DESIGN
Drawing - in and outside - Writing
Book, 160 x 240 mm, 64 pp. Peter Morrens, Ans Nys. Leuven (BE): Uitgeverij ACCO, 2012.
Drawing - in and outside – Writing is an in-depth study of the entanglement of drawing and writing produced by London based artists, Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca Fortnum and Belgian artists, Peter Morrens and Ans Nys during a year long collaboration. The project reflects on the blurring of the creative acts of drawing and writing, provoked by the artists working side by side. The research is driven by strategies of re-interpretation, re-staging, and reflecting on an other's drawings and writings. The artists found it useful to consider an exchange of drawings as a visual 'conversation' or 'correspondence'. These research strategies opened up new ways of considering the relationship between drawing and writing, particularly how tracing and copying function in the quest for knowledge and understanding.
Galerie Zwart Huis
Exhibition catalogues, 210 x 297 mm, 16 pp. Gerda vander Kerken. Knokke (BE): Galerie Zwart Huis, 2012.
Galerie Zwart Huis, located at the beachfront in Knokke (BE), invites renowned Belgian contemporary artists to exhibit their works. Artists have included Liliane Vertessen, Jan Vanriet, Jan De Vliegher, Yves Beaumont, Thierry Renard, Nick Andrews, Hans Vandekerckhove, Jan De Vliegher, Mieke Teirlinck, Jozef Van Ruyssevelt, Piet Raemdonck, Dirk Vermeirre. Image: Piet Raemdonck and Mieke Teirlinck catalogues.
IDS Report 2010 (Worlds Within Worlds)
Book (proposal), 216 x 283 mm, 244 pp. David Kohn. London (UK): London Metropolitan University, 2011.
In 2010, Unit 5 of the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design (London Metropolitan University) has worked with children in Croydon on the future of their music spaces in school. The unit's approach sought to bridge the divide between the child's imagination and the city, to discover delightful architectures able to situate children in the world and provide memorable backgrounds to education. Proposals focussed on the role of music as a catalyst for fostering individual creativity, cross-disciplinary teaching and community engagement. Unit 5 sought to intelligently rework, rather than replace, existing schools to bring about this transformation. Designed in collaboration with Julie Van Severen.
State of ArtEZ
Identity, various sizes. Dirmia Andeweg, Olga Godschalk and Joke Alkema. Arnhem (NL): ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, 2010.
State of ArtEZ is a biennial art manifestation where ArtEZ students, alumni and teachers show their work. The 2010 edition included Matrix Music (Frans Vermeerssen), the performance Stellen (Witte van Hulzen), Physiognomic Scrutinizer (Marnix de Nijs), Gen.11 Ssttt (Master Fashion Design), Accolienze (students percussion in classical music), a choreography from Roberto Zappala and films from Douwe Dijstra and Sil van der Woerd.
Sympathy for the Symphony
Artist publication, 840 x 297 mm, 2 pp. Renaldi Zefi. Arnhem (NL): DAI (Dutch Art Institute), 2010.
The Publications Project is an experimental annual research and production platform by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) that aims to address the specific process of artist book production from concept and design to distribution. Through very diverse perspectives and practices the artists and designers reflect upon publishing as a versatile medium.
Sympathy for the Symphony is a collaboration between Renaldi Zefi (artist), James Beckett (writer) and Joris Van Aken (designer).
Reclaiming Spaces
Magazine (template), 210 x 297 mm, 9 pp. Vesna Tomse. Maastricht (NL): Reclaiming Spaces, 2010.
Reclaiming Spaces is an independent and voluntary project that aims to build a forum of international communication and reflection for urban activists dedicated to struggles against dispossession and expropriation of inhabitants from their land, housing, infrastructure, and public spaces. These struggles begin at local levels by organizing the social and/or political protection of common and public goods from privatisation, financial speculation, authoritarianism and/or corruption. Reclaiming Spaces supports the development of spaces as well as tools that foster the exchange of local experiences, while concentrating on those elements that are transnational and/or global—such as global financial investors and international real estate markets, and the institutions and arrangements that back them. Designed in collaboration with Marc Hollenstein.
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Carpet, 1000 x 1500 mm. Arnhem (NL): 2010.
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Poster, 594 x 840 mm. Arnhem (NL): 2010.
SPEELPLAATS
Research platform, Maxine Kopsa / Werkplaats Typografie. Arnhem (NL): 2009 – 2010.
SPEELPLAATS is a semi-autonomous space within the Werkplaats Typografie, edited by and for the participants. In collaboration with Marc Hollenstein.
Curator Curator #5 (After All, Everything is Different in the End)
Invite, 297 x 420 mm, 2 pp. Jens Maier-Rothe, Maarten van den Eynde and Maaike Gouwenberg. Ghent (BE): HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), 2009.
After All, Everything is Different in the End, a group show in and out of sync, deals with the question of how listening is characterized by simultaneity and thereby becomes subject to different notions of synchronicity. In an attempt to open up new spaces where critical positions and new perspectives on sound and listening can merge to enable a radical sonic thinking, the show leaves the boundaries of the unitary exhibition/listening space behind and explores unknown fields: things happen in distant places simultaneously, a radio station broadcasts the imagination of a radio broadcast, the audience is invited to submit invisible sculptures, one hundred people act as metronomes, and sounds are teleported to spy out military grounds. With: Mike Carremans, Brandon LaBelle, Gent Clapping Group, Nate Harrison, Jeuno JE Kim, Brandon LaBelle, Raimundas Malasauskas, Tisha Mukarji, Sarah Pierce, Thus & Hence, Joris van de Moortel, Ultra-red, Katarina Zdjelar and Jean-Luc Godard, Len Lye & Norman McLaren.
Rtrsrsch #2: Het is – It is (Negen ontmoetingen tussen theatermakers)
Book, 170 x 230 mm, 56 pp. Marijn de Langen. Amsterdam (NL): ARTI (Artistic Research, Theory and Innovation), 2009.
RTRSRCH is an initiative of ARTI (Artistic Research, Theory and Innovation): artists and researchers from the creative and performing arts at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, that are actively engaged in practice-based research processes.The journal aims to provide a complementary/parasitic dissemination forum for themes linked to international external event structures (festivals, conferences, exhibitions, projects, etc.), contributing alternative, interdisciplinary perspectives. The presentation of content will vary from issue to issue, dependent on the topic and stylistic concerns of the guest editor. RTRSRCH #2: Het is – It Is (Negen ontmoetingen tussen theatermakers) is the report of a series of one-to-one meetings between Frits Vogels and Lotte van den Berg, David Weber-Krebs and Jetse Batelaan, Rob List and Edit Kaldor, Jan Langedijk and Sanne van Rijn, Karina Holla and Sanja Mitrović, William Dashwood and Bill Aitchison, Roy Peters and Melih Gençboyaci, Petra Ardai and Sarah Vanhee, Suzan Boogaerdt and Paul van der Laan. All of them were asked to discuss the role of the body in their plays, based on pre-formulated questions.
Think (Reflections on Drawing)
Book, 180 x 250 mm, 52 pp. Ans Nys. Ghent (BE): Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, 2009.
Th INK is a cahier dedicated to discussion and research around contemporary drawing. For the first issue Ans Nys teamed up Kelly Corpening and Peter Morrens (Graphic Longing, A Blind Date over Drawing) and Wendy Morris and Dirk Zoete (Mine, A Drawing Dialogue), asking both couples to set up a dialogue (anything from informal talks to the exchange of drawings) which would result in a series of drawings. Designed in collaboration with Raf Vancampenhoudt.
Maakbaarheid (Reinventing the Urban Project in Rotterdam; in Search of a New Credibility for Architecture and Planning after the Financial Crisis of 2008)
Article, 195 x 270 mm, 40 pp. Crimson Architectural Historians. In: Tim Rieniets, Jennifer Sigler and Kees Christiaanse, eds. Open City: Designing Coexistence, IABR (International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam), Amsterdam (NL): SUN Publishers, 2009.
Maakbaarheid is a project by Crimson Architectural Historians presented at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in the fall of 2009. Following a critical analysis of urban planning in Rotterdam from the 1950s to the present day, nine urban projects are being proposed for nine locations in the city. Crimson's historical and political analysis of Rotterdam reveals an ongoing belief in the maakbaarheid (Dutch for 'makeability') of urban society that has informed urban policies and projects for more than half a century. All the locations are symptomatic of the inertia or even paralysis that is currently gripping urban planning and development in Rotterdam and causing the city to fragment. Urban ideals therefore remain theoretical and ineffective. Crimson identifies the ongoing privatization and deregulation of planning in the past decades as one of the major causes of the decline of Rotterdam planning. Particularly problematic is the loss of a coherent body of knowledge about the city as the basis for its development. To address this problem, Crimson has tried to inject deep knowledge of the city's urban history into a deregulated planning and development process. The goal is to have nine projects of a limited scale that are realistic and at the same time represent typical situations in the urban and economic structure of contemporary Rotterdam. Commissioned by Mevis & van Deursen.
Distance
Artist publication, 240 x 340 mm, 24 pp. Sasha Miljevic. Arnhem (NL): DAI (Dutch Art Institute), 2009.
The Publications Project is an experimental annual research and production platform by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) that aims to address the specific process of artist book production from concept and design to distribution. Through very diverse perspectives and practices the artists and designers reflect upon publishing as a versatile medium.
Distance is a collaboration between Sasha Miljevic (artist), Philip Jenks (writer), Sabina Pasic (writer) and Joris Van Aken (designer).
Drawing (Symposium)
Poster, 840 x 1188 mm. Ans Nys. Ghent (BE): Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, 2008.
Drawing, a symposium with Thierry de Duve, Michaël Borremans, The Drawing Room, Anne-Marie Creamer, William Ploegaert, Lieve Dehasque, Peter Morrens, Stef Van Bellingen. Designed in collaboration with Raf Vancampenhoudt.
Baudelaire in Cyberspace (Dialogen over kunst, wetenschap en digitale cultuur)
Book, 140 x 215 mm, 262 pp. Antoon Van den Braembussche and Angelo Vermeulen. Brussels (BE): ASP Editions, 2008.
Baudelaire in Cyberspace is a collection of ten in-depth dialogues between art philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche and Angelo Vermeulen. In these dialogues, the authors explore the contemporary relationships between art, science and digital culture. Through discussions about topics such as the malaise of art, violence in media, neoromanticism in computer games, and the interlacing of biotech and neoliberal capitalism, they develop a remarkably original viewpoint on contemporary culture. Designed in collaboration with Raf Vancampenhoudt.
Lens°Ass (Recent werk van architect Bart Lens)
Newsletter, 210 x 145 mm, 16 pp. Rolf Quaghebeur. Ghent (BE): Witte Zaal, 2008.
Bart Lens, born in 1959, founded his business in 1995 in Hasselt called LENS°ASS. The business has since grown into a young, dynamic team that works under his leadership on a wide range of projects: interiors, shops, homes, industrial complexes, residential districts, products, stands, etc. In 2007 he opened his second office. Witte Zaal showed a selection of the studio's most recent work.
EXHIBITIONS
Werkplaats Typografie End of Year Show
De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL): 2010.
NY Art Book Fair 2009
Werkplaats Typografie Project Room, MoMa PS1, New York (US): 2009.
EDUCATION
Werkplaats Typografie
Arnhem (NL), 2008 – 2010.
Sint Lucas Beeldende Kunst
Ghent (BE), 2004 – 2008.
CONTACT
Joris Van Aken
Gustaaf Callierlaan 155
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+32 (0) 498.210.573
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