Internal Worksession 1: Introductions

Internal work session 1: Connecting Otherwise Introductions

• Time and date: Friday 6 March 10:00 am CET
• Location: online
• Participants: Stefanie, Heerko, Benedetta, Sophie, Amalie, Ismal, Mark, Anja, Dorine
• Each participant presents their practice for roughly 15 minutes and gives insight into the link to our project.

• Introductions

• Benedetta:

• social desihner, cermaics and textiles on the side of school, ceramics workshop
• materials of truth finding mediums
• witness geological change coming from past
• highlght changes / impact on the land
• ppolitical and economic relationshops they have
• movements and staying in the land / witnesses
• composition of material / addressing its impact
• aspestos embedding into concrete
• involving waste into the work
• reconstructions of archeological findings, from the river the clay comes from
• Fabers permanent collection: Romania, working with industrial waste, site specific locations
• what was present in the composition of this waste
• looking back tot he history of the material through its composition
• material: learning through making
• political aspects of materials / vuur collective
• conductive ceramics & their geographies
• all kinds of ceramic materials involved in technology
• wants to get to know the processes involved in making them
• sharing the impact they have
• knowledge she brings to the group: ceramic medium, clay plast and glazes / granual work / attention to the history behind these materials
• approach / not top down but bottom up / open source
• How do you fnd the plolution in the materiAL
  • wasnt necessarily looking for it
  • landfill was toxified / couldnt use it / problem for the future, you cannot reuse it
  • inspired looking into the byproduct of reuse
  • not using it in toxic state / but should be safe
  • toxicity was a starting point to reach out to sciences
  • glaze making has a toxic history / led was used / lower melting point
  • toxicity is a daily notion in the workshop
• Sophie
• garden department: facilitating
• texts, natural dyeing, EU project, climate neutral cities, governance models
• interested in locality
• arrange walks / faciliating
• reading and working abotu soil
• thinking about soil - publication
• thinking about locality of spaces
• transfer of knowledge, that you cannot necessarily see
• how does knowledge pass through hardware
• natural dyeing
• working with kids / material processes / hands-on seeing / different processes
• works with performance / vleeshal middelburg
• clay / bark in petri dishes
• doesnt know so much abotu digital hardware / new subject / no predescribed knowledge
• does organizing work
• gaining knowledge, what are the means of collective knowledge
• process as important as output / how to collaborate together
• CrAFT: EU project / collaborative governance models / different working groups from different place in EU
  • craft-cities.eu
  • garden departmetn through urgent ecologies
  • funded for maintenance hours / 1-2 gardening days depending on the season / collab with basic year
  • faciliating students in the garden
• Amalie
  • gardenar, multi-disciplinary artist
  • performnace, site specific
  • art anthropoligy / what it means to be a human in this time in relation to sustainability / ecology as epicenter of her practice
  • also critical towards anthropoligy
  • hands-on /really engaging human and more than human
  • reflecting on society
  • working in own methodology / code of conduct / wants to work as sustainable as possible in her practice /
  • installation as performance, disassembling after giving back to environment
  • garde within an institution
  • merging academy thinking with seasonality and ecology workign with students and staff
  • part of living community managing this entity
  • 2022 gradauted from image and language
  • Green Green GRas project at Maria Kapel residency
    • 18 varieties of grasses / grass beds
    • relation between human and grasses
    • interdependant relation with grass /
    • square beds / dividng agricultural land since 2nd world war
    • interviews with local farmers / video of farmers hands talking about farming / grass landscapes
    • problematic way dutch agriculture in NL is handles is not sustainable anymore /depletion of the land / too much focus on life stock
    • urbanism and right to the city / performances / relating that to ecology / what happens in the city is a ongoing performance
      • related to hardware / ongoingness
    • collecting clay from the streets / concerned with contamination / keeping it very local / materials from the eye
      • can be decomposted after
    • new to feminist hardware / hands-on social person enjoys connecting to peoplke and using it as part of the research
    • wants to get hands-on / connecting to the land
  • interested in afterlife of projects, how to bring this more holsitic thinking to the students
• Heerko
• artist, technologist, educator HKU
• part of H&D / creating egalitarian learning formats
• H&D summer school
• hacking, repurposing, misusing technologies
• repurposing battery powered toys
• mud battery with hackitects
• sourcing local soil
• using the bacteria in the soil to lighting up leds
• creating different way of interacting with technology.
• moments of collective learning, short, limited in time and people who can participate, how to store this knowledge?
• reason to publish, making experimental publications
• using and making open source tools to make public our practice
• conductive books
• creating a lot of different tools and continue developing them
• workshop making musical instruments / solar cells / repurposed electronics / creating voltages
• the hmm / platform for internet culture / short workshop around a data center tour in northern part of holland / large datacenter for big companies google, meta…
  • transistors, ccentral aprt of computers and electronics, in a phone a few billion of transistors
  • making of wands with 4 transistors and a led, act as an atenna that pics up electro magnetic fields from wifi, bluetooth, … with the wands these fields could be explored
  • long shutter photography wifi routers and their signals could be visibilised
• what is interesting is that the clay pcb is something very functional but the arduino itself doesnt have a specific function. yet
• connection to ismael’s project making instruments from clay / making an enormous concert, 11.000 people were participating
• H&D did a noisy performance too / also at muziek gebouw with musicians

• Ismal

• live and practie interconnected
• tana / clay > everything is related to tanah
• area known for roof tile producer, there is a lot of clay in the region
• since colonial. time shaped as industrial area
• sugar production
• new industry: nike puma
• building relation to land / creating rutuals
• there are no teraditions in industrial areas
• creating new traditions relatinf to land / clay
• creating industries / roof tile guitars / made from the same clay as rooftiles
• the tile is part of their identiy /
• roof tile workers have good muscles / body builders / body builder festival for roof tile workers
• from commodity to identuty / creating proudness
• soil / into different materialityes / terracotta / low firings / good for roof tiles
• inviting artists and designers to jatiwangi
• maybe clay can be good for skin
• skin care from clay
• stock market with terracota things
• building relation with farming, supernatural farming, another ritual
  • imam praying in rice fields
• for 20 years / doing many things
• projecting into a collective imagination / every 3 years rooftile fesitval, throusands of people even police, army, living in same neighborgood, everyone comes to make own composition, practicing together and hten playing together
• collective statement in midst of industrualization / reclaim they have a culutre / own imagination as collective / culural ralation to soil and lan d
• collective forest: making a forest
• tanah should have 3 dimension :materilaity, land (in midst of land grabbing), culture
• summit in kassel / documenta / inviting policy makers
• jatiwangi beside being industrual area its also a cultural area
• how do you invvolve so many people? organizing them?
  • living in the rural area
  • now industrial expansion.
  • living together with neighbors
  • we are not working for community we ARE the community
  • socio ecological capital witin our familaies
  • at documenta also our mayor came, also a high school friend
  • its not about transfer of idea, but sharing the interest
  • one gangster group: changing image from criminality to creativity
  • reclaiming the culture
  • Find Rampak Genteng on youtube to experiene the sound

• organization hierachy

  • ismael is the director
  • how do you organize?
  • ismael works as director because he needs this for official report
  • in relatity is more family based
  • in his house they are living with 50 people / organizing is organically
  • are there any rules? if someone likes designing we ask him to do design Mark

• research coordinator

• material library / material processes that underlies the GRA
• prototype https://materials.sandberg.nl/
• artist, how material are able to uncover different stories / narratives
• attending to these materials through artistic making