videomagazijn

Routes and Routines, brochure, 54 pages, Hasselt, 2008

A joint publication by Constant vzw and Z33
Texts by: Peter Westenberg, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Wendy van Wynsberghe
Graphic design: OSP, Ludivine Loiseau and Yi Jiang

Download in PDF (34 mb)

This booklet documents five network walks as a part of the Routes and Routines roject Peter Westenberg developed for the exhibition Place@space in art center Z33. The walks were organised between March 13 and May 17 2008 and traversed the urban environment in all its complexity. Through streets, the public domain, the internet, radio waves, semi-public territories, legal space, fantasies, historical footprints and technological connections, the walkers explored the boundaries of the public nature of the city.

Peter Westenberg contributed an article Affinity video to the ’first research book about YouTube’ published by the Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur in Amsterdam.
(more…)

Booklet with cd rom, 2004

A booklet about the web streaming project World Wide Westwijk, which consisted of a television program webcasted on a weekly basis between december 2003 and june 2004, combining the traditional documentary character of local tv with artistic avant garde in-situ interventions.
(more…)

Book, 2003

“A publication about the organisation of private life, the nuclear family and the institutionalisation of love , realised in the framework of the thematic project The Organisation of Private Life, a co-production by the Piet Zwart Institute and the Kunstuniversit”t Linz.
(more…)

Booklet with textual and visual contributions, 2001

This publication was commissioned by dance company Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods, and accompanied their Rotterdam performance of Highway 101. Guest writers and artists reflected on normality, representation, human behavior and excess in a contemporary urban environment.

Read:
Introduction by Rudi Laermans and Myriam van Imschoot
The lifestyle of excess, the excess of lifestyle by Laurens ten Kate
(more…)

Article for Archis #5, 2001

A political contextualisation of Chicano and Black murals in Los Angeles. This article about the political reality behind murals in Los Angeles was published in 2001 in the architectural magazine Archis. It presents excerpts from a report I wrote during a working period in Los Angeles.
(more…)

Series of printed matter 1996 – 2001

A series of independently published small booklets, flyers and posters, dealing with the relation between cultural identity and geographical places. The bimonthly editions were mailed to subscribants and distributed via bookshops and hand out networks.

Visit the online archive.