The Place of Birth (draft) by Sandberg Instituut

ADELAIDE ALKMAAR ARCADIA ASCHAFFENBURG ASHFORD ASTI ATLANTIS BAD FRIEDRICHSHALL BAD NEUENAHR AHR-WEILER BEIRUT BERLIN BOGOTÁ BOLOGNA BREDA BREST BRIGHTON BUENOS AIRES CAMBRIDGE CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES CHARTRES CHEMNITZ CINCINNATI CLERMONT FERRAND COPENHAGEN DOMKYRKO DRUNEN DUBLIN DUMFRIES EDE EDINBURGH EKATERINBURG ERMELO EURASIA FORLÍ FREDENSBORG GOTHENBURG GOUDA GRANTHAM HAARLEM HAARLEMMERMEER

HELSINKI HOME HUDDERSFIELD IKSAN INNICHEN KANSAS CITY KAUNAS KOBLENZ LIMERICK LINCOLN LISBOA LOMÉ LONDON MADISON MADRID MEXICO CITY MISKOLC MONTRÉAL MOSCOW NEXT TO THE RIVER NORFOLK OAKLAND OXFORDSHIRE PARIS PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH PORDENONE ROSMALEN SAARBRÜCKEN SAINT-BRIEUC SCHWEDT/ODER SEOUL SYDNEY TALLINN TERRASSA THE PLACE OF BIRTH UNKNOWN TURKU VILNIUS WATFORD YORK ZÜRICH

SANDBERG INSTITUUT GRADUATION 2019

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ADELAIDE ALKMAAR ARCADIA ASCHAFFENBURG ASHFORD ASTI ATLANTIS BAD FRIEDRICHSHALL BAD NEUENAHR AHRWEILER BEIRUT BERLIN BOGOTÁ BOLOGNA BREDA BREST BRIGHTON BUENOS AIRES CAMBRIDGE CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES CHARTRES CHEMNITZ CINCINNATI CLERMONT FERRAND COPENHAGEN DOMKYRKO DRUNEN DUBLIN DUMFRIES EDE EDINBURGH EKATERINBURG ERMELO EURASIA FORLÍ FREDENSBORG GOTHENBURG GOUDA GRANTHAM HAARLEM HAARLEMMERMEER

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA HOLLY CHILDS

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/holly-childs

HYDRANGEA I & HYDRANGEA II

SHADOW CHANNEL

Hydrangea is a myth about myths, and within Hydrangea, each flower is a story, and forests contain neverending branching tales. Plotlines mutate, and realities fork; some come to bear the weight of new blooms of stories, while others fade out, creating ground for further blooms. Each organism influences the entire structure. In collaboration with Gediminas Å½ygus.

ALKMAAR, THE NETHERLANDS ROWENA BUUR

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/rowena-buur

1. WITHOUT HOPE I HAVE NO DREAMS. 2. WHEN DID YOU BECOME A HETEROSEXUAL? 12

DESIGN

Rowena takes you into their contrary worlds through different mediums. On the one hand an intimate family portrait. Rowena broke contact with their father, who has been struggling with an alcohol addiction, and does not have a stable place to live. When they heard that he found a home at a trailer park they thought it was time to contact him. On the other hand a project around sexuality, the heteronormative morals and some of the(in)visible aggressions that LGBTQ+ people have to face daily.

ARCADIA, ANCIENT GREECE RACHELE MONTI

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/rachele-monti

I WISH I COULD FIND THE WORDS

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

Let my visceral self unfold. Let my spleen cast bright lights. Let my tongue lick your ear. Let me laugh in the darkness.

ASCHAFFENBURG, GERMANY JULIANA MAURER

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/juliana-maurer

HYBRIS

RADICAL CUT-UP

In the epoch of the Anthropocene, mankind no longer sees itself as part of nature, but as ruler of it. It exploits and destroys nature for its own purposes. The tendency of mankind to dominate nature will lead to nature dominating mankind and thereby erase traces of human activity. In this work the contrast between the manifestations of human works and the indestructible resilience of nature is mirrored in the materials: ubiquitous artificial man-made materials vs. the elements of living nature.

ASHFORD, UK JACK WAGHORN

PSYCHIC MEDIUM PERFORMS EXORCISM ON VISIBLE HAND

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/jack-waghorn

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Psychic Medium Performs Exorcism On Visible Hand is a short allegorical horror film that addresses the economic-political driven housing crisis. Telling the story of a social housing building that has become possessed by the invisible hand of the free market.

ASTI, ITALY ELIA CASTINO

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/elia-castino

AS THE CUPBOARD IS TO THE HOME, SO THE HOME IS TO THE TOWN 16

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

The work expands from a research on domesticity, focusing on the living conditions of international students in the city of Amsterdam. In a context where housing struggle is rampant, the project looks at real occurrences to reflect upon the way domestic daily life unfolds. When the conventional structure of the house ‘evaporates’ new forms are generated; the architecture for the home becomes scattered, hybrid, ephemeral, a series of habits, rituals and routines, a simple pure moment in space.

ATLANTIS LESLIE LAWRENCE

THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/leslie-lawrence

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

A collaborative film that uses context of shared art production to produce an additional fantasy narrative, The Man Who Was Thursday follows a wild anarchist plot to destroy the world. Under the cover of ‘art practice’, an esoteric cabal publicly flaunts their dangerous activity while moving forward with a deadly plan. At the heart of their scheme is a mysterious briefcase that one undercover operative must find before the mysterious figure known only as ‘Sunday’ has the chance to use it.

BAD FRIEDRICHSHALL, GERMANY FABIAN REICHLE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/fabian-reichle

I WANNA BE LIKE YOU-OO-OO

RADICAL CUT-UP

For his graduation Fabian Reichle explores his artistic environment by copying, imitating and reenacting works that inspire him, in order to find the thin line that defines his own language. He presents a conglomeration of deliberately remade works of art to illuminate something like an overlapping area, where similarities between his own language and the one of works copies convene.

BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, GERMANY KATHRIN GRAF https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/kathrin-graf

UTOPIAN BODIES

FINE ARTS

“[I] would like to argue for a concept of subjectivity that is based on relationality with others and with things. That means paying attention to feelings as well as ideas, and viewing feelings, not as properties of the self, but as produced through the interaction between self and world [...] It also means taking into account not only conscious feelings, but also what is felt at the level of the body, questioning the body/mind divide.” – Jo Labanyi

BEIRUT, LEBANON MOHAMAD DEEB

ANATOMY OF AN UNREAL ORGAN

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/mohamad-deeb

CRITICAL STUDIES

The project ‘Anatomy of an unreal organ’ consists of an installation and an essay titled ‘Surgeons, architects, psychoanalysts’. The work takes as a starting point the notion of ‘organ’ and its conceptions in modern medicine, architecture, and psychoanalysis. Instead of presenting a historical survey, the work examines the 'worldviews' constructed around/from the concept of 'organ' and the ‘type’ of subjects they produce.

BERLIN, GERMANY TOMASZ SKIBICKI

THĘ HÓĄRDĘRGĄTHĘRĘR

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/tomasz-skibicki

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

Tomasz Skibicki creates installations, sculptures and films based on what he likes to call “first-hand encounters with second-hand stuff.” Refining traditional crafts and techniques such as ‘tramp art’, his practice results in personal reminders of these encounters that often speak to concerns of migration, consumerism, and death. Inspired by the aesthetics of sports gear and devotional objects, these idiosyncratic artifacts eye as icons of future believe systems.

BOGOTĂ , COLOMBIA DANIEL ORDONEZ MUNOZ

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/daniel-ordonez-munoz

TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE ARCHIPELAGO

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

A workshop held for children at the I Am Jong Foundation, a youth centre in Bijlmer. It is based on a science fiction narrative in which human technological interventions causes a future worldwide ecological catastrophe. The goal of the workshop is to imagine and create the new world through different artistic approaches that act as tools for the children to express their fantasies. The children will discover that they have the power to shape our society today and of the future.

BOLOGNA, ITALY FILIPPO TOCCHI

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/filippo-tocchi

SKINNY CITY FAT AND A POT OF MURMURS

CRITICAL STUDIES

Skinny City Fat and a Pot of Murmurs play out fraught relationships to patriarchy and the hegemony of authorship.

BREDA, THE NETHERLANDS TESSA MEEUS

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/tessa-meeus

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL GIVE YOU THE ENTIRE DAY

DESIGN

Je krijgt van mij de hele dag presents a series of design interventions in the personal space of an inclusive care home in Rotterdam South. By creating work with residents, and incorporating their preferences and collective memory, Meeus creates objects and spaces with personal value. Reflecting a process of design from the inside, her work goes beyond raising awareness, to transform living conditions.

BREST, FRANCE ANTOINE GUAY

COMMONING THE BREAD

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/antoine-guay

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

The urban context affects collective organizations and common interests by promoting individual ways of living. Cities like Amsterdam are the main players within this logic of transformation and show it in their urban landscapes. Within these, construction dumpsters become the markers of this shift. Commoning the bread proposes to turn a dumpster into a communal bread oven. It aims to explore the potentialities of resistance through a creative alternative by disrupting the urban context.

BRIGHTON, UK LUKE GEORGE HARDY RIDEOUT

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/luke-goerge-hardy-rideout

SUPPLY CHAIN BROADCAST

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Connecting the communities of the global supply chain. The global supply chain is designed for transporting goods, but can it be used as a platform for learning and empathy between communities around the globe? Supply Chain Broadcast is a digital audio visual station which shares the life and stories of communities along the chain with each other, uniting them in the knowledge of their individual contributions to production. In collaboration with Juhee Hahm

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA AGUSTINA WOODGATE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/agustina-woodgate

LINK TO VPN (VIRTUAL PUB NETWORK) IN YOUR WI-FI SETTINGS

RADICAL CUT-UP

VPN (Virtual PUB Network) is both a connectivity display and an emancipatory file server. An open source structural instrument where guests are able to share information and resources, hosting the circulation of knowledge as a methodology within its radius of action. VPN reveals the physical process of a communication system by creating an interface that allows visitors to engage at each stage of this process. In collaboration with Sascha Krischock, Miquel Hervรกs Gรณmez. (... continued on page 89)

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA MALENA MARIA ARCUCCI

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/malena-maria-arcucci

CONSPIRATORIAL MYTHOLOGIES

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Conspiratorial Mythologies is a three part project that looks back, into ancient Greek forms of storytelling, with the purpose of unveiling the truths hidden in conspiracy theories. What and who are we afraid of? Where will that fear take us?

CAMBRIDGE, UK SEKAI MAKONI

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/sekai-makoni

1. MAKING SPACE FOR FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE ARTS AND ACADEMIA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PANEL DISCUSSION 2. RE-IMAGINING CHURCH: BLACK, QUEERAFFIRMING, FAITH RITUAL RE-IMAGININGS 29

CRITICAL STUDIES

The panel discussion will explore the ways in which faith isn't so readily spoken about within the arts and academia. We will think about how we might create latitude for these discussions focusing on examples that are liberative and non-traditional. Re-imagining Black church will be a private POC ceremony centred on the Biblical symbolism of the washing of feet.

CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES, BRAZIL CRITICAL STUDIES VITA EVANGELISTA https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/vita-evangelista

NATUREZA MORTA-VIVA

‘Natureza Morta-Viva’ is an umbrella title for the two works presented as part of the graduation program. Both works result from my investigations of familiar public spaces that belong to the cities of Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro, through the top-down satellite perspective of Google Earth VR.

CHARTRES, FRANCE JEAN-FRANÇOIS PESCHOT

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/jean-francois-peschot

UNABLE TO SPEAK, THIS KID TRACES.

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

Through an extraction and recombination of printers emerged from the dominant technosocial sphere and a video form, bringing narratives and theories developed by Guattari, the status of the common space of the production of signs is subject to an inquiry. A link appears in between the contemporary fabrication of the terror, and the perceptual reminiscences of the relation predator – prey. The research investigates the formation of other ‘associated milieus’ from our image technology machines.

CHEMNITZ, GERMANY ANNAMARIA MERKEL

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/annamaria-merkel

WE ARE NOT THE ONLY KIND OF WE

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCE

For her work on ‘capitalist sorcery’, Merkel examined experience marketing as designed ritual to detect loopholes for ‘breaking the spell’. She developed site-specific choreographies for 12 performers, which act as collective body, appearing unsolicited to invade spaces for supervision. Interlinked with radio units, they move through illegible codes while whispering detailed descriptions. Sometimes individuals break free to reclaim personal agency only to fall back into the corporate ritual.

CINCINNATI, OHIO USA WYATT NIEHAUS

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/wyatt-niehaus

SUIKERFABRIEK IN HALFWEG

FINE ARTS

Author: Meerendonk, Ben van / Publication year: 1948, oktober. / About: Halfweg (Netherlands), Centrale Suiker Maatschappij (Halfweg) / Title: Suikerfabriek in Halfweg. / Type: Visual document. / Publication date: 1948, oktober. / Rights: restricted / Subject: Sugar industry. / Call Number: BG B19/617 / Subject location: NED / Location: IISG / Order & Request: 10622/57BFADA5-1967-4571-8A20-AF546E2EFB89.

CLERMONT FERRAND, FRANCE LOU BUCHE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/lou-buche

HORS JEU

RADICAL CUT-UP

The installation is a reenactment of the architecture of Robucheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of a playroom, where recreational activity and work are merged together. To achieve this, they created a combination of iconic objects and references put all together. A set up where the link between analog and digital will be enlighten, and hopefully open new perspectives to the viewers. Their aim is to embody, pay tribute to what made them what they are, but also what made them link and create together in a first place. In collaboration with Javier Rodriguez.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK MATHILDE STUBMARK

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/mathilde-stubmark

SECURE, PEACEFUL & WILD

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

The project investigates how humans sense of smell relates to space. In contrary to commonly used methods of designing architectural entities, scent is the main protagonist in the process of space making. Secure, Peaceful & Wild is a research on how scents can be incorporated into materials recognized from the world of architecture, such as plaster, concrete, ceramics or textiles. The manipulated materials are spatially examined to understand the possible affect on the human body and mind.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK DAVID HAACK MONBERG

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/david-haack-monberg

ICONS MADE WITHOUT HANDS

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

As the crusade of the Islamic State bulldozed through the land of the Levant, one of its architectural victims reappeared on the steps of Trafalgar Square. Shrouded by a satin cloth, stood one of the finest physical manifestations of virtual archeology. Caught in-between the physical and the digital, the historical artefact â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our memory, had finally been completely destroyed. If cultural heritage is the beating heart of a society, what happens when its representatives are replaced by surrogates?

DOMKYRKO, GOTHENBURG SWEDEN ADA REINTHAL https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/ada-reinthal

DIVERSE FRONTS // DIVERSE TACTICS

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Diverse Fronts // Diverse Tactics explores how to mobilise people and utilise prefigurative methods in order to address social and economic injustices in society at large. How do you sustain interest in difficult topics?

DRUNEN, THE NETHERLANDS ELIF OZBAY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/elif-ozbay

BOXER/BIKER RING/CYCLE

SHADOW CHANNEL

Elif Ozbay produces visual pieces that are based on true events and folk tales. Her lens based practice starts often in the field, where she detects the mysterious in incidental occurrences. In the stage of editing she carries classical techniques such as suspense to the extreme and reinvents postproduction effects as creative problem solving methods to avoid image right issues. In such moments her reports of past events become indistinguishable from performances she has staged.

DUBLIN, IRELAND AIDAN WALL

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/aidan-wall

THEIR BOOLEAN DRIFT

CRITICAL STUDIES

Their Boolean Drift is a work of fiction about humanity's relationship to two para-human entities: artificial intelligences and landlords. It is published as a limited edition book accompanied by collectible cards which bear illustrations from the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swampy and familiar world. Set during the continuous Dublin housing crisis, the story follows weirdos SiĂşn and Fledge as they live under the surveying eyes of a curiously coded intelligence who they have accidentally welcomed into their home.

DUBLIN, IRELAND MARK BUCKERIDGE

OPERA

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/mark-buckeridge

FINE ARTS

Mark will present an opera that will be performed by a group within the context of the Saint Sebastian chapel in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. The libretto is divided into three acts and has numerous scenes. The opera is about pain, traveling, institutions, cars, fine art, ships, lamenting, spirituality, the sky, disillusion and new possibilities.

DUMFRIES, SCOTLAND AMY WINSTANLEY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/any-winstanley

SWELL, MOVE, CIRCLE, SLOW AND VANISH

FINE ARTS

For me painting is about using all I know and feel to reflect my experience of the world. Within this there is movement, gesture; the act of hand and paintbrush on paper or canvas. They all include this energy of movement, a potential to change. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m addicted to this potential, this very honest moment; the striped back truth of an immediacy between hand, paintbrush and paint. In a way they are all indications or vestiges of this potential.

EDE, THE NETHERLANDS VALERIE VAN ZUIJLEN

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/valerie-van-zuijlen

PILOT

SHADOW CHANNEL

I’ve spent the day in front of my memory box. I was slowly scanning a vision without knowing that it was a description of a dream. Six hours for you, six hours for me, six hours for us both. A parallel time sphere opens the camera shifts and returns the gaze. That’s when you started calling She the fifth generation. She was amazed you could love an image of air, then have a real avatar, appear in it instead. Can one be as lovely as an avatar of an image?

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND LANA MURDOCHY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/lana-murochy

WE ARE ALREADY THERE

FINE ARTS

This work is interested in collectivity integrated into the everyday, building a sense of community is made an example whilst I filmed the group of women I have grown close too, gathering together to paint one another's portrait. This film shows how gathering, repetition and difference builds connectivity, displaying my own friendship group and the collaboration involved throughout life.

EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA ELIZAVETA STRAKHOVA

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/elizaveta-strakhova

HETEROGENEOUS WATERS

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

Heterogeneous Waters is a communal bathing experience that takes place in a public foot bath. The work addresses the consequences of the increasing privatisation of the rituals of self-care and hygiene. Through the re-introduction of the disappearing public bathing facilities into the urban fabric it explores their potential for stimulating the development of scenarios for care, inclusion and intimacy within the public realm.

ERMELO, THE NETHERLANDS FARIDA SEDOC

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/farida-sedoc

THE FUTURE AINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T WHAT IT USED TO BE

RADICAL CUT-UP

A story of printed cloth as an essential consumer item and material transfer of wealth. The circulation and composition of objects are intertwined with power, mobilizes people and shape political, economic and gender relations. Because cloth works on and through the body as a frontier between self and society. The printed cloth functioned as an archive where a countries memories are stored and global connections are made that questions value and shape a national identity.

EURASIA, EARTH GVN908

IDLE HEROES

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/gvn908

SHADOW CHANNEL

“Automatically upgraded, save your time, enjoy your life!” — Idle Heroes

FORLÍ, ITALY ANDREA BELOSI

UNREAL ESTATES: THE TALE OF LIBERTY HILLS

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/andrea-belosi

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

Unreal Estates: The Tale of Liberty Hills is a CGI short film that employs – and exploits – the media of architectural renderings as virtual sets for a fictional narrative. “From the city to the countryside”, the contemporary tendency promoted as life solution, is the leitmotif of the story of the protagonist. Exhausted by the struggle for entrepreneurial success, he sets off to the countryside. Like a mirage, a bright landscape appears on the horizon – and it fades away in the blink of an eye.

FREDENSBORG, DENMARK SILKE XENIA JUUL

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/silke-xenia-juul

CRITICAL STUDIES

Dwelling on absent selves, their body transforms from a shell of flesh and bones to a mutation of fleeing existences. While past and future selves are commemorated, the awareness remains that present selves become increasingly dispersed, as they morph into porous multiplications of another. During the ceremony, we mourn our selves transferring present voices through handmade vessels, in tribute of unreached potentialities with continuous ceremonial singing and acts of metaphysical remembrance.

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN REBECCA ESKILSSON

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/rebecca-eskilsson

FROM HER TEETH TO HER FEET //$ %~~~*/

RADICAL CUT-UP

Photography and sculptures. Pandora, the first human woman, was created as a punishment for the man. It address the increasingly digitized world – where images and desires flood our senses questions society’s obsession with unreal female figures and the male gaze that constructs them. Men have traditionally viewed women as evil forces for thousands and thousands of centuries.

GOUDA, THE NETHERLANDS MARIJN DEGENAAR

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/marijn-degenaar

BETWEEN NOW AND NEVER

SHADOW CHANNEL

Set within the near future. The film depicts the encounter between two representatives of two powerful forces on the planet. One of Nature, one of Humanity. The two engage in a divinatory reading which in turn sets of a series of strange events. The film is an abstract, psychedelic piece.

GRANTHAM, UK JOSEPH PLEASS

I’VE BEEN TO PARADISE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/jospeh-pleass

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

‘I’ve Been To Paradise’ is an interactive narrative that explores euthanasia and end-of-life services through dialogue led gameplay. The game allows the player to role-play the last remaining days of a loved one’s life, who has decided to perform euthanasia. The narrative takes place on a euthanasia cruise ship, a fictional platform to explore hypothetical and speculative approaches to the dying process within.

HAARLEM, THE NETHERLANDS DAAN COUZIJN

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/daan-couzijn

BEAUTIFUL IMPACT

RADICAL CUT-UP

Beautiful Impact is about flirting with rescue without having the intention of being saved. About accepting that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of a car approaching you from the opposite direction. About being damaged in the most beautiful way. Couzijnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent works have been examining his narcissistic desire to suffer. In the next stage in this process, he shows the aftermath of a beautiful, unexpected impact.

HAARLEM, THE NETHERLANDS FENNA SCHILLING

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/fenna-schilling

WE THE LABYRINTHS

RADICAL CUT-UP

“The ideal, or the dream, would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.” – Hélène Cixous. ‘We the Labyrinths’ is an installation which consist of multiple visual collages, accompanied by a soundscape.

HAARLEM, THE NETHERLANDS NEMO KONING

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/nemo-koning

NUTMEG TALES

CRITICAL STUDIES

‘Nutmeg Tales’ is a performative lecture, following the smell of the Dutch home right down to its roots in colonised Indonesia. What once started off as a personal inquiry into a Dutch cookie called ‘taai taai’ and my sense of home, took the form of a historic research into the Dutch settler’s greedy and violent monopolisation of the nutmeg spice – an important ingredient of the taai taai. How to dwell in a native home that finds find its comfort in the fruits of a rather bloody history?

HAARLEMMERMEER, THE NETHERLANDS DIRTY ART JEROEN KORTEKAAS DEPARTMENT https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/jeroen-kortekaas

WITH FLYING COLORS

In With Flying Colors, Kortekaas presents a series of sculptures which hold ambiguous status of signaling objects, alluding to the question how individuals relate to space and its boundaries, markers, objects. Taking the signpost as the image of guiding life along a beaten path, his work can inspire us to imagine those and our other boundaries, differently. With the urgency of an emergency vehicle and the joy of fairground rides, they oscillate between crisis and ecstasy.

HELSINKI, FINLAND EMILIA TAPPREST

ZHŌUWÉI.NETWORK

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/emilia-tapprest

SHADOW CHANNEL

ZHŌUWÉI.NETWORK is a practice-based research project investigating visceral implications of automated surveillance. The work introduces three speculative worlds differing in who has power over data and how this power is used. The main output of the research is a proof-of-concept for a sci-fi short film depicting the parallel lives of ’V’, Long and Dimian – each struggling with questions of personhood, freedom and community in the quantified age.

HOME, MY HOME SUN CHANG

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/sun-chang

COMMON BELONGINGS

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

An ongoing program grounded in the Sandberg student community. Initiated in November 2018 in collaboration with fellow student Sara Santana. Through a weekly mobile food service, it established a circular economy and functions as a sustainable structure and platform for the community to meet up at the supported events of other students, to discuss topics of collective interest. The aim of the program is to regain a sense of belonging in the face of institutional pressures and shortcomings.

HUDDERSFIELD, UK ALEX WALKER

SMALL STUDIES IN OPACITY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/alex-walker

DESIGN

The work comprises a selection of designed objects – knick-knacks, trinkets, conversation pieces (if you will), decor (if you must) – that meditate (and dance around) upon the conceptual tensions between opacity-transparency, contamination-purity, shit-value, commodityfetish, and surface-depth.

IKSAN, SOUTH KOREA JUHEE HAHM

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/juhee-hahm

I WANTED TO LIKE MY WORK

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Working is not only about productivity anymore. Then what is the value of human labour? Working has been the centre of lifeworld. To explore the future, we need to investigate current position of work. For the discussion, I will depict the increasing job/phenomenon, Bull-Shit Jobs, that is defined by David Graeber. In a waiting room, to get the fuel of current lifeworld (caffeine), participants will experience infrastructure of ‘Bull-shit Jobs’. In collaboration with Luke George Hardy Rideout

INNICHEN, ITALY ANDREAS TRENKER

ALUMINIUM DUCE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/andreas-trenker

DESIGN

The documentary Aluminium Duce investigates the history of a fascist monument once located in Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most northern region, South Tyrol. Andreas Trenker retraces the story of this statue from its blueprint to its destruction in 1961, exploring the violence performed by and against the effigy. By bringing together a variety of archival material and conducting interviews, the documentary functions as point of intersection of diametrically opposed views regarding the monument and and its meaning.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI USA JOHN CHARLES BRICKER

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/john-charles-bricker

PEEK TV: GLOBAL FOLK TELEVISION

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Global Folk Television: Peek TV is a variety show format created in order to celebrate local communities and connect them with kindred spirits all over the world. The showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central setting is a cartoon-vortex-clubhouse hosted by a friendly and sometimes confused human called John.

KAUNAS, LITHUANIA GEDIMINAS Å½YGUS

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/gediminas-zygus

HYDRANGEA I & HYDRANGEA II

SHADOW CHANNEL

KOBLENZ, GERMANY SELMA KĂ&#x2013;RAN

EXIT ATHENA

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/selma-koeran

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

Set in the olympian universe, the movie Exit Athena is the ultimate extraversion of an inner and outer duality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a metaphysical superorder, a battle of the sexes, that manifests within the general and consistent contradiction of naive visual narration and conflicting bizarre content deconstructing the rigid expectations of the viewer.

LIMERICK, IRELAND HEATHER GRIFFIN

MADE TO MEASURE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/heather-griffin

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

In the age of big data where digital surveillance is normalised in our everyday lives and tech corporations are taking over the administrative roles in our so-called smart cities. Who is being monitored and quantified, in which ways and for whose benefit? Can communities become resilient to structures of surveillance, reconnect with their territories and reclaim their data?

LINCOLN, UK HARRIET FOYSTER

HARDWOOD IN HEART WOOD

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/harriet-foyster

CRITICAL STUDIES

Sexy curves, a timeless classic.Â Resilient and hardworking but with soft touches, good against the skin. Purposeful yet approachable, one-of-a-kind and bright, too. Sure to create a lasting impression. Pouring personality, all elegant and very casually sophisticated. Natural woods and blonde veneers. Feels just like the real thing.

LISBOA, PORTUGAL ANDRÉ LOURENÇO

WORMEATERS.

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/andre-lourenco

SHADOW CHANNEL

Piece for instruments and pre-recorded sounds grounded on a story by the composer. This iteration is performed by: Alex Brajkovic (Drums), Pau Sola (Cello), Tatiana Rosa (Flute), André Lourenço ( Electric Guitar).

LOMÉ, TOGO DAVIDE-CHRISTELLE SANVEE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/davide-christelle-sanvee

EVERYTHING AROUND, INCLUDING YOU

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

The work integrates itself in the dailylife’s routine by using its social codes and existing architecture. Engaged with topics touching the relations between individuals and their positionality in public spaces, she proposes a scripted performance that assume its intention: to perturbate in order to requestion our behaviors. By initiating a situation where the street’s occupants have to negotiate with each others, she wants to challenge the expectations of her audience.

LONDON, UK ELISA GRASSO

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/elisa-grasso

SEVEN YEAR OLD SELF

SHADOW CHANNEL

My therapist once asked me to visualise my child self sitting next to me, sad and crying. “How would you treat her?” my therapist asked. “With compassion, love and care” I answered. “Then that’s how you should treat yourself now, as an adult” she replied.

LONDON, UK BARNABY MONK

TOOLS FOR A POSTCAPITALIST TRANSITION

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/barnaby-monk

RADICAL CUT-UP

Barnaby Monk (Herbert Luciole) explores, iterates and evolves a variety of different tools that seek to facilitate and drive a Postcapitalist transition.

MADISON, WISCONSIN USA RYAN EYKHOLT

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/ryan-eykholt

PHONINESS

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

‘Phoniness’ is an emerging method for projecting private discomfort and queer ambivalence onto public institutions, reshaping systems in a more pluralistic way. Connecting the dots between the 2020 U.S. Census and automatic grammar checkers, the project involves graphic and choreographic experiments in disrupting binaries.

MADRID, SPAIN JAVIER RODRIGUEZ

HORS JEU

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/javier-rodriguez

RADICAL CUT-UP

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO SHADOW CHANNEL JUAN ARTURO GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/juan-arturo-garcia-gonzalez

THE INNER LIFE OF EXTERIOR PLANTS

Within a banana plantation and a botanic garden, a panel of botanic experts are challenged to discuss contemporary trends in gardening, scientific classification, and monocultural crops by an astute interviewer. The hidden politics of the experts’ positions are uncomfortably exposed and confronted with reality, as they render themselves suspicious of their own language.

MISKOLC, HUNGARY ZSOFIA KOLLAR

KILLING YOU SOFTLY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/zsofia-kollar

RADICAL CUT-UP

Killing you softly is a reflection on our consumer culture. On a culture, which while comforting our needs, softly destroys us and our surroundings. Hyper-consumerism has spread globally, and its tactics of persuasion have established a material culture where the hardcore whirlwind of information and the dense wilderness of materials have engaged a large part of most societies and cultures. Consumerism has created our own monsters, which we are slowly becoming ourselves.

MONTRÃ&#x2030;AL, CANADA JASON HARVEY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/jason-harvey

THOUGHTFUL PROFESSIONAL MEDITATIONS 74

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

A small book containing powerful text, images and information.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA ANNA PETROVA

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/anna-petrova

SHADOW CHANNEL

Like archeologist, collecting pieces of the house, one by one. The routes that leading home. So tell me, where do I belong?

THE TALES OF DIS-BELONGING

Potato after potato. Brick after brick. What's the trick? Integrate and start from the beginning. Develop and reborn, to find the other meaning.

I wish I was a potato. Discover my home and put down the roots that easy.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA KARINA ZAVIDOVA

UNTITLED

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/karina-zavidova

DESIGN

‘Untitled’ is an exploration of the systems of value, to which a creative practice owned by a non-EU citizen has to comply in order to remain in The Netherlands. The perception of a non-EU creative as a single case and not as a part of a large group is facilitated by rhetorics and the ways in which the ‘terms and conditions’ are made impenetrable. The book documents working on an active approach to these ‘terms and conditions’.

NEXT TO THE RIVER WALTER GĂ&#x2013;TSCH

THE SETTLEMENT

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/walter-goetsch

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

These are tools and artefacts for the curious, the seekers, the lovers, the adventurers, the climbers and the divers. The works are best observed from the perspective of a traveller; as tools for personal development, transitioning, a temporary habitation. The grand narrative is the journey, both symbolically and literally.

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA USA MARIAH BLUE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/mariah-blue

CALLING ALL HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS

FINE ARTS

Sleepeels is a Youtube personality. She does live performances as well as posts videos on her Youtube channel. Sonic Meditation and Vibrational Bodies is a collaborative workshop/ performance with Tina Reden.

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA USA WES MAPES

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/wes-mapes

NEO KEMETIC ASSEMBLAGE II (NKAII)

RADICAL CUT-UP

Neo Kemetic Assemblage II (NKAII) is a hoodtronic amalgamation of differing media rooted in a shared timeless narrative. The vernacular of this hyper trill work introduces past, present and future through ritual and relic. Illustrated slang, Soul On Ice. A homage to The Town; our people, our beauty, our strength. Our slanguage unadulterated ... visually.

OXFORDSHIRE, UK ADAM BLETCHLY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/adam-bletchly

WHOLE EARTH TRILOGY

RADICAL CUT-UP

Acting as a response to the dry discourse of the modern scientific publication, these artworks serve to explore the subjects of: nuclear power, cities and GE crops. Whilst robust theory and data can record hard facts, a creation of visual icons enables a digestible form of an idea to be passed through time and eventually embed itself within the public sphere. Utilising pre-existing canonical scientific imagery, this work aims to de-objectivise the process behind such idea(l)s.

PARIS, FRANCE JULIE PUSZTAI

EQUANIMOUS PERENNATION

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/julie-pusztai

FINE ARTS

The work – unfolding in two locations – will consist of an audio installation as well as the composure of floral leaves as reflectors of the perpetual balancing of being on a knife-edge.

PARIS, FRANCE LUCIE DE BRÉCHARD

SLUMMING AT THE RODEO GARDENS

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/lucie-de-brechard

DESIGN

As coping does not need to be rational, or does not necessitate dryness, Slumming At The Rodeo Gardens intermingle with theory & practice to propose a Resistance making room for the personal, the not-knowing & the crooked: dissolving the boundary between the political & the sensible. Composting mediums borrowed from the French bourgeoisie to transpose them into a interbred contemporary body of work, de Bréchard’s discourse argues for a critical visual pleasure via the messy & the confused.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA USA RADICAL CUT-UP ANTHONY SMYRSKI https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/anthony-smyrski

GOOD FOR ONE FARE

10 replicas of the SEPTA Token, the discontinued fare instrument for the city of Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public transit system.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA USA ALEXANDER CROMER https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/alexander-cromer

ICE DONT DROWN.

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Ice Don’t Drown is a video essay the investigates the Middle Passage’s relationship with the Arctic through a series of interviews, music, and imagery.

PORDENONE, ITALY FRANCESCA LUCCHITTA

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/francesca-lucchita

CHEI DEL FOUC

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

Chei del Fouc is a fictional community suspended between experience, desire and imagination. They are living in the mountain environment of the Alps and are the result of moments of contact with different communities and ways of relating to a mountain environment. They existed in the past, are existing in the present and will probably exist in the future. They represent a parallel way of living in relation to that of the people living in the city, far away from nature.

ROSMALEN, THE NETHERLANDS LUCIE FORTUIN

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/lucie-fortuin

TEXTURES

CRITICAL STUDIES

Wrenched bodies, melting ice and intimacy that is intricately linked with the abject. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;texturesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a performative reading of a prose poem taking place in the fictive city Asude. It investigates the psychosomatic effects of a future trauma on people, cats, their surroundings. Those roaming the city seek to find their way between resurfacing memories and a looming present, between fragile desires and the dripping water that quietly traces their steps. Are you trying to hide inside your dreams?

SAARBRÜCKEN, GERMANY KANI MAROUF

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/kani-marouf

ALL I SEE IS YOU

SHADOW CHANNEL

“All I see is you” is an one-hour film, finalizing a two year long research about numbness in an overtaking image presentness. The film is staging various moments of a subject’s glorification, hence creating cinematic scenes, in order to investigate the impact of cinema on the subject it is narrating.

SAINT-BRIEUC, FRANCE SARA DANIEL

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/sara-daniel

HOW TO __

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

SCHWEDT/ODER, GERMANY SASCHA KRISCHOCK

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/sascha-krischock

LINK TO VPN (VIRTUAL PUB NETWORK) IN YOUR WI-FI SETTINGS

DESIGN

(... continued from page 27) VPN (Virtual PUB Network) is an eight node VPN (Virtual Private Network) installed physically at each exhibition venue during Sandberg Instituut’s graduation show. This virtual network explores the possibilities of autonomous infrastructures by building a zone of trust and situated knowledge opposing itself to the platformization of the institute. By building a local network and designing its architecture VPN aims to link all the distributed departments and generate space in between. In collaboration with Agustina Woodgate, Miquel Hervás Gómez. (... continued on page 94)

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA YOUNWON SOHN

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/younwon-sohn

UNFOLDED INVITATION

FINE ARTS

Floor is simply the surface of the earth or a technical, architectural response to make that surface more habitable or useful. It has also sometimes been a muted registration of cultural practices and construction technologies from prayer rugs to sink-hole. The floors can fall away or out from under, but they are usually there, idling beneath us. The low floor becomes unfolded tables and extended surface becomes sharable scenery. By unfolding the floor, I would like to invite you.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ALEX MURRAY

ULTRA-FACE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/alex-murray

RADICAL CUT-UP

Ultra-Face is a programmed film screening in real-time. It takes off from a 2018 collaboration with GVN908. Through an algorithmic assemblage of live CCTV streams, Ultra-Face poeticises a visceral, high-frequency history, a buffering Rorschach of our present world.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA MAIKE STATZ

CAPILLARY MALFORMATION

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/maike-statz

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

Capillary Malformation is a site-specific audio walk that moves between different spaces and times, interweaving fiction and reality. Drawing on feminist science fiction books, architectural theory and lived experiences, the listener is faced with the gendered nature of domestic spaces.

TALLINN, ESTONIA MARIA MUUK

THE DINING TABLE

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/maria-muuk

CRITICAL STUDIES

For the duration of the Critical Studies End of Year Program, the dining table will become a meeting point for satisfying the hunger of the living beings around the stairs of the FedLev building. Through porous collaborations, we will allow ourselves to mix, marble, soak, sour, stain, curdle and digest through complex matters of cultural change.

TERRASSA, SPAIN MIQUEL HERVÁS GÓMEZ

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/miquel-hervas-gomez

LINK TO VPN (VIRTUAL PUB NETWORK) IN YOUR WI-FI 94 SETTINGS

DESIGN

(... continued from page 89) Through pins, packets and traceroutes, the scalable, flexible and malleable network displays its strength and weakness, its traffic and its interferences, making visible the invisible. This project is a direct outcome of two years of PUB sessions, experiences and collaborative working. Applying tools and ideas shared along our working process, constructing a dynamic archive through experimental publishing and distribution. PUB.sandberg.nl. In collaboration with Sascha Krischock, Agustina Woodgate.

THE PLACE OF BIRTH, UNKNOWN LÃ&#x2030;O RAVY https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/leo-ravy

THE TITLE OF THE WORK UNKNOWN

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

TURKU, FINLAND SAMULI SAARINEN

SMALL STUDIES IN OPACITY

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/samuli-saarinen

DESIGN

The work comprises a selection of designed objects – knick-knacks, trinkets, conversation pieces (if you will), decor (if you must) – that meditate upon (and dance around) the conceptual tension between opacity/transparency, contamination/purity, shit/value, commodity/ fetish, surface/depth etc.

VILNIUS, LITHUANIA MIŠA SKALSKIS

‘THIRST’ AND ‘AMBIGUITY’

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/misa-skalskis

SHADOW CHANNEL

The work is a diptych of two videos based on real events which become fictionalized. The first is narrated by a teenager stuck on an island with parents in an unpleasant and tedious journey that becomes aggravated by the sun – a malignant force, that is about to cause global catastrophe by melting everything that is solid. The second video is based on a trip in Puglia region by the author and their 80 years old grandma. The main theme of this film is alienation.

WATFORD, UK TOM BURKE

FROM HERE WE GO EXTREME

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/tom-burke

MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

Climate Monsters.The Ecological Gaze.Developed with the community of Penablanca, a village in Chile experiencing rapid desertification, From Here We Go Extreme is an EP and music video that examines the collision of global and local imaginaries of climate change.

YORK, UK MARK PRENDERGAST

EYE FALL

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/mark-prendergast

SHADOW CHANNEL

A body of poetry about getting distracted in an intensely focussed way, about finding everything in the smallest gesture. These films mesh Structural film strategies with the elastic potential of contemporary digital imaging technologies, pointing to their own construction in order to talk about the way the moving image mediates and functions in contemporary society. The films are also very associative, drawing out connection and narrative from disparate recorded moments.

ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND EVITA EVA-MARIA BIANCA RIGERT

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/evita-eva-maria-bianca-rigert

TRUE FAKE

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MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

A fake reveals inherent ideologies and questions what is regarded as “authentic”, “original” or “genuine”, therefore a fake uncovers the precieved subjective validity and importance of an object.

ZĂ&#x153;RICH, SWITZERLAND TINA REDEN

https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/tina-reden

MEMORIES, SONIC MEDITATIONS AND VIBRATIONAL BODIES

101

FINE ARTS

Through different installations, collaborations and formats the works experiment with the the act of listening. In the Kunstverein Amsterdam, in collaboration with Davide Sanvee and Francisca Khamis, she explores the sharing of and listening to memories. In the Glazen Huis she investigates connecting potentials of sculptural and environmental acoustics in the form of sonic meditations with Mariah Blue.

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INDEX

Place of Birth (A – Z)

Adelaide Alkmaar Arcadia Aschaffenburg Ashford Asti Atlantis Bad Friedrichshall Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Beirut Berlin Bogotá Bologna Breda Brest Brighton Buenos Aires Cambridge Campos Dos Goytacazes Chartres Chemnitz Cincinnati Clermont Ferrand Copenhagen Domkyrko Drunen Dublin Dumfries Ede Edinburgh Ekaterinburg Ermelo Eurasia

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27/28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35/36 37 38 39/40 41 42 43 44 45 46

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INDEX

Forlí Fredensborg Gothenburg Gouda Grantham Haarlem Haarlemmermeer Helsinki Home Huddersfield Iksan Innichen Kansas City Kaunas Koblenz Limerick Lincoln Lisboa Lomé London Madison Madrid Mexico City Miskolc Montréal Moscow Next To The River Norfolk Oakland Oxfordshire Paris Philadelphia Pittsburgh Pordenone

47 48 49 50 51 52/53/54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68/69 70 71 72 73 74 75/76 77 78 79 80 81/82 83 84 85

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INDEX

86 87 88 89 90 91/92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100/101

Title of the Work (A – Z)

Aluminium Duce All I See Is You Anatomy Of An Unreal Organ As The Cupboard Is To The Home, So The Home Is To The Town Beautiful Impact Between Now And Never Boxer/Biker Ring/Cycle Calling All Homo Sapiens Sapiens Capillary Malformation Chei Del Fouc Common Belongings Commoning The Bread Conspiratorial Mythologies Diverse Fronts // Diverse Tactics Equanimous Perennation Everything Around, Including You

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60 87 20 16 52 50 38 78 92 85 57 25 28 37 81 67

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INDEX

Exit Athena 63 Eye Fall 99 From Here We Go Extreme 98 From Her Teeth To Her Feet //$ %~~~*/ 49 Good For One Fare 83 Hardwood In Heart Wood 65 Heterogeneous Waters 44 Hors Jeu 34/71 How To __ 88 Hybris 14 Hydrangea I & Hydrangea Ii 11/62 Ice Dont Drown. 84 Icons Made Without Hands 36 Idle Heroes 46 I’ll Give You The Entire Day 24 I’ve Been To Paradise 51 I Wanna Be Like You-Oo-Oo 18 I Wanted To Like My Work 59 I Wish I Could Find The Words 13 Killing You Softly 73 Link To Vpn (Virtual Pub Network) In Your Wi-Fi Settings 27/89/94 Made To Measure 64 Memories, Sonic Meditations And Vibrational Bodies 101 Natureza Morta-Viva 30 Neo Kemetic Assemblage Ii (Nkaii) 79 Nutmeg Tales 54 Opera 40 Peek Tv: Global Folk Television 61 Phoniness 70 Pilot 42 Psychic Medium Performs Exorcism On Visible Hand 15 Secure, Peaceful & Wild 35 Seven Year Old Self 68

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SANDBERG INSTITUUT GRADUATION 2019 Skinny City Fat And A Pot Of Murmurs Slumming At The Rodeo Gardens Small Studies In Opacity Suikerfabriek In Halfweg Supply Chain Broadcast Swell, Move, Circle, Slow And Vanish Textures The Dining Table The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be Thę Hóąrdęr-Gąthęręr The Inner Life Of Exterior Plants Their Boolean Drift The Man Who Was Thursday The Settlement The Tales Of Dis-Belonging The Title Of The Work Unknown ‘Thirst’ And ‘Ambiguity’ Thoughtful Professional Meditations Tools For A Postcapitalist Transition Transmissions From The Archipelago True Fake Ultra-Face Unable To Speak, This Kid Traces. Unfolded Invitation Unreal Estates: The Tale Of Liberty Hills Untitled Utopian Bodies We Are Already There We Are Not The Only Kind Of We We The Labyrinths Whole Earth Trilogy With Flying Colors Wormeaters. Zhōuwéi.Network

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INDEX

23 82 58/96 33 26 41 86 93 45 21 72 39 17 77 75 95 97 74 69 22 100 91 31 90 47 76 19 43 32 53 80 55 66 56

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INDEX

1. Making Space For Faith And Spirituality In The Arts And Academia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Panel Discussion 2. Re-Imagining Church: Black, Queer-Affirming, Faith Ritual Re-Imaginings 1. Without Hope I Have No Dreams. 2. When Did You Become A Heterosexual? 2

29 12 48

Main Departments

Critical Studies Design Dirty Art Department Fine Arts Studio For Immediate Spaces

114 115 116 117 118

Temporary Programmes

Radical Cut-Up Shadow Channel

119 120 Hosted Programme

Master Design of Experiences

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GRADUATION 2019

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THE PLACE OF BIRTH Part draft (edition available in May) and part final (edition available in July) content, the digital and paperback publication The Place of Birth consists of an index of the graduation work of Sandberg Instituut's Main Departments, Temporary Programmes, Hosted Programme and a series of editorials. The publication is developed by PS (Public Sandberg) in collaboration with graphic designers Our Polite Society and the ninetyone graduates of 2019. With texts by artist & researcher Camille Barton (UK), second year student Architectural Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academie Herman Hjorth Berge (NO), journalist Thomas van Huut (NL), writer & curator Sumaya Kassim (UK), curator Jules van den Langenberg (NL), urban and architectural geographer Mark Minkjan (NL), critic Laurens Otto (BE), and writer & researcher Tamar Shafrir (IL/USA). This publication is a draft and will be updated with the final graduation works and editorials in July 2019. Publication The Place of Birth is part of an ongoing series of publications by PS (Public Sandberg). Previous editions are The Name of the Author (2018) and The Title of the Work (2017).

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8 BELLY BUTTONS & 16 CHEEKS Various curators, writers and researchers are invited to compose an editorial based upon visiting the Graduation Exhibitions and Events throughout Amsterdam on Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June 2019. The texts are published in July. 8 BELLY BUTTONS & 16 CHEEKS contributors include artist & researcher Camille Barton (UK), second year student Architectural Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academie Herman Hjorth Berge (NO), journalist Thomas van Huut (NL), writer & curator Sumaya Kassim (UK), curator Jules van den Langenberg (NL), urban and architectural geographer Mark Minkjan (NL), critic Laurens Otto (BE), and writer & researcher Tamar Shafrir (IL/USA). 8 BELLY BUTTONS & 16 CHEEKS is a series of editorials interpreting the 2019 Sandberg Graduation Exhibitions and Events. The texts aim to give graduates, visitors, professional audience and press the opportunity to get (re)introduced with the work and occurring topics amongst a new generation of artists, designers and (interior) architects from the Sandberg Instituut. Feel free to contact ps@sandberg.nl if you are interested in contributing an editorial to next years publication.

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GRADUATION 2019 On 14, 15, 16 June 2019, ninety-one graduates from five Main Departments, two Temporary Programmes and one Hosted Programme will present their final works to the public at various locations in Amsterdam (NL). This generation of graduating artists, designers and architects of the Sandberg Instituut will conclude in the publication The Place of Birth. SANDBERG INSTITUUT As the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, the Sandberg Instituut offers Master Programmes in Fine Arts, Interior Architecture and Design. The five Main Departments aim to deepen the practices of artists, designers and critics. In addition, the Temporary Programmes reflect on specific urgencies in society and the arts, and the Hosted Programmes focus on collaboration with other institutes. MAIN DEPARTMENTS Sandberg Instituutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Main Departments are Critical Studies, Design, The Dirty Art Department, Fine Arts and Studio for Immediate Spaces. An average of only twenty students per programme allows each course to be flexible and open to initiatives from students and third parties. The course directors, who are prominent artists, designers, theorists and curators with international practices, invite tutors and guests who are able to challenge the students to critically reflect on their profession, their work and their progress. TEMPORARY PROGRAMMES Jurgen Bey, the Sandberg Instituut director since 2010, has sought to find ways to align the institute with the dynamics of contemporary society. Bey introduced two-year Temporary

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GRADUATION 2019 Programmes that are developed according to urgent world issues. Vacant NL – the first Temporary Programme – was launched in 2011 and explored the vast potential of the thousands of vacant buildings in the Netherlands. In 2013, two additional temporary programmes were introduced: the School of Missing Studies dealt with art and the public space, whereas Material Utopias investigated the shifting boundaries between materials and techniques. Other finished Temporary Programmes include System D Academy, Cure Master, Designing Democracy, Materialisation in Art and Design, Fashion Matters, Master of Voice, and Reinventing Daily Life. Current Temporary Programmes are Radical Cut-Up, Shadow Channel, The Commoners’ Society and Challenging Jewellery. The two new Temporary Programmes starting in 2019 are Approaching Language and Resolution – MA Moving Image. HOSTED PROGRAMMES The Sandberg Instituut is hosting a category of educational programmes in collaboration with partner institutes and companies since 2017. The Hosted Programmes attempt to intertwine existing agendas and their stakeholders for a collective two-year studying period. The topics are essential for the future of our learning institute and of art education in a broader, international perspective. Therefore, the Hosted Programmes are surrounded by other in-house projects such as debates, writing, conferencing, etc. The first Hosted Programme is the Master Design of Experiences (2017 – 2019) in collaboration with the University of the Underground. It is part of joint investigations on the implications of ‘external funding’ for art education. Future topics are not yet decided, but might be for instance cultural-diversity discussions, the implications of artificial intelligence or the relation of art to public-urban space.

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CRITICAL STUDIES

MAIN DEPARTMENT

The Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Critical Studies is a two-year postgraduate programme in research and theory. The programme offers an open, interdisciplinary environment for the development of an independent research practice, while providing a rigorous grounding in critical theory, research methods and writing techniques. We are especially interested in forms of inquiry and study that are at odds with traditional academic frameworks, including practice-led research and other intersections of research, practice and theoretical inquiry. Participants have the possibility to pursue a selfinitiated research project with great autonomy, working individually or collectively with the support of a supervisor. Research projects are presented in a series of regular colloquia, which function as spaces for collective discussion and exchange. In addition to this, participants are provided with the support and resources for the development of collaborative projects related to their

research, such as publications, exhibitions, screenings or symposia. Alongside the research trajectory, participants take part in a programme of seminars, lectures and workshops. This taught programme provides a thorough introduction to key concepts in critical theory and continental philosophy, explores research methodologies in relation to cultural practices and supports participants in the development of a writing practice. In addition to this general programme, specific themes are addressed in depth each month during lectures and seminars given by visiting speakers. Critical Studies welcomes applicants from a range of backgrounds, including writers, editors, activists, theorists, artists, curators, educators and other cultural practitioners interested in exploring points of convergence between research, practice and writing.

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DESIGN

MAIN DEPARTMENT

With a selfless, committed, curious, serious, humorous, and above all hazardous mentality plus a wide diversity of tools, the Design Department finds out what matters through design. Moving between reality and fantasy, chaos and systems, data and dreams; the course addresses the contradictions of our time. It responds through design to world issues and questions the relationship between practice and politics. Design itself is presented as a tool to organize the relationship with the outside world. Global challenges are approached from a personal and human point of view, where the different perspectives within the department are articulated; identities, stories and visual strategies merge throughout the practices in personal, specific and committed manners. Forms become relations, disciplines turn into mentalities and

internet is used as a continuous common canvas for trying new things. The self-initiated projects that are developed present new disciplinary frameworks, start movements, construct collectives and invest in alternative models of living. With a trust based educational model (filled with extreme talent, positive energy and a spirit of equality) we stimulate people to feel both free and passionate about engaging in the things that they love or care about, through making and collaborating. We welcome students who embrace the vulnerability, doubt and unpredictability of where design can lead them. They are investigative designers, critical optimists, generous collaborators, storytellers, eternal students, friends, lovers, fighters, or sensitive guides for our precarious future.

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DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

MAIN DEPARTMENT

The Dirty Art Department presents itself as an open space for all thought, creation and action. It sees itself as a dynamic paradox, flowing between Cecilia Vallejos' notions of 'the pure and the applied', 'the existential and the deterministic,' 'the holy and the profane.' It is concerned with individuality, collectivity and our navigation of the complex relationship between the built world and the natural world, and between other people and ourselves. Although the Dirty Art Department comes from a shared background of design and applied art, it seeks to reject the division between the pure and the applied. Since ‘God is dead’ and ‘the spectacle’ are omnipresent, it sees the creation of alternative and new realities as the way to reconsider our existential situation on this planet. The aim of the Dirty Art Department is to develop singular individual and collective practices, distinct from medium or subject, and to give an insight into how to place these practices into the existing contexts of art, design, performance, writing, pizza making, etc. The final challenge is to create new context; that is, the transformation of reality. The Dirty Art Department promotes a strong

theoretical and philosophical agenda and is open, in practice, to dangerous attempts and spectacular failures. It sees itself as a journey, and wherever it stops off, it remembers that ‘Any Space is the Place’. The Dirty Art Department is open to students from all backgrounds, including designers, artists, bankers, sceptics, optimists, economists, philosophers, sociologists, independent thinkers, poets, urban planners, farmers, anarchists and the curious. Please enjoy the trip. In collaboration with the Macao Collective the department was nominated for the inaugural Milan Design Prize in 2016 with the project the Wandering School, an collective living and social sculpture. In 2018 the department continued its trip with the Wandering School Part 2: Revolution or Bust! a real derive and wandering that included meeting the oracle of Delphi, Franco Bifo Beradi, walking through the wilderness to Athens, clashes with Titans, peace offering to the Gods, helping to rebuild a refugee center, regular encounters with tear gas, and just simply being there. The collective film 'Revolution or Bust!' was presented at the third Youth Biennale of Bolzano in 2018 curated by Christian Jankowski.

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FINE ARTS

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gramme unfolds across three open modules over the course of two years, structurally redefining conventional notions of artistic labour. LANGUAGE The Language module concerns actual language as well as ‘language as description’ and the languages of what is seen, heard and written. The programme is divided between developing artistic practice and broadening (through specific tasks) ways of seeing and working. Language takes a holistic approach to the making of art, expanding and exploring our notions of what artistic practice can include. IMAGE

Sandberg Instituut’s Fine Arts department retains a focus on autonomy and making, while addressing the social and economic roles of art production. Core to the programme are the regular conversations with our main tutors, while guest tutors are invited for seminars and tutorials throughout the year. Studio time thus alternates with common activities such as workshops, seminars, one-off events such as an annual group exhibition and excursions abroad. An intense winter thesis writing/reflection period takes place in the Arctic Circle, while all students partake in the spring excursion. Several times a year, students come together with staff and tutors to discuss common interests that have emerged and can be addressed with the help of experts who, following these sessions, are invited accordingly. Student-led activities, such as group crits, film nights and Monday lunches are encouraged, while internal platforms such as The Stolen Studio are in place to promote small-scale tryouts and experimentation in presentation. Throughout the two years, the Sandberg Instituut functions as a base, while encouraging participants to develop and test their practice both within and beyond the school. The pro-

The Image module centers on the notion of representation, time and context in various visual and audio-visual practices. Although the programme does not disregard technical or formal considerations, nor public presentation, the emphasis lies in developing individual production strategies: strategies for processing and materializing thought, intuition and knowledge; and strategies commonly developed through production experience and through considering the strategies of others. PLAY/OBJECT The Play/Object module focuses on contemporary constructions of ‘performativity’ and object-based productions within a cross-disciplinary, public context. It concentrates on the creation and practice of production, with particular attention paid to how objects interact with time, space and value. STUDENTS The Fine Arts Department is looking for eager, active and ambitious students who are willing to participate in group tutorials, workshops and other forms of education. We are looking for authentic makers and thinkers who are open to fundamental reflection on their work. A sound background in art or possession of equivalent expertise in affiliated fields is required. Candidate students will be evaluated on their motivation, previous experience and portfolio. The admissions committee will focus on the authenticity, artistry and autonomous visual quality of the work presented.

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STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

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SIS investigates the spaces too often neglected by traditional architecture and interior architecture education. SIS focuses on the spaces created by our contemporary culture without the help of professionals; informal, temporary, social, virtual, immediate. SIS is equally interested in the social conditions and the political context of spaces, as in their architectonic components. SIS analyses these spaces through artistic research with the help of DIY and hands-on production methods of investigation. SIS learns from the genius of the Neo-Vernacular and the beauty of collective intelligence and popular culture. SIS promotes an interdisciplinary approach but values the specific tools developed by spatial disciplines. SIS constantly produces full-scale immediate spaces through workshops, collective and individual projects. The two-year programme proposes an alternative take on the field of interior architecture, exceeding the boundaries of its traditional curriculum.

The interdisciplinary environment of SIS is a platform for debate and experimentation, opening up new terrains and allowing for the development of independent practices. Here, exploration fuses with reflection; design is an instrument of research, research is an instrument of discovery. Production methodologies focus on urban investigations and building processes, promoting a hands-on approach and DIY culture as a means of emancipation, celebrating craftsmanship and the immediacy of space making. By engaging critically with the context we recognize our responsibilities and take position. The course revolves around three main axes: Research, Theory & Writing and Methodology. Participants develop their own spatial practice and artistic position through these axes. While these trajectories are individual, great emphasis is put on working as a collective endeavor. Traveling, observing and building together is at the core of the education process. The backbone of the course is formed by the project studios which are led by tutors active in different fields and offer a strong support to individual projects and experimentations. Each tutor focuses on a specific topic. Through these lenses, the participants follow their own intuitions, experiment with the tangible aspects of their work, the context they relate to, or the environments they produce. Unlike other departments of the Sandberg Instituut, SIS delivers an MA in Interior Architecture.

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RADICAL CUT-UP

TEMPORARY PROGRAMME (2017–2019)

The Radical Cut-Up (RCU) programme critically examines and joyfully celebrates the emergence and evolution of the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and a dominant global model of cultural production in the early twenty-first century. Against the backdrop of the accelerated growth of new digital technologies that expand the production and circulation of images, text, sound, and objects in contemporary life, the interdisciplinary programme draws on a broader definition of the term ‘cut-up’ as a mixture or fusion of disparate elements, or the art of carefully crafted juxtaposition. Within the context of this course, the term is a container for a long list of names and actions, which describes the mixing and reconfiguration of existing materials to produce new outcomes. The interdisciplinary programme no longer regards the artwork as an endpoint but a simple moment in an infinite chain of contributions. It embraces the ‘ecstasy of influences’ (Jonathan Lethem), refuses any form of ‘source-hypocrisy’ and boldly accepts all ideas as secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.

Drawing on a broad and inclusive range of media, RCU embraces new methodologies for the future of education: interdisciplinarity, collaboration and co-production. It is based on a cooperative learning approach in which all participants interact with each other to facilitate individual as well as collective artistic development by capitalising on one another’s resources and skills. Beyond disciplinary boundaries and conventional pedagogical models, the programme adopts the principles of cut-up not only as its conceptual and methodological foundations but applies them directly by questioning the classical format of an institutionalised art school. Radical CutUp explores new forms of teaching and learning by bringing together practitioners from all over the world. In 2018, the course worked in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Not in New York, Rotterdam and Lodown Magazine Berlin. Radical Cut-Up (RCU) is a continuation and a disruption of the former temporary material-based programmes Material Utopias (MU) and Materialisation in Art and Design (MAD).

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SHADOW CHANNEL

TEMPORARY PROGRAMME (2017–2019)

In recent years, high-definition video has democratised as a medium. Online platforms have lowered the cost of uploading and distributing films to zero. Social media are dominated by streaming video. Today, anyone with a smartphone has a movie camera at their disposal. It is now completely natural to think, sketch, and communicate in video. HD is the new A4. Tutors and students at the Sandberg Instituut’s Design Department have, since the department’s inception in the 1990s, been at the forefront of this development. The department’s new and radical approaches to the moving image began to eat away at the edges of film and cinema. Many experimental graphic designers – including Shadow Channel tutors Rob Schröder and Daniel van der Velden – started to present their ideas via moving image installations, online videos, and, eventually, feature films. To channel the momentum of an emerging movement of makers who embrace new approaches to filmmaking, in 2017 we launched the two-year Temporary Programme, Shadow Channel.

Shadow Channel is a utopian platform commissioning, streaming, and distributing counternarratives created by underrepresented voices, in response to platform capitalism, post-truth politics and the rise of neo-fascism. Students of Shadow Channel operate as a renegade production studio, running a deep stream narrating the real, playing short-and-long-form documentaries, music videos, and live feeds in the shadows of the internet. Responding in real time to real-world issues, revealing and reflecting on the dominance of film and design, and the dread, desire and dizziness of freedom controlling the human condition. During the two-year programme the channel streams from the deep web, and from within cinemas, galleries, clubs, and festivals across the Netherlands. Students of Shadow Channel curate, promote, and produce public events that attempt to expand the discourse around art and activism, and push the possibility, potential and poignancy of what art can do. As author Ursula K. Le Guin rallies us, ‘resistance and change often begin in art’. There is an alternative. Another world is possible. Demand the future.

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MASTER DESIGN OF EXPERIENCES

HOSTED PROGRAMME (2017–2019)

The Hosted Programme Master Design of Experiences exists at the nexus between critical design, experiential, theatrical, filmic, semiotics, political and musical practices. It aims to teach students how to engineer situations, to design experiences and events to best support social dreaming, social actions and power shifts within institutions, companies and governments. Students have rarely before been given the tools and means to learn to understand their profession in terms of the increasingly multifaceted and malleable role it assumes in today’s world (which is ever-changing and disorienting). The programme encourages students to use their own voice, style, tone and aesthetics as manifested in final outcomes of performative product scenarios, products embedded in the context of the built environment and the institutions. The curriculum is concerned with a contemporary and strategic foresight implying politics, economics, systems thinking in institutions, new technologies and scientific developments both in Artificial Intelligence and in the current digital ecosystems. It makes innovative use of a variety

of practices to engage members of the public with the experiences and the debates created. PARTNER INSTITUTE Sandberg Instituut’s partner for the hosted programme is the University of the Underground, which was founded in February 2017 to reinvigorate creative education. The mission of the University of the Underground is threefold: it aims to forge plurality and critical thinking in leadership, supporting experiential and experimental practices by offering free education to the next generation of creatives. It aims to maintain, support and cultivate countercultures that will reactivate the public’s engagement with democratic institutions, politics and their plausible futures. Finally, it aims to nurture transnational education by defining new and coexisting models, within and outside academia, established in supportive groups in the form of federations spread across borders, beyond nation-states. The University of the Underground is developing more educative structures in London and NYC, and it is opening a research department in 2019 in Amsterdam together with a programme in New York City in the summer 2019.

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