Fashion and Activism
an interview with Orsola de Castro & Otto von Busch
Hester Brands and Maria Gil Mendoza, students MA Fashion Strategy at ArtEZ University of the Arts, interviewed Orsola de Castro and Otto von Busch during Fashion Colloquium.
Aesthetic Sustainability
an interview with Kristine Harper
Julia Ewa Kaleta, student MA Fashion Strategy, interviews Kristine Harper during Fashion Colloquium.
Loved Clothes Last
a video registration of the plenary session Loved Clothes Last by Orsola de Castro during the Fashion Colloquium.
Hedonistic Sustainability
a video interview with Timotheus Vermeulen
Chinouk Filique de Miranda, student MA Fashion Strategy interviews Timotheus Vermeulen during Fashion Colloquium.
Reinventing the Commons
a conversation with Pascale Gatzen & David Bollier
a conversation with Pascale Gatzen, head of the fashion design's Master programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts & David Bollier, director of 'Reinventing the Commons' program at the Schumacher Center for New Economics
Osklen and Sustainability
an interview with Oskar Metsavaht
Marina Sasseron de Oliveira Cabral, student of MA Fashion Strategy at ArtEZ University of the Arts interviews Oskar Metsavaht during Fashion Colloquium.
In and Out of Time
The video diptych In and Out of Time portrays a calf that has just passed away. The image on the left shows a recording of the calf as seen with an ordinary video camera. The image on the right shows the same calf, as seen through an infrared camera. The videos are in synchrony: as the body of the calf cools down, its image slowly vanishes from the infrared image. The original recording time of 7 hours and 30 minutes is visible as a time code in lower right corner of the video.
Sensorial Nourishment
Embodiment and the Senses in Food and Fashion
While feeding our dressed bodies, we ‘fashion’—give meaning to—our nourished selves every day. We engage with food daily through embodied practices of eating, tasting and cooking. And we engage with fashion through everyday practices of dressing and wearing clothes.
Living-With and Dying-With
Thoughts on the Affective Matter of Food and Fashion
This article reflects on how human beings, food, and fashion are ‘at stake to each other'. In doing so, Bruggeman and Voet highlight the importance of offering more agency to the affective matter of food and fashion.
Elizabeth Losh on the #Hashtag
Radio ArtEZ podcast
Radio ArtEZ is a podcast about agile thinking and the power of the arts. Each episode will delve into relevant questions of today and will broadcast diverse voices from multiple identities, perspectives and experiences. The podcast will feature personal stories and urgent research by ArtEZ students and staff, and recordings of ArtEZ studium generale events.
Take Back Fashion!
Fashion Held in Common
The new curriculum of the M.A. Fashion Design at ArtEZ University of the Arts is called ‘Fashion Held in Common’. In this essay, Pascale Gatzen, head of the programme, shares her vision on fashion, language, and commoning based on her personal experiences, and she explains how this is integrated into the new curriculum.
State of Fashion:
Searching for the New Luxury
There is a definite need for fashion to become relevant and resilient again, and to take itself seriously—not only by producing clothes in a circular and socially responsible way, but also by using its power to envisage a better world. Fashion as a discipline should build on its strengths and use its groundbreaking and seductive power to redefine what beauty, luxury, and seduction entail in the twenty-first century.
Crossovers
Food & Fashion and the Impact of Science
Farid Tabarki interviews Louise Fresco about what fashion can learn from science and food.
Love songs
Fashion, Flirting, and Biosocial Growth
“Everybody’s got the fever, That is something you all know, Fever isn’t such a new thing, Fever started long ago.” Elvis Presley, “Fever” It may seem obvious that the best way to challenge today’s accelerated and unfettered consumerism is with frugality and calls for more lasting experiences—for example, through…
Post Luxury:
Normcore as Node and Prism
This article employs the timing of post peak normcore to investigate a trend that surely entailed more than meets the eye. Described as “a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, normal-looking clothing” by Wikipedia, normcore was in fact not meant to be a trend at all, nor was it meant to be used to refer to a particular code of dress. Initially a spoof marketing term coined by the art collective/trend forecasting group K-Hole in 2013, normcore was originally a subversive concept, anticipating an alternative way forward, proposing anti-distinction as the radical new, analysed here as a mode beyond luxury—as ‘post luxury’. Combining anthropology, consumption theory, and critical fashion theory with a practice-based insight informed by the author’s background in trend analysis and brand planning as well as the art school context, this article attempts to frame and unpack normcore in order to speculate about the future of luxury.
RES MATERIA
Res Materia is an artistic research project by fashion designer Sanne Karssenberg that proposes a personalized form of the reproduction of garments and an alternative form of value creation. The title Res Materia is inspired by the Latin phrase Res Publica, meaning ‘public affairs’ or ‘commonwealth’. Res is a Latin noun for a substance or a concrete thing. ‘Materia’ is Latin for material. In this project, the material and the thing, or in this case, the textile and the garment, are the starting point for an embodied reproduction of garments—an attempt to bring change into ‘public affairs’.
Re-imagining Fashion as an Ecosystem of Commons
This paper describes how diverse commoners around the world are pioneering creative, post-capitalist forms of provisioning, peer governance, and social practice. The principles of commoning—autonomous ‘world-making’ of provisioning and peer governance from within market/state polities—may hold some answers in helping to imagine a new ecosystem of commons for fashion design, provisioning, and distribution.
Nike Air Pocket:
Fashionable Ecology
This essay contemplates the recent concern with ecologically conscious luxury in fashion alongside similar developments elsewhere in the context of and, indeed, as an expression of a distinct yet increasingly prevalent and pervasive cultural dynamic, a shift in our collective mood or what more popularly tends to be called zeitgeist: the passage from postmodernism to metamodernism.
The Fashion of Relations
from the Reign of Visibility to the Realm of Possibilities
For several years now, academic programmes in Fashion Studies have offered an increasingly diverse variety of teachings on the most abstract and conceptual aspects of fashion. There are courses that dissect its imaginary, analyse its iconography, study the psycho-sociology or semiotics of clothing, or explore the emerging practice of fashion curating to explore the controversial subject of the cultural and industrial death of fashion itself. As though the mere materiality of the garment were no longer a concern for fashion intellectuals today, more and more publications in this field appear to reflect this shift.
What if Our Clothes Were Alive and Photosynthesized?
How can we urgently address all the negative impacts of the fashion industry and have an impact on fashion consumers? Fashion needs to be rethought. Our understanding of textile as a material needs forward and active thinking.
From ‘Collective Anonymity’ to ‘Individual Mark’
Rediscovering African Art as a Model for Participatory, Interactive and Environmentalist Education
The question of artistic or arts-based education, learning, and training has all too often only been posed and concerned with the performance of institutions inherited from the colonial period, as if ancient African societies were foreign to it. This undoubtedly justifies a certain disconnection between the current art system and the public to a point where the idea of art as an activity strictly practiced by white people has increasingly become attached to its social life.
Designing Freedom
An Investigation into Critical Pedagogy and Anarchist Practice
This article probes the possibility of creating anarchistic learning spaces within a neoliberal framework by presenting the case study of Critical Kinaesthetics, an experimental game that functions as a learning aid.
REREREreREREreREREREREREParasite
This publication is the record of an associative dialogue between Semâ Bekirović and Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten about the outbreak of SARS-CoV-19. The focus of their conversation became the experience of time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along the way, some lines of thought were deleted or relocated, and others were developed further; some theoretical notions were also added to the document. With every new version, one more ‘RE’ was added to the title of the document. Using code, Korsten transformed the dialogue into a COVID-19 clock, based on parameters gathered from the variables of the pandemic.
Ecological Time
Natures that Matter to Activism and Art
The term ‘Anthropocene’ brings together a range of interrelated ecological catastrophes and relates human history to the time scales of the earth. While dominant modes of thinking maintain technocratic notions of nature and time, art has (re)presented alternative proposals and practices that radically shift perception. To foreground and strengthen the power of art to challenge core cultural assumptions and motivate change, this text maps out the implications of philosophical positions often referred to by artists.
Soundings of Ecological Time in Contemporary Music and Sound Art
This essay aims to find ways in which, through music and sound art, we may be able to attune to temporalities that are less anthropocentric and more ecologically minded. In this investigative essay Christenhusz will take a closer listen to four works that touch upon this theme of more-than-human time: Jennifer Walshe’s Time Time Time (2019), Jem Finer’s Longplayer (1999), Felix Hess’ Air Pressure Fluctuations (2001) and John Luther Adams’s The Place Where You Go to Listen (2004-2006). Christenhusz aims to enquire how these works offer representations and sonifications of ecological notions of time through sound.
A Call to Recognize and to Imagine
Amitav Ghosh, and Others, on Writing the Earth Differently
Discussing the way petrocapitalism frames current issues like air pollution and the Fukushima disaster, this text highlights the art of recognizing the state of the earth. Together with the arts (primarily literature, as Ghosh also suggests), the aim of this text is then to place a greater emphasis on imagining the earth otherwise, or, recognizing a different earth. This way we do not so much critique modernity, or the petrocapitalist forms of science, but rather, affirmatively, search for an alternative, a more inclusive and less human-centered way to deal with the crises of the contemporary.
Through the Time Barrier
Art and Design in the Digital Age
By analysing theory and works of art, this text examines how to deal with the shock produced by microtemporal technologies.
Walking Time
Walking Time is a hybrid attempt to go for walk while reading. It is a description of an actual walk as well as a prompt. It is a visual approach to a text containing memories evoked by walking and an invitation to the sensorial presence of the reader.
Text[ure]
In their ‘Performance Paper Text[ure]’ Korsten & De Jong build a wall-veil out of the audio of the ‘Participatory Performance Text[ure]’ and theoretical material (the ‘text’) from the ‘Proposal Text[ure].’ The wall-veil refers to Ruskin’s famous example of the Matterhorn, which he uses to explain the wall-veil as symbolic of the relationship between massing and texture through interdependence.
OVERTIME
The following text documents a series of exchanges between Sophie Krier and curator and writer Christel Vesters. In these exchanges, they reflected on the different ways in which time is an operative element in artistic practices – both as a prerequisite for the creative process and as a neoliberal entity for measuring productivity; on boundaries and divides and how to bridge these, and on the deep mapping of a place by evoking its lost memories and forgotten knowledges.
Composition as Hyperobject
This article considers compositional practice in relation to Timothy Morton’s ideas surrounding the hyperobject. The aim is not to analyse compositional practice through the prism of the hyperobject or indeed apply the concept to composition, rather, Molitor alludes to Morton’s ideas as a way to think through some aspects of compositional practice.
Something Temporary
In Search of Circular Time
'Tijd is ervaring' examines how we experience time as human beings, the circadian rhythm and how it relates to rhythms of society, and different approaches to time, informed by the fields of chronobiology and philosophy, with contributions by philosopher and writer Joke Hermsen, professor of neurophysiology Joke Meijer, and music by LY Foulidis.
La Durée
Henri Bergson introduced Paula Walta to his two possible concepts of time: time as we actually experience it, and mechanistic time. ‘La durée’ is what he called the deep, inner experience of time, in which our brain lets go of control, when it doesn’t want to separate current and past states. In my films I search for the experience of ‘la durée’ by using both concepts of time, and turning them around, interrogating and changing them.
Othering Time
Strategies of Attunement to Non-Human Temporalities
In her article “Othering Time: Strategies of Attunement to Non-Human Temporalities”, Alice Smits delves into artistic practices that tune into deep time and non-human time zones. Starting from the view point that our current ecological crisis is in need of developing an ethics of care towards generations far into the future and life forms extremely different to ours, she discusses art and aesthetic knowledge as particularly well suited for experimentation with new stories and sensibilities about our place in time.
(non)human histories
rock reading and remembering as strategies of telling time
‘(non)human histories: rock reading and remembering as strategies of telling time’ takes as its starting point the otherworldliness of the geologic time scale. In search of a more entangled, (non)human imaginary of time, it interweaves the geologic understanding of time with understandings of time formed through remembering and (hi)storytelling.
Moonsong (I have dwelt upon the moon)
This text has been co-composed with the sonic work moonsong and is meant to be read alongside – co-listened to with – the sonic work. Excerpts taken from emails, sent to friends and artists almost daily during the initial 30-day process of recording and journaling, called moonsong writings, are included throughout this article, with links.
How Strange, Her Voice
On Mourning, Language, Texture and Time
Abstract How Strange, Her Voice. The Mourning Diaries allows for the unfolding of two aspects at play in Jesse Ahlers’ recent work on colour and mourning. One is a re-organisation of time in a book – created as part of the ongoing work How Strange, Her Voice – that attempts to give form to a…
Living Matters online exhibition
A story-telling of AKI Bio Matters research in the precarity that has always been now
During the classes on how to work with living images within AKI Biomatters artistic research program, students have been exploring ecological and alchemistic questions as: how can we create in the time of ecological disasters? What is the role of art and design when we challenge the anthropocentrism? This online exhibition includes contributions by Celile Demir, Dawoon Kim, Eric Bari, Garrett Szmyd, Talitha Fruneaux, Anivia Beylard, Suzan Stemerdink, and Rojin Tavassoli
00:21:16:32
00:21:16:32 is a personal intervention on the means of deceit that employ the human to accept a self-manageable and accountable relationship with their privacy. Signing away our rights to our ‘self’ on a daily basis has become a small price to pay to exist in modern society.
The Human Touch in Kitchen Technology
How Technology Changes Our Relationship with Food in the Rational and Ritual Kitchen
The kitchen is the visible cultural manifestation of the technology human beings employ to store, prepare and eat food. Those who look at the history of kitchens will see two approaches for kitchen design that have determined the influence of technology on our relationship with storing, preparing and consuming food in the private households: the technological-rational kitchen and the social-ritual kitchen.
Peter Greenaway
A Demonstration of Research-Based Art
In examining research-based art as a method that uses research for the purpose of making art, Jeroen Lutters uses Peter Greenaway’s film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) as a case study. Here, we see both the artist as a researcher and art research as research-based art—an artist-researcher who creates an independent artistic composition by using at his own discretion the accepted results of research.
Taste: The Lost Sense, or Why the Culinary Arts Should Integrate with Art Education
A Conversation
This conversation inquires why the culinary arts—representing the sense of taste in relation to food—have hardly found ground in art education. The optical, the audible, the touchable and moveable have found fertile ground in all kinds of art disciplines, whereas the sense of taste and tasting, historically connected to the aesthetic judgment of artistic objects par excellence, has hardly found refuge for its proper object, i.e., food.
The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts: Conference Report
In january 2020, ArtEZ Studium Generale organized the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts that dealt with the undeniable under- and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world. Read the written report or watch the conference here.
The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts: Radio ArtEZ podcast series
This six part miniseries is based on the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts that took place 18 January 2020 and dealt with the undeniable under- and misrepresentation of women artists, Women of Colour, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world. With performances, keynotes, presentations and panels the conference attempted to establish stepping-stones on the path to gender equality in the arts by raising awareness, gathering data and mobilising existing networks and collective knowledge.
Harriet Bergman on climate breakdown
Radio ArtEZ podcast
Radio ArtEZ is a podcast about agile thinking and the power of the arts. Each episode will delve into relevant questions of today and will broadcast diverse voices from multiple identities, perspectives and experiences. The podcast will feature personal stories and urgent research by ArtEZ students and staff, and recordings of ArtEZ studium generale events.
Kunst als ‘waarheidsprocedure’
Basiskamp Entre Nous 2017 was een kunstproject dat in de maand september bij Frederiksoord in Drenthe werd gerealiseerd. In een militair basiskamp woonden hier twaalf kunstenaars, die in ruil voor een salaris aan maatschappelijke vraagstukken werkten. Denk dan aan onderwerpen als ouderenzorg, bijvoorbeeld in de gemeente Westerveld waar mensen relatief ver uit elkaar wonen, of aan de effecten van een krimpregio op het onderwijs.
E=mc²
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. E=mc² is het vierde deel in deze serie.
Three Interviews by The School of Missing Men
an Empowerment Initiative in the Making
Over the past year, ArtEZ Studium Generale has invited The School of Missing Men to perform interviews with guests on their programme who have a meaningful relation to the core questions underlying the initiative. The School of Missing Men takes as its starting point the fact that 75 percent of students at BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research, the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme in Arnhem) are women, a standard ratio in fine art departments across the Netherlands and abroad. How is it, then, that women continue to be largely underrepresented in many registers in the broader field of art?
Diversity Stories Podcast
Seizoen 1
Diversity Stories is een podcast over diversiteit in de breedste betekenis van het woord. Persoonlijke reflecties, verhalen en onderzoek van ArtEZ studenten. Verhalen over gender en identiteit, een pittige kritiek op het modesysteem, gesprekken over wat je naam over je verraadt, een heuse Menstruatieopera, übergeestige dialogen tussen twee expats die zich beklagen over de eetcultuur, taal en bureaucratie, en meer!
Diversity Stories Podcast
Season 2: Guess who's coming to dinner too? met Patricia Kaersenhout
Diversity Stories is een podcast over diversiteit in de breedste zin van het woord. De podcast is een verscheidenheid aan persoonlijke reflecties, verhalen en onderzoek door ArtEZ-studenten en -personeel en opgenomen evenementen van studium generale en wordt gehost door studenten Henrike Gootjes en Mel Kikkert. Seizoen 2, aflevering 3.
Diversity Stories Podcast
Season 2: Rajae El Mouhandiz & International Students Circle
ArtEZ studium generale’s Diversity Stories is a podcast about diversity in its broadest sense. The podcast is a variety of personal reflections, stories and research by ArtEZ students and staff, and recorded studium generale events. It is hosted by students Henrike Gootjes and Mel Kikkert. Season 2, episode 1.
Podcast Loose Fit
about diversity in fashion
One size fits all or one size fits nobody? Listen to the podcast about inclusivity, diversity and a more embodied way of fashion, recorded during the two-day conference Fashion Colloquium, Searching for the New Luxury (31 May – 1 June 2018) in Arnhem. The online radio platform Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee made a live broadcast that can be listened to here.
IN TOUCH WITH THE NOW
Stimulating Mindfulness through a Smart Denim Jacket
The smart denim jacket Issho has been designed to encourage a more mindful relation between the wearer, the garment, and their environment. This article explores how Issho may encourage wearers to be more mindful of their embodied presence in the here and now.
The New Bio-ethics of Luxury
Luxury can be a divisive word. Traditionally, luxury indicated a status symbol and worked as a social interface in a context of privilege, exclusivity, and accessibility. However, the last few decades have seen a decline in the possession of material, as luxury appears to have started refining itself from its social interest and become far more personal and individualistic.
Aesthetic Sustainability
Why do we dispose of some things before their use has expired, while others are kept and repaired time and time again, despite their wear and tear?
Fashioning Tradition:
The Tai Lue Project
Fashion designers Alison Welsh and Jasper Chadprajong-Smith are working hand-in-hand with Tai Lue weavers from the Silalang community in Nan province, a mountainous agricultural region of north-east Thailand. Together they are developing new garments using traditional hand-woven cotton textiles. The project aims to explore methods of equipping local artisans with knowledge in design thinking and the ability to integrate their cultural identity into their cloth in an authentic and thoughtful way.
Luxurizing Pre-loved Clothes:
A Material and Emotional Future of Luxury
Pre-loved clothes have much to offer the consumer as a future form of luxury, not in the least because of their sustainability. However, despite their quality and exclusivity, not all pre-loved clothes are believed to offer consumers the luxury value vintage clothes do. Can pre-loved clothes become a luxury, and if so, how? This raises questions about how luxury fashion comes into being and about the stakes of human versus material agency in processes of the ‘luxurization’ of fashion.
Shy Radicals by Hamja Ahsan – Reading and Interview
Empowerment series by ArtEZ studium generale
As an artist it is important to make your voice heard. How do artists with a less privileged position, or artist who are less represented, get their points across while taking account of diverse perspectives? In this ArtEZ studium generale series an interview with artist and activist Hamja Ahsan and a reading of his book ‘Shy Radicals’ which had a great impact in the fields of pedagogy, activism and art.
Response-ability in Times of Precarity
Surface Design as Embedded Critique
This paper considers a hybrid approach to making fashion by looking at the creation of Reu Jacket, ‘a zero-waste responsive garment’ that drew inspiration from lichen as a model for adaptive resilience. The approach to designing the garment established an experimental, practice-based space to explore the undecided and emergent. In prototyping this approach, the work speculated on the value of growth through reconfiguration.
Fervent Pharmakon
Food, Fashion and the Haul
This article demonstrates how both food and fashion are closely tied to emotions and to our biosocial beings, offering ‘sweet tastes of aesthetics and sensory pleasure.’ von Busch argues how quick consumption—in these industries of fast and mass production—has paradoxically led to unhealthy addictions (to food and/or social affirmation and self-esteem) and to hunger and emotional starvation. Cooking together or making clothes collectively could, as von Busch suggests, form more intimate and social bonds, as well as healthier relationships with food and fashion.
Authentically Unoriginal
Certain concepts, including the ‘author’ and ‘original,’ still form the postulates of many artistic practices. In this article, I outline some of the key thinkers that have critiqued these terms during the past century. However, most of these critiques were developed by focusing on certain types of artworks. Therefore, this article will think through these theories in light of the engaged practice.
Engaged Art Incorporated
Front Desks and Legal Entities (About the Business Called ‘Engaged Art’)
Just like the institution of politics, engaged arts are often about organising. Nevertheless, many engaged practices risk lip synching current organisational structures, through which they wedge form and content further apart, resulting in all kinds of violence. In this article, Veldkamp analyses different forms that attempt to engage but merely lip sync prevalent organising, such as the helpdesk, action committee and legal persons.
Help! Help! Help!
The Interpellation of Help and What It Means to Engaged Practice
Help is one of our strongest social bonds. Nevertheless, the code in which we do so—which is culturally determinant—often results in something quite the opposite of help. In this article, Veldkamp sketches a scene of hailing for help and thinks through the possible responses.
Roleability
A Short Critique of Popular Use of Narratology in Engaged Artistic Practices
When artists delve into engaged practices, there are a few conventional ‘gateways’ facilitating a bridge between the artist, who is seen as separate, and their intended subject, who is seen as deviant and thus needing to be approached. The idea of gateways encompasses an ontological difference, where a social reality…
Realism, Hyperrealism and Transrealism in Engaged Practices
In this article, Veldkamp builds on arguments by Jacques Rancière and Albert Camus and delves into some works by Tania Bruguera and different schools of realism in general. He concludes with an argument against plain realism, instead proposing something more ‘unreal’: transrealism.
Wanneer taal poëzie wordt, komen we dichter bij de werkelijkheid
in gesprek met Jasper Griepink
De temperatuur op de Noordpool was nog nooit zo hoog als afgelopen zomer. Ieder jaar worden de bosbranden groter, het orkaanseizoen heftiger en de weilanden in Oost-Nederland droger. Wetenschappers waarschuwen dat een ineenstorting van onze beschaving nabij is, maar in hoeverre kun je van een beschaving spreken als we niet…
Rood zijn
Over de verbindingsdraad tussen natuur en kleur
In deze bijdrage licht Barbara Collé het visuele onderwerp kleur uit en verbeeldt daarmee de mogelijkheid van een andere relatie met onze omgeving. Het belicht traditionele kennis, de westerse scheiding tussen subject en object en de rol van ervaring in onze relatie met de natuur en de aarde.
POLAR-IZATION
This essay is part of the LAND: on climate, ownership and coexistence program. For the next six months, ArtEZ studium generale will be collaborating with online art magazine Mister Motley and will be talking to artists and thinkers about climate degradation, property, territory and colonialism, based on the subject of…
Medium-centrism and Transmedial Thinking
An Investigation into the Point of Departure and Productive Goal of Artistic Practice
Abstract Much of the arts has become used to pre-given forms and mediums as the starting point of any practice. The first part of this article delves into how this is problematic for engaged practices and proposes ways of postponing the form of an artistic endeavour in order to subordinate…
Reflective and Transgressive Engaged Practices
Beyond Sterility, Distance and Reproduction
Artist Renzo Martens notes that much of the engaged practices merely produce ‘sterile’ criticism. These practices do not consider their own background, nor do they attempt to really resolve the things that they regard. This article dissects what this so-called ‘sterility’ consists of, what alternatives are cognisable, and concludes with a distinction between ‘reflective’ and ‘transgressive’ engaged practices.
The Location of Art
A Topographical Earthquake
We claim to localise ‘Art’ with a capital by means of ‘pointing and naming’ certain objects that we consequently call ‘works of art.’ In this article, Veldkamp investigates the location of art: what ‘place’ do we point to when we claim something is Art? He contrasts the object of a traditional artist’s practice with that of another type of artist: the engaged artist.
A Bird’s-Eye View of Engaged Practices
A Handful of Approaches to Art that Mingles with Politics
In this glossary-like document, Veldkamp glances at some (by no means all) of the landscape engaged practices exist within, ranging from ideas on ‘interactivity,’ ‘relationality,’ ‘participation,’ ‘politics,’ and so on. He attempts to formulate some preliminary definitions, which will be explored further throughout the rest of this series of articles.
Towards Engaged Arts
an introduction
The engaged artistic practice as we know it today is built upon a set of axioms that this series of articles attempts to investigate. By thinking through these concepts that are so cherished by the arts, new propositions are put forward that would fit better with the premises of engaged arts as we know them. An attempt for a hermeneutics called ‘dematerialised aesthetics’ or ‘system aesthetics’ can be read between the lines.
Hoe is het eigenlijk om mens te zijn?
Wat heeft de kunsteducator van de toekomst nodig om zowel binnen- als buitenschools sociaal geëngageerd te werken? Ons eigen perspectief blijkt een werkelijke verbinding met de ander vaak in de weg te zitten. In dit artikel wordt verslag gedaan van de zoektocht die kunstvakdocentopleidingen in 2019 gezamenlijk ondernamen om te ontdekken wat we in dit opzicht van de kunsteducator mogen verwachten en wat het instituut en de opleidingen daarvoor nodig hebben in hun houding, kennis en vaardigheden.
What is it actually like to be human?
What does art education need to enable future educators to work in a socially engaged practice, both in and outside school? Our own perspective often appears to hinder a real connection with the other. This article reports on the quest that art teacher training programmes embarked on jointly in 2019 to discover what we can expect from the artist educator in this respect and what the institute and the programmes need in terms of attitude, knowledge and skills.
The Power of Moroccan Roots Music
Radio ArtEZ Podcast
In this episode, musician and writer Samira Dainan takes us on a personal and lyrical journey through Morocco and parts of the Sahara. It’s a biting and poetic exploration of what it means to find your own sound and voice.
Er woont iemand in het moeras
Lietje Bauwens schrijft in haar essay over het moeras. Het moeras wordt vaak geromantiseerd als uitgestorven natuurfenomeen. In het licht van historische droogleggingpraktijken in Amerika, plaatst Lietje Bauwens hier kritische vraagtekens bij. Ze grijpt daarentegen (de metafoor van) het moeras aan voor een kritische blik op onderdrukkingsmechanismen in steden als Brussel en Amsterdam, die tenslotte gebouwd zijn op moeras. Aan de hand van verschillende artistieke projecten over het moeras, analyseert Lietje hoe drassige bodemgronden nog altijd doorleven in onze sociale realiteit.
Onpeilbaar
Over natuur, land en eigendom
Een essay van schrijver Fiep van Bodegom over het begrip eigenaarschap in relatie tot land.
Limits of the Self
‘Limits of the Self’ is a poetic exploration of our senses, written from the personal point-of-view of a scenographer. The text is part of Into Territories Unknown, a cahier exploring artistic research, written by Gaia’s Machine, a performance collective the author is part of. The cahier compiles their practices of interdependency and staging ecological spectatorship—a performative way of being-with the world, and a worldly way of being-with an artwork.
FLUID SYNTAXIS
How to make visible the imperceptible? In particular, how to make visible the imperceptible language of the non-human within different environments? ‘Fluid Syntaxis’ is an exploration of a language beyond words, following the interaction between thought, physical investigation, artistic intuition, and dynamic reflection. It is shaped not only in text but in print, paper studies, and film.
Tales from the Abyss
How do we make sense of climate breakdown? What are the effects of imagining and naming how we live amid the uncertainties, upheavals, and pain caused by climate breakdown? How is it defined, and by whom? This year ArtEZ studium generale published two literary explorations in response to the film…
Trips Across the Abyss
How do we make sense of climate breakdown? What are the effects of imagining and naming how we live amid the uncertainties, upheavals, and pain caused by climate breakdown? How is it defined, and by whom? This year ArtEZ studium generale published two literary explorations in response to the film…
Tigress Kali Score
Using oral storytelling and sound, a narrative sets the coordinates of a game-world, navigating the contradictions in the interrelations of ‘nature’ and ‘technology.’ It employs the ultrasonic spectrum used in wildlife telemetry as a mythopoeic time and space, wherein the human hearing range and a shapeshifting being are the centre of the work.
Future Everyday Food
How Emerging Technologies Could Impact Food Consumption
Industrial design has gone through various stages of development since its emergence during the first industrial revolution,[1] and the kitchen as well as the preparation and consumption of food have always been closely linked to its developments. As technologies evolved, the disciplines related to these technologies manifested their impact on designed products.
Action Recipes
Paper Cooking for Embodied Recipes
This contribution describes the motivation for ‘Paper Cooking,’ a design workshop that took place during the Food Friction conference. It reflects on its outcomes, with a view to future directions for work by creating ‘Action Recipes,’ a video repository that presents people’s favourite cooking actions. The repository aims to draw attention to unrecognised aspects of embodied knowledge.
Art Research and Food Technology
From Historical Reflections to Creative Speculations
This article is an introduction to three contributions about research related to food and technology. The text introduces the reader to different forms of research from historical reflections, applied action research based on new technologies, and artistic speculations. The author places these different research approaches in the context of the Dutch scientific and higher vocational education, focussing particularly on art academies.
‘FOOD: NOT FOR EATING’
Recipes from the EAT TECH KITCHEN: Speculation, Co-Creation & Play as Critical Practice
Through a series of speculative recipes, cooking demos and co-created dishes, EAT TECH KITCHEN (upon first glance) serves up a playful antidote to the alienation of the modern, Digitised Age.
Blood Processing
‘Blood Processing' focuses on the industrial slaughterhouse as a case study for the bigger phenomenon of anthropocentrism. Systems and constructions such as an extreme focus on hygiene regulations inside the slaughterhouse are used to keep the animal as Other as possible. To challenge this, ‘Blood Processing' reimagines the industrial slaughterhouse from the perspective of the blood present in this space. Through this blood, a new narrative is created that challenges binary thinking.
Co-Authoring the Future
Participatory Performance and the Climate Crisis
Framed by the metaphor of a road trip, ‘Co-authoring the Future’ explores the use of participatory performance in building cultural discourse about decision-making during the climate crisis. An audio narration accompanies the written work, attempting to explore the theories discussed in the form of a correspondence between the author and her elusive self-awareness.
No School Station
a Radio ArtEZ miniseries
This four-part miniseries of Radio ArtEZ is on education outside of the educational institutions. The current state of art education and the way it is organized is quite traditional. Thoughts about change often start from existing concepts. But what happens when we think in a radically different way?
Epiloog / These things take time
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Epiloog / These things take time is het twaalfde en laatste deel in deze serie.
Daar waar de tijd stopt
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Daar waar de tijd stopt is het elfde deel in deze serie.
Oneindige eindigheid
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Oneindige eindigheid is het tiende deel in deze serie.
‘Remember that time is money’
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. 'Remember that time is money' is het negende deel in deze serie.
Jouw tijd is niet mijn tijd
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Jouw tijd is niet mijn tijd is het achtste deel in deze serie.
Haast u langzaam
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Haast u langzaam is het zevende deel in deze serie.
Na verloop van tijd
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Na verloop van tijd is het zesde deel in deze serie.
His-story
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. His-story is het vijfde deel in deze serie.
Daar waar we geen ogen hebben
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Daar waar we geen ogen hebben is het derde deel in deze serie.
De kunst en de klok
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. De kunst en de klok is het tweede deel in deze serie
Proloog
C H R O N O T O P I A
Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. De proloog is het eerste deel in deze serie.
Interview with Huang Jing Yuan: a Social Art Practitioner from China
An interview with Huang Jing Yuan within the framework of her lecture for ArtEZ Studium Generale, in which the Chinese artist highlighted several examples of feminist movements in China, offering a first-hand glimpse into the challenges and struggles women are facing in that country. During the interview, Huang also shared how she defines her artistic practice as a “social practice”, seeing this term as a way to navigate through difficult questions of intersectionality.
Stepping out of the Clean Well-Lighted Space
Reflections on Emily Witt’s Lecture at Studium Generale
Emily Witt's book Future Sex, and her lecture at the ArtEZ Studium Generale event 'Sex and the Sexual Politics of the Gaze' on 12 February 2018 inspired Data Bosma and Rosan van Doeselaar to dig further into the gender-biased world of internet dating.
