{"id":66752,"date":"2017-02-17T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/2017\/02\/17\/bizarre-tatoeage-show-stukafest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:38","slug":"bizarre-tatoeage-show-stukafest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/02\/17\/bizarre-tatoeage-show-stukafest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre tattoo show in student room during Stukafest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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'Canvas' Johan, ink master Jacopo Manelli and electronics engineer Josepet Bass<\/span><\/p>

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Thursday evening saw the tenth Stukafest festival taking place in student rooms in Rotterdam. The organisation used to choose artists from all over the world, but for the tenth anniversary edition they decided to exclusively showcase Rotterdam-based talent.<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t have imagined a more varied programme. The newly appointed city poet Derek Otte, a string quartet, a salsa workshop: they all appeared on the poster advertising the festival. However, the most unusual show was definitely the live\u00a0tattoo and electronics improvisation session<\/em>\u00a0in Anne\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

A first partnership<\/h3>
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At first sight, the title \u2018local talent\u2019 doesn\u2019t seem to fit Spanish electronics musician Josepet Bass (Jos\u00e9) and Italian tattoo artist Jacopo Manelli. Although they\u2019ve only been living in the city for five years, they are very enthusiastic when they talk about \u2018their city\u2019 of Rotterdam. Jos\u00e9\u2019s Dutch girlfriend suggested a partnership, which resulted in tonight\u2019s bizarre show. Jacopo with his tattoo needles and ink and Jos\u00e9 with a homemade installation of buttons and dials, which not only make the strangest sounds, but also recently caused his neighbour to move house.<\/p>\n

In the dark<\/h3>
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Johan kijkt toe hoe Jacopo zijn tatoeage zet<\/span><\/p>

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That same bizarre quality is reflected in their performance which, apart from the light from a couple of lamps, takes place in total darkness. As tattoo model, student Johan de Ruiter is the centre of this mysterious show. While the tattoo needle bites into Johan\u2019s shoulder, Jos\u00e9 distorts the shrill sound into an ominous play of thunder and lightening. The awed audience watches the dance between the tattoo machine and the music installation. Sometimes the high notes of the clarinet drown out the mechanical squeals of the machine: squeals that would otherwise probably have come from the tattoo model during the performance.<\/p>\n

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Josepet Bass en het Stukafestpubliek<\/span><\/p>

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In between the three rounds, Anne Duijndam, student at the Art Academy and hostess for the evening, and her housemates Floortje and Roos look after Johan. \u201cI totally underestimated it, man,\u201d he stammers after the first round, not just referring to the pain caused by the needle. While everyone is initially concerned for poor Johan and not being able to hear the doorbell, after the second round they realise that the neighbours haven\u2019t been warned. What on earth would they think hearing all those shrill noises? A temporary dental practice? An argument between aliens?<\/p>\n

The neighbours<\/h3>

Just after 11.00 p.m., after the last round, there\u2019s a ring at the neighbour\u2019s door. A student asks through a crack in the door what I want. I enquire politely if she\u2019s been bothered by the noise. She looks surprised: \u201cI haven\u2019t heard anything, but I did see poster hanging next door. Stukafest, I suppose?\u201d Yep, and if she\u2019d known what had been happening on the other side of the wall\u2026<\/p>\n\n\t

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Een lijst van afbeeldingen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t
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