Tag / reflecting
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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: 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: 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…
