#Pottemenners & #pottevruikes wanted!
Als ex-gebruiker van de Sphinx gebouw, nodigen wij jullie van harte uit om deel te nemen aan “Sphinx (inside-out)”, een nieuw kunstproject rondom het Sphinxkwartier.
Het project is een initiatief van de stichting The Artist and the Others samen met cmunz artists. Het is een eerbetoon aan de geschiedenis en de mensen die verbonden zijn met het gebied.
In het kort; we willen graag een reeks van 200 portretten maken van mensen die het gebouw in het verleden hebben gebruikt en van mensen die er nu gebruik van maken.
Deze portretten worden afgedrukt op posters met een afmeting van ongeveer 90 cm x 135 cm en worden geplakt op de muren rondom het Sphinxkwartier, uitkijkend naar de stad, voor een periode van drie maanden. In de bijlage vind je meer informatie over de inhoud van dit project.
Het project is geïnspireerd door het wereldwijde project ‘inside-out’, van de Franse fotograaf JR. Wij gaan de serie foto’s indienen bij de organisatie van ‘inside-out’, evenals een digitaal boek publiceren van de portretten met de mogelijkheid deze ook fysiek te publiceren.
Het maken van de portretten zal tussen 19 februari en 1 maart plaatsvinden, in het Eiffelgebouw.
Hoe meldt je je aan:
• Ga naar deze link, en kies een tijdstip: https://datumprikker.nl/event/subscribe/p2xtz9tknwp5ehp5
• Vul je naam, telefoonnummer en e-mailadres in,
• Je krijg per email een bevestiging met meer informatie over de locatie etc.
Het nemen van het portret duurt niet langer dan 20 minuten. Je kom binnen en meldt je bij een van onze medewerkers. Fotograaf Christine Munz zal dan een portret van je maken. En klaar!
Als je vragen hebben of graag wat meer informatie wilt, aarzel niet contact met ons op te nemen.
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#Pottemennekers & #pottevruikes wanted!
Are you acquainted with any former factoryworkers? Or are you one of them? Plan your photo appointment asap: https://datumprikker.nl/event/subscribe/p2xtz9tknwp5ehp5
For the “Sphinx Inside-out” project The Artist and the Others and #Cmunz artists are looking for men and (especially) women who used to work in the #sphinxfactories. A series of 200 portrait photo’s will be made of people who used to live and/ or work in the #sphinxkwartier. The aim is to exhibit those portraits – together with portraits of people who currently live and work in the sphinxkwartier – on the facades of the former sphinxfactories.
Please inform the people you know who worked at Sphinx !
Contact us via Facebook or via email at hello@theartistandtheothers.nl
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More about the project:
“Sphinx (inside-out)” pays homage to the history of the Sphinx Heritage and the city of Maastricht itself. It acknowledges and asks its public to acknowledge that without the Sphinx workers, without their work, without the wealth they created but never got to own, the urban space that the squatters occupied and that the current people now inhabit would literally not exist.
Of course their historical contribution goes much further: the whole of Maastricht is in their debt. The project portraits the history of Sphinx district and aim to reflect on the history of Maastricht.
The project is developed to celebrate and highlight the history and heritage of Maastricht, by giving a visual identity to a pivotal historical concrete building of Maastricht. The project is for all the inhabitants of Maastricht, the past and future generations. Is a project that celebrates the heritage embedded in the Sphinx area.
The series “Sphinx (inside-out)” will consist of between 200 and 300 photographic portraits. The series will have three parts. The first part of the series will consist out of photographic portraits of former employees of the ceramic factory. The second part will consist out of photographic portraits of the squatters that occupied the buildings of the complex after the closure of the factory. The third part will consist out of photographic portraits of the people that work in the new, the redeveloped complex. Sphinx (inside-out)” portraits not just individuals. The three groupings of people in their distinct work clothes render also three different societies to view and analyse. The photographic portraits ( which measure 90/135 cm) will be mounted on the brick wall that surrounds the renovated Sphinx complex.
That wall is a residue, a left over, a piece of history. During the period of 3 month the people visiting Maastricht will have the opportunity to give a “face” to Sphinx building and being aware of its past and enriched present. This project will connect Maastricht also to the world, where this project is already taking place.
The artists behind this wants to highlight the history and identity of people.
Here you can check the all InsideOut project. Next to the photographic portraits a book collecting interviews with the different workers of Sphinx will be designed and published.
Additionally, in this way the project want to preserve the memory of the workers and share their stories with the new generations, preserving and handing down their history, which became and is history of Maastricht too.
What is the motivation for organizing this activity or project?
The Sphinx Quarter is a former-industrial area of Maastricht, which first opened in 1834. This business had been set up by Petrus Regout, the Netherlands’ first industrialist. There is almost no home in the entire Netherlands that does not contain sanitary articles made in this factory. It is also the location where thousands of inhabitants of Maastricht, Limburg and Belgium worked for years on end. After its closure in 2006, the buildings of the industrial complex were squatted for several years, until they were renovated and reopened as an urban cultural district. The project described above is intended to pay homage to the history of this complex and its workers The need and idea behind the project is to preserve and highlight the history of the Sphinx quartier, his past and present to the current inhabitants of Maastricht. Collect faces and their connected memories to reflect on the past of Maastricht, but also, on how single humans carry with them an important part of the history of the city. We feel the urge to realise this project now, because of the substantial change that are happening within the Sphinx quartier.
