Category / Les aventures de Sophie
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Archive
Below are archived notes up to 2015. From 2016 on, you can follow Atelier Sophie Krier via: twitter fb linkedin
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Field Essays workshop at Musashino Art University
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, has invited me as a Visiting Professor this September. I will be conducting a workshop, a lecture and individual critique. The workshop explores the legacy of ROJO (Roadway…
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Au revoir la cité
Leaving CITE DES ARTS after a full year in Paris. Looking back, my time there was well spent, crowdfunding the printing budget for Field Essays, getting to know how things work (and don’t work) in France, rediscovering French…
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Art & Design Practice
Currently developing a new bachelor program in the spirit of Liberal Arts & Science at University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, The Netherlands. The “Art & Design Practice” program will conduct practice-based artistic research,…
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Learning new languages
Notes concerning Field Essays are posted via t and fb from now on. See also www.fieldessays.net
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Start conference Cycle Façonner l’Avenir (forging the future)
Together with textile researcher Aurélie Mossé and design historian Anna Bernagozzi I curated the conference cycle Façonner l’Avenir in winter / spring 2015, on how design and sciences can work together towards…
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Furtherance
“Furtherance”, a beautiful enigmatic 8 min loop directed by Leonora Hamill, is screening till tomorrow, Sunday January 18, at Eglise Saint-Eustache, rue Rambuteau 75001 Paris. Daily projection hours 16 – 19 h…
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Field Essays campaign launch
Field Essays just launched its brand new crowdfunding campaign on Kiss Kiss Bank Bank. Support us and join the campaign now!
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Material Night: New Materials, New Values?
Last night I had the pleasure to moderate Material Night: New Materials / New Values? in Het Nieuwe Instituut, in Rotterdam. The idea with these evenings is to build a context that…
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La culture c’est d’abord la terre.
Yesterday night in the Grande Halle of La Villette two beautiful disobedient minds met: Indian quantum physician, environmental activist, alter mondialist & eco feminist Vandana Shiva, and Algerian thinker, author and agro…
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Reading about | what animates things
Currently reading Semeurs d’Espoirs, (Actes Sud), in which Algerian agro ecologist and writer Pierre Rabhi touches on the course of his life, his gradual understanding of agro ecology, and the need for an insurrection of…
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Note on: the world, the work and we
Long dark winter nights are the best times to read, write and draw. Maybe because they let us withdraw inside, and inside ourselves. I made a nice low drawing table today –…
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Note on: how we think, speak and write about ecology
This morning I went to Sciences-Po in Lille to assist to a lecture of philosopher Stéphane-Hicham Afeissa, entitled La fin de l’humanité. Essai de généalogie du discours écologique, which is also the…
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Reading about | La Montagne Dorée
Very happy to have bought a copy of La Montagne Dorée, by Myriam Ziehli, in which she edited, and adapted, found footage from a field trip in Switzerland into a fictive script…
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Every Object Contains An Object goes Korea
Offprint is closing after three very successful days. Freek Lomme, my publisher, told me two copies of Every Object Contains An Object (2012) were sold to Korean curators. I would love to know what…
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In the darkness you start to imagine: Dirk Braeckman in Le Bal
Offprint brought many photographers and book lovers to Paris this weekend, it’s nice. Photographer Dieuwertje Komen took me to see the exhibition of Dirk Braeckman in Le Bal, “the place for photographers in…
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(Have to) read about: passing on history
Another book I need to have and read…! Passing on History, B 42 Editions Why do so many books give me that feeling… At Offprint there was also Manuella Editions that has…
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a Field Essays coffee
Today I had the pleasure to have a coffee with my Field Essays team – from left to right: publisher Freek Lomme, graphic designers EricandMarie, and film maker Roel van Tour. And…
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Working on a new Field Essays video
The coming month, I’ll be working with my favorite camera man, Roel van Tour, on a teaser video for the upcoming issue of Field Essays, which we will use for a crowd funding campaign on…
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Thinking about Temporalités / Temporalities
Today I assisted to an Ensadlab seminar entitled Temporalités (Temporalities) here in Paris. The intention of coordinator Lucile Haute triggered me: the afternoon was meant to experience research projects directly, as opposed to “just…
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Note on: drawing the Chinese way
Tonight I had the pleasure to meet classical Chinese painter Du Xin, who had an Open Studio with two fellow artists here at the Cité. He told me about the signification of the…
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Field Essays present at OFFPRINT 2014
Field Essays: Pick of Sticks Embodied (2010) and Field Essays: Every Object Contains An Image (2012) will be present at OFFPRINT 2014 (Nov 14-Nov 16) via independent art publisher Onomatopee. Welcome!
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Cité des Arts, day 126
Autumn has come, says my studio view… Long live heart-warming autumn in Paris!
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Field Essays welcomes Eugénie delaRivière
Designer and researcher Eugénie delaRivière has officially teamed up with Field Essays, for the social media part of the upcoming issue. Welcome Eugénie! Image: Eugénie viewing one of the works of the exhibition “Possibles d’un…
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Field Essays interview on Uncube
Field Essays is featured on the Uncube magazine blog. Editor Elvia Wik writes about how this ongoing research functions as a form of informal education both for me and the participants of every issue.…
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Note on: building context
The Critics’ Lab of yesterday produced a couple of valuable memo’s about the conditions that design criticism operates within today. Here’s an incomplete list, freely drafted down: – We need new forms of authorship and readership. Long…
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Open Studio Field Essays
Field Essays holds a joint Open Studio this Friday, Oct 23rd, at: Cité Internationale des Arts, 18 rue de l’hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris Welcome!
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Hunnie featured in Vers Beton
8 more nights before the Dutch Design Awards on Oct 18th… Today Rotterdam based magazine Vers Beton published an article about my practice, and in its extension, the nomination for Hunnie, a collaborative…
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nouvelle lune
Après les thèmes du minéral et du végétal, séance d’images mouvementées sur la relation souvent contradictoire de l’homme à l’animal, hier soir sur les hauteurs de Montmartre, pendant la 3e et dernière…
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Intrépidité – Urbanité
A l’occasion des Journées du Patrimoine, visite de l’Hôtel de Ville, de ses salons enfilés et surtout, surtout: du bureau de la Maire Anne Hidalgo – chaleureux et spacieux, un panda orne sa table de…
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Fanatic anti-fanatic
Hunger, thirst, injustice, misery, cruelty, injustice, physical torture, mental torture, illness, racism, suffering, death… : these are but a few of the many difficult issues, which artist Niki de St Phalle (1930-2002) decided to…
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Histoire(s) de cuillères
Spoons have accompanied the history of humanity. They reconcile the primary need to eat with the need to establish relations with others. They vital meaning becomes clear when collector Jean Metzger tells about his life long…
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Critics’ Lab
On Saturday Oct 17th, on the first day of the Dutch Design Week, I will give a fundraising master class in the context of Critics’ Lab, an initiative of the Pruys Bekaert programme for…
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Brynjar Sigurdarson invited for In Residence Design Dialogue # 7
Brynjar Sigurdarson, protagonist of the upcoming issue of Field Essays, is one of six guest designers at this year’s IN Residence Design Dialogue, Workshop #7. IN Residence is a project that contributes to contemporary debate…
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Le titre? Il n’y a pas de titre.
En dépit de son titre bien réfléchi “L’époque, les humeurs, les valeurs, l’attention” (titre qui rappelle une autre exposition de 1987: “L’Époque, la mode, la morale, la passion”), l’exposition des attendus du prix de…
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Saeng Hwang, Orgue à bouche
A stupefying concert last night at Cité des Arts – South Corean musician Hyo Young Kim played traditional and contemporary songs on a Saeng Hwang, a “mouth organ” with vertical pipes played by…
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Hopeful gestures
Sunday Aug 31 the results of my workshop Hoopvolle Handelingen (Hopeful Gestures) will be presented by the team of Zicht op Rotterdam (View on Rotterdam) on the Island of Brienenoord. What is hope,…
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Foncé feutré
Open Studio at Maaike Leyn yesterday – Maaike draws with charcoal on the back side of linen canvas. (Apparently Francis Bacon liked that side of canvas too, for its texture, another resident mentioned) It lends…
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Note on Catching Octopus
Born in 1969 in Kobe, Shimabuku is an artist who collects unusual encounters. Inspired by the International Situationist walking tours, he studied in Osaka and in San Francisco before travelling in the…
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What a pity you are an architect. You would make a sensational partner.
The title is a sentence Josefin Baker apparently once said to Adolf Loos. The work consists of a bedroom, scaled to the size of the institutes and residencies that invited Dewar over the…
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Note on Nicolas de Staël
“Ne pas s’occuper de l’espace mais se préoccuper de l’espace.” (Not to tend space but to take care of, to care about, to be concerned with, to be preoccupied with space) In a documentary…
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Note on Courage
Today I read a quote in the morning newspaper about courage by Jean Jaures, renown founder of socialist politics in France, assassinated a hundred years ago on July 31 at the Bar…
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Reading about | machinic animism
“In Guattari’s “cosmology” there are all sorts of machines: social machines, technological, aesthetic, biological, crystalline, and so forth. To clarify the nature of the machine, he refers to the work of the…
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Cité des Arts, day one
8 am The Service des Jardins Publics just left for their day carrying on their trucks plants, earth and crates. The cars are rushing on the périphérique. The 319 other residents of…
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Field Essays in Residence at Cité des Arts
Field Essays has been invited by Cité des Arts, Paris, for a one year residency, from July 2014 till June 2015. I plan to use this time to realize & publish Field Essays,…
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Note on Definitely unfinished
a retrospective of the very tactile work of colleague Raoul Teulings (1959 – 2010) who helped me seeding the first ideas for Field Essays years back now beautiful and painful to see and…
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Hunnie Finalist at Dutch Design Awards
Hunnie is through to the Finalists of the Dutch Design Awards. Hurray! Crawling in the mud (literally in this case) yields unforeseen returns. Hunnie is in great company: both Ons Bank & Next Nature are…
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Hunnie featured as best practice at LOKO14
Hunnie spoke today at LOKO14, an expert meeting on the future role and function of mediators in art and public space. Hunnie’s mediator, coach and ambassador Ella Derksen explained her role in the…
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Brynjar Sigurdarson featured by Li Edelkoort
Brynjar Sigurdarson has been selected by Li Edelkoort as one of tomorrow’s exemplary designers in the context of the anniversary exhibition of MAK Vienna – Li believes he has the right attitude needed for…
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The workings of wood
On June 5, The New Institute in Rotterdam held an evening dedicated to the world of wood. The night was part of a long term research dedicated to materials, things and ideas.…
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RIVER OF FUNDAMENT
MATTHEY BARNEY’s exhibition at HAUS DER KUNST (still on show till august 8) bewilders the mind and body iron, bronze, sulphur, salt collide, mutate, anodise, patinate or rust the gigantic cast props…
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE ORCHESTRA
‘The International Space Orchestra‘ is a mesmerizing feature film directed by NELLY BEN HAYOUN (FR). Hurray! The design field needs more of this type of cosmic energy.
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Field Essays workshop
ANIMALE STATE is the title of a workshop for STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES which I gave with BRYNJAR SIGURDARSON at VU HORTUS Amsterdam (a beautiful peaceful place amidst the city’s business quarters), in…
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IN SEARCH OF OUR (TRUE) NATURE
Op 8 april geeft HUNNIE op uitnodiging van STICHTING DE BOVENLANDEN een presentatie van haar bevindingen na een jaar veldwerk in het Wilnisse veenweidegebied centrale vragen voor de discussie worden: is lid…
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PANCAKE DAY
Its SHROVE TUESDAY my friend Martijn told me today…. Happiness can be as simple as flipping a pancake while running down the streets!
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Note on This is not the project
The symposium Traders Eu, which I attended as part of my ongoing research for Field Essays, gathered a full house of designers and researchers yesterday to celebrate the launch of a four year…
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Inearthia
INEARTHIA, an attempt to spin the earth is a choreography by COMPAGNIE CO.LATERAL (ch) which I first saw at STROOM at the EXPANDED PERFORMANCE show sometimes things linger on in your mind…
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YOUTH UNIVERSITY
on march 2, HUNNIE will address the youthful members (8-12 years old) of Museumjeugduniversiteit at Het Nieuwe Instituut what is nature, to this new generation?
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(UN)NATURAL
at the AKINCI stand of art rotterdam 2014, HUNNIE admired Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, The Sun that Never Set, overview at AKINCI 2013, photo Peter Cox “In the work Les Zones…
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STONE SOUL
Rythm, poetry and choreography: in Stone Soul Army, 2013 (HD Video 29’27”), Fernando Sánchez Castillo (1970 Spain) staged sessions of a Peruvian military band who produce music with stones.“In the work of Sánchez…
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BIODIVERSITY, BIOMETRY & IDENTITY
HUNNIE appreciates the series of detailed drawings by Martin Brandsma, entitled bcp (black code project). “bcp which stands for ‘black code project’ includes about 200 drawings of the tail feathers of a great grey…
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MEMORY MATERIAL
viewing the works at Art Rotterdam this year memory, handwriting, repetition and tactility appear to be the recurring motifs that catch my interest – and houses, small, floating or pieced together a…
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SEVEN STONES
SEVEN STONES by FRANK SCHEFFER an artist film about artist painter ROBERT ZANDVLIET screened yesterday at iffr the painter summarises his uncompromising search for truth as ‘een leeg beeld en een stille taal’ (an empty…
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LEARNING WITH ERRORS
XAVIER ANTIN is a french artiste / graphiste in his work he looks for resistance and works with standards – variations on protocols – he spoke at an ESAD tuesday evening talk curated by ANNA…
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HUNNIE AT MUSEUM OF ARTE ÚTIL
on feb 5 at 15.00 HUNNIE will speak at the VAN ABBEMUSEUM for the museum of arte útil join HUNNIE & rethink the nature of things while working through hand-digged clay ***…
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HUNNIE AT BUREAU EUROPA
on saturday jan 18 at 3 pm hunnie will join bureau europa in maastricht to open the exhibition ‘Mansholt, Landscape in Perspective’ this exhibition & ongoing archive wants to provide insight in the changing…
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LANDINGS
jan 11/12 stedelijk hosts an intriguing symposium on the formation of land called confrontation and confessions *** image: Waswo X. Waswo with R. Vijay, Another Map of What is Effortless – homage to Clemente,…
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Note on Circle, triangle, square
The visual language that Brynjar Sigurdarson employs in his body of work has animist traits: materials, shapes and signs interact free of hierarchy, creating haptic narratives. Jivya Soma Mashe’s work was part of…
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HUNNIE FOREVER
after finishing the project Hunnie sticks around Hunnie showed up at the Makerfestival on Nov 30 invited by Diana Krabbendam (the Beach) Hunnie will speak at DA Eindhoven as Kim Bouvy’s guest…
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DZ LESSONS
sundays were invented to drink a coffee on the harbour docks facing the atlantic waiting for the sun to break through the clouds human warmth comes from the earth as do colours and…
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Brynjar Sigurdarson: objects, tales, worlds
Field Essays is happy to announce its protagonist for the upcoming issue! Brynjar Sigurdarson originates from Iceland; he is interested in accounts of things that happened & in relationships between objects and stories; he is as much as teller…
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DOUARNENEZ (LAND_OF_ISLAND)
Currently on a writing retreat in Liz Davis’ house in Douarnenez. At the beginning of this harbour city in Britanny (Fr) was an island, known as Île de Tristan. Hence the city’s name:…
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ARCHIVE BLOG
for the old blog with previous journeys go here
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Field Essays video: Keep Yourself a Margin of Vagueness
For the upcoming exhibition in TENT. Rotterdam, I made a small video about the way I work within Field Essays. Part field work and part introspection, Field Essays is in essence a practice, a…
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Field Essays lecture
November 25, 2011. Field Essays Lecture at the KABK / Lectorate Research Festival New Questions, on invitation of Janneke Wesseling, head of PhdArts, and moderated by artist Taco Stolk. Dutch spoken.
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Field Essays exhibition at TENT.Rotterdam
– press release – FACE VALUE, TENT.Rotterdam 17.11.2011 – 08.01.2012 11.2011, 20:00 hrs – Opening In the exhibition Face Value, four established designers abandon their commercial bestsellers, winning house style designs…
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Field Essays workshop: Still Making Sense
Onomatopee 55.1: Cabinet Project Field Essays Onomatopee & Atelier Sophie Krier present Field Essays, on the nature and dynamics of design processes. Field Essays explores the motives and the strategies of emergent…
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Note on Notes
12 sept 2011. _ When documenting a process, Field Essays figures out how to represent its nature and motives in text AND image (very important) _ Field Essays mirrors the design process of a designer…
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Field Essays in residence at Gastgastgeber
In the context of Ruhr 2010, Studio Makkink & Bey invited Field Essays to temporarily inhabit their work hotel Gastgastgeber (Guest – Guest giver), especially designed for the water tower of Oberhausen, in a former industrial area of…
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Note on Dot Dot Dot
Field Essays likes the radical attitude of Dot Dot Dot. Especially since meeting c0-founder and graphic designer Stuart Bailey at OTIS, Los Angeles in 2009, where he and I were both visiting artists on…
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Launch Field Essays, Issue zero
Book launch at Onomatopee this weekend! Onomatopee & Sophie Krier present Field Essays, Issue zero, a new series of journals about the dynamics of design processes. Field Essays maps the work and the…
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Outlining Field Essays’ motive
A tentative drawing to map the “fil conducteur”, the leading thread behind Field Essays, after an enlightening talk with Freek Lomme, my publisher. What am I trying to achieve with this research in…
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Field Essays workshop: Making Sense
Directing a 3D design criticism workshop this week, for which I ask my students to analyse the work on display at the Dutch Design Week, and to produce a constructive, visual and/or spatial form…
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Field Essays featured in group exhibition
Personal retrospective in a group show about blurring boundaries in today’s artistic practices. A chance to figure out how to place Field Essays at the centre of my practice. Part 1 consisted…
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Preview Field Essays Dummy
Lucy Mc Rae posted this nice video of the dummy of Field Essays, Issue zero, on Vimeo. Thank you Lucy!
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Dummy Field Essays, Issue zero
First dummy of Field Essays, Issue zero. Graphic design by Andreas Tscholl With this dummy, we try to give each component of Field Essays its own visual carrier and format: – the work (in this case…
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Field Essays Wintergarden clown workshop
During this year’s Wintergarden*, students of TXT (textile department) and designLAB** joined together for a clown workshop led by Ivan Hannetin. Some reactions: “ It was me, but not me.” “ Even nonsense has…
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preview Field Essays, Issue zero
A test image made by graphic designer Andreas Tscholl for the upcoming issue of Field Essays, Issue zero (planned release 2010). The issue brings together Eindhoven-based duo LucyandBart, who produce bewildering images of our body, with philosopher…
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Field Essays partners with Onomatopee
Field Essays found itself a partner and independent publisher in Onomatopee! After many meetings at publishers around town and in Europe, talking to Onomatopee founder Freek Lomme made me decide to take Field Essays back into my…
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Field Essays presents: LucyandBart
Field Essays is happy to announce its protagonists for the upcoming issue: the Eindhoven-based design duo Lucyandbart (NL/AU). Sometimes it just takes one image to know you want to work with somebody.…
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Note on Finding the right attitude
Danièle Rivière, founder of art publisher Dis Voir in Paris, has invited me to work on a series of ten books on design, to be published in the next three years. I take…
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Note on Inframince
Summer 2007. My literature list is growing every day. I feel like I still have everything to learn. The thing as an issue (Latour) Ways of doing, arts of doing (Michel de…
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Note on Distilling core questions
Septembre 2007 I’ve decided to draw out all the thoughts, steps and questions that led me to where I am today, since 2003 – the year in which I initiated 5050, a practice-based research…
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Note: Defining a need
May 2007. Internal presentation to my fellow researchers at LAPS. My focus has shifted to the design process itself. How does a design come into being? What kinds of processes of (dialogue, exchange, mutation, resistance, resonance,…
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Note: Saying yes and following through
December 2006. A clown workshop led by Ivan Hannetin (FR) provokes a small breakthrough. I was looking for an attitude with which to invest my work. Working with clowns teaches me countless things: A hand made…
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Note: Defining your position
May 2006 I find myself with my back against the wall: I don’t seem to be able to pin-point WHAT I want to research and more importantly, WHY and HOW, and why NOW.…
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Note: Welcoming the Other
November 2005. The Professorship of Art and Public Space of the Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL) led by art historian and art critic Jeroen Boomgaard, has invited me to join them. It’s is a great opportunity to conduct…
