OPEN SET

16/03/2019

Last Friday we had a great time at the closing symposium of the Fluid Rhythms' programme. Many thanks to our fabulous participants, speakers, all tutors who were involved in the Open Set programme since August 2018, and our generous partners Gemeente Amsterdam, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, CBK Zuidoost, Het Pauwhof Fonds and Het Nieuwe Instituut!

07/03/2019

Symposium | On the Practice of Tuning-in
Tomorrow - March 8, Pakhuis de Zwijger
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A artist Peter Vial will talk about the artistic strategy developed in his project The Schoolyard Belongs to Everyone! which addresses a specific situation: "Two schools in Amsterdam Zuidoost share a schoolyard. One school is a public elementary school and the other is a school for special primary education (children with special needs). The schools don’t use the schoolyard at the same time, due to the friction that might occur between children when they share this outdoor space. As a result, the schools have developed different rhythms: different schedules for using the yard and different activities which they are occupied with there."

More about the symposium on www.openset.nl and
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07/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
Tomorrow – Friday, March 8, Pakhuis de Zwijger
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In her presentation, a visual artist Kozhukhovskaya Natalia will reflect on a series of meetings she conducted for a project 'Conversation as a Portrait' during the Open Set residency in Amsterdam Zuidoost: "While painting portraits I engage in conversation with the portrayed person and that is how I get to know people: I establish relationships; I fall in love. The embodied rhythm of the conversation itself, the process of synchronization or friction, is more important to me than the subject matter and the content of the conversation."

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07/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
Friday, March 8, Pakhuis de Zwijger
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In her talk, a visual artist Cathalijne Smulders will address artistic strategies that impose restrictions on existing forms of communication in order to form relationships with the other independently of existing social patterns. Sometimes these strategies insert uncertainty within the process of tuning in, and obscure given patterns of perception.

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05/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN❗️LINE-UP. Suzy Blok, the director at the dance production house Dansmakers Amsterdam and co-founder/director of the Moving Futures festival & network.

In her talk, Suzy Blok explores tuning in and rhythm from the perspective of dance. Dance is an art in space and time. The dancing body tunes in and relates with the space in a certain time, structure and tempo. While dancing, we’re constantly relating to our inner movements and rhythms and expressing these to the outside as well as vice versa: bringing the outside rhythms and environments into our bodies. When we dance together with another or with others, we create sensitivity and awareness towards each other, finding points of rhythmical harmony and contra points. When we dance, we tune in to each other, to space and time and create a common ground while moving from our own individual and vulnerable body with all its history, emotions and subjectivity. These dynamics ask for trust and openness to give space for the non-cognitive and non-tangible sharing of physical expression.

❗️Join us this Friday, March 8 at Pakhuis de Zwijger!

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05/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
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During the FLUID RHYTHMS programme, an artist Noemi Niederhauser (co-founder, A - DASH) and a photographer, art director Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup (editor, Adventice Editions) developed a multimedia projects Yoo-TEK-tik. It operates a physical creolization of components that are not meant to meet. Conceived metaphorically as a place that convokes two imaginaries and two materials, it seeks to weave between them a relationship, or in other words, a possibility for tuning-in.

❗️Join us this Friday, March 8 at Pakhuis de Zwijger!

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04/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
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In his presentation, Professor Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths, University of London) talks about some of the principles dynamic patterning as a methodology for research and way of understanding social and personal relationships in urban settings. The talk takes the Jamaican sound system dancehall scene as an example of how these ideas can be put into practice to describe both the affective intensities of the experience of the dancehall session and its place in the night-time economy and urban geography of the city of Kingston.

📢 Due to the limited places we kindly ask you to register before March 5 via hello(at)openset.nl

More on http://openset.nl/symposiums.php

https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/henriques/

Julian's interests are cultural studies, sound studies, narrative media, recently focussing on sound system culture.

04/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
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What constitutes a neighbourhood? Beyond the limits of a borough, what gives an area its character?
📽In his video THE BIJLMER BORDER a documentary filmmaker Albert Kuhn explores these questions with a series of performances shot in the neighbourhood during the 5 month Open Set residency at Amsterdam Zuidoost.

📣Join us this Friday, March 8 at Pakhuis de Zwijger
for the programme full of thought provoking performances and conversations by Tanja Jadnanansing, Suzy Blok (Dansmakers Amsterdam), Prof. Julian Henriques, Anna Costantino, Heather Griffin, Petra Hegenbart, Kozhukhovskaya Natalia, Noemi Niederhauser, Lorna Pittaway, Pınar Şefkatli, Cathalijne Smulders, Panita S, Xiaoji Song, Peter Vial.

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21/02/2019

The exhibition 'La Fabrique du Vivant' just opens at the Centre Pompidou – with a contribution of 50 designers and artists this fascinating exhibition explores living matter and it's interrelation with biotechnology.

The show features 'The Physarum Experiments' – a series of explorations by artist Heather Barnett, one of the key contributors to the Open Set 'Fluid Rhythm' programme.

The exhibition runs until the 15th of April!

07/02/2019

Check out new videos uploaded from the seminar 'Traces of Rhythms: Heritage, Data and Fiction'.

🍿🎥Talks:
❗️ 'Ghetto Romanticism: Essentialist Notions of Black Culture and the Neoliberal Welfare State' by Amy Abdou (Wittenborg University in Amsterdam, Open Set participant)
❗️'River Amstel Reflecting the City. Archaeology of the North/South Metro Line' by Prof. dr. Jerzy Gawronski (University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam, Head Monuments & Archeology, Municipality of Amsterdam)
❗️'Impossible is Nothing' Thierry Oussou (artist).

https://youtu.be/Ju40Eha0XD0
https://youtu.be/Jp3Frdxaqs4
https://youtu.be/5km_cZkC4Aw

Thank you CBK Zuidoost for hosting the Seminar!

22/12/2018

🌲 Rhythms of 2018th – thank you all speakers and participants of the unforgettable moments of the Fluid Rhythms programme 2018. See you in 2019!

🎁🎁🎁 With Heather Barnett, Debra Solomon, Mike Thompson, Nadia Christidi, The Black Archives, CBK Zuidoost, Caroline Nevejan, Pınar Şefkatli, Sara Blokland, DashN'Dem, Petra Hegenbart, Xiaoji Song, Heather Griffin, Peter Vial, Marieke de Rooij, Pei-Ying Lin, Shain foundation & many others

29/11/2018

👂👀The lectures from the seminar's session 'SCALES OF RHYTHM: THROUGH BODY TO CROWD' are online❗

– a talk by design action group Dash N’ Dem on their approach to Mass Voices and an o Mass Recitation as a form of collective political speech;
https://lnkd.in/dU77nqC

– a performative lecture by Dr. Maria Estrada Fuentes (Performance artist & Theatre and Performance Studies Scholar, University of Amsterdam) on engaging in community-building embodied practices that address the relationship between individual and collective bodies;
https://lnkd.in/dQCFwHQ

– a presentation by Cathalijne Smulders (visual artist; Open Set participant)
https://lnkd.in/dU77nqC

On Saturday, Dec 8 will be held our next seminar's session TRACES OF RHYTHMS: HERITAGE, DATA AND FICTION – https://www.facebook.com/events/328103181313988/

During this talk the Dash N’ Dem group discussed their approach to Mass Voices and introduced Mass Recitation as a form of collective political speech. The t...

03/10/2018

Nog 2 gratis plekken beschikbaar voor creatieven wonend of werkend in Amsterdam Zuidoost!

✌️ 2 gratis deelname tickets!
We heb nog 2 gesponsorde plekken t.w.v. 1.000,- per spot beschikbaar voor het LAB, waardoor je een unieke kans hebt om gratis deel te nemen! Het doel van het LAB is om je inhoudelijk te kunnen verdiepen in wie jij bent en wat je doet als maker, hybride manieren van werken te ervaren, jouw werk naar een internationaal niveau te trekken en een eigen project te kunnen ontwikkelen en uit te voeren (in de vorm die jij wil en te combineren met je normale werkweek of studie) onder begeleiding van een team van de meest toonaangevende tutors wereldwijd.

✍️ Meld je aan voor 16 oktober 2018 via http://openset.nl/apply.php of stuur een mail naar [email protected] (in het engels). Het volgende zouden we graag van je willen weten: vertel ons wie je bent en waarom je geïnteresseerd bent in een korte tekst of filmpje. Voeg daarbij je cv en evt. beeldmateriaal van je werk toe. Jouw studieachtergrond, leeftijd e.d. zijn niet belangrijk, jouw ambitie en reden om mee te doen is het belangrijkste criterium!

💪 LAB - 5 maanden
2. LAB, okt. 2018 - feb. 2019. 5 maanden waar je de tijd hebt om jouw eigen project binnen het thema ‘Fluid Rhythms’ te ontwikkelen. Dit thema laat je ontdekken hoe ritmes jouw stad vormgeven en hoe je deze binnen je creatieve praktijk kan toepassen. In deze periode ga je om de 2 weken op vrijdag en zaterdag aan je aan de slag met workshops, dan wel professionele reflectie over jou als maker, besprekingen, lezingen, screenings en training in presenteren in het internationale veld. Alle activiteiten van het LAB vinden plaats in Amsterdam Zuidoost.

If you are interested in joining one of our programmes, please send us your CV, a portfolio of projects, and let us know about your practice — your current interests and what direction do you want to take it in; and what your expectations are from the programme.

16/09/2018

Check out the videos from our opening symposium Fluid Rhythms at Imagine IC.
🍿🎥Lectures by Nadia Christidi​ ( writer, artist, PhD researcher at MIT); Satinder P. Gill (researcher, University of Cambridge​);
Anton Kats (artist, musician); Pinar Sefkatli ( architect, PhD researcher, University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam); Mike Thompson (art, design & research collective Thought Collider​); Noam Toran ( artist).

❗❗❗The following program LAB: Practicing Rhythm (Oct 19 - Feb 23) has the applications open for one more week!
http://openset.nl/apply.php

https://youtu.be/InNoaiSMx_A

This symposium is a public launch of the seven-month programme of Open Set titled 'Fluid Rhythms'. It aims to explore the potential of rhythm as a lens throu...

29/08/2018

Three days on — it's history and methods, — together with Dash N' Dem and Mizztamizzo.
Intensive days of discussions, balancing between individual and collective voices, creative writing, composing and performing a video record. 💥💣🌁🎥▶️

To be continued at the LAB: Practicing Rhythm programme (Oct 19 - Feb 23) http://openset.nl/opensetlab.php
⚠️ Applications are open!

24/08/2018

Thank you all for joining us last week to our public launch of the seven-month programme Fluid Rhythms at Imagine IC! Thank you to our inspiring speakers Nadia Christidi, Satinder Gill, Anton Kats, Pınar Şefkatli, Mike Thompson and Noam Toran! Special thanks to Bas van Sprew for opening the event, to Bart Cosijn for moderating!

Looking forward to continue inspiring and thought provoking conversations during the LAB: Practicing Rhythm
Keep in eye on our public programme!
http://openset.nl/opensetlab.php

20/08/2018

What an inspirational two day workshop City as Superorganism led by Heather Barnett —Looking at Bijlmer as a system of dynamic interconnected networks. 🔬🔭🏢
The good news is 📣📣📣Heather is coming back during the Open Set Lab and you still can apply for this program today!
http://openset.nl/opensetlab.php

The visit of Heather Barnett is supported by Het Nieuwe Instituut
https://international-visitors-programme.hetnieuweinstituut.nl

10/08/2018

The Summer School starts in a few days❗⏳❗ If you're not already a participant you can still join us during the public Symposium on August 16 at Imagine IC – https://www.facebook.com/events/442651052871001/

Meanwhile we are thrilled to introduce the workshop 'Micro-performances / Macro-connections', led by Pei-Ying Lin!

This is a three days exploration of human as biological dynamic assembly - how we make connections with other living beings, and how human and all biological beings connect through the microscopic and macroscopic. How we live and perform together, how we migrate with each other, and how we transform each others.

How do we share our experiences and how do we make connections with other people through the encounter of other species with our inner side of the body? The workshop will be looking at these relationships through food relating with the participants and Bijlmer area, from the scale of earth to the scale of microscopic. By getting to know the people and, restaurants, and markets with food in Bijlmer area to map out the activities of microbes and ‘biological activities’ within the community. And more particularly, fermentation, migration, and microbes migration. These materials will become the ‘ingredients’ we construct our new biological possibilities. Through developing different sensorial ways of observing to create an expanded performance that doesn’t only happen at human scale but also inside the human body and hopefully across communities. In short and simple words: we will be creating a performance with the microbes telling the story of human and microbes migration while exploring the possibilities of deepening the relationship and reflecting what we really are.

During the workshop two guests will join us – Justina Uka, an expert in Nigerian cuisine and Surinamese chefs Mavis Hofwijk & Candice Hofwijk.

31/07/2018

Open Set Summer School 🏖️& Seminar trajectories 📚– the application deadline is tomorrow!
http://openset.nl/apply.php

📌Do not miss this opportunity to work with a team of inspiring international designers, artists and researchers and join the workshops by:
— Nadia Christidi | “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
— Anton Kats | 'People taller than buildings: Listening and Sonification in Public Space'
— Heather Barnett | ‘City as Superorganism’
— DashN’Dem | 'Mass Voice'
— Pei-Ying Lin | 'Micro-performances / Macro-connections'
— a film screening led by Mike Thompson & Noam Toran | 'Renderings of the Other in Cinema'.
— a series of presentations and discussions led by professors Satinder Gill and Caroline Nevejan, researchers Rebekah Wilson, Pinar Sefkatli, and many others.

The programme is contextualised around the modern, historical, social and environmental frameworks of Amsterdam Zuidoost; hosted and supported by the municipality and local cultural centres and initiatives: CBK Zuidoost, Imagine IC, NoLIMIT and Livelovework.art.

29/07/2018

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the workshop led by artist and writer Nadia Christidi.
Should you wish to join it or the whole Summer School, apply before August 1 at [email protected]!

"Among Surinamese-origin communities from , Amsterdam, to Queens, New York, bird-singing competitions are organized in public parks. Highly trained Picolets (Oryzoborus crassirostris) and Twa Twas (Oryzoborus angolensis), resident birds in Latin America, are made to face off in a bid to see which bird will sing most melodiously and for the longest. This tradition was carried from Suriname, where official competitions have been held in the capital Paramaribo since the 1950s. Although the tradition’s origins there remain unknown, some speculate that it was brought over by an earlier wave of immigrants – indentured laborers conscripted by the Dutch from China, India, and Indonesia to replace slave labor post-abolition. The competitions, as such, attest to multiple transnational migrations – to the (voluntary and involuntary) movement of people, things, and practices. Since the early 1970s, the Surinamese community has had a significant presence in Bijlmermeer.

In this workshop, we will engage, both symbolically and literally, with bird singing competitions in Bijlmermeer. We will use our engagement with this tradition as an entry point into exploring colonial histories, postcolonial experiences, and racial politics in the Netherlands; migration and community-building; culture in translation; and the circulation of accompanying things (ie. the economies of the bird trade, breeding, and betting). We will complement this emphasis on the ‘transnational’ with attention to the ‘translocal’ by grounding larger forces within their place-based experiences, meanings, and reformulation. Participants will have the chance to experiment with narrative and aesthetic forms to produce works that mobilize bird-singing competitions in Bijlmermeer to narrate the micro- and macro-political."

https://nadiaalissa.wordpress.com/
Nadia Christidi

28/07/2018

Excited to introduce the workshop by Anton Kats 'People taller than buildings: Listening and Sonification in Public Space'! 🏙️

'People taller than buildings' is a name for a collaborative protocol investigating the relationship between high-rise buildings in Amsterdam Zuidoost and the potential to develop ambiguous architectures of listening in the open on the margins of the city. Rooted in the applied concept of radio narrowcasts, – open radio studios, installations and radio interventions in public space, artist Anton Kats invites you to playfully explore listening as a generative act conveying the intentions of the listener. Shifting attention from radio specific content and radio technology towards the notion of transmission will allows to raise and address question of the agency and intentionality behind listening and radio as a social and site-specific practice: Who transmits what for whom? What is the transmission? And to what end is it being transmitted?

www.antonkats.net, .now

Applications are open before August 1. More information on http://openset.nl/summerschool.php

26/07/2018

A sneak peek of the Summer School's workshop "Mass Voice" led by Dash N' Dem! The good news is – if you miss the summer workshop, you still have a chance to meet the design action group Dash N' Dem during the LAB programme!
More at http://openset.nl/apply.php

📢🗣️MASS VOICE
"Agitprop theatre groups took theatre to working class people. [...] Rejecting bourgeois notions of theatre, agitprop actors simplified the content and put more emphasis on the message, often relying on their physical bodies and voice.

Mass Recitation was agitprop theatre striped to it’s barest theatricality, a dramatic form of choral speaking in which actors chanted in verse to the accompaniment of choreographed movements and gestures as an enactment of revolutionary dynamism. It was used as a powerful vehicle to address the audience and call for social action.

We will update this historical form of agitprop with workshops participants and residents of Biljimeer, producing a collective call for social action today. A mass rap responding to the vibrant rhythms of the Bilmer, a dynamic multicultural community with music and dance from Kaseko to hip-hop."

---- www.dashndem.com ----

24/07/2018

Excited to release information about the Summer School's workshops!

🏙️ CITY AS SUPERORGANISM
Artist and researcher Heather Barnett will lead two days of fieldwork exploring the area of Bijlmer as a superorganism, a system of dynamic interconnected networks. Shifting perspectives across species and scales, participants will interrogate and interact with their urban surroundings through a series of individual and collective experiments. From slime mould cells to urban infrastructure, ideas of fluidity will be examined through a nonhuman lens, looking at adaptability, information flows and feedback loops. From simple elements complex behaviours may emerge.
www.heatherbarnett.co.uk

📌 Applications for the Summer School are still open until August 1. Should you wish to join the LAB Practicing Rhythm where Heather Barnett will lead one of the sessions – apply before August 20. More details – http://openset.nl/opensetlab.php

A film by Heather Barnett (working with Physarum polycephalum) A collaboration with ecoLogicStudio for Anthropocene Islands bio.Tallinn Tallinn Architecture ...

16/07/2018

Starting this afternoon and until July 22nd The Black Archives (Open Set LAB 2018 tutors) organize a special summer readings on Black Radical Thought with dr. Tony Bogues. Every day we will have discussions from 6.30 to 9 PM. On July 21st participants will present a product based on the work at their Books and BBQ Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/197497391091734/!

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In November 2017 The Black Archives opened its first exhibition “Black & Revolutionary”: the story of Hermina and Otto Huiswoud”. The life of the Huiswouds connected them to an international network of radical black thinkers, writers and activists, such as Anton de Kom, Sylvia Winter, C.L.R. James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Franz Fanon and others. The story of the Huiswouds shows that there has been a long tradition of black emancipation and political organizing in the Netherlands. During the summer course we will delve into the work of these black radical thinkers.
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Are you in town? – Join this unique opportunity! For more information check out the website
http://www.theblackarchives.nl/summer-reading-sessions-on-black-radical-thought.html?lang=nl

09/07/2018

🔔MEET OPEN SET EXPERTS 2018
Very pleased to announce our tutor at the LAB trajectory: Uta Eisenreich, an artist working with photography and performance .

Do not forget, the Early Birds application deadline for the Lab programme is July 20! 🗳️ For more information – http://openset.nl/opensetlab.php

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The core of Eisenreich's practice is an investigation of the incongruous relationship between thought and reality. Walking a fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense, she systematically explores the familiar methods for understanding our presumed reality.

Enigmatic compositions recall fleeting memories of elementary science, magic tricks, art history, assessment tests and optical illusions. The objects seem to animate one another, transforming into characters, suggesting underlying patterns that viewers are triggered to discern. Recently Eisenreich focuses more specifically on examining the nature of language.

Eisenreich’s work – ranging from photographs, video installations to performance pieces – has appeared in various exhibitions, for example in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Foam Amsterdam or the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Uta Eisenreich works and lives in Amsterdam, where she teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects.

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Images: Uta Eisenreich, The Language of Things, show Time after Sometimes, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, 2012; The Language of Things, Silkscreen posters, Design Julia Born

06/07/2018

EXTENDED APPLICATIONS. To honour the many requests made by late-comers that still want to apply, we are moving the deadline till August 1, 2018! 🎉🎉

Don't miss your opportunity to join this years' programme,
find out more here 👉: http://openset.nl/apply.php