Tag: Workshop

Zine-making in the Wild

The Wild is a series of pop-up bookstores and art experiences inspired by the tradition and history of black fugitives, maroons, refugees and exiles. The Wild is a meeting ground for Black togetherness that seeks to cultivate an intimate and liberated space for Black people through the curation of books and events. 

In this two-part edition of zine-making in the wild, we will tend to diaspora and migrations and explore ways to answer the question “where are you from” in ways outside colonial logics of borders and nation-states. 

What are the spaces that made you?

Each participant will create their own zine. Zines will then be compiled into one big zine that everyone will get to take home. You’re encouraged to bring personal effects from home (i.e. magazines, images, photos, etc.) however materials will be provided. 

The Wild zine workshop is an intentional space for Black and POC folks to come together, conjure up and materialize our dreamscapes and wild imaginations. Preference will be given to queer and femme Black and POC individuals. 

Programme:

Day 1 – Sunday 26 June, 12h-16h: Creation and production of collages 

Day 2 – Saturday 2 July, 12h-16h: Riso printing and folding

Lunch will be provided.

Bio Marly Pierre-Louis
Marly Pierre-Louis is a writer, poet and maker originally from Brooklyn currently based in Amsterdam. Her work explores Black feminist strategies of survival and liberation. She’s a first generation Haitian-American, a big sister, a mother, and a Taurus through and through.

BUZZWA(O)L(R)K(D)

Looking at loitering as both pollution and excess, Angeliki Diakrousi invites you to join us in hidden and regulated public spaces at the centre of Amsterdam.

About the workshop:
Are you a local, a teenager, an active neighbour, a digital citizen, a skater, a curious adult, or do you just like to hang out at some square in your neighbourhood? This ‘buzzwalk’ invites you on a speculative walking tour through Amsterdam for audiating neighbourhoods and cities otherwise. What happens when the future of our cities is ‘smart’, automated, and mediated for reasons of safety and security? What is identified as noise and from whom? Who regulates noise and how does this affect access to public life? How might we trace the ‘unsound’, in Steve Goodman’s terms, the futures ‘not yet audible’ and ‘undefined’?

Led by designer and researcher Angeliki Diakrousi, this night walk playfully unfolds through ‘silent’ sounds and anecdotes from the city of Rotterdam – translated to the Amsterdam context – with the use of speakers and special sonic detectors including the Mosquito Harmonizer developed in collaboration with MAYB Studio (Mitchell Akiyama & Maria Yablonia). The materials gathered during this expanded time hanging out with others, researching, walking, and encountering loitering teenagers and inhabitants, will offer a starting point in considering Amsterdam’s borders, frequencies and other possible resonances.

BUZZWA(O)L(R)K(D) occurs on the occasion of the work Hunting Mosquitos which explores urban sound technologies and the socio-political implications of their use. The work started as an invitation from the curator Linnea Semmerling and TENT, Rotterdam where it will be exhibited in December of 2022. The work, supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, examines the ‘Mosquito alarm’ or ‘The Mosquito’, a technology used in public places in Rotterdam that emits sound at a high frequency, audible only to young people to deter them from loitering. It comes as a solution, activated mostly during the night, to issues of urban crime and security. Its use has triggered discussions about the extent to which this technology constitutes discrimination.

Participation
The walk will last approximately 2.5 hours, is aimed for a group of maximum 12 participants, and welcomes individuals regardless of experience. We ask participants to bring their own headphones and to wear comfortable shoes and clothes for walking outside. If the weather conditions are bad, time spent outdoors will be minimised.

Supercuts: Sabotage by Montage

Led by artist Sam Lavigne, attendees will use Python in conjunction with basic command line tools to explore the possibilities of manipulating video with code.

About the Workshop:
Emerging in the early 2000s, the ‘Supercut’ is a genre of video editing made out of a montage of short clips with a common theme. The catch-all term, initially coined by writer and net-culture commentator Andy Baio, describes the fast-moving, detail-obsessed videos that isolate a recurring pop-culture trope, iconic idiom or idiosyncrasy. While often humorous, pointing out ridiculous, overused phrases, the videos are also adept at cultural and even political commentary. Examples from the height of the genre’s popularity vary from a series of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s screams to Bill Gates saying ‘uh’ a lot, to an experimental clip in which all of the words were removed from George W. Bush’s 2008 State of the Union address.

This workshop treats video as a textual as well as visual medium, and focuses on repurposing found footage to generate new compositions and narratives. Together, participants will interrogate the YouTube channels of corporate polluters like Shell oil and gas to create their own supercut videos. Through these methods, the supercut becomes a subversive tool, drawing critical attention to how large scale polluters justify, excuse and obscure environmental harm.

Photo courtesy of artist.

How-To Workshop Programme

Every Friday from 12:00 to 16:00, the weekly how-to workshop programme explores alternative modes of economic self-sufficiency within the arts field and beyond, in collaboration with various Amsterdam creators and experts.

Visual identity by Erik de Hart.

24 November 2023
How to Negotiate?
Astrid Elburg

What are the rules, how to bend them and how do you determine your value? — A workshop by Compliance Officer Astrid Elburg, Chairwoman at the Rijksmuseum Muiderslot.

Astrid Elburg is an organisational consultant in ethical, strategic, and personal leadership. She gets individuals and organisations moving by utilising practice-oriented and feasible concepts. She has also been an honours lecturer at the VU for many years, where she teaches ‘Shaping in liquid times’, which deals with leadership in the 21st century. Under the flag of Elburg Consultancy, Astrid acts as an advisor for many different organisations—from the public sector, ministries, and the legal profession to the cultural sector. She is currently a Compliance Officer at various organisations (including RTV Noord-Holland and Rijksmuseum Muiderslot) and also teaches at Radboud University. She recently became chairperson of the Raad van Toezicht.

More about Astrid: www.astridelburg.nl

1 December 2023
Contracts—Make It Your Own!
Sem Bakker and Stefanie Hakkesteegt

Explore new forms of contracts. Learn how to read, write, and understand them. Shape them according to your own terms. Create a creative or visual contract. Gain more confidence in legal matters. — A workshop by lawyers Stefanie Hakkesteegt and Sem Bakker.

Stefanie Hakkesteegt has been working at De Roos in Amsterdam since September 2021. Before she became a lawyer, she worked as a photographer and as a programme maker in the public sector, where she was mainly concerned with media and politics. As a lawyer, she assists entrepreneurs in disputes and has experience in drafting and assessing agreements. In addition to her work as a lawyer, Stefanie is a director of two cultural foundations and she volunteers as a neighborhood mediator for BeterBuren, an organization that helps solve problems and disputes between neighbors.

More about Stefanie: https://www.deroos.eu/people

Sem Bakker has been a lawyer in Amsterdam since 2010. His expertise extends mainly to the areas of copyright, employment law, contract, and privacy law. Since January 1, 2021, he has worked with a legal collective called Backstage Legal, through which he assists many artists and performers. In addition, Sem has a fascination for complex social (legal) issues, including the climate crisis and AI. Before he became a lawyer, Sem worked as a legal teacher and with pop musicians. Sem also has various additional activities, including holding the position of Compliance Officer at the Utrecht-based music festival Le Guess Who?.

More about Sem: https://sembakkeradvocatuur.nl

8 December 2023
Mapping Your Art Practice
Jeannette Slütter and Zoë Dankert

We will map different art practices, untangle ideas about time and money and outline alternative, sustainable(er) routes based on your skills, knowledge and (side) jobs. Gain more insight into each other’s practices and learn to trust your own journey. — A workshop by writer Zoë Dankert and Platform BK co-director Jeannette Slütter.

Zoë Dankert works as a writer, podcast maker, and art critic. Her writings have been published in Metropolis M, NRC, De Witte Raaf, and Boekman, among others. In 2022, she received the Prize for Young Art Criticism for an exhibition review and the Incentive Prize for Innovative Art Critical Practices for the podcast series Werktitel, which discusses labour culture and conditions in the contemporary Dutch art world. She previously worked as a web editor and editor-in-chief at Metropolis M. She currently works as a project based employee for the collection & exhibitions department at the photography museum Huis Marseille.

More about Werktitel: www.werktitel.org  

Jeannette Slütter is co-director at Platform BK and a visual artist. In her work she explores themes such as authorship, power structures, and the perspective of a spectator in regards to artistic practice. This is expressed in site-specific interventions, publications, and public events. She has worked in spaces and organisations such as Das Leben am Haverkamp, ​​MORPHO, Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp, Amsterdam Ferry Festival, and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. She is currently a member of the Daisy Chain initiative and teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

 More about Jeannette Slütter: www.jeannetteslutter.nl 

15 December 2023
How To Create A Sustainable Practice
Matthijs Booi

A practical workshop on defining your ambition and how to make it achievable. Discover how to translate your goals into tangible steps, financially and substantively. Calculate your ideal annual income, analyse income sources and create a concrete action plan. From dreaming to doing: break down your ambition into an attainable roadmap for success.⁠ — A workshop by artist and entrepreneur Matthijs Booij.

Matthijs Booij is an artist and entrepreneur living and working in Amsterdam. He calls himself a failed artist who accidentally became the director of a beer brewery. As Head of Galaxy (Creative Director) of Oedipus, he’s responsible for the conceptual and creative development of their drinks, stories, and visual world. Matthijs is celebrated for his controversial concepts and business models, such as The One-Thousand Drawings Pension Plan and Patty Morgan. He’s half of the artist duo Miktor en Molf and loves skateboarding. Matthijs’ most recent reflections on his own practice include that he took his work out of the gallery space and into boardroom meetings,  and he distinctly navigates between mainstream and niche. He has great interest in implementing organizational aspects into an art practice.  

More about Oedipus Brewing: https://oedipus.com