๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฝ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ: ๐ฎ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐' ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฒ๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ ๐๐จ
Last week we headed out to the port of Rotterdam with the University of Amsterdam to explore the edges of industry and ecology at the Maasvlakte. ๐
The port brings together a world of contrasts: surfers and cargo ships, trucks and cyclists, dunes and petrochemicals. Recreation and commerce, nature and industry, people and machines, all in close proximity.
A day of sun, sea and waste streams.
Big thanks to Jeff Diamanti @jmdiamanti , Miriam Matthiessen and our program maker Ruby Reding @rubyvenus .
๐ธ: @jairvns
๐ง๐ต๐๐ฟ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐, ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐น ๐ฎ๐ฎโ๐จ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐จ @ ๐ช๐ข๐ฅ๐ : ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐
Come join us for a night of short films at our next-door neighbour WORM, curated by shadow circuitsโ program maker Ruby Reding @rubyvenus . The evening features films that focus on journeys on cargo ships, set against the backdrop of the current turmoil, caused by inflation, automation of labour and the current wars in Iran and Libanon. With the sea as a political and poetic landscape, the films explore globalisation, the pollution of our resources and the people who labour at different sites along the supply chain. With works by Brian Nelson, Natasa Efstathiadi, Sandra Lahire, Diana Al-Halabi @diana.al.halabi and Mohamed Abdelkarim @mhmd.abdelkarim .
Program ๐ฌ
20:30-22:30
Screening of shorts
Q+A with Diana Al-Halabi and Ruby Reding
The event will be held in English, but some of the shorts are subtitled.
Click for link in bio to purchase tickets.
Cinevelle valid at the door and online the day of the screening.
๐Field notes from our collective site visit researching the global supply chains of aluminium alongside the situated sensory experiences of the industrial site in Essen. We discussed energy usage and the precarious temperature conditions of smelting.
Aluminium is used to make transport infrastructure, packaging and also weapons; how might we become more literate about the costs and developments at stake in metal production?
With Luciaโs amazing sensing device that generated a speculative plant from data at the site in image 4 and Anneโs very cool drawings! @acquadipeluches@fanglyfish
funded by @amartefonds
Friday, April 10 - ๐จ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐จ: field trip to the port of Rotterdam
Calling the curious! Artists, researchers, and local city dwellers are invited to a field trip to the Port of Rotterdam as part of our current exhibition ๐จ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐จ.
Join us as we travel by foot, coach and boat through the largest globalised shipping and logistics hub in Europe. We will explore pollution and waste processing at the Maasvlakte beach, and wander through terminals handling cargo, dry bulk and petrochemicals. We will engage with the site with audio recorders, notes and shared discussion in order to learn more about how our resources circulate, and the political and environmental costs of globalization.
In collaboration with University of Amsterdamโs Political Ecologies: Supply Chain Criticism group, with researchers Jeff Diamanti (@jmdiamanti ) and Miriam Matthiessen.
Limited tickets are available for โฌ15 and include all travel.
Full day trip on Friday 10th April, 8 - 16.
Send an email to [email protected] to secure your spot!
This event is in English.
so proud of the exhibition we made ๐
๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐๐ ๐ธ๐พ๐๐ธ๐๐พ๐๐ is open @mamarotterdam until 3rd May. With a field guide of the artistโs research and amazing poster by @samuelwhiteevans_
The show is the culmination of thinking about how we tend to globalised logistics and energy infrastructure, with all the endemic environmental and political violence at stake, while also maintaining a will to beauty and intimacy.
Curated by me with works by:
@b__i__r__n__a@camargo03@amautagarcia@600mt@nernada@kyranijskens
~ recent fieldwork and research ~
for my new project enquiring why Iโm such a magpie and mapping supply chains and shadow histories of aluminium. feat. a visit to a Voerde aluminium smelting factory in Germany
SYMPOSIUM: INHERITANCE
Saturday 8th of November, 13:00-17:00
If I Canโt Dance @ificantdance_ WG-Plein 881, 1054 SM Amsterdam
Tickets โฌ5 incl. drinks
It is my pleasure to invite you to an intimate symposium hosted at If I Canโt Dance as part of @currentobsessionmag OBSESSED! festival. Exploring an expanded notion of inheritance, this symposium will provide three unique perspectives on jewellery as material, spiritual and psychological manifestations.
This event emerges from the symbolic potential of jewellery: jewellery as materialisations of abstract ideas of value, status, culture, faith and family. Thinking through jewellery, the programme interrogates practices and ideologies that have trickled down through time to make up our historical present.
The programme will bring you the following contributions:
From Supply Chains to Shadow Geologies by Jeff Diamanti @jmdiamanti & Ruby Reding @rubyvenus
Gold Lies Always Beneath the Dirt ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ข ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ by Carl Lorenz Cervantes @sikodiwa & Clara Balaguer @galleycopyshoppe
Sloppy Seconds: Jewellery & Transmission by Diego Semerene @diegosemerene
Read more & get your ticket here:
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some details of โreaching in contrailsโ, metal sculptures I finished for the recent grad show @tentrotterdam@mfapietzwartinstitute
these works were the most difficult & demanding knots Iโve ever wrestled with. Thank you to Rino and the team @makeeindhoven for an overly ambitious long sand cast that broke in 4 places and yet still emerged.
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reaching in contrails are a series of hanging sculptures composed of scrap aluminium, textiles, steel and resin. The works constitute an affective and multi-scalar reach from scrap junk yards and the discarded zones of material, to a physical encounter with an arm-like gesture. Composed of tenuous and stable joins such as bolts and textile seams, the sculptures consider counter forms of repairing and measuring.
Second pic is with work by @fru_tto ๐ซถ
