V2_Newsletter December 2014 www.v2.nl
On 11 December there’s a Test_Lab Genomic Gastronomy where you can get a taste of Doritos4Snowden. It’s the holiday season, and during the whole month of December there’s a 40% discount on Dick Raaymakers A Monograph, and on Kees Tazelaar’s On the Threshold of Beauty, all other books are only 10 euros! Books make great gifts. Or get yourself a V2_book to read for Christmas... Christmas Sales Only in December: up to 40% discount on almost all the V2_ books! v2.nl/publishing/december-discount If you ever hesitated to buy one of the V2_ books because you were short of money, here's you chance. During the whole month of December we offer a 40% discount on Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph and on Kees Tazelaar's On the Threshold of Beauty. The Monograph is just 36 euros this month (instead of 59.90); On the Threshold of Beauty is just 16.50. What's even better: all other V2_books are only 10 euros. Books make great gifts. Or get yourself a V2_book to read for Christmas… The offer is valid this month only! Test_Lab: Genomic Gastronomy 11 December 2014 20:00–22:00h V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam v2.nl/events/test_lab-genomic-gastronomy In an evening full of food phreaking and culinary controversy, artistic think-tank The Center for Genomic Gastronomy (Zack Denfield, Cathrine Kramer, Emma Conley) will discuss the biotechnologies and biodiversity of our food systems. On the basis of a live sneak preview of their work as artists in residence at V2_, and with the help of special guests like Anja Groten and Pieter van Boheemen, visitors will be introduced to the Center’s ambition to uncover and reveal the strange but true stories of our global food system. In addition to an exclusive look at costumes, set designs, scripts and rough cuts, in the Test_Lab tradition, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy will also demonstrate their research live and invite visitors to do some Smog Tasting, discuss the fact and fiction of the infamous Fish Tomato, dive into the magic ingredients of Cobalt-60 Sauce and taste Doritos4Snowden. De Derde Dinsdag in December 16 December 2014 20:00–21:30h Roodkapje, Teilingerstraat 138, Rotterdam v2.nl/events/de-derde-dinsdag-in-december Every month the cultural talkshow De Derde Dinsdag (The Third Tuesday) is hosted by another cultural space in Rotterdam. Do you want to know what you should not miss next month in Rotterdam? De Derde Dinsdag provides a high speed update with short interviews, performances, film previews, theater and live music. In December Ruben Jacobs will give a short presentation in Roodkapje about his new book on authenticity and the creative industries, Iedereen een kunstenaar, which was very recently published by V2_. IHA Pop-up Store at Art Rotterdam v2.nl/lab/blog/pop-up-store-at-art-rotterdam V2_ presents a special pop-up store of the Institute for Human Activities, an initiative of Renzo Martens, at Art Rotterdam (5–8 February 2015). It will sell a series of chocolate sculptures made by plantation workers, amongst whom are members of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League. These sculptures, all self-portraits of the workers, have been scanned and digitally exported to Europe. V2_ is a production partner, working with designer Joris van Tubergen to develop 3D printed versions of the sculptures from the scans. The 3D prints were used to create molds used by the award-winning Dutch Pastry Team to cast these self-portraits in the very cocoa that League members have produced for global markets for the last century. The chocolate was supplied by Barry Callebaut, the leading Franco - Belgian chocolate producer, but with added content: feelings, ideas, convictions. The sculptures will generate revenue for Congolese plantation workers through a more lucrative post-Fordist, affective economy. As these plantation workers cannot live off plantation labour, they will now live off artistic engagement with plantation labour. An exhibition at V2_ is planned for March 2015. The chocolate sculptures are currently part of the 6th edition of the Artes Mundi biennial in Cardiff, Wales, and the exhibition Confessions of the Imperfect at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (both till 22 February 2015). More on www.humanactivities.org/institute The next V2_Newsletter will be sent in early January 2015. In the meantime we wish you all the best for the holidays! ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
