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Gyz La Rivière’s documentary ’12’ will be completed with authentic Fret Click source materials such as fake train tickets -used to travel the country in a quest to find the best spots for skateboarding- , the one and only Nike Zoom Air FC Fret Click and a short film on Mike de Geus (r.i.p.), the Johan Cruijff of skateboarding in the nineties.

The other half of the installation / exhibition is focused on the life of Louisa Menke, one of the few professional female skateboarders. Media artist Geert Mul and Gyz La Rivière will create an installation made up of short films by Louisa Menke, who, requested by La Rivière, has recorded her day to day life for the past few months.

A small but precious side-project of 720° is a series of photos by Louisa Menke commissioned by MAMA. Especially for us Louisa flew in from Barcelona to photograph Rotterdam. In the exhibition her photos of skateboarding hot spots and (old) friends will be presented to the public for the first time. Florian Waldvogel (ex-skateboarder and director of Kunstverein Hamburg) wrote an accompanying text to go with Menke’s photos.

In 720° the pieces of a puzzle (photos, films, text and source material) are assembled to tell a story of freedom, growing up, friendship and grasping opportunities or missing chances.

720° is the central exhibition of MAMA’s multimedial project Endless City; a project in which we investigate the relationship between skateboardculture, public space and (visual) art, with a sidelong reference to the ideas of the International Situationists.

Hidden Routes
18 and 19 July (during the street weekend of the ‘Youth Capital 2009’) are reserved for a series of dance interventions led artistically by Conny Janssen. Contemporary dance reacts autonomously to the dynamic movements of skateboarding and to the creative interaction with obstacles in public space.