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
V2_ plattegrond GF
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????)
SAT-22- SUN 23: PZI-OFFLINE-WDKA SERVER MIGRATION, note for service: Yes, indeed there is no network that weekend. Not on Saturday June 22, but maybe on Sunday. Depends on the migration duration. During that weekend, Facilitair will also set up for the Grad Show.
---> 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
---> 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
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
Clara
Student Name
Clara Franke
Contact info
frankeclara@aol.com, +4915204912709, www.clarafranke.com, @frankeclara
Project title
Bodies of Water
Logline
The ritualistic film, and ceramics installation Bodies of Water contemplates humans disconnect to, and exploitation of the environment.
Super 8 shots of an imaginary ritual, staged in a quarry lake – formed by clay mining, are juxtaposed with images of still active clay extraction sights.
Ceramic objects and instruments serve in the film and installation as a form of honouring communication with nature as a more-than-human entity.
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.
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Final Installation draft for Florian
Name: Clara Franke
Project: Bodies of Water
Installation:
1 / Back projection on screen, with a width of around 2 meters (on the "Projectiescherm 4:3 / 220x180 possibly if that is a back projection screen? Then I could keep my super 8 framing, but I would also be ok with cutting the image to a different format, if you do not have a back projection screen in 4x3), which touches the floor. I would enjoy this being in V2, as the floor would reflect the image nicely, but I trust your vision: )
Audio-wise I still think that 1-2 speakers will do the job, as the sound is quite important, but simple and not too distracting from other works (Bird and water sounds).
2 / Altar installation (approx 2x2meters and 1 meter away from the screen). This will need a spotlight(please not too cold light if possible) from above to highlight the objects and will include around 5 candles.
3 / I can possibly install a second altar in one of the "transition spaces", which would also need 1 spotlight from above and a small wall to attach the hanging pieces, as seen in the image below. This would be 50cm deep, 60cm wide and 110cm high (But can easily be made smaller without the table.)
Muyang
Student Name
- Muyang Teng
Contact info
- tengmuyangphoto@163.com
- +31 0647681716
- https://alternativelogic.me/
Project title
- Box Man / Another Face / Human Spring / Everyday Birthday
Logline
These urgent poems were written by the author between December 2023 and June 2024 to address the ongoing anti-Asian and anti-queer weather, creating rhythms of Tidalectics.
Project title
- Octopus in Drag
Logline
Octopus in Drag is a 3D animation, 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
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Artist Bio
Muyang Teng, born in 1998 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, is a QPOC poet and image-maker. They explore how racial melancholy affects individual and collective identities, utilizing various cultural symbols and performance styles to transcend archival, cultural, and geographical boundaries, creating a new way of interpretation that challenges the traditional understanding of history and reality.
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.
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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.
Sam
Student Name
Sam Koopman
Contact info
(+31) 640070740
bioskoopman@gmail.com
Project title
Work(ing Together) in Process
Logline
Two strangers met in a sex shop. With differing motivations, they began a multi-year film project. Work(ing Together) in Process is a romantic comedy desktop film performing an autopsy upon their 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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Installation plan
Update: Open layout. My new Plan A would be now to show the film open in the space, not closed off. Photos below of tests. Roughly 4x4m in total size. It seems UBIK would probably make most sense for this, but I have no strict preference. I will therefore not require curtains/walls to block off but I would prefer a darker space. Distance from projector to wall in tests was 4m. I would like to have an amphitheatre-type seating area, with 6 or 9 seats (2/3 rows of 3 seats). For this I will need chairs, with the back 2 rows slightly raised on platform/flats. If chairs are not available I can provide my own.
Technical needs:
- 1 projector
- 1 doek/wall to project upon
- 1 set of speakers
If Plan A is not possible, I am prepared to show the work on a TV screen. In this case I would need a closed space, preferably with a curtain.
Arabella
Student name:
Arabella Turner
Contact info
(+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. Through geological, technological, animal and human gazes we traverse between these two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place.
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.
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Final Installation plan
Composed of:
- Video, Single Channel, 15 mins.
- 2 sets of drawings on paper, each set contains 4-5 large sheets of paper.
I imagine the video to be back projected with amplified sound. This film contains many wide shots of landscapes, this is why I think it would suit a larger projection as opposed to a screen. The drawings will be hanging on a structure that I will provide, and lit with LED's which I can provide. There will be floor seating which I can also source. I suggest an open layout, please see images below for measurements, further details on layout and references from try-outs.
Projection: 312cm x176cm
Drawings: 120cm x 200cm
Equipment to borrow
- Short throw projector
- Hanging projection screen
- Set of speakers
- Media player
Aitana
Student Name
Aitana López Rodrigo
Contact info
0034622142937
alrart250@gmail.com
Project title
A Piece of Paper
Logline
“A piece of paper” is an 8-minute film that recalls a job dismissal. Playing with its density, rhythms and imbalances, it points out power roles and the hidden violence in neoliberal discourses.
Artist Bio
Aitana López is a Spanish artist working between Rotterdam and Madrid, her practice lies between the audiovisual and the plastic. Drawing on her own work and personal experiences, her work is based on a critique of the patriarchal and neoliberal values that surround us.
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Final Installation plan
Composed by a table (1,80 x 80 cm.) with a screen (both provided by me), close to a wall to hang wall pieces.
LIGHTS
- x2 Selecom prophile spots (Philips) (for wall pieces)
- x1 fressnell spots (ARP1000)
SOUND
- X3 Headphones
PROJECTION
- X1 Presentation projector, small to medium video projector for the table (as small as possible, max. dimensions 20cm. X 30cm. aprox.) Min. projection distance 80cm. / 100cm.
- X1 media player
Te
Student Name
Panida Petchara (Te)
Contact info
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.
Project title
GIVE ME LUCK. FEED ME HOPE.
Logline (Project Description)
A series of 20 still-life photos based on superstitions from Thailand.
Artist Bio
Panida Petchara (Te) is a photographer and visual artist working 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.
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Installation Plan
I’d like to show two works. Preferably, both works will be exhibited separately (not exhibited next to each other). Each work requires one TV screen (2 screens in total): one horizontal screen hanging from the ceiling at a distance from the wall and another vertical screen leaning on a pillar or block, preferably distant from the wall.
Technical Equipment Needs:
- 2 screens. Preferably 75” for horizontal video (hanging) and 46” for vertical video (on the floor) because their sizes are relatively similar to the tested dimensions, but this can be adjusted based on availability
- 2 headphones (with long cable) for horizontal video
Lau
Student Name
Lau Zautsen
Contact info
www.laurenszautsen.nl
laurens.zautsen@hotmail.nl
0620424110
Project title
Painting it Pink
Logline
Through an essayistic film 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.
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Lau installation plan for Florian
Large, wooden wall consisting of two frames (each 1,22 by 2,44, together 2,44 by 2,44) will stand up straight.
Tech equipment:
-1 projector, hanging
-4 headphones from the ceiling
-2 spotlights (to light up the living room wall)
- A frame/construction that holds up the two frames as a wall.
Idea of installation: On one side of the wooden wall is the background of a living room. Here, photos are hung, and a few objects from the film can be seen.
On the other side of the wooden wall is the pink-painted room, here the film is played. I would like to project the film on the pink wall itself, since testing showed this could be possible when adjusting the settings of the projector.
I will provide the walls, the props and something to sit on that fits the installation myself.
Nosh
Student Name
Nosh Neneh
Contact info
noshneneh@gmail.com
Project title
Living Monuments of the Deep + Pale Futures
Logline
Living Monument of the Deep, a multi-channel installation, portrays a post-apocalyptic landscape where all the seas have dried up, leaving behind vast expanses of barren, cracked earth. The once vibrant oceans that teemed with diverse marine life are now nothing more than parched wastelands, where only a few creatures remain, struggling to survive.
Pale Futures is a series of algae-based sculptures embodying imprints of endangered coral species.
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Nina
Student Name
Nina Rojc
Contact info
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.
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Luni
Student Name
Luni Milda Jančoraitė
Contact info
mljancoraite@gmail.com
https://lunifolio.myportfolio.com/work
instagram - @fokinluni
Project title
Divine Dogs, Whispering Stones
Logline
"Divine Dogs, Whispering Stones" is a 15-minute experimental documentary that blends documentary and meditative storytelling to explore the timeless connection between humanity, nature, and divine powers. Inspired by the ideas of Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, this film offers a journey of reflection and reconnection with Baltic ancestral wisdom.
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 Lithuania, her films reflect on the intricate entanglement of past and present.
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Luni installation idea for Florian
Single chanel video, ~15min30sec.
Location- in the darker place of the room, if possible.
Projection Start Point- The bottom edge of the projected image should be approximately 40 cm above the floor level.
Sound - speakers. Speakers should be capable of playing very low sub-bass frequencies, since it’s a part of the film's audio.. Most simple external speakers should be ok for this, but just to be sure…!
Seating - bench… Is there a lower/longer bench available, like a seating base…? If not, a simple bench will do or I might organize my own..
*3-5 spotlights (warm light if possible) for the additional element*
*Additional element - 3-5 fabrics hanging from the ceiling on the fishing threads, therefore need an attachment points on the ceiling to attach the threads, surrounding the projection and bench.
Ieva
Student Name
Ieva Grabauskaite
Contact info
ievagrab@gmail.com +31638935880
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.
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Ieva Installation plan
Location
Open layout installation
Equipment Requirements
1 short throw projector, 1 set of speakers, 1 multimedia player
Installation buildup materials
3 jars with dried flowers, 4-6 pillows for seating, 2 black wooden pannels (150x150cm)
Installation mockup front view
Installation mockup view from above
Installation tryout images from class
Installation description/Notes
The images shown above were made while using a regular projector. Upon discussion in class, I was encouraged to use a short throw projector instead. The short throw projector would prevent the audience from covering the animation, providing more flexible seating arrangements. A short throw would also light up the flowers casting their shadows onto the animation. I intend to arrange the square shaped 150x150cm wooden pannels on the sides myself (unless there are any available in the space) since the sizing is quite specific. I will provide the pillows for the seatting myself, however the shapes and sizes of the pillows in the mockups and class tryouts are not final. If this planning is not sufficient or possible for the space, I am of course open to any changes that would be suggested.
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 through reimagined perspectives of ecological and geological matter.
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Sara
Student Name
Sara Fattahi
Contact info
Saaraafattahi@gmail.com, +31616432259
Project title
Somewhere to be
Logline
Somewhere to be is a visualization of The Iranian government's relentless quest to silence women's presence physically and digitally from society in post-revolution Iran.
Artist Bio
Sara Fattahighahnaviyeh (Tehran, Iran, 1997) is a visual artist based in Rotterdam. Sara's projects heavily focus on social justice, activism, and feminism. She is a visionary who always seeks to push the boundaries of storytelling and explore new methods of self-expression.
Helpful resources
Use the following as a reference when planning your proposal.
