AT5 Met Stadscuratorium-lid Aileen Middel langs street art. "De stad heeft rafelranden nodig".

AT5, Amsterdam’s local TV station, asked the City Curatorial aka Stadscuratorium to be shown around street art and graffiti in our city. I showed

As a member of the Stadscuratorium I hope to be able to save existing graffiti/street art and its locations and help to create new ones. The Stadscuratorium consists out of 9 art consultants who each have their own expertise on #artinpublicspace. We give requested and unrequested advise about art in public space in Amsterdam. Find us on our brand new website and social media.

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AT5 Straten van Amsterdam 'Meester Visserplein'

With Amsterdam's local TV station AT5 Mick La Rock went to what once was Amsterdam’s hottest graffiti hall of fame Waterlooplein and what is now the underground play ground TunFun. In the old tunnels she discovered a genuine 1980’s Vendex tag.

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AT5 Graffiti-hotspot langs oude metrolijn 51 wordt gesloopt.

Graffiti and street art have always been present in Amsterdam’s subway tunnels. It is part of our city’s cultural heritage.

With Amsterdam’s local TV station AT5 I walked through a short piece of subway line 51’s tunnel that used to connect Amsterdam and Amstelveen and will be demolished to make room for the expansion of Amsterdam’s business district.

Not all graffiti can be viewed as beautiful and not all graffiti spots offer the surface or circumstances for artists to make high standing pieces of art. The Amstelveen-tunnel is of those spots. The raw concrete and the 24-7 traffic on Line 51 prohibit artists to spend a long time inside. What we see is fast graffiti and graffiti dating back to the early 00’s. It contains the work of writers who have been around in the scene, who go all city, but in this tunnel not with their best work.

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With thanks to AT5 for the request to do graffiti archeology in an old tunnel and to Zuidplus for the facilitation.





ARTE TV: 'The Rise Of Graffiti Writing'. Nov. 2017.

ARTE TV newly released an important retrospective documentary about the development of the art of Graffiti Writing in NYC and Europe. The first place where New york graffiti was widely embraced was Amsterdam. Because she curated the exhibition 'Graffiti New York meets The Dam' Mick La Rock was asked for consultancy and interviewed for the series.

Pt. 4. of the series. For the whole series and a better screen go to ARTE TV (link).

ART TUBE : 'We Live Art: The Art of HipHop', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Feb 2015.

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and Aruna Vermeulen, director of HipHopHuis Rotterdam invited Mick La Rock at the Boijmans' depot to have a look at the 1980's New York graffiti collection.

Mick about the Boijmans Van Beuningen graffiti collection: (BLADE, QUIK, SEEN, ZEPHYR, NOC167, RAMMELLZEE)

03:52 - 05:28

06:30 - 08:46

10:31 - 14:14

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More media appearances.

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Internationally distributed documentary appearance:

2016                Girl Power Movie, director: Sany Baby. Punkfilm, Prague.                    

2008                Bomb It - The Movie, director: Jon Reiss. Antidote Films, New York.

 Selected nationally broadcasted television appearance:

2015                Kunstuur - special about Keith Haring, AVROTROS, 27 September 2015.

2015                Graffiti. New York meets The Dam. NOS Journaal, 18 September 2015

2012                Avenue de l’Europe, Les Tags, du rejet à la reconnaissance artistique,

France 3, 23 February 2012

2005                b-MTV, MTV Europe, May 2005

2003-2009     Videos for various Dutch recording artists

(Ali B, Akon, Lange Frans, Dret en Krulle)

2003                MTV Europe/Reebok commercial

1992                ‘Coming From The Subway', NOVA, 03 October 1992