V2_ Newsletter September 2014 www.v2.nl
In September V2_ presents the work of young artists who did a Summer Sessions residency in July and August. On September 11 the artists will demonstrate their works live at the Test_Lab Summer Sessions. If you somehow can’t make it to V2_ that evening, the works will be on view during the following weekend as well when the Festival of the Witte de With neighbourhood takes over Rotterdam. Apart from the exhibition, V2_ participates with presentations and workshops that focus on the recycling of plastic. There’s also a new e-book: The Iron Ring. Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2014 11 September 2014 20:00–23:00h V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions-2014 Every year, V2_ invites a small group of up-and-coming artists to spend their summer at V2_Lab for an intense short-term residency. During these so-called Summer Sessions, the selected artists are given the opportunity to develop an artwork in close collaboration with V2_'s expert developers, curators and project managers. This year’s Summer Sessions welcomed five artists and one artist-duo into V2_Lab to realize new art projects. By holding the Summer Sessions residencies in parallel, V2_ aims to promote a creative synergy between the selected artists. The outcome of this process will be presented during Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2014. In the Test_Lab tradition, the projects will be demonstrated live and the audience will be invited to ‘test’ the artworks hands-on. Demonstrations: Iris & Cedar (CN) | Chi Po-Hao (TW) | Juan Salas Carreño (PE) | Niklas Adam (NO) | Joseph Hughes (UK) | Maarten Hunink (NL) Introductions: Michelle Kasprzak (CA/NL) | Boris Debackere (BE) | Jan Misker (NL) | Michel van Dartel (NL). V2_ Participates in the Festival WWWk 12–14 September Witte de Withstreet, Rotterdam v2.nl/events/festival-wwwk-2014 The festival ‘the Wereld van het Witte de With kwartier’ (WWWk) is a city festival for cutting edge art and culture programmed by the art institutes in the neighbourhood of the Witte de Withstreet in Rotterdam. The festival WWWk opens the cultural season of Rotterdam. For three full days the neighbourhood will brim with culture, artistic innovation, culture and social activities! V2_ is taking part in the festival with the exhibition of the Summer Sessions projects, but also with presentations by Melle Smets and Ruben Jacobs, and a workshop in recycling plastic in which you learn to use plastic cups to print 3D objects. Check the website for more information and time schedule. Festival: v2.nl/events/festival-wwwk-2014 Presentations: v2.nl/events/v2_-kunstblock-presentations-at-festival-wwwk Workshops: v2.nl/events/perpetual-plastic and v2.nl/events/plastic-recycle-workshop Check out the full programme on the festival's website: festivalwwwk.nl Exhibition Summer Sessions 2014 12–14 September 2014 V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam v2.nl/events/exhibition-summer-sessions-2014 As part of Festival de Wereld van het Witte de Withkwartier, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media presents new work by Iris & Cedar (CN), Chi Po-Hao (TW), Juan Salas Carreño (PE), Niklas Adam (NO), Joseph Hughes (UK), and Maarten Hunink (NL). The work is the result of the 2014 Summer Sessions residencies. Exhibited together the artworks provide a unique global cross-section of emerging media artists’ practices today. Opening times: September 12: 17:00 – 23:00h September 13: 12:00 – 23:00h September 14: 12:00 – 18:00h Free entrance, donations are welcome. Just Out: The Iron Ring V2_ presents a new e-book. v2.nl/publishing/the-iron-ring In 2013 Cecilia Jonsson presented The Iron Ring for which she had done research at V2_ during a Summer Sessions residency. Now there’s an e-book on the project with an extensive visual essay by Cecilia Jonsson reporting on the seven steps that were required to create an iron ring out of 24kg of grass harvested from the acidic river banks of a landscape in Spain severely transformed by opencast mining. James Jackson Griffith, who participated in Jonsson’s preliminary research on mining restoration in Brazil, discusses The Iron Ring from an environmental-philosophical perspective. You can download the e-book (epub) for free at v2.nl/publishing/the-iron-ring. Vertigo System in Shanghai The Chronus Art Center in Shanghai presents the Summer Sessions residency project of Máté Pacsika. v2.nl/lab/blog/vertigo-system-in-shanghai On the 24th of September 2014 the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai presents Vertigo System. Vertigo System is the Summer Sessions residency project of Máté Pacsika. It is a new work based on the automatization of a cinematographic technique called Dolly Zoom, or Vertigo Effect named after Hitchcocks movie from 1958. Máté Pacsika transferred the effect into a realtime process, which unsettles the viewer. ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
