ISH TV, audiovisual platform, 2010

Location: International School, Wijndaelerduin 1, The Hague

An internal TV studio/transmitter was built for the International School, which is completed by students in collaboration with artists and teachers, under the supervision of Stroom. ISH TV can be seen as an audiovisual platform for creative expressions by both artists and students; all age groups within the school can participate in making and viewing the programs. In the Plaza, the central hall of the school building, three movable screens are hung on which broadcasts are projected.

The project began in 2007. Programming and experimentation is done from a small studio by a permanent editorial board. Peter Westenberg opened the series of autonomous artist projects with the 3 channel film “Rules/Role/Rooms” (with ISH student crew and actors).

A number of presentations and workshops were organized in 2008, culminating in on-screen presentations, including Ellen Mandemaker ('Falling', stop-motion animations by Year 4 Primary students); Shereen Abdul Baki ('Relish', about food and identity) and Ricki van der Tas.

Watch the workshop on Shereen Abdul Baki's website
Website Ellen Mandemaker

Projects by Otto Berchem, Gerald van der Kaap, Arnoud Holleman and Marijke van Warmerdam will follow in 2009-2010.

This project was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation, Stimulation Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Cultural Heritage.

British writer Philip Davenport organized a collaborative project with the ISH and Parenthorn School in Bury, UK, as part of the British Text Festival (April 30 - September 12, 2009). Students from both schools took inspiration from the poem 'Grin' by British experimental poet Bob Cobbing and created drawings, collages or poems to be shown on the three screens. The 'Grin Variations' were screened during the Text Festival at the ISH in The Hague, at the Bury Art Gallery in the UK and were also on display at Stroom Den Haag in May 2009, in a 3-monitor set-up in the Entry/Walk-in space.

The project started in 2007 and was finally completed in 2010.