Het Apollohuis
My Home is Your Home (Book)
Catalog published in conjunction with Construction in Process IV - The Artist Museum, Łódź, Poland and Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands, 1993/1994. This publication documents the fourth edition of the legendary international art project Construction in Process, organized under the evocative title My Home is Your Home. The exhibition brought together an extraordinary constellation of international artists working at the intersection of installation, sound art, and experimental music.
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Takamasa Kuniyasu (Postcards Set)
Set of 6 postcards by Takamasa Kuniyasu, published by Het Apollohuis in 1992. The Japanese artist, born in 1957, is internationally renowned for his monumental-scale wood and ceramic brick installations that explore the relationship between nature, construction, and traditional Japanese aesthetics. Kuniyasu has exhibited at prestigious institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His work addresses the concept of "Re…
1995-2001 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications
This book surveys the final six years of Het Apollohuis, the alternative art space founded by artists Paul and Hélène Panhuysen in 1980 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The rarest volume in the series - printed in only 500 copies, compared to the 1000-1500 print runs of the previous volumes. Housed in a former cigarette factory, Het Apollohuis produced exhibitions, concerts, installations, lectures, and publications concerned with experimental, interdisciplinary, and interactive art. Much of the work …
1990-1995 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications
1990-1995 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications Het Apollohuis. 152 page A4 size book with photos and comprehensive documentation of all exhibitions, concerts, performances, installations and lectures that took place between 1990 and 1995. Essential archive of one of Europe's most significant experimental venues. David Behrman, Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Terry Fox, Phill Niblock, Noise-Maker's Fifes, Joe Jones, Jim O'Rourke, Rhys Chatham and many more extraordinary art…
Long String Installations 1982-1985 (Book)
40 pages book in English with artwork and photos, by Paul Panhuysen and Johan Goedhart which compiles several performances and installations by this two artists around Europe. Born 1934, Panhuysen was heavenly involved with the fluxus-related "De Bende Van De Blauwe Hand" before founding the Maciunas quartet. Increasingly concentrated in sound-art, he went on to produce the remarcable sound installations known as "Long String Installations"·
Since 1982 Panhuysen has created over 200 such ins…
Long Strings 1982-2011 (book)
*2022 stock* An account of the production of Dutch composer and visual/sound artist Paul Panhuysens long string installations, which crossed a range of spaces in various ways and were, in fact, sound sculptures that could be played. Over a period of 30 years Panhuysen made more than 250 long string installations in many locations around the world, drawing attention to the perception of our environment and the ways in which its parameters are detected, transformed and analysed by our senses, simu…
The Archives Part 1 (1968-1980) - 11xCd Box
Founded in 1968, The Maciunas Ensemble took Fluxus founder George Maciunas (1931-1978) score Music for everyman (1961) as an invitation to explore the infinite space of sound patterns and musical structures. This exploration still continues after more than forty years. With Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha, Jan van Riet, Leon van Noorden, Hans Schuurman, Helena Koning, Vincent Panhuysen. Since its foundation in 1968 the musicians of the Maciunas Ensemble always recorded their music with tape recorder,…
Textum Web
**rare original** Terry Fox’s Textum Web artist book of mixed-media drawings and constructions about phrases taken from the folk poetry of tabloid headlines with messages in braille and morse code. 54 p.: ill.; 30 cm.
And The Mexican Jumping Beans
Packaged in a Digipak with a 12-panel insert. Following a trip to Mexico City, Paul Panhuysen returned to Eindhoven with 200 jumping beans - those curious larvae-inhabited seed pods sold as toys in local markets. At Het Apollohuis, he began a series of experiments that would result in this remarkable recording. Panhuysen's practice has long incorporated living creatures alongside electronic devices: "I've worked often with animals, with birds, crickets and goats. I also use sensors, timers, sole…
The Edison Effect: A Listener's Companion
Comes with a 22-page booklet in a two-panel Digipak sleeve. Paul DeMarinis presents a companion work to his acclaimed sound installation The Edison Effect, where ancient phonograph records, wax cylinders, and even holograms of records are played with laser beams instead of needles. This recording explores the archaeology of sound reproduction technologies, creating a dialogue between Edison's mechanical cylinders and contemporary digital audio. In the original installation, one of the most poeti…
Live With The Birds
What happens when experimental musicians share their studio with an aviary of canaries? The answer lies in Live With The Birds, one of the most unexpected and joyful documents in the Maciunas Ensemble's discography. Released by Het Apollohuis in 1997, this recording captures a remarkable interspecies collaboration where Paul Panhuysen and his ensemble discover their most enthusiastic improvisers have wings.
The setup was deceptively simple: aluminum strips suspended from rubber bands, allowing f…
Number Made Audible
Named in tribute to Fluxus-founder George Maciunas, the Maciunas Ensemble's Number Made Audible stands as one of the most radical documents of sound art to emerge from the Netherlands in the 1990s. Originally released by Het Apollohuis in 1993, this CD captures eleven pieces that transform numerical relationships into living sound through invented instruments: Duochords, Spring Strings, Musical Bows, Guitars with Tails, Tubular Aluminum Monochords.
Founded in 1968 by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha a…
1985-1990
Five Years 1985-1990 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications Het Apollohuis 148-page A4 book documenting 102 exhibitions and 163 concerts. In a former nineteenth-century cigar factory in Eindhoven, something remarkable happened between 1985 and 1990. Het Apollohuis became one of Europe's most vital platforms for experimental music, sound art, and performance - a place where boundaries between disciplines dissolved and artists from across the world gathered to presen…