RoomService Prestens: 'Keep Calm & Carry on'

RoomService will be hosting a new project next weekend: 'Keep calm and carry on'. This project is a live art format created by the artist Sarah Trouche (Paris). The international participants are invited to live, research and exhibit during a full weekend in different European cities through the whole year, this time in Amsterdam at OT301.

The format encourages artists to collaborate with each other and to react site and context specific, engaging art pieces with the local environment and architecture of the city and the space itself. The workshop/research will end up in a show made out of the work done during the prior 3 days.

Opening: Sunday the 6th 19:00 of June at OT301 Amsterdam.

Curator: Sarah Trouche
Scenography: Benjamin Herr

Invited artists: Adrian Brun, Annegien van Doorn, Aurelie Gelade, Bas Hendrikx, Bianca Argimon, Christophe Zehnacker, Lorraine Chateaux,Christopher Collier, Cristina Marques, Dana Slijboom, Emeric Lhuisset, Emma Corrall, Felix Davin, Francois Cathala, Gabriel Meo, Gemma Powels, Janne van Houtum, Jean Forax, Johan Achermann, Léa Bardin, Lody Meijer, Mathilde Ganancia , Nicolas Charbonnier, Nina Bernagozzi , Rafaela Lopez, Robin Le Gloannec, Schmalz Sandra, Segolene Haehnsen, Samantha van den Berg, Yasmine Laraqui and Sarah Trouche

Music: by 'you and me in the echo'

'Blocking (blok-ing)' Finissage + ArtChive Eve no 1

Saturday 8th May RoomService will be 'on' again at the OT301 18:00 onwards for the Finissage of Blocking (blok-ing): installation and video work by Marija Danilovic & Avi Krispin. This time, in collaboration with Art-Chive first event, hosting guest artists: Maartje Jaquet, Roberta Petzholdt, Sibyll Kalff & Nicole O Niel.

Korean food will be served at the bar from 18:00. Performance will start at 20:00
& music by Dj Natalia as off 21:00 h.


Avi Krispin
Video installation and print to address the irony in today's version of reaching out and the contradiction in how 'issues that matters' are addressed.

Marija Danilovic
Stemming from her own exposure to cinema in her youth, she has developed for 'Blocking', a site specific installation that comments on the layered way popular media is often absorbed in today's culture.

Nicole O'Neil
2 video works, Fugges: It’s inspired by human behavior in a group and as an individual/ 2009, 11 min. Language: Hungarian (English subtitles) & Distanta: inspired by cultural differences and miscommunication as a general phenomena/2010, 7 min. Language: Romanian and German (English subtitles).

Sibyl Kalff
Darling Quotes
The Darling Quotes are dedicated to Jürgen Baldiga and Vincent Allan W
The Darling Quotes are a collection of some of Sibyll Kalff's favourite songquotes - either textwise or musicwise or both! and a thanx to all rock 'n' roll cats!

Maartje Jaquet
Poetry to pictures of found animals of objects and structures on the street

Roberta Petzholdt
Performance of a monologue about time (starts at 20:00 h)


'Bloking' (blok-in) Installation
By Avi Krispin


'Poetry to pictures'
by Maartje Jaquet


'Fugges' Video work
by Nicole O'Neil


Video work
by Marija Danilovic