MIARD students spend the day exploring Amsterdam venues and speaking with practitioners about their work.
Program:
Future Days Shop
with designer and researcher Mila-Eve Broomberg
An Amsterdam boutique that sells clothing, art, and music. The store sells a hand-picked selection of emerging brands, records, art, vintage, and unique items from around the world. Housed within a historic art nouveau building designed by F.M.J. Caron in 1896, the store breathes life into a former fish and fruit shop. The design takes cues from folk art and vernacular designs, like 1950s dollhouses, figurine display cases, and curio shops. The store blends reclaimed materials, vintage finds, and contemporary reinterpretations of folk art furniture.
Slow Research Lab location at Studio Maria Blaisse with Slow Lab director Carolyn Strauss
Slow Research Lab is a multidisciplinary research and curatorial platform based in the Netherlands. The word ‘Slow’ is intended not only to inspire a different velocity of engagement, but also to evoke a quality of being, characterized by critical thinking, deep spaces of reflection, and the unique forms of creative expression that are born of them. We use the term both as an adjective and as an active verb that describes the pursuit of more holistic ways of knowing oneself, encountering others, sharing knowledge, and evolving together toward harmonious and resilient forms of living.
Oltre Terra, Formafantasma
Oltre Terra, Formafantasma’s ongoing project and traveling exhibition, explores the history, ecology, and global dynamics of wool extraction and production. It goes further than the simple definition of wool as material, to look at it within a much broader ecology. Wool is the entry point for delving into the intricate interactions and interdependencies within an ecosystem. By looking at the history of sheep domestication, wool production, and material culture, Oltre Terra unravels the complexities of the cooperative symbiosis between animals, humans, and the environment. The exhibition explores this very intimate, yet complex, bond between humans and animals, emphasizing the impact they have on one another.
Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames
Photography has increasingly become a part of our lives; we produce and consume a constant flow of images. Also the status of photography as an art medium has shifted dramatically. The 21 artists included in Circulate use photography in unique and innovative ways, thinking beyond the frame. Their approach exceeds the technical realm; what matters is the meaning of the artwork. Carriers of the photographic image can take on myriad forms, varying from the classical photo paper to a stone or fabric, a digital form, a sculpture or a three-dimensional installation.
de Appel with Martín La Roche Contreras
A book/object/space developed by the collective ”To See the Inability to See”, has now unfolded into the exhibition My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon — a repertoire of objects, gestures and events that expands its content into the space and in relation to other bodies, such as those of readers, visitors and artworks.