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3rd Nieuwstraat Festival: the works!

Nieuwstraat is an average street in the centre of Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
On an unannounced Saturday in July 2025, between sunrise and midnight, the 3rd Nieuwstraat Festival took place.
On this day, volunteers performed unannounced – and often unnoticed – using instructions or ‘scores’ from (international) artists. Passers-by will have noticed the works but, outside a clear artistic context, may not have recognised them as art performances.

Please click on a name to view a work and its reports.

The 3rd Nieuwstraat Festival took place
on Saturday, 5 July 2025.
The program consisted of works by
(in alphabetical order):

Albert Van Der Weide,
Andrew McNiven,
Annie Abrahams,
Cloud St.,
Carron Little,
Clare Charnley,
Deirdre MacLeod,
Ed Woodham,
Elizabete Beāte Rudzinska,
Evgenia Taratynova,
Heinrich Obst,
Helinä Hukkataival,
Ienke Kastelein,
Jack Madden,
Jeff Rufus Byrd,
Josue Amador,
Kashyap Krishna,
Kimvi,
Konstantin Bukovetskii,
LuLu LoLo,
Manuela Macco,
Martine Viale,
Nico Parlevliet,
osvaldo cibils,
Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik,
Shervin Kianersi,
Sifra Coulet,
Soufïa Bensaïd,
Timo Kahlen,
Topp & Dubio,
Vladimir Bovt.

The works were performed by:
Sifra Coulet, Nazlı Meriç Çukurova, Mario van Horrik, Petra Dubach, Steef van Lent, Nico Parlevliet, Annie Abrahams, Ienke Kastelein, Jolanda Jansen, Sandra Posthuma, Kathrin Wołkowicz, Geerten Ten Bosch, Jello Reumer, Safanja Bendeler, Yvo van der Vat, Frans van Lent.

2nd Nieuwstraat Festival: the works!


Ed Woodham: Fly
(performed by Emmy Vollaard)

The Nieuwstraat is an average street in the center of Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
The Nieuwstraat Festival took place on June 19, 2021, between sunrise and midnight. The performances were performed by volunteers, unannounced and without explanation.
The performances involved took place in everyday environments and hid the unusual within the usual. Passers-by will have observed the actions, but may not have recognized them as performance art.

Works by:
Peter Baren
Hans Bossmann
Vladimir Bovt
Finn Melvin Caird
Clare Charnley
Beau Coleman
Jane Domaliç
Jorn Ebner
Theodora Eliezer
g.a.d.o. (Paloma Sanchez Palencia & Lena Skrabs)
Johannes C. Gerard
Ienke Kastelein
Joshua Legallienne
Frans van Lent
LuLu LoLo
Andrew McNiven
Myrte van der Molen
Andrei Monastyrski
Nico Parlevliet
Mikio Saito
Masha Sumnina
Albert van der Weide
Ed Woodham
Jing Zhou

The Nieuwstraat Festival fits in a series of Unnoticed Art Festivals. It balances on the line between public and private. It shows artworks hiding in normality. The language, used to express the works, fits in the average social behaviour in public space and, because of that, remained unnoticed to bystanders.
Creating the concepts and executing the works are split. Artists send their concepts more or less as manuals. The chosen works  are carried out by a group of (both experienced and unexperienced) volunteers. These volunteers have a double roll. They are participants as well as audience. They are responsible for realising the performances in the best possible way and, doing that, they fully experience the works. In fact they become part of it.
This way the audience is not excluded but it is actually embedded.

The works in the 2nd Nieuwstraat Festival were performed by:
Peter Baren, Stefanie van den Bos, Geerten Ten Bosch, Hans Bossmann, Finn Melvin Caird, Jos Deuss, Malou van Doormaal, Marian van Hoof, Jolanda Jansen, Ienke Kastelein, Petra Laaper, Frans van Lent, Fang Mij, Nico Parlevliet, Sandra Posthuma, Jello Reumer, Yvette Teeuwen, Emmy Vollaard, Paul Voors and Vera Whistler.

The 2nd Nieuwstraat Festival is kindly supported by:

The Nieuwstraat Festival: The Works

The Nieuwstraat is an average street in the center of Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
The Nieuwstraat Festival took place on June 20, 2020, between sunrise and midnight. The performances were performed by volunteers, unannounced and without explanation.
The performances involved took place in everyday environments and hid the unusual within the usual. Passers-by will have observed the actions, but may not have recognized them as performance art.

Works by:
Annie Abrahams
Karina Beumer
Jessica van Deursen
Guillaume Dufour Morin
Ienke Kastelein
Jonathon Keats
Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Stefan Klein
Frans van Lent
Deirdre MacLeod
Javier Mansilla
Maria Martens Serrano
Andrew McNiven
Janet Meaney
Nico Parlevliet
Mikio Saito
Elia Torrecilla
Albert Van Der Weide
Kamila Wolszczak
Iris van Wijk

The Nieuwstraat Festival fits in a series of Unnoticed Art Festivals. It balances on the line between public and private. It shows artworks hiding in normality. The language, used to express the works, fits in the average social behaviour in public space and, because of that, remained unnoticed to bystanders.
Creating the concepts and executing the works are split. Artists send their concepts more or less as manuals. The chosen works  are carried out by a group of (both experienced and unexperienced) volunteers. These volunteers have a double roll. They are participants as well as audience. They are responsible for realising the performances in the best possible way and, doing that, they fully experience the works. In fact they become part of it.
This way the audience is not excluded but it is actually embedded.

The works in the Nieuwstraat Festival were performed by:
Safanja Bendeler, Stefanie van den Bos, Louwrens Botha, Malou van Doormaal, Kirsten Heshusius, Jolanda Jansen, Ienke Kastelein, Frans van Lent, Steef van Lent, Nico Parlevliet, Leonard Passchier, Jello Reumer, ieke Trinks, Emmy Vollaard, Kamila Wolszczak, Iris van Wijk.

Photos © the artists
Text corrections: Maria Martens Serrano