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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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…
