Set Installation for a play by Kees Roorda – featuring Titus Muizelaar, Ruben Lürsen & Erik De Vries. Visit the site for show dates and places www.surrender.nu
On tour in the Netherlands from March through to May 2008
Archive for February, 2008
Route 66 – the musical
In SET & VIDEO DESIGN on February 21, 2008 at 2:34 amA Road musical directed by Titus Muizelaar featuring Loes Haverkort and Frank Lammers (seen below) Produced by Beeldenstorm en Harry Kies Theaterprodukties. Currently on tour visit www.route66.nu for show dates
Photo Carolien Sikkenk
Ways of Dying
In SET & VIDEO DESIGN on February 20, 2008 at 5:03 pm A play directed by Lara Foot-Newton based on a book by Zakes Mda
Produced by The Market Theatre & Grahamstown National Arts Festival 1999.
“Catherine Henegan’s brilliantly inventive visual ploys recreating the messy and jagged urban landscape that counterpoints the pure, uninterrupted space of the rural African vista.Henegan’s visionary sets and props constitute the physical glue which holds the partialities of the different characters’ tales together.”
Love in the time of poverty July 15 1999 mail & guardian _ ZA at play
Mncedisi Shabangu and Bheki Vilakazi
Black Box White Cube
In ART & EXHIBITIONS on February 19, 2008 at 5:44 pmBLACK BOX WHITE CUBE was a collaborative project between Catherine Henegan, Karen Lancel (Dutch visual artist), The Rembrant van Ryn Gallery and the students of The Market Theatre Laboratory in 1999.
Henegan & Lancel worked with students of the Market Theatre Laboratory to create a video installation which played with the idea of the white gallery space transforming into a darkend theatre space. The audience was virtual, the role of viewer transfomed into that of actor.
This project was presented at the Rembrand van Ryn Gallery which was housed in the building of The Market Theatre in Johannesburg – and was co-ordinated by Storm Janse Van Rensburg
Henegan & Rage – Stars in my Pocket
In WATCH VIDEOS on February 19, 2008 at 5:30 pmMusic video created by Henegan from drawings and sketches by Jimmy Rage for the track DRAW ME NEARER
Made with Trivid Software designed by TeZ of Sub_multimedia Research Laboratory
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The Shooting Gallery
In PERFORMANCE, The Shooting Gallery on February 19, 2008 at 3:22 pmConceived & Directed by Catherine Henegan in collaboration with Aryan Kaganof
“For 30 years, The Market Theatre has presented revolutionary drama to theatre-goers and none could be more revolutionary than The Shooting Gallery. This is contemporary, current, off-the-cuff real live theatre.
I am sitting in a theatre in this city confronted by the reality of this morning’s Israeli bombing attack on Beirut – feeling as if I have been transplanted to the front-line of the Middle East conflict. The play is adapted to the circumstances of the world of any given day –
and it will leave you asking a lot of questions…”
Tom Jasiukowicz ACHE BLOG REVIEW July 2006
Aryan Kaganof – PHOTO BY NATALIE PAYNE
Girls on Film
In WATCH VIDEOS on February 19, 2008 at 3:06 pmUnofficial film by catherine henegan and aryan kaganof for the nouvelle vague cover of the classic dead kennedys anthem
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The Shooting Gallery
In PERFORMANCE, The Shooting Gallery on February 19, 2008 at 1:58 pm“This production is not really a play. It could possibly be better described as post-modern reality theatre. But the best description, really, is simply that it’s a multi-media mind f**k. Light on literal spoonfeeding and heavy on symbolism, which is great as it gives the old grey matter a bit of a workout…it’s an unusual way of making an anti-war statement, as well as probing journalistic ethics and the way media manipulates the public agenda. For those who like their theatre combined with left-of-centre art, music and poetry, The Shooting Gallery is stimulating theatre. It’s profoundly odd, but innovative and thought provoking. Be warned: this avant-garde fare will not be easy for those who like their entertainment served up in a fast-food polystyrene box.” Christina Kennedy Theatre Vibe The Citizen – July 2006
Aryan Kaganof & Catherine Henegan – PHOTO BY NEO NTSOMA
In PERFORMANCE on February 19, 2008 at 1:49 pm
From 1999 to 2001 Henegan followed a postgraduate degree at DasArts The Amsterdam School for Advanced Research in Theatre Studies
Here with Stefano Odoardi in the performance series : The Last Supper
Photo by Reyn van Koolwijk
Toto! I have a feeling…
In ART & EXHIBITIONS on February 19, 2008 at 1:29 pmDigital artist and film maker Aryan Kaganof, compiled a unique programme of poetry, performance and digital art entitled: “VIRGINS: The Staging of the Artist as the work itself ” at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban South Africa in August 2002 and Henegan was invited to participate.
“Toto!” was presented as a filmware video-installation. Filmware are computer-engineered movies, designed by Sub_Multimedia Research Laboratory, to create non-linear films and video installations.
3 X 3 Club Acts
In PERFORMANCE on February 19, 2008 at 1:20 pm3X3 was produced by Productiehuis Melkweg-Paradiso.
A DJ, a VJ and a performer create 3 club acts.
Each artist has the chance to take control of directing the act.
The first edition of 3 x 3 was with DJ Manga, VJ Catherine Henegan and performer Ghani Minne, and took place in the summer of 2003
The Rainbow is Real
In ART & EXHIBITIONS on February 19, 2008 at 1:14 pmThe Rainbow is Real was commissioned by The Joubert Park Public Art Project in 2001.
Henegan presented a photographic ‘mirror piece’ of the Museumplein, a popular public park in Amsterdam, which was installed on a billboard outside the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) in downtown Johannesburg.
The billboard was on show for the greater part of 2002.
Video Installation – Gerrit Dekker
In ART & EXHIBITIONS on February 19, 2008 at 1:10 pmHenegan was commissioned by Gerrit Dekker, Jan Brand and BAK (Basis voor Aktueele Kunst) to create a 5 screen video installation for Dekker’s retrospective exhibition About no below, no above, no sides
The exhibition took place in January 2005 at the BAK Gallery in Utrecht and co-incided with the launch of Dekker’s publication by the same name.
Video Design for Voudou Nation
In SET & VIDEO DESIGN on February 19, 2008 at 1:07 pmVodou Nation traces the turbulent history of the Haiti, from the arrival of Spanish colonialists to today. A spectacular multi-media montage of dance, video, carnival and ceremony. Directed by Brett Bailey (ZA) Produced by UK Arts Council in 2004
Crash Course
In ART & EXHIBITIONS on February 19, 2008 at 5:35 amVideo Installation by Catherine Henegan as part of Ritsaert ten Cate’s exhibition Crash Course in the Beyerd Museum, Breda (NL), 2004
SMS Sanctuary Mental Space
In ART & EXHIBITIONS on February 19, 2008 at 5:31 amSMS or Sanctuary Mental Space was a collaborative exhibition by Aryan Kaganof and Dick Tuinder in November 2003 at the Centraal Museum of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
The Shooting Gallery
In PERFORMANCE, The Shooting Gallery on February 19, 2008 at 5:14 am” This year’s National Arts Festival was thankfully not lacking in controversy. Catherine Henegan’s multimedia production,The Shooting Gallery, divided audiences like no other – some walked out, some gave standing ovations, others sat in stunned silence long after the play had ended.” David Bannister – scene 4 magazine 2006
Aryan Kaganof & Catherine Henegan – Preset for The Shooting Gallery
Route 66 – the musical
In SET & VIDEO DESIGN on February 19, 2008 at 5:07 amThe set up
Loes Haverkort (on screen) and Frank Lammers in Route 66
Art Direction of LULU 2005
In FILM on February 19, 2008 at 4:19 amTrailer of the Dutch feature film directed by Maartje Seyferth & Victor Nieuwenhuijs after the classic play Lulu by Frank Wedekind. Featuring Vlatka Simac, Titus Muizelaar, Hugo Metsers, Adelheid Roosen, Georgina Verbaan en Willeke van Ammelrooij
Produced by Moskito Film Amsterdam
The Shooting Gallery
In PERFORMANCE, The Shooting Gallery, WATCH VIDEOS on February 19, 2008 at 4:05 amPoetry performance by Aryan Kaganof as part of the Catherine Henegan multi-media show The Shooting Gallery
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Voudou Nation
In SET & VIDEO DESIGN on February 19, 2008 at 3:34 amVodou Nation traces the troubled history of the world’s first Black Republic Haiti. A spectacular multi-media montage of dance, video, carnival and ceremony. Directed by Brett Bailey (ZA) Produced by UK Arts Council in 2004
Or Press Escape
In PERFORMANCE on February 19, 2008 at 3:11 amOr Press Escape conceived and directed by Edit Kaldor was first presented at Gasthuis Theater Amsterdam in 2002. Henegan collaborated with Kaldor on this pilot version of the project as the ‘woman behind the computer’.
“Adembenemend is de scene waarin de computer aan haar gebruikster meldt dat er onvoldoende geheugenruimte is en bestanden verwijderd moeten worden… als de Zuid Afrikaanse al haar openstaande programma’s en bestanden heeft weggeklikt, kijkt ze eigenlijk naar zichzelf. Deze voorstelling onthult stap voor stap wat een rijk complex aan activiteiten en relaties een mens achter een computer kan ontsluiten.”
Vrij Nederland
Haram
In SET & VIDEO DESIGN on February 19, 2008 at 3:02 amA travelling theater play for school children performed on location in the classroom throughout the Netherlands in 2007. Produced by Theatergroep Wederzijds, Regie: Paulien Geerlings, Tekst Ad de Bont
Kaltoum El Fan performs in Haram
The Shooting Gallery
In PERFORMANCE, The Shooting Gallery on February 14, 2008 at 3:37 pmAided by a computer and a projection screen an editor (Henegan) tracks the way media constructs and reconstructs news and fiction. The protagonist is a war photographer (Kaganof) whose gruesome photos lead him into battle with his own conscience.
Conceived and directed by Catherine Henegan in collaboration with Aryan Kaganof and James Webb.
