
With the Liverpool international music festival as a pretext, the We buy white albums project has been started up. They have put Rutherford Chang’s unusual collection on show there: More than 1,000 copies of The Beatles’s White Album. All first editions. Visitors can listen to any record in the collection. Another characteristic of the exhibition: Visitors cannot buy but they can sell their White Albums to the collector.
comme des machines
We repeat over and over again that we love to receive proposals and things by post mail. The last one we received had written ¨from space¨ in the back. And inside, some ornaments made with a 3D printer for shoes, boots and sneaker ornaments. Simple and nice. And their website is worth a visit. It contains interesting reflections on contemporary fashion.
horror week
It’s already 25 years since one of our favourite film festivals was first held. Twenty years ago we were just young brats and back then, when we drank, smoked, shouted and did other unmentionable things, who would have told us that this film festival would last so long. And, unlike us, that it would reach this 25th anniversary in such good shape! October 25th to November 1st.
burgers and bullets
A few weeks ago we heard through the media that an nine year old girl had killed her shooting instructor using an Uzi. It all happened in a Burgers and Bullets chain restaurant. As well as eating hamburgers and chips, you can also fire 50 different guns there. And, as we saw on the news, you can also take children to that fun, family place.
12th international adult marionette exhibition
This interesting biennial event will be held from October 23rd to 26th. In this year’s programme, as usual, there will be many different and varied offerings, amongst others the Italian Dromosofista, the Greek Merlin Puppet Theatre, the Catalan Borja Ytuquepintas, the Basque Taun Taun... The shows will be given in different places around the town and there won’t be time to get bored.
mem
The Musicaexmachina festival has undergone many changes in recent years. But those changes have, in one way or another, always managed to create a show-place for experimental work and offerings. This year, it will be held between September and November and Bilbao and Gasteiz will be the main
laboratories.
big boy
Suddenly, a package in the post arrived at our office. And we always get particularly excited about things we get in the post. It contained a record and a DVD. Chickens and elephants which looked human. As soon as we put the record on, the office was invaded by Mediterranean Tarantellas and sounds from the Balkans. And words recited/shouted in Basque. BigBoy is a difficult project to define, and that’s just why we like it.
zero
In the 50’s and 60’s a vanguard artistic movement experimented with new materials and media. Fire, light, movement, space, performance, installations... Starting from zero, they built a marvellous new world. Amongst others, Armando, Henk Peeters, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and Yayoi Kusamaren’s work will be on show until November 15th. Where? At Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. Could there be a better pretext than seeing what it looks like for going to Amsterdam this autumn?
jazzpana
This music and art festival’s slogan is rural postmodern. And, since the first edition, the organizers have shown that they have inventive talent. They guessed the look of today’s modern-indie types, with their long beards and lumberjack shirts. It’s going to be held at Beasain on October 24th and 25th. Ah! and thebalde will be there.
silent violence
In January this exhibition in the Iparra room at Artium will examine and reflect on a small-scale, daily violence through the eyes of different international artists. An interesting opportunity to find out about and reflect on the wide catalogue of often hateful, small-scale and poisonous violence which public administrations and bureaucracy give rise to.
bad
Contemporary dance and theatre will take over the streets and theatres of Bilbao from October 22nd to November 2nd. Dance which makes the city interactive, innovative movements and theatre offerings will fill the streets with colour and new life. In addition to the shows, workshops and round-table talks will also be organised. Don’t let it get away.
trip to luhuso
Luhuso’s Harri Xuri culture association have organised a great way to spend the afternoon and evening on the first of November. The Deja bu group will start with its play Arrastoak and then the Kaabestri ensemble will give a concert. The perfect pretext for seeing these beautiful surroundings.
