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iET
Kunsthal Exhibition
iET / Lisa van Viegen Mokoginta & Rich Dust / Sjoerd Koopmans photography: Boudewijn Bollmann
This summer, the Kunsthal’s HALL 3 will feature ‘Hunger’: the multidisciplinary exhibition based on the autobiographical music of iET, the stage name of musician, singer-songwriter, and creator Lisa van Viegen-Mokoginta in collaboration with designer Rich Dust (Sjoerd Koopmans).
After the birth of her daughter in 2018, iET’s world was suddenly reduced to the confines of her own home, hardly leaving her room for her enormous craving for creating and sharing. iET will take the audience on a visual, narrative, and above all musical journey past the contradictory feelings she experiences with regard to being a new parent on the one hand and her boundless ambition as an artist on the other.
Visitors can wander through nine intimate spaces that visualise the personal development iET is going through as a young mother. Despite the intense love iET feels for her daughter, becoming a parent proved difficult and lonely at first. She experienced this period as if she were trapped inside a bubble that was hard to get out of. These feelings of oppression resulted in the musical project Hunger, in which iET – in close collaboration with designer Rich Dust– candidly shows her vulnerability with respect to this often still emotionally charged subject.
The exhibition symbolises iET’s home. The nine songs are her rooms, each representing an emotion or phase.
Apart from featuring iET herself, the illustrated portraits show various elements and precious objects from her home, such as plants, colourful stained-glass windows, musical instruments, and her daughter’s stuffed animals. Especially for the exhibition, writer Marianne Clason has converted iET’s music into poetic stories. While wandering through Hunger, the audience will hear and see – room by room – how iET rediscovered herself in her new role as mother, woman, partner, and musician.
PERFORMANCE
Every Sunday up to and including 4 September, iET will be joined by a number of her musicians and take part in the exhibition. Musician, film maker, and choreographer Davide Bellotta is in charge of directing these live performances.
Colophon
Curator
Annemarie Nycolaas
Artistic director, concept, music, text, production and live performance
iET (Lisa van Viegen - Mokoginta)
Artistic director, concept, exhibition design, graphic- and spatial design and illustrations
Rich Dust (Sjoerd Koopmans)
Stories
Marianne Clason
Documentary photography
Boudewijn Bollmann
Animation and spatial design
Jan-Roelof de Vries
Animation and 3D visualization
Benjamin Kerkmans
Spatial design and production
Studio GRIDT (Bart Lentze)
Lighting design
Remko van Wely
Furniture design and production (space 5)
Els Kuijt
Costume design
Annemarije van Harten
Web development
Sjoerd Oudman
Technical coordination – realisation
Hylke Bijker
Assistant curator
Veerle van Herk
Communication
Sabine Parmentier
Caroline van den Boomgaard
Audio Design, music production and live performance
Budy Mokoginta
Translations
Jan Roel van Zuilen
Music
Keimpke Zigterman
Music and live performance
Mark Schilders
Thierry Castel
Director performance and video
Davide Bellotta
Spatial advice
Paul Ketelaars (Vakwerk Architecten)
Business advice
Rick Spaan
Business advice and bookings
Immanuel Spoor
Artistic advice performance
Conny Janssen
Photo printing
Het Beeldgebouw (Ronald Schouten)
Media control
Koen te Poele
