Arnold Hoogerwerf

In samenwerking met Huis en Festival a/d Werf produceert Cowboy bij Nacht Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde. Deze voorstelling is exclusief voor het Festival a/d Werf 2009 gemaakt.

Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde gaat over dat wat zij zeker weet, terwijl hij daar toch anders over denkt. Over wat hij weet en zij denkt te weten. Over haar twijfels over iets dat hij evident vindt. Over dat wat zij als zonneklaar ziet, terwijl hij het gewoon had verzonnen. Over zijn echte leven dat zij ervaart als een leugen.

There are two sides to every story en Cowboy bij Nacht gaat samen met het publiek op zoek naar de andere kant van het verhaal.

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Mozzhukhin (2008) is a performance installation by cowboy bij nacht, inspired by a classic cinematic experiment by Lev Kuleshov, known today as the “Kuleshov effect”.

Around 1918, Lev Kuleshov edited a short film in which shots of actor Ivan Mozzhukhin, looking into the camera, were intercutted with fragments of various objects. The audience praised the acting skills of Mozzhukhin; first an object made him hungry, then sad, etc… 
 In reality the audience always watched the same shot of the actor, in which he actually looks quite expressionless.

Cowboy Bij Nacht is curious about the theatrical implications of this experiment, and invites the audience to act as a test person.

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Bouwnummer 1077 is a ‘Heavy Physical Sound Performance’ by Bart Visser, Remco de Jong and Arnold Hoogerwerf. This project is both a performance and a sound installation. The installation scans the surrounding space of the installation with microphones and speakers, which are built into hanging cubes. It can be played like an instrument, by grasping, swinging and rotating the cubes. By playing sounds into the room and subsequently recording and replaying the same sound, an acoustic resonance scan is being made of the space and the room will reveal, bit by bit, its ‘true acoustical identity’.

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~Under Construction~

Ontleding Van Het Filmische is a performance / light installation. In this performance, a mechanical light construction is built and carefully tested, with the ultimate goal of creating one ‘cinematic’ moment. This project is an ode to the pioneers of cinema: all the artists, priests, alchemists and scientists that passionately worked on the invention of the cinematic apparatus, an apparatus that laid the base for our contemporary visual culture.

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Secret Places is a performance installation by Forced Entertainment with 13 performers of the Rotterdam and The Hague Art Academies. In this 4 hours lasting performance, the performers are sitting next to each other with their eyes closed, telling each other stories from memory.

“Surrounded by 1000 snapshots of the city 13 performers embark upon a marathon of memory. Hundreds of stories are told, forgotten places are re-discovered and fragments of reminiscence are whispered in the half-light. You are invited to eavesdrop.”

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