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Internal Worksession 1: Introductions
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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.
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Introductions
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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
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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
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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
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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