Raul Lemesoff and his 'Weapon of Mass Instruction'

Mathijs Deen interviews the artist on his tank overgrown by books. In English.

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Date and time Friday 21 January 2011 22:40 tot 23:00 uur
Location Filmhuis - zaal 6

Raul Lemesoff

is a visual artist. At first he worked as an assitant photographer for newspapers in Argentina and the U.S.A.. He became a photo journalist when he moved to Houston, Texas. His work was exposed in galeries and musea in the U.S.. From 1999 he has been transforming cars into diverse mobile works of art. He called them The Y2 Kaka, The Illegal Immigrant Trypod, The Anti-Christ Ninth Mobile and Mobile Warning Global Warming. His most recent work is called The Weapon of Mass Instruction (Womi).
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Mathijs Deen

(Hengelo, NL 1962) is a radio journalist and a writer. His most recently published book is De Wadden (The Frisian islands; 2013), a poetic history of the Frisian islands. His book of short stories Brutus heeft honger (Brutus is hungry, 2011) was nominated for the AKO Literature Prize. Eating being the leitmotiv, Deen jumps through world history. The forty-four historical stories are fine miniatures of scarcely one and a half page long. After having studied Dutch in Groningen Deen worked for Radio Noord for some years. His radio columns from those days were collected in two publications. Since 2001 Deen has been programme maker with VPRO radio, hosting the historical radio programme OVT. A number of historical documentaries which he made for VPRO radio has been published as an audiobook. The radio series De lange weg naar Darwin (Long road to Darwin) appeared on cd and as a podcast. Deen was programme coordinator of the Winternachten Festival between 2009 and 2011.
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