... ida brookhart artworks, sustainability & more ...: december 2023

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FUNERAL ECSTASY – The Paradise –

The Paradise marks the beginning of FUNERAL ECSTASY, a series questioning the conventional notions of endings. Can we accept the fact that everything lasts only for a limited period of time? The Paradise urges us to reflect on the impact of the cyclical nature of life. Is it a celebration, a guided meditation, or a rave for the end?
The Paradise encourages heightened awareness of the present moment, emphasizing the value in each passing second. In a performative installation the audience is led through an ebb and flow, oscillating between darkness and light, intensity and tranquility; a collective experience, perceived individually. Watch the trailer here!
Friday16 February 2024 / 20:15 - 22:00.
Address: De Koepels Rotterdam, Persoonshaven 906-910, 3071 CL Rotterdam
Tickets: Regular € 16,50 / group ticket 4 persons € 60 / student-ticket & Rotterdampas € 12 . Doors 19:45h, Start 20:15h

HipSick is a Rotterdam based interdisciplinary crew which operates at the intersection of performance and installation art. From a fascination with the fringes and night culture, HipSick explores and questions societal developments and normativity. The Paradise evolved through research presentations and co-creation with the audience.

Concept & Artistic Lead: Nadîja Roza Broekhart, Sylvia Weening | Performance & Guides: Nadîja Roza Broekhart, Stefan Julizar, Bas van der Kruk, Sylvia Weening | Choreography: Leo Spreksel | Scenography & Light Design: Jeroen Molenaar, Zalán Szakács | Composition & Sound Design: Stefan ZMK | Costume Design: Nada van Dalen | Photography & teaser: Rachel Schraven x HipSick | Poster Design: Niels Vrijdag | Communication: Aniek de Rooij | Business Lead: Daniek Cappetijn | Production: HipSick | Special thanks to: Linda Ammerlaan, Demi van Kesteren, Theun Mosk, Lisette van Oostveen & all co-creators

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Ida taught teenagers and young adults in highschool for many years and wrote columns about the cosmos and everyday life. For a long time she has been involved with contemporary art and has curated textile art exhibitions. In recent years her focus is mainly on creating her own multidisciplinary art and writing blogs about feminist-oriented and multimedia artists. More info: idabrookhart@gmail.com

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Green textile necklace by Hanneke van Santen

Interview by Gabrielle Marie in the former Werklicht gallery building

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Hipsick Unusual Theatre has started working on the latest performance FUNERAL ECSTASY —a new series that challenges conventional perspectives on ending. The first installment, The Paradise, delves into the theme of impermanence, inviting us to reflect on the temporary nature of life. FUNERAL ECSTASY invites to ponder the essence of the end—the moment when things reach their conclusion. Through the work, Hipsick aims to unravel the deeper meanings behind our temporality and its profound impact on our existence.

During a series of research presentations you as an audience will be involved to give your input surrounding certain research questions. Become co-creator of The Paradise which is part of a new series of work called FUNERAL ECSTASY.
The end result of the performance 'The Paradise" will see its first light in February 2024.

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2021: WERKLICHT ArtBook

What a beautifully designed book this has become! The cover by Rens Muis of 75B Katendrecht. Publication by StoryHouse Belvédère Rotterdam. Project of artist collective WERKLICHT. At a glance, a visual work with accompanying poem can be seen - read. It was great to have participated in this with Ida-Brookhart-Contemporary-Art. My visual work 'The Newborn' can be seen on page 20. The poem 'De Libelle' on page 21 is by Alexander van Elswijk. The book, 224 pages full of beautiful photos, special poems and fun information, is for sale via the website at Verhalenhuis Belvédère.

2021: The Newborn

The birth of a new creation, of a whole new era, of horrible unevitable losses but of brand new possibillities too. Mixed-media artwork 'The Newborn' (H25 x W30 x D05cm) was invited to participate in the-Art-Rotterdam-Project, which turns Cultural Platform 'Fenixloods' into a display case full of art and poetry. The project is organized by Artists Collective ´Werklicht´: Theo Huijgens, visual artist & Joz Knoop, citypoet. The intention is to laminate an image of the work of art with the accompanying poem side by side in an A3 format, so that it forms a unit. This merger is applied to the inside of the windows so that visitors can admire this amalgamation of art from outside. After Project-Art-Rotterdam, the exhibition will travel to the SS-Rotterdam and abroad. July 2021: Fenix1, Veerlaan 21, 3072 AN Rotterdam-Katendrecht (formerly the red light district 'de Kaap'). Werklicht Millinxstraat 69, 3081 PE Rotterdam. Picture by Theo Huygens & Joop Reijngoud, fotograaf

2019: Opening expositie Douanehuisje

Opening door Nadîja Roza Broekhart, theatermaker & oprichter Hipsick Unusual Theatre én directeur cultureel platform Roodkapje Rotterdam. Opening van de kleine duo-tentoonstelling in het prachtig gelegen monumentale huisje, met uitzicht op de rivier, tijdens het Feminisme Festival Maassluis: duo-expo Textiel, Feminisme & Duurzaamheid met Jannie van Essen, textielkunstenaar. Foto Max van Essen. Tijdens het festival tevens de grote Trio-tentoonstelling in Museum Maassluis met Ida Brookhart, Willy Minderhoud en Gerda Ploeg.

2019: Feministisch Festival

In het jaar dat in Nederland 100 jaar kiesrecht voor vrouwen gevierd wordt, zijn de kunstwerken van Ida Brookhart onderdeel van de gevarieerde zomer expositie 'Sien, Vos & het Vrouwenhuis'.

Voor het eerst verblijven geëngageerde textiele mixed media objecten in Museum Maassluis. De kunstenaars -Ida Brookhart, Willy Minderhoud (keramiek) en Gerda Ploeg (geborduurde sculpturen)- hebben voor de tentoonstelling het thema 'Vrouw' in hun kunstwerken verwerkt. Tevens 3 gefilmde interviews met initiatiefnemers Vrouwenhuis door journalist Annemieke Vlier. Een stemhokje voor feministische zaken, foto's, plakboeken & een bibliotheek in een replica van het voormalige Vrouwenhuis.

De aanleiding voor de expo is de terugblik naar het ontstaan van de vrouwenbeweging in Maassluis tijdens de 2de feministische golf. Wat begon als een meidencafé in een jongerencentrum had als resultaat het 15-jaar functioneren van het Vrouwenhuis in de jaren 80 van de vorige eeuw.

Tijdens het Feministische Festival wordt tevens de 'Suffragettes' film in theater Koningshof vertoond. In het Douanehuisje is er de duo-tentoonstelling Textiel, Duurzaamheid & Feminisme. Op de zaterdagen geven vrouwen voorlichting/rondleidingen. Tot slot is er een lezing over Feminisme & Politiek door Ivonne de Groot in het Witte Kerkje.

2015: Sustainability

Ida Brookhart is guided by the idea of reincarnation, the intergenerational balance and the responsibility humans carry.Working with recycled materials has been an important topic for her creations. Most of the materials used are purchased at local markets and in ‘junkshops’. On her quests the materials will inspire her. Basic materials can be industrial waste, scrap textile, old knitted jumpers, rejected strings of wool, pre-owned dolls and vintage buttons from factory stock clearances. Like a beachcomber she also looks for stuff in the surrounding woods, along the river-side and on the North Sea beach. All places in cycling distance. She collects, selects and one day it will be transformed into something new. Her work results in a dynamic type of art which links the past to the present. Part of an article in 'Sachet Mixte', artsjournal.

2015: Sachet Mixte magazine

Rotterdam region based Brookhart loves colours and she has a great admiration for the bold colour use of textile artist Sheila Hicks. Ida’s favourite artist however, is Wassily Kandinsky, most of all because of his sophisticated use of colours and shapes. Kandinsky’s Bauhaus textile artists group and their use of non-traditional materials has been an important influence. Their materials were mixed and build with textiles to challenge people’s perception.

Part of an article in 'Sachet Mixte', artsjournal.

2015: Kunstwerken Voor Water

Publicatie textielwerk Ida Brookhart in de 'Kunstwerken voor water' catalogus, waarin informatie over 19 (inter-) nationale kunstenaars. Brookhart werd geselecteerd om te exposeren in het Provinciehuis Utrecht ten behoeve van Wereld-Water-Dag-2015 . De titel van de expositie "War, Peace & Beauty" is gebaseerd op de transitie van de 'Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie'. Van een gebied met militaire functie via een periode van vrede naar recreatieve mogelijkheden. De 200 jaar oude militaire verdedigings-linie is nu dankzij 70 jaar vrede een oase van rust voor mens, dier en plant in een steeds dichter bevolkt gebied ten oosten van de Randstad. Ontwerp: Erik Van Loon, eindredactie: Wilma Kun, uitgever: stichting aquarius

2015: Post War Couple

Ida, a former teacher, uses her intuition and listens to the inner voice. She has always been attracted to the mystery and magic of life and finds astrology, psychology and symbols highly interesting and inspiring. The ideas of 'Eastern' philosophy guide her. So if you ask what inspires her she will answer it is from the supernatural, but at the same time Ida must admit that sometimes there is no clue at all. Take the ‘Post War Couple’ matter paintings. It took her a while to understand that it was about her parents and their PW-trauma’s.

Part of an article in artsmagazin www.sachetmixte.com

'Textile Art is Hot and Happening' about Ida Brookhart & her art.

Director, editor: Simon O'Corra.

Sachet Mixte Women, 5th edition 2015

2015: Oranje Dryade

Volgens de oude tradities is een dryade de ziel van de boom en het hoogst ontwikkelde wezen uit het plantenrijk. In de Griekse mythologie zijn de dryades sterfelijk. Als de boom beschadigd wordt, dan lijdt de boomnimf en als de boom sterft betekent dat de dood van de nimf. Voor de oude Germanen waren de boomgeesten de verbinding naar de Goddelijke wereld. Boomgeesten zijn in alle oude religies vrouwelijk en staan symbool voor vruchtbaarheid. Sculptuur 2015 met boomstronk, vintage wol & andere garens, wielen en vintage porseleinen popje (80x34x45cm). Foto Tina Ionescu