A new artistic environment in MELLY
An interdisciplinary group of Rotterdam makers—including Tomas Dirrix, Loes van Esch, Koen Taselaar and Simone Trum—create a new artistic environment for MELLY. Working collaboratively, Dirrix, Van Esch, Taselaar, and Trum, reflected on MELLY as not just a place to experience art; it is often a space used to rehearse ideas and to perform publicly. Considering this, they envisioned that the various elements they would create for MELLY could be conceived of as a dance troupe. The shared trait of their design pieces is that these can be easily re-arranged to serve as either a bookshop and cafe lounge, as well as to conduct a workshop, accommodate a lecture, or convene a meeting or even a dance itself. (Speakers and a disco ball already hung in MELLY; removing these was the only thing they were not allowed to do.) In this sense, the environment can host different scores and perform various kinds of functions. More info