How about a cup of overload?

How arrogant can one festival be?

 

What was Art Rotterdam, the international art fair of the Netherlands, thinking when they planned their festival from the 4^th to the 7^th of February? Everyone knows, since the beginning of modern times, that this period is the reign of the Internation Film Festival in Rotterdam.

 

Now, the culture-lovers of this city are facing an impossible task:
where to go?

What to think of the party-flowers that bloom in the night? One underground party stumbles over the next, filled with German directors, Bulgarian performance-artists and South-American silversmiths, specialised in conceptual jewellery.

 

If I were one of those powerful men, who grant subsidy to these festivals, I’d check my calendar, before I’d tell them: "yes, but make it a week later. In favour of all those hard-working, culture-loving creatures that crawl this city. You don’t want to strain them to a cultural overload, or do you?".

Despite their arrogance, Art Rotterdam is a lively festival that offers space to 70 different galeries from 10 different countries. A little high-brow for the simple downtown soul, but their parties make up for everything.

 

Tomorrow will be a surely unmissable one. No idea who the bands are, but I saw the following post on Ties ten Bosch’s website, one of my favourite artists from Rotterdam (more on him later!):

 

 

I’m always up for Ties’ new work, so thank him, for giving me a reason to choose between this madness of social artsy farsty delights!