Moonlight, so nice
Sunrise, so nice

Bad luck city
I cried cried cried
Bad luck city
Cried all night

Trailer for the new Banality Dreams production ‘The Precision of Freedom’.
Premiere 9 December 2010, Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf.

During the museumnight on March 6th 2010, Rotterdam most well known gallery TENT is Authentic Boys’ territory. Here, they will stage their 6 hour performance GO HOME; a political training ground with punkrocking ministers, underground freedom fighters and a treehouse full of hooligans.

With GO HOME, the Authentic Boys fade away the borders between the public and private domain; they explore the homey elements of election campaigns and the activistic aspects of staying home. During 6 hours, 15 performers will protest, convince, squat, eat and sleep in the conventional and unconventional spaces of the gallery.

Date: 6 March 2010, 20h – 02h
Location: TENT gallery, Witte de Withstraat 50
www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl

Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

Scene from the Authentic Boys film Dialoge.

Photos Aaike Stuart

Born 26 January 1982 in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands.
Lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Personalia
Phone:        +31(0)628266502
E-mail:        mail@aaikestuart.com
Webpage:    www.aaikestuart.com / www.authentic-boys.com

About Aaike Stuart
Since he graduated in 2006 Aaike Stuart has worked as an audiovisual artist. He is co-founder of the international artist-collective Authentic Boys, in which he explores various ways to connect film and video-art with performance. Moreover he regularly works as a commercial editor, cameraman and animator.

Education
2000-2002 Academie of Art and Design ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL, division of Fine Arts.
2005-2006 Four months internship at Studio Eén Filmworkshop in Rotterdam, NL.
2003-2006 Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam, NL, division of Audiovisual Arts.
Certificate Bachelor of Design in 2006.

(Video-) works since 2006
2006 Performing Life (Graduation project)
2006 Toen Robbert van huis vertrok/When Robbert left home (Short film)
2007 Performing Life #2 (Authentic Boys. Direction, editing)
2008 In Character (Authentic Boys. Direction, editing)
2008 Statements (Video-installation)
2009 Threesome (Banality Dreams/Authentic Boys. Co-camera, editing)
2009 Dialoge (Authentic Boys. Co-camera, editing)
2009 Natural FIction Circus (Banality Dreams/Authentic Boys. Co-camera, editing)
2010 GO HOME (Performance Authentic Boys. Concept, performing, editing)
2010 Bad Luck City (Authentic Boys. Script, editing)
in progress Chakra Gang Bang (Authentic Boys) & MOON - MESSI - MANKIND (Installation)

Exhibitions and Festivals (selection)
Performing Life
Media Art Friesland, museum Smallingerland Drachten (nl) - 2006
Louis Hartlooper Complex Utrecht (nl) – 2006
Galerie Bart Kunst in Huis Nijmegen (nl) – 2006
Meetings in Siberia Novosibirsk (ru) - 2007

Toen Robbert van huis vertrok
Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht (nl) – 2006
International Film Festival Rotterdam (nl) – 2007

Performing Life #2
Meetings in Siberia Novosibirsk (ru) – 2007
Cinefest Miskolc (hu) - 2007
Szemlétek Festival Pécs (hu) – 2007
Etiuda & Anima Festival Krakau (pl) – 2007

In Character
CinemadaMare San Potito (it) - 2008
Screendance festival Basel (ch) – 2008
Galerie Blaak 10 Rotterdam (nl) – 2009
Festival Rec Terragona (es) - 2009
Motel Mozaïque Rotterdam (nl) – 2009
Galerie Ex-Machina Geneve (ch) - 2009

Threesome
100° Festival Berlin (de) - 2009
Der Lange Nacht der Opern und Theater Berlin (de) -  2009
Motel Mozaïque Rotterdam (nl) - 2010
Flachlandfest Berlin (de) - 2010

International Film Festval Rotterdam (nl) - 2011

Hanging out in time and space – solo-exhibition Authentic Boys
Theaterdiscounter Berlin (de) – 2009
La Fabbrica, Losone (ch) - 2009
Podium, Oslo (no) - 2009
Tou Scene, Stavanger (no) - 2009
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam (nl) - 2010

GO HOME (performance)
Tent.Rotterdam - 2010

Bad Luck City
Theaterdiscounter Berlin (de) - 2010

Theater
2009 Sounddesign for the Banality Dreams production The Spontanious Sculpture of the Poo.
2009 Video for Natural Fiction Circus, a multi-media performance by Banality Dreams.
2010 Sounddesign and video for the Banality Dreams production The Precision of Freedom

Commercial work
2005-present Several assignments (director, editor, animator) for companies/organizations such as VPRO, KNSB, NPO, Elsevier, KLPD and Rijkswaterstaat.
www.stuartfilm.nl

Awards and Nominations
2006 Nomination Drempelprijs, Willem de Kooning Academie/City of Rotterdam.
2006 Nomination Maaskantprijs , Willem de Kooning Academie/City of Rotterdam.
2006 Nomination ‘Best Student Short’, Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht.
2007 Performing Life #2, best experimental film Cinefest Miskolc, Hungary.

Updated 23 December 2010

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