This Wednesday June 8 at BYU:

My friend Jonas is a pretty good dresser, I would describe his style as “JFK on a Sunday”. When, one day, he was telling me about his plan to buy a hat, I pointed at the first person wearing a Fedora and asked if maybe he wanted to look like that jerk. He told me “that guy isn’t wearing a hat, the hat is wearing him”. During B.Y.U. this Wednesday, June 8, I’m proposing we all wear hats (proudly), on the sidewalk in front of Kunstverein or inside the bar.

The night will also include a talk by Lieven Lahaye; about hats, caps and provisional thoughts on how, if we would just concede and go along with things, taking minimal steps towards social conformity, great social change might be brought forth.

Doors open at 7.30 p.m.
Serving: Manhattan

Kunstverein wishes to thank its (Gold) members and Stadsdeel Zuid.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

BYU #46 – Watermarks Broadcast
with DES (LT) and Kevin Rice (USA)

Join us this FRIDAY May 27th for a live broadcast of Watermarks at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE. Watermarks is a musical exploratory initiative set in motion by DES (LT) & Kevin Rice (USA). In their collaboration they focus on rare and beautiful sounds from below the surface; a sonic journey of presents a nighttime advance, of beautiful sounds from both past and present.

Doors open at 8 p.m.
Serving: A watered down cocktail

Kunstverein wishes to thank its (Gold) members and Stadsdeel Zuid.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

with Lotte Lara Schröder

Hello Inertia,

you are here as your physical self.
Not as the representation or your proclaimed truth.
Thank you for coming.

What I would like to share is personal. It’s a random, yet controlled sequence of images, thoughts, sounds. A representation of experiences. Experiences derived from a childhood fascination for the volcano, its literal and metaphorical presence, its untouchable energy.

Let it be violent and beautiful, nestle inside your body, through its frequencies and alcoholic fluids, mold you into a flow of volcanic energy.

For this night at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE, Lotte Lara Schröder will present a series of interdisciplinary works set in motion by and expiring mental report. The works are a metaphor for the slow, energetic build-up – similar to both volcanic as well as personal outbursts. Join us for a hot, energetic and undoubtedly, eventful night.

Doors open at 7.30 p.m.
Serving: Volkan Beer, Black and Blond*

*Volkan beer brings together, Lava Rock filtered mineral water and the best of local ingredients from the volcanic island of Santorini. Since the Mediterranean Island receives little rainfall, what grows on it is intense in flavor and limited in quantity. Volkan beer is a Greek Debt Free™ product. With every 1 euro of profit, they help reduce the Greek National debt by 50 euro cents. Help Greece.

Kunstverein wishes to thank its (Gold) members and Stadsdeel Zuid.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday May 12 for the presentation of Fig. 3 with Nerijus Rimkus (LT)

Doors at 7.30 p.m.
Serving Ouroborus Liliaceae / Cruciferae

The third event in a series presenting one of the missing flowers of the final flower arrangement of blooming vegetables. Each event is an allegory presenting the ongoing research on the fine line between aesthetic assumptions and functional use.

*Fig. 1: June 3 2015, Blooming Radish. Fig. 2: October 10 2016, Final Flower Arrangement.

For the occasion Kunstverein is presenting the second postcard in its series. It will be for sale at Kunstverein or can be ordered via office@kunstverein.nl

Kunstverein wishes to thank its (Gold) members and Stadsdeel Zuid.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Welcome to the very first gathering of the Jack Lemmon Support Group at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE on Thursday May 5th.

Doors open at 7.30 p.m.
Serving: Little Mothers, the classic amongst classics.

Dear supporters,

Jack Lemmon was an actor not a sculptor. You all know that that’s not true. His sculptures are widely seen, but just not acknowledged as such.

We would like to invite you to re-make together a sculpture Jack Lemmon made for the film The Apartment by Billy Wilder in which he plays a character named C.C. Baxter that is forced out of his apartment by his superiors, because they want to use it for their adulterous acts. In his eagerness to climb the ladder he capitulates time and again, but despises himself for it. Disgusted and bored he carves out time with Dry Martini’s in a bar around the corner.

Please join us to re-circle the circle that Jack made and spiral downwards into the alcoholic void while imagining the space of your own apartments, and what they look like and how they are, without you in them.

Sincerely,
Bob and gerlach en koop

Please note that space is limited.
JLSG-members & KV-members have priority.

Kunstverein wishes to thank its (Gold) members and Stadsdeel Zuid.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us Sunday 6 March for BYU #41: Ian F. Svenonius performs ESCAPE-ISM

Doors open at 5.30 p.m.
Serving: The Last Word
And with an introduction by Experimental Jetset

ESCAPE-ISM is a found-sound dream-drama performed by singer, author, filmmaker and talk show host, Ian F. Svenonius (known from Chain & the Gang, The Make-Up, Weird War, Soft Focus, etc.) on the occasion of the release of his new book of essays and stories, Censorship, now!!

ESCAPE-ISM is a live collage, a ritual offering to the fractured landscape of AM radio. A broadcast of doppler radar weather reports, drums, electric guitars, electro-magnetic tapes, eye-in-the-sky traffic reports, game-time sportcasts, guest appearances, live interviews, machines, sermons, sickening sounds, stolen samples world news and many opinions.

“Censorship Now!! is reorganizing people’s ideas about censorship, Ikea, documentary filmmaking, the Berlin Wall, the film Heathers, the twist, the frug, the mashed potato, shaving one’s body, Apple, Inc., Nordic functionalism, the supposed benevolence of Wikipedia, hoarding, college rock, the origins of the Internet, and more.” – Akashic Books

Please note that space is limited.
KV Members have priority.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday 18 February for the second adaptation of ‘Bibliomania: Haven O’More’ a play written and performed by Olivier Lebrun and Alex Balgiu.

“What can you do, when you are forty and – having avoided alarm systems, fooled the distracted librarian, squirmed through ventilation ducts, left the place with your precious catch and finally put it up on one of your extraordinary shelves – you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss.”

Doors open at 7.30 p.m.
Serving To Have No More

Olivier Lebrun is a French graphic designer based in Paris. He is the author of “Stolen Works of Art” (self published, 2010) and “A Pocket Companion to Books from the Simpsons in Alphabetical Order” (Rollo Press, 2012, 2013). He is currently working with Urs Lehni and Camille Pageard on the forthcoming monography of Bernard Chadebec (Rollo Press, 2016).

Alex Balgiu is a Romanian French designer and theorist. He specialised in the phenomena of animality and kinship in social relationships through (American) Literature. Together with Thierry Chancogne he also runs the publishing house and research platform Tombolo Presses.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

CANCELLED!

Dear member, guest & friend,

Unfortunately tonight’s BYU with Floris Vanhoof has been cancelled, due to illness. We are very sorry about this, as we were hoping to treat you all to a spectacular night with music, tequila and film by this young, experimental film-maker.
You are still welcome to visit us during the day (between 1–5 pm) to see our new show Hans de Vries ‘Works 1968–1975’ and we look forward to raising our glasses again on February 18 in the company of Olivier Lebrun & Alex Balgiu.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday or Friday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday 28 January for BYU #38: Gerard Herman

Experimental, solo-concert with instruments from Gerard Hermans personal collection of household objects — selected on account of how they sound, not how they look.

Doors open: 7.30 p.m.
Serving: Speak Low

Gerard Herman (BE, 1989) is an artist based in Antwerp. His work focusses on language and the absurdities of every day life – his observations are put into works of various form and media. Herman is also one-half of the publishing house Groepdruk as well as tutor at the graphics departement in KASK, Ghent.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday for BYU#37 with Glenn Ryszko

14012016.vid – a quadraphonic sound piece on intimacy.

Doors open: 7.30 p.m.
Evening starts at 8 p.m. with a short screening followed by the performance

Serving: specialized beers marked for the occasion by Lotte Schröder.
Live stream: 20 hrs

What does intimacy mean for a community that shares personal information via the internet like it was sharing a sandwich? How does this exchange function in its online surrounding and how does it reflect upon exchange offline? These questions form the starting point for the sound piece made for this intimate gathering. By ripping, analyzing and combining audio fragments from YouTube videos in which people share their very private thoughts with – potentially – millions of viewers, Glenn Ryszko focuses on a specific sort of interchange. 14012016.vid is a documentary on human behavior that varies in intensity from the extremely personal to the extremely random.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Please join us this Friday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for ‘Curse of The Walking Techbane’

Doors open at 19.30
Talk begins at 20.00
Serving the Gremlin

Mathew Kneebone will talk about how experiencing a sequence of technical problems can lead to forms of superstitious behaviour. Supposedly able to short circuit electrical systems, magnetise objects, and block wireless signals, a Walking Techbane is someone who believes that their ongoing issues with technology are beyond coincidence.

Together with the talk will be a display of works by the artist.

Mathew Kneebone is an artist and former researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Amongst his interests are the methods that end-user’s adopt to cope with technological issues. His work addresses our relationship to technology through historically tracing examples of innovation, planned obsolescence, black boxing, and user-level anxieties.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Please join us this Friday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for Date Night #3: GAME ♠ WAR ♥ LOVE featuring Jay Tan in a busker-inspired bodily communication.

Doors open at 19.30, performance will happen unannounced.
Serving: Endless Love (ft. Mariah Carey)

Jay Tan is currently, next to her usual practice, exercising repressed dreams of being a magical, french, butoh, acrobat (not unlike her fantasised version of Denis Lavant) and trying to tell people how she feels by talking less.

Date Night is inspired by the triangle of forces GAME ♠ WAR ♥ LOVE, mainly inspired by the special ménage between Michelle Bernstein and Guy Debord, but recurrent more or less unconsciously in all kinds of relationships and love affairs. With the aim of unveiling artists’ personal lives, side practices, dreams, habits or hobbies as connectivity catalysts, Date Night presents them in a space ruled by a common awareness of the attendees, which is that they might have the possibility to fall in love anytime, even during the same evening.

Emma Panza is the instigator of Date Night.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Please join us this Thursday for “Quitting the Band” by Nickel van Duijvenboden – a reading and drum solo.

Doors open at 7.30 p.m.
Reading and drumming start at 8 p.m.

Serving the Bitter Apple

Nickel van Duijvenboden is a writer and artist from Amsterdam. He is currently about to leave the Rijksakademie, where he has been dedicating himself to paper and electronic correspondences and their spin-offs as an artistic mode. He has lately taken up drumming again, as a rhythmic consequence of writing and reading.

In his late teens and early twenties he used to be the drummer of a metalcore band with ties to the vegan-straight edge scene. This youthful experience in a way preceded a commitment to art and writing, and foreshadowed the precariousness of being in a community. It was marked by a gap between the joy of playing music together and the ideological rigour of the ‘scene’, which in fact amounted to a substitute form of conformism – a conformism within antagonism.

At BOB’S YOUR UNCLE Nickel will try to get out of his usual writerly and readerly role and improvise on the drums as an homage to whomever has had to quit the band.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Friday, 19.30 – 22.00, at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for

A reading playlist.

The book launch of the exhibitions Spell to Spelling ** Spelling to Spell and Your Time Is Not My Time of the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre. Designed by Dongyoung Lee.

A performance by Laurent-David Garnier, #INEFFABLE at 20.00

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Please join us this Thursday 30 April, 7–10 p.m. for Mime Radio, the launch.

Expect music and stories.
Serving: Amateur Delight

Mime Radio was performed and written orally by French artist Benjamin Seror at a series of events over a two-year period, then transcribed and edited into a novel. The story revolves around a cast of eccentric characters, who meet at the Tiki Coco, a bar in Los Angeles that holds “Challenging Reality Open Mic” nights for amateur inventors and performers. Eventually, the protagonists get caught up in trying to help Marsyas, a character from ancient Greek mythology that lost his body after being defeated in a music contest against the god Apollo, to recover his voice, his very ancient voice. Unbeknownst to them, this recovery unleashes a disaster… Mime Radio is a novel about how language and perception can be one and the same.

Mime Radio by Benjamin Seror is Edited by <o> future <o> and published by: Bat; Adéra; CRAC Alsace; Kunstverein, Amsterdam; and Sternberg Press.

ISBN 978-3-95679-151-2
€ 20

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for summery drinks, readings and sun dance beats from Greece.

In the name of Half Man Half Orange

If magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all, it might be indeed possible to mistake one for the other. No wonder language found its origin in myths. This summer reader is about the cup of coffee that keeps us awake every morning. How much of it has to do with caffeine and how much of it with our will to believe in rituals? Amen.

This publication brings together all the spiritual advice, scientific gossip, self-esteem exercises and chronic fictions that were read, written, watched, played, forgotten and discussed over a year in Arnhem by the Werkplaats Typografie participants.

Half Man Half Orange
12 x 17cm; 288pp

With contributions by Amir Avraham, Fred Cave, Yana Foqué, Daniel Frota, Virginie Gauthier, Daria Kiseleva, Mathew Kneebone, Fay Kolokytha, Menelaos Kouroudis, Jungmyung Lee, Iván Martinez, Laura Pappa, Christine Pogatchnik and Maria Jimena Sánchez

Edited by Daniel Frota and Menelaos Kouroudis and with support from Maxine Kopsa
Designed by Daniel Frota

Published by Werkplaats Typografie/ ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
www.werkplaatstypografie.org
Arnhem, 2015





PLUS:

Witness the sneak preview of

Mime radio (notes for chapter I to XII)

Mime Radio was performed and written orally by French artist Benjamin Seror at a series of events over a two-year period, then transcribed and edited into a novel.

For the first time, Mime radio (notes for chapter I to XII) presents all the models employed as part of the Mime Radio performances. This series of notes draws a mental landscape of the story told in Mime Radio.

On view until Saturday 2 May with the Mime Radio book launch happening next week, on Thursday 30 April

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for The Hummingbird’s Perch by Scott Rogers

Come to rest fast beating wings.

Wear crimson, celebrate the thaw.

A bright spot in a spring shower.

Sweet citrus. Potent nectar. Hibiscus business.

The April migration takes its toll.

Stay a while.

Doors open at 19.30
Serving Nectar
Dress Code: Red accents
Video: Rufous Hummingbird at rest
Sound: Wingbeats chopped and screwed
Flowers: Tropical or seasonal

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for the long awaited bartending of Gabriel Lester, feat. Smári Rúnar Róbertsson

Doors open at 19.00
Serving Icelandic Brennivin

Lester and Robertsson will make a turn in the groove. But you gotta make it move. The Kunstverein will be packed, stacked and connected. Its gonna be the station. The centre for elevation. Getting down with fresh new creations. Yes a party is over here! Not a party over there! So all come on down, spread that vibe everywhere.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Please join us this Thursday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for
Date Night #1: GAME ♠ WAR ♥ LOVE featuring a karaoke session by Nathan Azhderian.

Doors open at 19.30, karaoke performance from 20.00

“… We all know how this performance is supposed to look, how it’s ‘supposed’ to sound – but the right effect remains elusive. What we get instead is more human, and less Beyoncé; flat notes and forgotten lyrics and awkward pauses in all the wrong places. More than anything else, the raw, messy sensation of expelling sound from our bodies. Sucking down air and then pushing it back up and struggling to shape it, pushing it back out onto the pop-imago like the human grease that spoils the perfect surface of the screen, together.”

With a special contribution by Matkissing Agency, to be discovered inside Kunstverein.

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Please join us this Thursday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for
Date Night #0: GAME ♠ WAR ♥ LOVE hosted by The Dutch Oysters Club.*

Oysters and bubbles served from 19.30

“In pre-romantic, pre-modern time marriages or love connections were a matter of relatives, counselors, your uncle, your aunt, and so on … Today is similar, only instead of all those old wise uncles it’s dating agencies and marriage agencies. What they offer is precisely love without the fall, without falling in love, without this totally unpredictable traumatic encounter.” (Slavoj Žižek introducing Event: A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept, 2014)

*For the Date Night #0, the Dutch Oysters Club will be making their first public appearance. The founding members are Dina Danish, Bea McMahon and Emma Panza.

I’m With Her Records and BOB’s YOUR UNCLE presents:

Nancy Acid, live at Ellen de Bruijne

Thursday 19 February

Doors open at 8 p.m.
Gig starts at 8.30 p.m.

Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Rozengracht 207a
1016 LZ Amsterdam

The Performance Programme at Ellen de Bruijne Projects and BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is curated by Dorothé Orczyk.
10 January – 28 February 2015

Please join us Thursday 5 February for the radio feature
If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right #3 by Kerstin Cmelka.

A live DJ set and radio broadcast exploring female emotional desires and their attempts of expression in pop music.

Doors open at 7 p.m.
The set starts at 8 p.m.

Serving Negroni Cocktail

and

This Thursday BOB’s YOUR UNCLE’s newest franchise, the BOB’s YOUR UNCLE SPORTS BAR* in Bergen, Norway, will be hosted by Swedish artist Tobias Karlsson. The evening will feature pink cocktails, a soundtrack of 50’s love songs, and a re-enactment of one of Karlsson’s slam poetry performances from the 90’s.

*Appropriated by Amsterdam-based artist Carl Johan Högberg, BOB’s YOUR UNCLE SPORTS BAR is part of the exhibition “Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar” at Hordaland Art Centre, curated by Anthea Buys. Read more about the exhibition here.

The Performance Programme at Ellen de Bruijne Projects and BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is curated by Dorothé Orczyk.
10 January – 28 February 2015

BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is designed by Robert Wilhite, open every Thursday, and brings you a special host and special servings each week. Reservations: bobsyouruncle@kunstverein.nl

Join us this Thursday at BOB’s YOUR UNCLE for a screening and Bärenjäger.

Doors open at 7 p.m.
Screening starts at 8 p.m.

A Recess and a Reconstruction
Written and directed by Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet, 2011, 22 min.
With: Rachel Spicer as Hippolyta, Benjamin Seror as Manfred, and Francis Grew.

Somewhat at a loose end, two museum guides in a basement storeroom are marveling at the great resourcefulness of archeological museography. Elsewhere, on an excavation site, an archeologist standing by trenches and mechanical diggers is describing artefacts. Much further along, a young woman imprisoned in the underground recess of a castle lets her terror fantasies run wild. A Recess and a Reconstruction is a Gothic story where the line between what is past and what lies in the future is in the process of disintegrating.

Production I. I. I. I., with the support of Pôle Image Haute Normandie, Cultures France, FRAC Île-de-France, Mairie de Paris, Raven Row. Thanks to Marcelle Alix, Paris. Image: Maria de los Angeles Parrinello, sound: Arthur Beja, Sam Ryan, editing: Clement Tomé, costumes: Martin Hervé, catering: Michèle Monory.

Serving: Bärenjäger (bear hunter). In medieval times, bear hunters would enticing the bears with meschkinnes, a mead-like moonshine made by bee keepers and farmers which was irresistible to bears and humans alike. In the 15th century, the Teucke and Konig Bear Trap Company created the first professionally produced meschkiness (“Bärenjäger”). And it’s still made with natural ingredients using the same methods.

The Performance Programme at Ellen de Bruijne Projects and BOB’s YOUR UNCLE is curated by Dorothé Orczyk.
10 January – 28 February 2015

In collaboration with Kunstverein/ BOB’s YOUR UNCLE* Amsterdam, Ellen de Bruijne Projects presents different performances every week by the following artists:

*Kerstin Cmelka
Jeremiah Day
*Uta Eisenreich & Eva Meyer-Keller
*Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet
I’m With Her Records
Sarah van Lamsweerde
Eva Meyer-Keller
Erkka Nissinen
Janneke van Raaphorst
Geo Wyeth

Please visit Ellen de Bruijne’s website, Facebook as well as Kunstverein’s website to stay updated on the programme.

Join us this Saturday for Nora Turato does Rammellzee
Performance starts at 7 p.m.

Image: Rammellzee, copyright Vincent Vlasblom, NL

Please join us for the Kunstverein Christmas party with Santa Robert Wilhite serving Santa’s Crutch.

Friday 19 December, from 7.30 pm.

This Thursday 4 December, BOB’s YOUR UNCLE will host a triple special:

• The Exhibitionist serves The Pete – a non-controversial cocktail.

• Adam Pendleton reads Hannah Weiner – from afar.

• And Kari Cwynar of Kunstverein Toronto launches KVT’s first publication:
a new edition of Schneemann’s iconic artist’s book, Cézanne, She Was A Great Painter (1976), published in conjunction with the exhibition Dear Carolee: Carolee Schneemann in Letters (on from November 27 – January 10).

Doors open at 19.30.

We’ll be playing some Rammellzee. Poems welcome.

Doors open at 19.30

Please note that space is limited so it will be first come first serve and members will have priority.