Hunnie Jagen, Feb 2 2013

 

fotografie: Hunnie & Sjoerd Knibbeler

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Research Lab Next Door, part 1

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Next Door
12.12.2012
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DRS22 Research Lab


'Leave leafs, Leafs Leave'
Berta Pous & Satoki Kuwnao / Claudia Linders
Schilderswijk pavement
Berta & Satoki as Leafs Ladies



'Another Zoo'
Cindy Meeldijk
 Schilderswijk playground (Vermeerpark)
Steven van Beijeren as David Attenborough


'How to communicate without language'
Katarína Gališinová & Katarína Máliková
Schilderswijk playground (Frans Halstraat)
Kids as kids of primary school Het Startpunt FB
Katarína & Katarína as The Box Kats


'Stolen Yellow Bike Procession'
Ewelina Borowiecka & Ni Nan
Abraham van Beyerenstraat 4
Ewelina, Ni, Research Lab students,
Frederic Vosges & dog Takkie as processionists


'(Bad) Weather Project'
Marlies van Putten
Schilderswijk puddle (Van der Vennestraat)
Marlies as drive-by fashion victim

'Schilderwijk Bonus'
Catherine Reiser
Schilderswijk (Vaillantlaan / Cafe Deniz)
Catherine, Cindy, Sophia & Lola as dancing signs

'1980 Home'
Danitsja Vergeer
Schilderswijk (Vaillantlaan 4)
Danitsja as researcher, Ed as former inhabitant
& Research Lab students as house guests

'Street Value'
John Fanning
Schilderswijk street furniture
John as city official

'Maison improvisée'
Dirk Gonzalez & Steven van Beijeren
Schilderswijk (electricity house)
Dirk & Sophia as inhabitants

'Informal library'
Gabriela Barbosa Amorim
Schilderswijk phone cabin (Hoefkade 115)
& park bench (Albert Cuypstraat)
Cindy & Touko, Katarína as book readers

'Hangplekjes'
Gabriel Holysz
Schilderswijk (Bosboomstraat / Suze Robertsonstraat)
Cindy, Marlies, Danitsja, Anouk, Krijn,
Sophia, Gabriel as loiterers

DRS22 Researchers and supervisors:
Krijn Christiaansen, Cathelijne Montens,
Sophie Krier, Claudia Linders,
Renate Boere, Ed van Hinte

External critics:
Ruud Ridderhof, Ernie Mellegers

Director:
Joel Nieminen

Screenplay:
Anouk Huffels

Camera & editing:
Joel Nieminen, Anouk Huffels

In brief

What better time than winter recess to do some maintenance, scrape the paint from a door, build that closet you needed since so long or give your long neglected blog some well deserved attention...

A short update:

Utrecht Manifest No. 4, Biennal for Social Design was rounded off before the summer. My project Werklandschap Kruist ICI is archived here.

I led a three month art education research with 23 teenagers last fall, entitled t.z.t (tijdelijk zonder titel, temporarily untitled) – you can get a feel of our  (mis)adventures on the project blog.

I've also started teaching at the Studio for Immediate Spaces / Sandberg Institute (click on Graduation Studio to see some first images)– the first talk with my graduation class took on the form of an exhibition at the 2012 Kunstvlaai. In February we'll go to Wongema for a remote graduation meditation...

The project Hunnie, in which I collaborate with Henriëtte Waal, kicked off last November – Hunnie (local jargon for 'them') designs hybrid experiences of nature and culture, recreation and maintenance. Our seasonal adventures bring together local guides, existing and new caretakers as well as experts in various fields (hunting, fake meat, geology, flora, art, sociology, living willow architecture....). After one year, the knowledge gathered through the adventures will be edited into a short docu-fiction, in an effort to relay and perpetuate the cultural myths that Hunnie members have and will produce. Each adventure also generates products which will furnish the shelter we will realize for this area. Follow Hunnie on facebook: upcoming adventures include Hunnie Hunting and Hunnie Willow Works.

I will start a personal research on " the street as a set" in the context of the Schilderwijk (The Hague) next winter at Design Research Station DRS22, together with Krijn Christiaansen, Cathelijne Montens and Claudia Linders as well as students from the KABK. Soon to be seen here: the footage of a first day of experiments in public space which took place two weeks ago.

And last but not least Field Essays, Issue One will be released next January –  this publication juxtaposes the work of designer Jonathan Muecke (USA) and photographer Bas Princen (NL). With his photographs, Princen frames built and un-built landscapes, revealing their mind-blowing oddities. On the other hand, the core motive of Muecke’s design practice is “to retain potential in an object”. Muecke’s bold artifacts function as probes that venture into the realms of our perception – attempting to detect its mechanisms. Both create visual propositions that “make room” – thereby making room for another reading of the world. Check my publisher Onomatopee for updates.

Hunnie Klei Putten, nov 3 2012

www.hunnie,nu

fotografie: Hunnie & Roel van Tour 

 

H12_A lecture

For H, a series of trimestral artist publications, I recorded an audio lecture and an accompanying booklet with images from my travels. Small drawings illustrate the questions I raise in the lecture. I had the pleasure to invite Jurgen Bey to write an introduction. PS If you are in Milan this week, perhaps someone from HEADS Collective will hand you a personal copy.... Please find below the cover the official press release.


HEADS presents
H12 Sophie Krier A lecture 
Download and listen at H12 
www.headscollective.com/h/h12

Sophie Krier is the artist/designer featured in our new issue of H, our trimestral artist booklet, Sophie Krier is one of the most unconventional designer of her generation, that is why we are proud of showcasing her work and also proud to feature for the first time a lecture in our H series, with her projects, lectures, conferences and workshops Sophie challenges the design world. A lecture is Sophie Krier effort on pushing the borders of creativity, and questioning the young designers and non-designers vision of the world, long time director of the DesignLab at Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Sophie forged a new generation of designers, pushing their vision of the design practice.
 
As Jurgen Bey said of her in his introductory text of the H12

"Let her travel, joggle ideas and awake us to perceive the beauty of reality. "
– Jurgen Bey, designer

Utrecht Manifest

This blog has migrated to www.werklandschap-kruist.nl till June 2012!

I am currently curating one of the four research based residencies of Utrecht Manifest, Biennale of Social Design.

(Dutch) preview:

werklandschap KRUIST ICI bouwt aan een alfabetische inventaris van het aanwezige potentieel aan vaardigheden en expertise in Rotsoord en omgeving; de b van brandweer, de e van ecoloog, de j van jurist vormen straks samen een blauwdruk voor potentiële kruisbestuivingen en productiemogelijkheden in het gebied. Wat gebeurt er als de paraatheid van de brandweerman wordt gekoppeld aan de onzichtbare handschrift van de autoschade expert? Zijn conciërge en criminoloog alleen alfabetisch aan elkaar verwant? 

Met het netwerk aan makers en enthousiasme als een denkbeeldige, gedistribueerde werkplaats ontwikkelen genodigde ontwerpers voorbeeldprojecten die het potentieel van dit bijzondere netwerk verbeelden en testen; parallel hieraan worden onderzoeken uitgezet naar de ruimtelijke en economische condities van de diverse soorten bedrijvigheid in het gebied. Workshops met het lagere en hogere kunst- en cultuuronderwijs verbinden dit proefondervindelijke onderzoek naar het wezen van werk met de nieuwe lerende generatie.

Met bijdrages van o.a.  Cathelijne Montens (tentoonstellingsontwerp), René Put & Brigitte Gootink (grafisch ontwerp), Cynthia Hathaway (Car Mecca, voorbeeldproject), Joanna vander Zanden & Arne Hendriks (’t Rommelt in Rotsoord, voorbeeldproject), Jonathan Muecke & Bas Princen (Work of Work / Field Essays), Jan van Duppen (onderzoek naar ruimtelijke condities van locale bedrijvigheid), Dima Stefanova & Andreas Zangger (Know-How|Show-How, workshop), Jesse Howard (Open objects, graduation project), Conor Trawinsky (Craft Communities, internship research), studenten van rietveld designLAB,  studenten van Design Academy Eindhoven / Man And Living (Thuiswerk studie o.l.v. Mara Skujeniece).

Number One

Bus Number 1 ends at Vellir 7.

It leaves its engine running for about twenty minutes.

The drive has a key to a little kitchen in a grey container.

He lights his pipe, Brynhildur and I change shoes

– by now, I'm wearing borrowed gloves, shoes and a rain coat–

– I like to wear other people's things –  

The bus drives off to its other end point, Hlemmur.

Exactly 3 minutes later another Number One 

stops at the exact same place.

 

Field Essays - Unveiling Hafnarjordur

Today we headed to THE NEIGHBORHOOD with special guest Pétur Thomsen; for his photographic project Àsfjall, commissioned by The National Museum, he followed the built and untouched surroundings of this "small hill with a huge name" since 2008. Thomsen has been capturing traces of what he calls 'umhfverfing' (environmentalization) for some time now - the way cities expand into the surrounding nature, and the conflicts that these encounters produce, are made tangible in his work. Sometimes the presence of the man-made is hard to discern. For instance, in the third picture I took, the diagonal hilltop is actually the limit of a construction dump on the other side.

The students were asked to bring their particular interest to this area - as  a physical object, in their pocket. This way they documented Hafnarjordur through the lens of bees, rust, time or social contact. Interesting questions have already started to arise regarding alternative histories for this area. To be continued...