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During the build-Up
STARTING YOUR BUILD-UP
You have been allocated a space and you have paid your deposit at the Rental, so you can start building up your work.
From Saturday 10 June onwards the build-up for the Graduation Show starts. The build-up schedule will be set by each department due to exams, so there can be exceptions to this official date for you. Contact your department’s (graduation) coordinator for the exact dates of the build-up.
During the build-up, the academy will be open on both Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 – 17:00h. The academy will be closed on Saturday 24 June.
Some Regulations To Keep In Mind When Building Up
Some things are just important to keep in mind when building up your work. Also, some of the regulations listed below are there to keep you, your fellow students and Graduation Show visitors safe. Contact your teacher first. If they cannot help you can reach out to the workshop employees. If you have more specific questions or questions regarding the building, please contact facilities@kabk.nl
Keep the following regulations in mind when building up:
• You are responsible for your own presentation.
• You may not remove anything from your space that is sustainably connected to the building (lamps, doors, installations of any sort, etc.).
• Doors cannot be blocked.
• Keep emergency exits, fire detectors, fire hoses, halls, and stairways always unobstructed.
• It is not allowed to present works or hang objects in staircases.
• It is not allowed to drill in floors.
Contact Joop from the Facilities department via facilities@kabk.nl if you are planning to:
• Drill in the ceilings.
• Use a smoke machine.
• Use a strobe light.
• Paint with other paint or colours than provided by the school.
• Use water.
• Use heavy materials.
If you have doubts or concerns regarding your space during the build-up, you can call the Facilities department, available from Saturday 10 June onwards:
• Spaces in Prinsessegracht: 070-3154703
• Spaces in Bleijenburg: 070-3154704
Materials You Can Buy For Your Presentation
There are materials that you can buy from the KABK for the build-up of your presentation. There are also some materials provided for free. All these materials you can buy or collect at the Rental. The overview of prices and opening hours of the Rental you can find on the Portal or at the Rental.
Materials listed below can be purchased at the Rental
Building material
• Chipboard 125x250 cm USED (if available)
• Chipboard 125x250 cm NEW (12mm)
• Slating battens 18x28 mm (240cm)
• Slat 18x68 mm (270cm)
• Beam 28x45 mm (240 cm)
• Beam 45x68 mm (240 cm)
Free materials
• Pain-roller width 18 cm
• Paint-bucket 8 litre
• Roller tray big 25x32 cm
• Roller tray small 16x31 cm
• Paint-roller bucket grid 23x26 cm
• Paintbrush round 10 mm
Painting equipment
• Latex Paint, only for walls
• RAL 9010 (white, only after request at the Rental)
• Paintbrush round 12 mm
• Paintbrush round 16 mm
• Paintbrush round 18 mm
• Filler-knife small
• Filler-knife wide
• Masking-tape 19 mm, 50 m
• Masking-tape 50 mm, 50 m
• Polythene dust sheet 4x5m
• Wall filler
• Screws for chipboards
Renting Equipment
You can of course rent equipment from the Rental for your presentation. The request for equipment will open on Tuesday 25 April. To request equipment, you need to go to the Rental in person (email requests will not be handled). Take into account that you will have to pay both a rental price and a equipment deposit. The equipment deposit is a separate deposit from the space deposit and will be reimbursed if the equipment comes back in the same condition.
When you have decided on what equipment you like to request, you need to pay the rental price and the equipment deposit directly. This payment confirms the request. At the Rental you can only pay with a debit or credit card.
Take into account that the academy has a limited amount of equipment, and it might be that you will not get the equipment that you requested. Therefore, it is important that you request your equipment in time and have considered what you need to use. Each student needs to do this individually, the department will not do this for you. If you need advice, please contact the Rental.
You can pick up your requested equipment when the build-up starts, Saturday 10 June. In case anything goes missing or gets damaged during your rental period, the height of your own risk is set at a maximum of € 500,- euros.
* Rent is for the entire period (exam + exhibition).
** Rent is including cables such as HDMI, VGA, mini-jack ,etc.
SUSTAINABILITY + TRASH
Make sure you bring your trash to the designated areas in or out outside the academy. Outside, between the academy buildings, there are blue bins for normal trash and paper. During the buildup and build-down there will be a container for larger trash. If you have chemical waste this need to go to a chemical disposal outside the academy.
Recycle center
In the Prinsessegracht basement there is now a student run recycle station ‘Ginko’. Here you can bring materials that are in good condition if you think another student can reuse it. You will also find an information sheet with rules and regulation, please read this before you leave you materials at the station. Have a look and recycle!
Refund for chipboards
If you have chipboards that are in good condition, you can bring them back to the Rental for a small refund. The academy will reuse these chipboards. The chipboards can be brought back if they are not sawn, have no screws attached (screw holes are not a problem), and only if they are painted with white latex paint.
Points Of Safety Attention
During the build-up and the Graduation Show we are transforming KABK into a large exhibition space. This means that we need to take certain safety measurements to keep both you, your work, the building, and more than 7000 visitors safe.
Make sure you apply the right safety measure(s) to your work and yourself during the build-up, the Graduation Show and the build-down. Do you have questions regarding your work in relation to safety? Contact your tutor first. If they cannot help you can reach out to the workshop employees. If you have more specific questions or questions regarding the building, please contact Joop from Facilities, you can reach him via the reception or facilities@kabk.nl
Safety measures
General Use the right Personal Protective Equipment for construction (glasses, shoes, ear-defenders).
• If necessary, supervision needs to be arranged.
• If necessary, locate the emergency stop of the machine you like to use before using it.
• It is not allowed to include any type of animal in the works or presentations. Even if it is insects, ants, or smaller living beings.
Electrical safety
• Current-carrying parts need to be insulated.
• Make sure the heat from electrical components dissipates properly.
• Is the voltage in your work higher than 220V and/or are there any (high voltage) parts modified in/to your work? Contact your teacher or facilities.
Physical safety
Make sure:
• There are no loose objects/wires that people could trip over. Especially when the room is dark.
• There are no heavy components that could fall.
• There is nothing you can fall off or over.
• There are no hot surfaces or sharp objects that could cause burns or cuts.
• You check the dB if you work with hard sound. Is it over 85dB? Contact your teacher or facilities.
• If you have a work that is mechanical or moves, make sure visitors cannot get in contact with the moving parts or that parts can break loose and hit visitors.
Chemical safety
• Are there hazard symbols on the substances that you use?
• Are there harmful substances, gases or vapours in the process released?
• Follow the safety instructions of the product or contact the Facilities department.
Fire safety
• Make sure that escape routes/doors/stairs are clear (minimum path width of 1 metre 20).
• Make sure the escape route signs are clearly visible.
• Make sure the fire extinguishers and fire hoses are easily accessible.
• Make sure that there are no inflammable items in the escape routes.
• Make sure all flammable materials are impregnated (textile curtains etc.).
• Make sure that electrical equipment, such as projectors, gets enough ventilation and not overheat.
• Open fire of any kind, including candles and sent sticks, is forbidden.
Safety check by facilities
Before the Graduation Show opens, the Facilities department will do a safety check if the works and the building are up to safety standards. It can happen that you will be asked to take (more) safety measures, so please check your work and instal- lation in time. Use the previous mentioned points as guideline. If you have any doubts, consult your tutor or the workshop employees. The safety check will happen on Monday the 26 of June.
Making A Nameplate
When a visitor or professionals from the professional field visit the Graduation Show it is essential for them to know whose project they’re looking at and that they have the possibility to read more about the project. Visitors and professionals from the working field also make photos of nameplates to look back to after the show.
Therefore, we want to ask every one of you to hang a nameplate with a short description next to your project. We will make an interactive PDF template for you and publish it on the portal. You can fill in this PDF and print the nameplate on thick paper in the Computer Workshop. We provide the paper for you. There is a limited amount of characters that fit onto the name plate, so please keep it max. 570 characters.
Please hang or place the nameplate next to your work on a visible spot for the visitor. We will upload the template on the Portal at the start of the build-up on 10 June.
Please make sure to print your nameplate before Monday 26 June!
Involve early on people in your project, you'll underunder stand at a later stage how they can help you.
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Graduation Show Campaign
The academy will set up a promotional campaign to attract people to visit the Graduation Show. This campaign will feature the banner on the front side of the building, a poster campaign, and a social media campaign, amongst others.
Word of mouth is the best promotion so we would appreciate it a lot if you can help us and spread the word as much as possible. Also, follow our Instagram @royalacademyofart.thehague, Facebook RoyalAcademyKABK, Twitter KABKnews, and LinkedIn @KABK and share and like the Graduation Show event page on Facebook. We will use the hashtag #kabkgraduation2023, so use this hashtag and tag us with @royalacademyofart.thehague and we will try to share it in our stories as well.
Graduation Catalogue
Last year, studio Lennarts and the Bruin created a brand-new Graduation Catalogue website (graduation.kabk.nl). The goal of this catalogue website is on the one hand to showcase your work to the professional field and other interested of the Graduation show and on the other hand the academy uses it to inform press and other relevant parties about your work. Curators, galleries and other professionals also use it to find your work back after the Graduation Show because they maybe consider to invite you for an exhibition, workshop, or other job opportunities. We as an academy also actively use this catalogue website to, for example, show to prospective students or collaborators what your graduation work looks like. Next to that, it is an archive of graduation works from the past years. In this way it becomes a very valuable collection of the works of KABK alums. This year, we want to use the content on the catalogue website even more than before. It would be great if you can not only upload the final result of your project but also information about your research process, sketches or any other relevant information. In this way, we create a valuable afterlife for the stories and topics your work addresses. The content will also be used in the promotion of the Graduation Show on our channels such as Instagram, the website and Facebook.
It works as follows: you will get your own personal page where you can show your graduation work. You can upload images, videos, and texts. After the Graduation Show the catalogue for the year 2023 will stay online for at least two years. We will soon provide more information about how and when to upload your projects onto the graduation catalogue website. Keep an eye on your KABK-mail.
You can change the content until the end of August 2023. So, if your graduation work for example includes a performance, we highly recommend uploading photos taken during the Graduation Show.
Documentation Of Your Work
We will photograph all graduation works for accreditation purposes and to use in our academy wide communication. The photographs will also be shared with you after the Graduation Show. If you use the photos on your website or other purposes, always mention the credits of the photographers.
We advise you to document your own work as well, because the documentation we make is pretty straight forward and ‘boring’ as it is for accreditation purposes. So, if you wish to have more dynamic documentation you can for example hire a photography alum or photographer experienced with making installation shots. You can of course also do it yourself.
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