Category Archives: Arts & Culture

Maassession #5 Amber & Antoine

Posted on January 25, 2012 by zaimoon

Performance Amber and Antoine
Filming Tim Strasser
Presenting: Mateusz and Zai-Moon

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The Launch of the Mandril Cultural Center (MCC)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Isabel
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Maas-Media is proud to announce the recent launch of Maastricht’s Mandril Cultural Center (MCC). Squatted in 2009, the building received its name Mandril by a Dutch satirical magazine Mandril – maandblad voor mensen which existed in the years 1948 until 1953, of which a box of unique copies were found in the attic. Thanks to the [...]

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Second Maas Sessions Video: The Serious Beans Project

Posted on May 4, 2011 by zaimoon
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Second Maassession video: The Serious Beans Project from Maas Media on Vimeo.
The Serious Beans Project: Mobility (2011)
Filmed and Edited by Daniel van Hauten
Written and Performed by The Serious Beans Project

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First Maas Sessions Video: Mervie And Alessandro

Posted on April 4, 2011 by zaimoon
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MassSession Mervie & Alessandro from Maas Media on Vimeo.
 
Performance by: Mervie & Alessandro
Original song: “To Build a Home” by Cinematic Orchestra and Patrick Watson
All rights reserved to artists & no copyright infringement intended.
Shot by Daniel Van Hauten
Directed by Zai Moon

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Gonzo Photojournalism

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Tim
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We are on a mission to portray an array of various subjectivities and to narrate the spectacle of this festivity through precisely the stand points of these subject positions, including our own. Equipped with a camera and a creative approach we tell the diverse stories of participants of various ages, ethnicities and social strata who [...]

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Calcutta/Kolkata – A Personal Memoir

Posted on March 14, 2011 by aranyo.aarjan

A typical afternoon scene for the old Calcutta
In the last week of December 2009, just as the whole of Europe froze over, like a migratory bird I headed out to warmer climes. Yet my destination, tropical as it is by location, was Calcutta (known officially now as Kolkata, a ‘reclaiming’ of pre-colonial city names), not [...]

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Living Off the Grid

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Tim
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Who are “Woodsies” and why do we ask, you might wonder? Well, it is not so much merely a matter of idealizing some ‘hippie lifestyle’, as it might seem, which has been and still very much is a characteristic feature of Santa Cruz, California. Maybe that too, but rather our intention is to point out, [...]

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Activist Art Does Not Have a Home

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Sofia Tussis
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Spending a four month, -30 degree winter with the street as a home is not something everyone can handle easily. After a couple of hours on the square Emilie Gamelin in central Montreal last November, for the event État d’urgence, my body was begging for warmth, although the thermometer only sank till -10. For four [...]

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Arts and censorship

Posted on July 18, 2010 by admin
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As part of the Creating Waves 2 event, we invited the participants to express their reflections on the relationship between art and censorship through figurative arts.

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Avant-garde Messages- The Dadaists are Back

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Sofia Tussis

This collective poem-writing performance connecting art and censure is inspired by the works of the Dadaists and most notably Tristan Tzara and his newspaper collages.
All workshop participants (and even passers-by) were invited to contribute to poems, by “throwing” words into the poem. Some however were also be given authority rights, having [...]

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