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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space,‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL), 2010

photo: Marcus Peters

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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space, city hall square, Rennes, 2013

photo: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space, city hall square, Rennes, 2013

photo: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space, city hall square, Rennes, 2013

photo: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space, Saint-Michel square, Rennes, 2013

photo: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space, Saint-Michel square, Rennes, 2013

photo: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

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Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers, Openbaar Kabaal, intervention in public space, Saint-Michel square, Rennes, 2013

photo: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

Green Flash

Sound Performances

OpenBaar Kabaal

Jitske Blom & Thomas Rutgers

Rennes public spaces


OpenBaar Kabaal ( public hubbub) is an impromptu sound performance, orchestrated in the public space by dutch artists duo Thomas Rutgers & Jitske Blom.

Discreetly equipped with small remote-controlled electromechanical hammers, benches, windows, lamps, banisters become, for the time of an improvisation, instruments at the service of an urban symphony.

OpenBaar Kabaal is first time presented in France in Rennes, in partnership with le Bon Accueil, as part of festival Maintenant, by Electroni[k] association.



Thomas Rutgers

artist and composer born in 1983 (NL). He studied composition at Utrecht Art School. His work takes form of installations and performances, bringing together music and technologie.

artists website

Jitkse Blom

artist designer born in 1983 (NL). Graduated from the Eindhoven Academy of Design, Jitske Blom developed a work crossing multiple disciplines and technical service facilities offering the public to see, hear and use its close environment so renewed.

artists website

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Exhibition

Un Grand Ensemble

Jan Kopp

from 20 September to 17 November 2013