LB2 2024 and V2 + WORM

LB2 Graduates 2024 and V2_ + WORM

Collaboration between LB2 graduates of 2024, V2_ and WORM.

Florian Weigl and Wilco Tuinman

Apparatuurlijst V2

V2_ plattegrond GF

UBIK floorplan

Timeline

---> week 20

FRI 17 May - PRESS ---> WORM - save the date -short text - image - title -links (websites - instagram) (closer to the show you can change and expand)

WORM SPECS: Nia Konstantinova PR & Communications "It is best to have a square image (1:1 ratio) max 2 mb. We don't have a word count but shorter texts are always better. Because we can only upload the main image to the website and a lot of text looks heavy."

---> week 22

Thu 30 May - Deadline 09:00 LB2 assessment documents to archive

---> week 23

MON- TUE 3-4 June - Final assessments

THU- FRI 6-7 - Gallery Installation with Stefanos

---> week 24

MON 10 - (????time-schedule????) Short presentation of all graduates, Florian, Wilco, and Simon will join the seminar for the day

TUE- THU 11 - 13 - Gallery Installation with Stefanos

---> week 25 -

(if not earlier) PRESS FINAL VERSIONS TO V2_ and WORM / scheduling opening speeches- performances- tours. (make sure to have XPUB involved that there are no conflicts with their schedule) [think about music/noise playing in CS]

MON 17--> FRI 21 Visit Meely and pick up furniture -all in one go (????what day is best, arrange with Leslie and Wilco????)

---> week 26 -

MON 24 (????time????) transport LB/XPUB - MTS equipment will arrive

TUE- WED 25- 26 - V2_ and UBIK ----> build

WED 26 19:00 - 23:00 - Alumni Illuminata, CS WORM

THU 27 (????time????) - Opening LB and XPUB - V2_-UBIK-S/ash Gallery WORM

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---> Exhibtion continuing

LB + XPUB stewards gallery schedule + ???? how to turn off and on tech support if needed A4 ????

?????LB1/2 photographing schedule for Archiving?????

---> week 27

MON 01 July - de-install and transport (????time????)

MON 01 July 16:00 - 18:00 LB graduation ceremony, in WORM CS

All declarations need to be declared via HINT before you leave at the latest MON 01 JULY

V2_ equipment rental and media player specs

    Wilco would like to double-check the time of communicating equipment to be rented from MTS. (deadline TBC at the latest in the week after our meeting on June 10). 

LB2, V2_ and Stefanos have agreed (Wilco is quite sure) that the goal is to have the films finished by June 17, so that there is enough time to sync them and put them on the media players. MTS equipment will arrive on Monday, June 24.

    These are the desired specs for the MTS media players; 
    The videos may be supplied in the following specs: 
     Format h264/mp4 CBR, CBR is important for the brightsigns, stands for constant bitrate. 
     Max 25 Mb/sec with AAC sound 
     Wilco assumes everything is HD? - if not let him know

Declarations & moving out

Please declare your 200 euros in one go. 200 euros per grad, (uploaded invoices can be higher than that, you claim 200 euros) - reference GRAD SHOW STUDENT COSTS 24. -->Budget number: 510350

When leaving PZI< please save your work to a hard drive and strip your data from your computer - DEADLINE- WEEK 34 ---> THU 18, July

Press text WORM

Master students of the Lens-Based Media programme at the Piet Zwart Institute invite you to their graduation show at V2_ and WORM, Rotterdam.

We are here and we need to tell you something. CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY brings attention to urgent questions through the practice of moving image. Along 14 distinct works, each their own current, we explore personal, political and ecological concerns in the world we live in.

Currently, it has to do with all of us.

CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY is open from the 27th to 30th June 2024.

opening times

Opening: Thursday 27th June: TBD

Friday 28th June: 12:00–21:00h

Saturday 29th June: 12:00–18:00h

Sunday 30th June: 12:00–18:00h

where

V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam

& UBIK/WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 69, 3012 XA Rotterdam

Student assistants

Add here the names and contact details of two students who will be the liaison between LB2 and V2_/WORM.

liaisons: Yalou and Lau, (please add your contact details here)

Yalou Groeneweg: yalou@hotmail.nl, +31647485298

Graduates proposals

• Please add your name, email address and phone number plus a logline, short bio (third person - 30-40 words), project descriptions (50-60 words), and images. If you have sketch ideas for installation upload the drawing(s). Remember this is a fluid wikipage. But a good place to incubate and harvest your press releases, tech riders, etc. (see the previous year's page for examples ).
  
  

Student Name

Contact info
Your contact info here

Project title
Your project's title here

Logline
Your project's logline here

Artist Bio
Your short biography here

Images

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Yalou

Student Name

Yalou Groeneweg

Contact info

yalou@hotmail.nl, +31647485298

Project title

Éva

Logline

An intimate conversation between a mother and a daughter who delve into the depth of generational trauma and its profound beauty, all through the memories of their (grand)mother, Éva.

Artist Bio

Yalou Groeneweg (Rotterdam, 1998) a visual artist who balances journalism and visual art. She uses investigative, journalistic elements and combines these elements with more artistic and personal visualisations. This provides a dance between objective inquiry and subjective interpretation. Her main focus is on personal and familial narratives, history, religion, and consciousness.

Images

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Clara

Student Name
Clara Franke

Contact info
frankeclara@aol.com, +4915204912709, www.clarafranke.com

Project title
Bodies of Water

Logline
Bodies of Water contemplates humans disconnect to, and exploitation of the environment, through an ecocentric and ritualistic film and ceramics installation.

Critically interrogating the beauty of a recovered landscape that has in the past been exploited through clay mining, ceramic instruments are used as a form of communication with nature as a more-than-human entity; rethinking hierarchies between species, honouring, apologizing.

Artist Bio
Clara Franke (1998, Hamburg), multidisciplinary artist/designer shaped a practice moving swiftly between photography, filmmaking, ceramics and costume design.

The intimate, calming world she builds evolves around topics of community/collaboration, the body, (spiritual) eco-feminism, mysticality, and contemplation of consumerism.

Images

Muyang

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Student Name

• Muyang Teng

Contact info

• tengmuyangphoto@163.com
• +31 0647681716
• https://alternativelogic.me/
  

Project title

• Octopus in Drag
  

Logline

Octopus in Drag includes animation & poetry, set in a white porcelain toilet symbolizing Western views on Chinese purity. It features a creature from the animality of Yellow Peril & Fu Manchu, using drag to exhibit racial & queer toxicity. It explores (im)penetrability, transfiguration & unreliable surfacing of (queered) yellow-skinned people, advocating a (porous) transfeminist perspective inspired by I Ching.

Images

Artist Bio

Muyang Teng, born in 1998 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, is an educator, translator, and photographer. Their work explores colonial histories, race, gender, and sexuality through material histories and narrative storytelling. Their works suggest a complex, often unsettling look at how bodies interact with each other and with their environments, proposing a mutual but often exploitative exchange similar to the relationships seen in parasitism.

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Claudio

Student Name
Claudio Tola

Contact info

+39 348 913 7730

cldtl.com

cldtlstudio@gmail.com

Project title
BLIND SPOTS, LIGHT TRICKS/TRACES, FLASHES AND FAILURES

Logline
BLIND SPOTS, LIGHT TRICKS/TRACES, FLASHES AND FAILURES articulates in an installation form a multifaceted reflection on the blurred spaces between vision and blindness, visibility and invisibility, technologies of image-making and experiencing, subtly merging personal, political and formal concerns.

Images

Artist Bio

Suburban melancholic, digital nihilist, full-time flâneur. Mostly makes images move, writes in fragments, endlessly edits. His recent practice questions material and immaterial stakes of images, vision and visibility, lingering on thresholds, edges and moments of failures. He is a member of artist-run film lab Filmwerkplaats.

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Sam

Student Name
Sam Koopman

Contact info

(+31) 640070740

skoopman.com

bioskoopman@gmail.com

Project title
Yo Sambo

Logline

Two strangers met in a sex shop. With differing motivations, they began a multi-year film project. Yo Sambo is a desktop film essay performing an autopsy upon their comedically tragic collaboration.

Artist Bio

Sam Koopman is a Dutch-Canadian artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. His practice inquires upon the border of documentary and fiction, exploring his encounters with people and place – their mundanities, vulnerabilities and absurdities. Central to this is a focus on humour and participatory processes for meaning making, often questioning the role of his lens.

Images

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Arabella

Student name:

Arabella Turner

Contact info

https://arabellaturner.net/

(+31) 6 81276510
arabellaturner@hotmail.co.uk

Project title
As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper

Logline
In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals. All the while the cliffs and caves watch on, occasionally whispering and sometimes roaring.

Artist Bio
Arabella Turner (UK/NL) is an artist and filmmaker using video, sound, digital 3D modelling, and text. Her films intricately layer timelines, merging historical and contemporary narratives, revealing the present in the past. In her scripts and text-based works, she explores the shapes and structures of storytelling.

Images

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Aitana

Student Name

Aitana López Rodrigo

Contact info

0034622142937

alrart250@gmail.com

Project title

I worked for you

Logline

How do you live a dismissal? “I worked for you” presents three different ways of looking at it through its density, its rhythm and its imbalances.

Artist Bio

Aitana López Rodrigo is a visual artist working between Rotterdam and Madrid. Infiltrating public and private spaces, her practice is based on a deep critique of the patriarchal and neoliberal voices that surround us.

Images

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Te

Student Name

Panida Petchara (Te)

Contact info

panidapetchara.com

panidapetchara@gmail.com

+31613264576

Project title

Dream Weaver 555

Logline

The newly released enigmatic amulet 'Dream Weaver 555' promises to unlock the gateway to realizing dreams, offering hope beyond reach where wishes materialize within the depths of dreams.

Artist Bio

Panida Petchara (Te) is a photographer and visual artist who splits her time between Bangkok and Rotterdam. She transforms everyday objects into fictional narratives, sparking reflection with satirical humor and playfully exploring superstitions, capitalism, and socio-political themes.

Images

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Lau

Student Name

Lau Zautsen

Contact info

www.laurenszautsen.nl

laurens.zautsen@hotmail.nl

Project title

Painting it Pink

Logline

Through an essayistic trip in which past and present get intertwined, Lau attempts to grasp their messy family history and the stories that have informed them throughout the years. They do everything possible to get closer to two key memories of their parents, even recreating and re-enacting these experiences.

Artist Bio

Lau Zautsen is a visual artist and filmmaker, based in Utrecht. In their practice Lau challenges and explores the dominant narratives that shape our subjective understanding. They explore this interest in a playful approach through various mediums: film, text and performance. They are also part of a queer performance collective called KALEIDO.  

Images

Image 1

Picture by Clara Franke

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Nosh

Student Name

Nosh Neneh

Contact info

www.noshneneh.com

noshneneh@gmail.com

Project title

Living Monuments of the Deep + Pale Futures

Logline

In Living Monument of the Deep, a multi-channel installation, hybrid creatures challenge our views on species hierarchy.

Pale Futures is a series of algae-based sculptures embodying imprints of endangered coral species.

Images

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Nina

Student Name

Nina Rojc

Contact info

https://ninarojc.com

ninaa.rojc@gmail.com

Project title

Memories I don't remember

Logline

Memories I don’t remember is a short film that follows my journey of collecting memories and stories of a family from Croatia that lived in the house of my grandmother in 1991/92 in which I have also lived for the first year of my life. I have photographs of the family taken by my father where I am also present, but I have no memories of my own as I was so little.

Artist Bio

Nina Rojc was born in Slovenia but considers herself a citizen of the world. She is interested and inspired by anything unusual, especially human relationships and behaviour, our relationship to nature and how to decolonize, change and revolutionize systems of oppression and our learned ways of seeing. Her work might appear simple at first, but she intentionally strips it of all unnecessary layers, to bring audience closer to the essence of life, to all that lies beneath the surface and might not be necessarily visible, obvious. She aims to draw attention to the diversity and complexity of this world, to allow us to recognize and accept all that do not conform to established norms and to see many ways in which these participants enrich our co-existence.

Images

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Luni

Student Name

Luni Milda Jančoraitė

Contact info

mljancoraite@gmail.com

Project title

Divine Dogs, Whispering Stones

Logline

"Divine Dogs, Whispering Stones" blends documentary and meditative storytelling to explore the timeless connection between humanity, nature, and divine powers. This film offers a journey of reflection and reconnection with Baltic ancestral wisdom.

Inspired by ideas of Marija Gimbutas and exploration of ancient goddess figurines, the film suggests the significance of these artifacts in prehistoric times, portraying them not merely as objects, but as potent symbols of life, death, and regeneration.

Artist Bio

Luni Jančoraitė, is a visual artist from Vilnius (LT) based in Rotterdam (NL), often creating films in the genre of poetic documentary. Her work blends classic, experimental, and essayistic styles of documentary filmmaking, intertwining personal and historical narratives. Exploring the historical and cultural contexts of her homeland, her films reflect on the intricate entanglement of past and present.

Images

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Ieva

Student Name

Ieva Grabauskaite

Contact info

ievagrab@gmail.com

Project title

The Chronicle

Logline

The Crohnicle is an experimental animation about the metaphysical and existential inquiries brought on by sickness. It is inspired by personal experience, narrated by a voiceover, quoting and interpreting Virginia Woolf's essay On Being Ill. The slow-paced atmospheric soundtrack offers a contemplative thinking space while exploring the topics of self-introspection and different modes of being through the lens of illness.

Artist Bio

Ieva Grabauskaite is a Lithuanian illustrator and animator who mainly works in the 2D field, combining abstract visuals with hand-drawn sketches, VFX, and collage animations, creating abstract optical atmospheres accompanied by music. Her works incorporate subconscious, surreal, and psychological themes derived from personal experiences.

Images

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Annemiek

Annemiek Höcker

Contact info

annihocker@gmail.com, +31615237720

Project title

Flowering Fields in Optimistic Decay: Chapter One

Logline

Flowering Fields in Optimistic Decay: Chapter One is a speculative essay film exploring the possibility of collaborative survival inside the depleted landscapes of Kennemerland. By entangling sonic landscapes, more-than-human perspectives and patterns of ecological disturbance, the work reveals the complex relationship between humans, nature and landscape transformations in context of environmental doom caused by capitalist systems.

Artist Bio

Annemiek Höcker (1994, NL) is a visual artist morphing between the practices of graphic design, moving image, field recording and installation. Her work explores the depiction of landscape transformations in context of environmental tragedy tragedy through reimagined perspectives of ecological and geological matter.

Helpful resources

Use the following as a reference when planning your proposal.

V2_ Floorplan

WORM UBIK Floorplan

Technical Rider Template UBIK