contribution # 1 | INTRODUCTION

jozef van rossum and barbara witteveen

photo's © stefan gross, florian cramer, arnold schalks

 

jozef van rossum, crimmp_13, inleiding, moynat trunk, rotterdam

the rotterdam visual artist / writer and ocw pacemaker jozef van rossum wrote: “i fail to appear this time because of a visit to the german westerwald-keramik-museum. _the museum's website shows visitors that had their photo taken with an objekt des monats (object of the month) and that lead me to have myself represented at ocw by an objekt des moynats, being a suitcase (see attached picture) of the french company moynat. _the suitcase is one of a set of three. _its slanting top has been designed to fit the trunk of pre-war automobiles. _because of its hilly character, at westerwald i will regularly climb slanting tops, but i won't complain or use abusive language, nor will i crack bawdy jokes. _that's not my cup of tea anyhow.” according to van rossum. _he introduced the evenings by means of a recorded message. _we put him on the loudspeaker:

 

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the suitcase was furnished with ceramics by barbara witteveen.

barbara witteveen, jozef van rossum, crimmp_13, moynat koffer, rotterdam, foto © stefan gross

 

barbara witteveen, inleiding, crimmp_13, moynat koffer, rotterdam

 

barbara witteveen, inleiding, crimmp_13, moynat koffer, rotterdam, foto © florian cramer

 

barbara witteveen, inleiding, crimmp_13, moynat koffer, rotterdam

 

barbara witteveen, inleiding, crimmp_13, moynat koffer, rotterdam, foto © florian cramer

 

barbara witteveen, inleiding, crimmp_13, moynat koffer, rotterdam, foto © florian cramer

 

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