Over the years Wietske Maas has straddled a miscellany of different cultural tangents from visual arts, taxidermy, sommelier to radio-making.
Based in Amsterdam since 2005, Wietske combines artistic pursuits with work as a freelance producer for the European Cultural Foundation.
In 2007, she started developing with Matteo Pasquinelli an project called urbanibalism an approach to the city as an edible geography. Urbanibalism explores food in the entwinements between urban society and nature: a gastronomy which recovers the spontaneous living matter of the city, transforming unsuspecting ingredients into a public recipe. Often ending-up in conviviums, urbanibalism seeks out new relations between people, cultures, histories and ecologies alive within the metropolis.
Current & upcoming:
Grand Domestic Revolution residency (15.06 – 28.06.10), event (25.09.10) & publication (15.10.10 )
Noord, publication and exhibition with Egyptian, Lebanese and local Dutch artists and designers to map the unexpected invisible and visible and histories and futures of Amsterdam North. Mediamatic, Amsterdam. Exhibition opens on 10.09.10 and runs until 24.10.10
Kanal Labs with FoAM & Open Green, as part of Festival Kanal Brussels, 18.09.10