All objects, installations and acts dreamt up by Tristan Kruithof are realized under the banner of EXOOT. Tristan is responsible for the artistic and practical supervision of our performances at festivals and other events.
We perform with interactive objects and installations at festivals and art events. Beside that we are specialized in mobile DJ acts with a unique look.
We’ve been hunting for musical treasures for years now. Records from the early fifties and sixties, original vinyl pressings, of course! The roots of contemporary pop music. We know how to throw a party and how to provide an exciting musical backdrop.
AMI6 is one of our interactive old-timers, ideally suited cut out for cultural festivals and events.
A Citroën with a healthy dose of positivism: it grooves, flirts and flies along the streets.
A street phenomenon with a headstrong personality, AMI6 plays with - and frequently surprises - the audience.
CREDITS:
Tristan Kruithof: concept, construction and performer
Tom van Wijngaarden: construction and performer
Edwin Dertien: controllers
Peer Reede: first promotional photos
Ramon Masius: trailers
SHOWTIME!
AMI6 premiered in 2016 at Bildstorung Detmold, a German street theatre festival. In that same year, there was the Dutch premiere at the Oerol festival. During a summer tour, AMI6 visited Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch,
Op ‘T Eiland Nijmegen, Chalon dans la Rue (FR), CIRK! Aalst (B), Buskers Bern (CH), La Strada Bremen (D),
Deventer op Stelten, Turbulentes (F), SupervliegSupermouche (B), Concert at Sea, Tête à Tête Rastatt (D),
Nijmeegse Kunstnacht, Festival de Betovering
and other festivals.
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THE MAIN POINTS IN THE TECHNICAL AND THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE:
- AMI6 performs 3 x 30 minutes per day.
- We usually drive about 300 to 400 meters each 30 minutes show.
- Before every show we need to charge our battery-pack. So if we do one long route , we need to charge in between during the breaks.
- We need an electrical outlet: 1X 230V (max. 13A).
- Set-up time is 2 hours, 1 hour breakdown. We always arrive 2 hours before showtime.
- AMI6 can take a bit of rain… not heavy showers, though.
- We kindly request the host organisation to provide a parking spot for our van and trailer. We use our van as a dressing room, so it’s very important that our van is parked close to the performing area.
- A sufficient amount of healthy food and drinks for 1 or 2 persons.
- An overnight stay in a hotel when the performance is planned early in the morning or late in the evening.
SCUBABIANCHI forms a part of a series of interactive old-timers, well-suited for cultural festivals and events.
An autobianchi magically transformed into an aquarium on four wheels filled with goldfish and a chap behind the steering wheel who seems a bit suspicious. SCUBABIANCHI plays with - and surprises - the audience.
CREDITS:
Tristan Kruithof: concept, construction and performer.
Laura de Jong and Remie Bakker: THE DOLL!
Edwin Dertien: controllers
Tom van Wijngaarden and Wilco Botermans: performers.
Ramon Masius: trailer
SHOWTIME!
Scubabianchi premiered at Terschellings Oerol 2013 and then visited many festivals, like Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch, Op ‘T Eiland Nijmegen, Chalon dans la Rue (FR),
Les Tombées de la Nuit (FR), Gogbot Festival Enschede, Cinekid festival Amsterdam,
Zwoele Zomeravonden in het Kröller-Müller Museum, De Zwarte Cross, SupervliegSupermouche (B),
Miramiro (B), Kleines Fest Hannover (D), Lugano Buskers (CH),
STAMP (D), La Strada Bremen (D), Festival Renaissances (FR),
Parades Nanterre (FR), Coupe Icare (FR), Das Detroit Projekt (D) and Buskers Bern (CH).
THE MAIN POINTS IN THE TECHNICAL AND THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE:
- SCUBABIANCHI performs 3 x 30 minutes per day.
-We usually drive about 300 to 400 meters each 30 minutes show.
- Everything works on a battery-pack. We charge batteries before every performance. During a long route, we need to charge during the breaks. Please make sure there are power supplies available.
- We kindly request the host organisation to provide: 400 litres of clean drinking water.
-It is important that the water tap is located near the venue of the performance.
- We need an electrical outlet: 1X 230V (max. 13A).
- Set-up time is 2 hours, 1 hour breakdown. We always arrive 2 hours before showtime.
- SCUBABIANCHI can take a bit of rain… not heavy showers, though.
- We kindly reguest the host organisation to provide a parking spot for our van and trailer. We use our van as a dressing room, so it’s very important that our van is parked close to the performing area.
- A sufficient amount of healthy food and drinks for 1 or 2 persons.
- An overnight stay in a hotel when the performance is planned early in the morning or late in the evening.
HAPPY FISH
The goldfish that can be seen swimming in the ScubaBianchi are an intricate part of its charm. Some people may feel anxious about the well-being of the goldfish. I appreciate their concern, and I can ensure them that our goldfish are not showing any signs of stress or discomfort. If anything, they seem to glide through the water quite contentedly!
VELO is a converted bycicle that can be hired as a game station or as a small open air cinema. Movies, programs and trailers will be projected on to four screens.
VELOMAN
We also use the VELO to play a legendary computer game with our audience…in 3D. The four screens will show members of the audience rising to the challenge of achieving the highest score of the day.
The much-coveted VELOMAN-medal will be presented to the winner at the end of the day. The players see a beautiful 3D environment through a diorama box. It can be watched at day and at night, by children and by adults.
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CREDITS:
Tristan Kruithof: concept, construction and host
Aldo Hoeben: content videogame 3D.
Wilco Botermans: host
Ramon Masius: trailer
THE MAIN POINTS IN THE TECHNICAL AND THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE:
- VELO as a mini-cinema: four consecutive hours each day.
- VELO as a game station: three consecutive hours each day.
- We need an electrical outlet: 1X 230V (max. 13A).
- Set-up time is 2 hours, 1 hour breakdown. We always arrive 2 hours before showtime.
- The client provides the visuals in digital formats: mov, avi, mpeg.
- VELO can take a bit of rain… not heavy showers, though.
- We kindly reguest the host organisation to provide:
a parking spot for our van and trailer. forming area;
a sufficient amount of healthy food and drinks for 1 or 2 persons;
an overnight stay in a hotel when the performance is planned early in the morning or late in the evening and driving back to Utrecht is no longer an option.
INTERACTIVE OBJECTS
PHOTO-ALBUM
PHOTO-ALBUM
PHOTO-ALBUM
"A wink to robotics, a search for closeness’’
Animaltroniek is a layered audio-visual installation; radio-controlled with simple recognisable wooden 3D puzzles as a basis.
I am looking for a form in which robotics, mechanics and electronics are fused in a transparent way and a 'cuddly' creature with its own personality comes into being.
The installation interacts with the public. By means of three objects, I explore the electronic inventiveness and stretch the limits of mechanics.
The objects are far from lifelike, yet the technique is totally clear and transparent and nothing is hidden.
Yet the spectator reacts with a certain emotion. I am fascinated by how quickly the human brain accepts the world through recognition of image and movement, convinces itself and accepts something as realistic. Where is the turning point in the language of movement and imagery, that makes the human brain ‘switch over’ ?
Animaltroniek can be placed in a public space in two ways: a suspended version (AIR) and a mobile version among the audience (MOBILE).
BOOKINGS
There are two versions that can be booked; AIR or MOBILE. You can choose between 1, 2 or 3 objects.
Especially for multi-day exhibitions and art routes we have developed an automatic pilot.
EDUCATION
We have developed an educational programme for primary schools. We think it is important to enthuse children and bring them into contact with art and technology.
PHOTO-ALBUM
The smallest radio station of the Netherlands, provides festivals and events with fantastic vintage tunes. It creates a heady ambiance and gives nocturnal dancing a healthy shot in the arm.
Very suitable for big, festival-filled squares, dinners, weddings.. or you can use Radio Barkas to bridge a highly inconvenient gap in a festival line-up.
Radio Barkas: a mobile radio station that regularly makes a stop in places that need to be funked up. Vinyl only – back to the roots of contemporary pop music.
THE BARKAS COLLECTION
The Barkas Collection encompasses a very wide range of vinyl records – thousands of them – all collected and lovingly kept by Tristan Kruithof. For the last tweny years, Tristan has been hunting feverishly for those elusive gems - at flea markets, record fairs, online auction, charity shops…
In the collection you’ll find original pressings of records from the fifties and sixties- from rock&roll to ska, surf, soul and mambo, from rhythm&blues to funk, exotic jazz, calypso and cumbia. At their parties, one moment you may recognize a hit from bygone days that hasn’t lost any of its fizz, and the next moment you’ll be dazzled by musical jewels mysterious enough to make a music history professor want to twist and shout. Are you are ready for an adventure? This party will swing like a Snapping Shrimp!
Radio Barkas consists of a group of DJ’s, who have played ‘The Barkas Collection’ at
many big festivals and events throughout Europe.
THE MAIN POINTS IN THE TECHNICAL AND THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE:
A Radio Barkas performance usually lasts 3 hours. (Longer performances are negotiable.)
- Set-up time is 2 hours, 1 hour breakdown. We always arrive 2 hours before showtime.
- We do both indoor and outdoor performances. A drizzle or a slight breeze won’t prevent us from playing.
- Our sound systems are suited for 100 to 400 persons.
- At your request, we can also bring along a microphone or a quiet aggregate.
- We kindly reguest the host organisation to provide:
a parking spot for our van and trailer. forming area;
an electrical outlet: 1X 230V (max. 13A);
a sufficient amount of healthy food and drinks for 1 or 2 persons;
an overnight stay in a hotel room with shower when the performance is planned early in the morning or late in the evening and driving back to Utrecht is no longer an option.
SHOWTIME!
In the last couple of years, Radio Barkas was the radio station of Terschelling Oerol,
Boulevard ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Noorderzon Groningen, Gogbot Festival Enschede, Sziget Budapest, Lowlands, De Zwarte Cross, Roskilde (DK), Perth International Art Festival (AU) , Norfolk&Norwich Festival, (UK), Chalon dans la Rue (F), Les Tombees de la Nuit F, Turbulentes (F), Buskers Bern (CH), Miramiro (B), Bildstorung Detmold (D) ,Het Nederlands Filmfestival, North Sea Jazz and many others.
THERE ARE 4 DIFFERENT DJ BOOTH'S TO CHOOSE FROM:
NR 1
NR 2
NR 3
NR 4
PHOTO-ALBUM Nr 1
PHOTO-ALBUM Nr 2
PHOTO-ALBUM Nr 3
PHOTO-ALBUM Nr 4
NR 2
Wilco Botermans: DJ, Ami6, Scuba and Velo.
Jessica Panhuijsen: pr material, administration and production.
Tristan Kruithof: boss, DJ, designer and builder.
Lotte Fleur Zuidema: DJ and Velo.
Floris Barnhoorn: DJ, Scuba and Velo.
Lodewijk Kieft: DJ and Velo.
Rein de Kok: DJ and Velo.
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CREW
EXOOT
All objects, installations and acts dreamt up by Tristan Kruithof are realized under the banner of EXOOT. Tristan is responsible for the artistic and practical supervision of our performances at festivals and other events.
We perform with interactive objects and installations at festivals and art events. Beside that we are specialized in mobile DJ acts
with a unique look.
We’ve been hunting for musical treasures for years now. Records from the early fifties and sixties, original vinyl pressings, of course! The roots of contemporary pop music. We know how to throw a party and how to provide an exciting musical backdrop.