HANNEKE DE FEIJTER
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Sint Nicolaas Lyceum | Hanneke de Feijter (1965, Cadzand, Netherlands)
Hanneke de Feijter participated in various group exhibitions during and after her art studies, making sound and video installations. She has also worked on theatre productions as a sound designer, makes freelance radio documentaries and has had a live radio programme devoted to soundscapes. While at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, she won the Tom Third Audio Student Award for 2000-2001.
She worked for Radio 100, one of Amsterdam’s most well-known free radio stations, which was also on the Web. Radio 100 distinguished itself from other radio stations by being experimental and non-commercial. Despite its highly varied programming, Radio 100 managed to create a recognizable identity. By now, however, Radio 100 has gone off the air as a result of the sale and commercialization of broadcasting frequencies.
Hanneke de Feijter uses her Free Space to call attention to the importance of free airwaves (or at any rate partly free) by doing research on the disappearance of such free spaces from cities like Amsterdam and discussing this issue with the relevant people. To her, this tendency is one of the many examples of the fact that all of the extra spaces that to a great extent make a city liveable are gradually disappearing as they become pushed aside by commercial developments. She argues for the importance of the airwaves as public space, and investigates what the possibilities are for the future.
She is also working with the students of the Sint Nicolaas Lyceum on a project involving "sound letters".
