Fie Schouten and Gery Mendes to be resident artists at the Van Doesburghuis in 2025
08 October 2024
Next year, two performing artists will take up residency in the Van Doesburghuis in Meudon-Paris. From among nearly thirty submissions, the Fund selected two project proposals: those of bass clarinettist Fie Schouten and of composer, actor and songwriter Gery Mendes. They will be the new temporary inhabitants of the famous studio dwelling in the period May to August 2025, during which they will further develop their projects.
Theatre maker and composer Gery Mendes composed the music for a number of shows by Orkater collective Sir Duke, drawing on the Cape Verdean music of his youth: morna, funana, batuku and hip hop. During his stay at the Van Doesburghuis, Gery will work on composing music for the performance Hurt People / Kintsugi and on investigating various African music styles as part of his project AllThingsAfrica. The residency also offers Gery the opportunity to rekindle his contacts with the French soul singer Ben L’Oncle Soul and others, and to collaborate with a French soul choir and vocalists. Gery will be in Paris in May and June of 2025.
Fie Schouten
Bass clarinettist Fie Schouten is specialised in new music and in the lower pitched clarinets, and is artistic leader of the biennial Basklarinet Festijn event. During her residency, Schouten will work on the composition titled Free Space, based on the book Espèces d’Espace / Species of Spaces by Georges Perec. The stay in Meudon will also enable her to collaborate closely with the French composers Jérôme Combier and Kerwin Rolland. Fie will reside in the studio dwelling in July and August of 2025.
About the Van Doesburghuis
The Van Doesburghuis is the former home of the artist duo Theo and Nelly van Doesburg. It has been made available since 2017 to artists active in any of the disciplines in which Theo and Nelly van Doesburg worked: architecture, visual arts, literature, music, design and performing arts.
The artist residency is a joint initiative by the Dutch cultural funds: the Performing Arts Fund NL, the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Dutch Film Fund, the Mondriaan Fund, and the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
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