Repelsteeltje is a non-binary interdisciplinary artist living and working in Rotterdam, NL.
Their work consists of actions, gatherings and performances where they bring artists, activists and other skillfull young nerds together. More key mediums in their practice are zines, art prints (for example riso and silk screen) and film.
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When they don't curate their own work or events, they create collaborative work with their artist collective United Fried Front. They also work together with activist groups like Cultural Workers Unite, BPW (grassroots union for precarious housing) and the anarchist library collective Zilvervisjes.
Through the Window - "Through the window" is a play that first occurred in the zine "No talking to the police" by repelsteeltje. This zine is a collection of 8 different plays, that are all transcriptions of conversations between activists or squatters and the police. The artist premiered this play in the squatted monumental building "Het Monument" in Amsterdam, in oktober 2022 during the exhibition PiepKnarsKrijsKraakt by squatting collective Mokumkraakt. The play was performed three times, over the course of three days. The documentation you see here is that of the last performance on the last day of the exhibition.
This particular play focusses on the squatters' right to stay anonymous while residing in the squat.
There is no obligation to show your ID to the police
when you are not in a public space but for example in your own house.
The squatters know this and don't want to show their documents,
but the police insists they should...
The anarchist library - The anarchist library is an initiative from the RATS (Rotterdamse Anarchisten Tegen Supermarkten) collective.
I contributed to this library by printing books for it, utilizing several locations in Rotterdam.
I can make books because I learned how to do this in art school.
I involve others with the printing to teach them how to print a book.
RATS Banner - The RATS banner is a banner created for the exhibition World Reciever in Opstand, Arnhem.
This exhibition resulted from the Master-Apprentice program of KunstpodiumT, but mostly the art was created for the Rotterdam-based anarchist collective RATS,
short for Rotterdamse Anarchisten Tegen Supermarkten (Rotterdam Anarchists Against Supermarkets).
Politie, fascisten, staatsterroristen!! - After the police violence of the woonopstand in 2021 I had compulsive thoughts of fighting back, throwing bricks at the tram so that the windows would break and people could escape. I don’t think would have been the best way to act in this situation, for if we did this in real life the police might have killed us (..a cop already nearly pulled a gun while some people non-violently escaped the police line around the black block..). In order to get some agression out I made this drawing. Three characters in the drawing are based on real people: the two people kissing and the guy licking the window. The rest is made-up characters & events. The drawing is distributed as a print, as a patch (piece of fabric with the drawing screenprinted on it) and appeared on the cover of Buiten de Orde magazine (an anarchist magazine) in januari 2022. It became an iconic drawing for the housing struggle at the time, put up the walls of many squats, and launched my artist name into the anarchist scene.
Eviction play - I transcribed a recording of a real almost-eviction, the one of my squat, and published it as a play.
It was performed during the opening of the TENT exhibition THINGS WILL CHANGE in december 2019.
