has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Visitors at the promenade deck at Schiphol airport.
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Securityguard at the VIP-area at Eurosonic Air in Groningen.
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Eurosonic Air 2012 at the Grote Markt in Groningen.
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The making of a videoclip at Eurosonic 2012 in Groningen.
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Two boys testing their new toy in Groningen.
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All western leaders (and Turkey) supported the uprise of the people in the Arabian world.
On the other hand, protest in western democracies is often countered by police force.
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Person of the year 2011: The Protester
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Occupy Groningen behind a protective fence at the Waagplein in Groningen.
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'Nondescript News' is a compilation of TV stills (partly hidden by the speed of the medium) from several European news bulletins. These public images were watched collectively and categorically and form part of our worldview. Stripped of commentary and freed from their context, these explicit images have been neutralised. They are open to interpretation; an appeal is made to the viewer's archive of images. This always produces (individual) associations. But these rely on external iconography and may include stereotypes and preconceptions.
What have we all been watching and can we still interpret images in their originality?
(www.hanskoster.com)
According to the western media and politicians the removal of Mubarak and the death of Kadhafi mark the end of the Arab uprising.
For the people of Egypt and Libya this 'regime change' is only the start of a democratic proces in a polarised society.
Western media coverage of the Arab uprising and political commitment with the peoples movement in Arabian countries tend to be simplistic, naive and self-centred.
(wwwhanskoster.com)
