Dear colleagues, friends and relations:
In August 2005 we: Sophia Tabatadze (Tbilisi-based artist) and Freya van Dien, (Rotterdam-based organizer in the field of art), decided to make a plan for setting up an artist-in-residence in Tbilisi, Georgia. During Freya’s first visit to Tbilisi in October, we received the good news that the Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (FondsBKVB) granted us a subsidy for the necessary research to realize the project.
The first reactions to the initiative, by people from the local Tbilisi art scene, the art academy and the Dutch embassy, are supportive of the goals of the project.
Geoair.blogspot.com will keep you up to date on the projects developments. If you know anyone who might be interested in this project, please pass it on. And, if you have any questions or remarks, feel free to contact us at: infogeoair@gmail.com
Best,
Sophia Tabatadze & Freya van Dien
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CV Freya van Dien
Date of birth: 21 June 1973
Nationality: Dutch
Adres: G. Scholtenstraat 98b
3035 SR Rotterdam
the Netherlands
telephone: 0031-(0)10-2652506 / 0031-(0)6-43044980
e-mail: codewit21@yahoo.co.uk
Education:
1997 - 2000 Higher Vocational Education Cultural social work or Leisure studies at the
Hogeschool Rotterdam, subject: Art & Culture, specialisation: Media & Communication.
1994 - 1997 Willem de Kooning Art College at the Hogeschool Rotterdam,
Subject: Autonomous 3D
1993 - 1994 Teacher training manual arts at the Hogeschool Rotterdam
1992 Senior General Secondary Education
Profile:
During and after my education I developed as an policymaker and intermediary in the field of arts and culture. In my practice the agogic and social value of art and culture plays an important role.
My experience as an employee and freelancer in the sector of arts and culture cover all the phases of a development. From a view to a policy that leads to the organisation of a project that will be evaluated in the end. Within this I have specialised myself in initiating and coordinating projects, fundraising and PR & communication.
I am familiar with the developments in contemporary arts and the individual art practice as well as with the policymaking and project coordination. My knowledge of both these fields strengthens me in my role as an intermediary. I work for organisations of different sizes in the non-profit, the public and the commercial sector. Because of this I am familiar with different views and interests between the different layers in the atrs and cultural sector.
Content wise my interests lie with art and architectural projects that take place in the context of phenomena in society and are related to those phenomena in a critical and/or constructive way.
Selection of work experience
November 2005 – present: Dutch project representative GeoAIR 2006. A research project about the possibilities for setting up an artists in residence in Tbilisi Georgia.
June 2005 – present: Artistic director StudioRe-use Rotterdam. StudioRe-use is a shop, open studio, gallery and research space for all people that are dedicated to the re-use of waste and remains. StudioRe-use focuses on the principle of re-use on material as well as on immaterial levels.
August 2003 – present: publication of conversations between Wil de Wit and Rotterdam based artists. Wil de Wit alias Rotterdam is a personification of the city of Rotterdam. As Wil de Wit I talk with Rotterdam based artists about our relationship and how they feel about me. The conversations are published in the bimonthly artzine FuckingGoodArt.
January 2003 – present: Free-lance business support 2012Architects & Recyclicity foundation Responsibilities: management assistance, PR& communication, fundraising and acquisition.
1999 - 2005 Art Product Responsible at the municipal Binnenmaas. Activity’s: organisation of small exhibitions at the town hall, co-ordination of several art projects in the public sphere and secretarial work for the municipal art-committee.
November 2004 – March 2005: Free-Lance PR&Communication, productional support and lobby for the ZIM project, a society engaged artproject in the neighbourhood of ‘het Oude Noorden’ Rotterdam.
March 2003 – August 2003: member of the ROOM crew. ROOM is a network of Rotterdam based artists, working in different disciplines, that initiate public projects.
March – May 2003: Free-lance production and communication 2e fase SAIT Rotterdam in Witte de With Centre for contemporary art. Social Actors in Transformation is a research project about the exchange of critical cultural practices in the cities of Belgrado, Minneapolis and Rotterdam. SAIT in Witte de With consisted out of an exhibition of research- and archive materials, lectures, screenings, debates and performances
September – December 2002: Free-lance ‘Cultural Stimulator’ Hoeksche Waard. The province of Zuid Holland assigned three Cultural Stimulators to give and impulse to arts and culture in the region of Hoeksche Waard. Tasks: to act informing, assisting, initiating and stimulating in the field of arts and culture.
March 2002 – October 2002: Free-lance Project leader KunstXpress. Tasks: coordinate the realisation of an art route through the centre of Rotterdam, coordination of the building process and programming the ‘artists village’ KunstXpress CS.
December 2000 – July 2001: general assistant for project ‘Breeze of AIR’ by the AIR foundation, Architectuur International Rotterdam.
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