LB2 Graduation 2022 and V2 + TENT

LB2 Graduates 2022 and V2_ + TENT

About the collaboration between LB2 graduates of 2021, V2_ and TENT. Overview of event and proposed planning: .

Student assistants

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Adèle Grégoire
adele.gregoire@insas.be
0032 498691797

Alumni proposals

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Ariela Bergman +31687626214 ariela.bergman@gmail.com

Project description
Does the Sun Shine in Argentina? Is a CGI musical biopic based on the eighty-one letters my aunt penned to my mother and grandmother from abroad over a thirty-year period. After my aunt's death, my mother told me she had a box containing her sister’s correspondences that she sent after she emigrated. that is how I got access to the letters that told the tale of her life. As a teenager she fled her homeland without her mother’s consent, claiming to never have been understood by her own family. After an adventurous early life, she settled in France. But she never stopped writing and caring about her homeland. There is a tension bubbling within her writing. It becomes evident that despite her best efforts, she never felt acknowledged as the free, independent woman she believed herself to be. Does the Sun Shine in Argentina? creates a place for Cristina’s histrionic voice. I am using CGI to convey the bombastic, at points somewhat unhinged world Cristina fabricated for herself. I am creating surrealist spaces inspired by elements found in the letters. The audience will undergo a subjective trip through her mental realm, experiencing a speculative version of Cristina’s own dreams and nightmares.

The journey begins in the late 1960s, with an enthusiastic eighteen-year-old Cristina and follows her to the early 90s with a disappointed middle-aged divorcee planning her possible repatriation to Argentina. In using ‘the musical’ as a genre I reference a lighthearted, idealistic world. However, as we explore the many sides of a multifaceted character, these generic tropes are inverted and twisted, exploring alternative, stranger pathways into her psyche. The songs are constructed from excerpts of her letters, and I am singing the lyrics to the songs myself, as a way to embody her voice. The work that I will be able to finish for the graduation project is a Work in progress, with a complete first scene and excerpts of the following ones. It will have to be discussed with the curators, whether this will be screened on one or more channels.

Bio
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ARIELA BERGMAN (Argentina, 1984) is an audiovisual artist based in The Netherlands graduated in Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires. She is currently a student at the Lens Based Media Master Program in Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her work consists of documentary essays, CGI animation and video art. Her pieces are dislocations of reality, contaminations of the senses, in which humor always takes place. Her areas of interest include failure, fragility, loneliness and the female body. In the field of cinematographic arts, she exhibited her work in festivals such as The One Minutes (Netherlands), BAFICI (Argentina), FICVINA (Chile), Festival of Latin American cinema from Havana (Cuba), among others. She had two solo shows and participated in various group exhibitions.

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Luca Tichelman

Lucatichelman@gmail.com

+31638104317

Project description

Two short videos entitled THIS IS US and LOOK A LIKE / LUC A LIKE. These will be accompanied by three miniature sculptures named; SMALL THINKS MATTER. These projects are in relation to topics such as how we as humans seek to connect with one another and therefore ourselves - The endless surge for how we are and what role our family members play in defining that.

In THIS IS US we see a group of three people in three different scenes. Every scene shows how the group wants to be identified as a whole. “I belong therefore I am “. THIS IS US has a non-linear dramaturgy and can be seen as a collage of moments.

LOOK A LIKE / LUC A LIKE is a digital triptych; on each screen we see Luca being dressed up in a different costume doing small gestures. This work is an image-based resurge into the different characters one person can embody. “By imitating many others I may find a self “

Link to video: https://vimeo.com/688296642 Password:123L!

SMALL THINGS MATTER Is a series of three miniature moving sculptures. Every sculpture refers to something my mother ever did or said that had an impact on me. This work is in production and finishes on 4 June, therefore I have no material I can show before but to have an idea I'm sending a link of a previous work that is in line with this new one; https://lucatichelman.nl/fashionclash-campange-beeld

needs:
- white space
-3 white pillars measurements 33x33x103
-1 flat big tv screen measurement around 60 inch 4K/60hertz quality with the option of plying the video in endless loop
-3 headphones connected to the screen
-3 small hooks to hang the headphones on just under the screen

Bio Luca Tichelman, film-maker and performer, graduated in 2017 from the Toneelacademie Maastricht (Institute for Performative Arts Maastricht). She aims to create a magical, absurdist world that appeals to the imagination by using minimal resources and seeks to maintain a sense of humor in serious subjects. Luca is currently enrolled in the master’s degree program ‘Lens-Based Media’ at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

http://www.lucatichelman.nl/ https://www.instagram.com/luca_tichelman/

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Alecio Ferrari

studio.alecioferrari@gmail.com

+39 3488519391

Project Description

The project Slices of Dust will be a photographic research into the minerals and gemstones culture, its collection, conservation and trade in the Netherlands.
Slices of Dust will focus on rocks and stones in order to question the ambivalent relationship of man towards nature, this intends to be a continuation and a deeper dive into my ongoing research on Nature and Culture dualism.
The project and the research will be executed through means of photographs, collections of visuals, documents and illustrations.

The story that I would like to tell is the journey of gemstone: which is the process that brings a stone from its birthplace (the mountain or the underground) all the way to our necklaces or rings?

Slices of Dust will take a particular emphasis: We extract stones and minerals from their natural context and place them into our cultural context assigning them new shapes, functions and value.

Bio

Alecio Ferrari, born in Milan – Italy in 1995, Alecio Ferrari is a photographer based in Rotterdam.
With a BA in Graphic Design from Falmouth University, UK, his photographs swing between still life compositions, documentary and portraiture. His portfolio is a mixture of fervent aesthetics,
developed from a wide experience in visual arts and communication fields, aiming the creation of both commissioned and personal works with narrative at their core.
His personal practice gravitates around the themes of nature < > culture dualism and the ambivalent relationship of man towards nature. His imagery is conceived as a hybrid of real and imaginary, playing around with both staged and un-staged scenarios.

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Adèle Grégoire
adele.gregoire@insas.be
0032 498691797

Project description "Of all places, the best nights were found in the garden of old ladies" is a story where many encounters occur.
This time, a community of nomadic ensenia foetidia worms, also called red worms, stumble upon a couple of old ladies and a drawing.
I'll expose you to the moments they shared together through an audio visual installation made of drawings, sound surrounded by found, reclaimed, recycled, or composted material.

Images and technical specs:

the nuclear plant in Tihange, Belgium - Marie-Rose Dotremont
2019, Watercolor on paper

Marie-Rose's drawing meets worms - collaborative drawing by Adèle Grégoire and the worms
2022, graphite, earth and cutaneous mucus on paper

worms rescue - collaborative drawing by Adèle Grégoire and Marie-Rose
2022, graphite on paper

potential installation view

needs:
-8 drawings, with hand made frames
-8 channel sound (with something like that by example: http://www.waveplayer-systems.com/)
-8 long mini-jack cables
-8 headphones
-8 headphones holder made of found material
-daylight or punctual light

Bio

Adèle Grégoire
After studying drawing in la Cambre and cinematography in L'INSAS in Belgium,
I've been searching for ways to combine these two practices in the Lens-based media department of the Piet Zwart Instituut in Rotterdam.
At the moment, my practice explores speculative narratives depicting the possible encounters of different kinds of earthly beings and things through writing, drawing, and sound.
I like to say that I'm an observer constantly seeking to learn and unlearn through looking at my surroundings.
I try to work with love and attention fostering collaborative processes, in order to capture briefly the anxieties crossing my path, traversing me and the nearby.
In my work I want to acknowledge these anxieties setting them in a context, then let them continue their journey through matter and time.

Kamali van Bochove

kamalivanbochove@gmail.com +31 6 83 65 89 75

project description

on a small island, in a big island (2022)

“The power to weave a story out of the dust, to narrate a story that the fragments support though others might fabricate a different narrative out of the same chaotic heap of fragments. The archive then is also a place of dreams,” says Steedman (2002) .

My grandfather’s archive of (moving) images is a place of dreams. In this chaotic heap of fragments I have found a possibility for places, people and parts of ourselves to not just meet and part – again and again – but to stay together.

A short film that explores a family history of coming and going, seen through glimpses and intimate details my grandfather has captured, composed and poetically revisited by me.

An attempt to hold us at once. Where we are is not a place.

bio

Kamali van Bochove, 1995 (Curacao)

Born in Curacao to a Dutch mother and Surinamese father. In 1999 I moved to Rotterdam where I still live to this day. In 2018 I obtained my bachelor degree in photography at the Willem de Kooning Academy.

Within my artistic practice I am interested in the interrelationship between photography and film. I often combine both photography and film in my projects, visually exploring what happens when the two meet. I try to bend the boundaries of these two media as I am curious to where they shift. (When does a photo become film-like and when does a film become photo-like?)

Thematically I am concerned with investigating my own identity in relation to that of my family. I have a family history of diaspora. I’d say that distance plays an important role regarding my identity. I’m interested in what role images play within the apprehension of this distance and how images can bring us (my family and me) closer together.

With my work, I investigate the role, value and use of images within family structures and contexts; and also how this changes over time. I often play with the question of when an image is amateurish and what happens when these images are shown or presented in a different context.

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Martin Osowski

mosowski224@gmail.com
+31 6 22 43 09 84

Project Description
A loose film portrait of the space in rural Poland that one side of my family is from. Meditative and dreamlike portrayals of this landscape are interspersed with narratives of regional history, Catholicism, and science fiction. The film looks at the totalizing yet fragile dualities of these narratives and how they reflect or become reflected in the natural and constructed elements of the landscape, as well as my own fragmented relationship to these worlds as a first generation immigrant.

Format:
- Single channel video projection, 1080p
- Stereo sound
- ~ 30-40 minutes

Bio
Martin Osowski, 1998, Canada/Poland

I was born on the unceded territories of the QayQayt First Nation in western Canada with my parents being immigrants from Poland. In 2016 I moved to the Netherlands and completed a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from the Delft University of Technology. As of 2020 I am enrolled in the Master of Lens-Based Media at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

My research and practice often center around the construction of meaning and subjectivity, and I look to explore the mechanisms, impliciations, and contradictions of these constructions across a variety of scales. I am interested in the moments when the ideological becomes intimate, in how our notions of reality and identity are mediated by the symbols that surround us, and in the politics of what emerges when our subjectivities become entangled in larger webs of social activity and power.

My practice involves a range of media both analogue and digital. Lately I am working with moving image and sound/music, and have an active research stream concerning the politics of the digital interface where I employ both spatial installation and written research. I also collaborate on the running of Faun, a community based publication and research collective that aims to develop a discourse towards the theory and praxis of manifesting alternative worlds.

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