Tag Archives: erotic city

Blind Date Swingers Club

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday August 19, 2010

The Blind Date Swingers Club probably has the best name for a club night. In fact the BDSC is a Berlin-based club with an ever-changing location…

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A Woman’s Answer To Modernism

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday July 15, 2010

Under the name of Wild Beamen, Dutch artist Hester Scheurwater has projected images of herself on some post-war apartment blocks in Rotterdam. The work belongs to…

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A Piece Of Vintage City-Marketing

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday July 14, 2010

Between the seventies and nineties, Amsterdam’s international image has been shaped by prostitutes, marihuana and gays. The city’s administration tries to reset this impression of the Dutch capital…

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Seduced By The Wind

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday November 7, 2009

Speaking about the Erotic City, we can’t let this amazing example of playful city art pass by. A fuzzy piece of tarpaulin blowing in the wind…

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Paradise Lost: A Newspaper About One Weekend Of Love

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday October 6, 2009

I just found the three editions of the newspaper Paradise Lost delivered at my apartment (thanks for that by the way). Paradise Lost writes about a…

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Spreading Love By RFID Tagged Pigeons

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday September 25, 2009

Use a dove to show your love! Starting today, Amsterdam people can use city pigeons to spread their love. Flying from loft to loft, hundred ‘love doves’ contribute to the…

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Moment Mapping

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Wednesday September 23, 2009

Many of you have, at least once, met someone who you definitely wanted to see again. Most of the time with romantic purposes, to be honest. There’s only…

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The Erotic City: Taking Love to Another Level

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday September 3, 2009

As kick-off of the upcoming art event Liefde in de Stad, organised by concert hall Paradiso this month in Amsterdam, we’d like to introduce…

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Leisure Suit Larry in the Erotic City

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday August 21, 2009

Recently I rediscovered the obsolete but incredibly exciting computer game Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. The whole game breathes the Erotic…

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Intimacy Shelters

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday August 16, 2009

On this blog we’re looking for an interpretation of the Erotic City. Within this third post regarding that topic, we freely interpretate the public installation shown above. 

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Communal Erotic Spaces

By Jonathan Perry-Marx | Published: Tuesday August 11, 2009

The issue, really, is the absence of the erotic city. It forces us to ask: what do our spaces reflect about our treatment of sexuality? Where are the…

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Introducing the Erotic City

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday July 26, 2009

This single post can be considered a preambule of our upcoming series about the so-called ‘Erotic City’. Get prepared.

According to the Times, the blog

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