Telephone w/ Jameszoo, Philip Akkerman and Heske ten Cate

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Heske ten Cate (creative director Nest) interviews Philip Akkerman and Jameszoo (Mitchel van Dinther) about their friendship, art and upcoming collaboration in Nest, The Hague.

In Nest they will take you through a surrealistic choreography, in which more than 350 self-portraits by Akkerman seek the connection with self-playing pianos, synthesisers and music compositions by Jameszoo. Not a single day in the exhibition is the same: the pianos have a self-learning ability and adapt the composition to what has taken place before. Starting point of the months-long composition is the song ‘Philip’, which gradually takes on a life of its own. A ‘game of Telephone’, or a translation of a translation of a translation of a symbiotic work.