OPEN SET

08/04/2022

Open Set is back with a new programme!
📢❗Apply before April 25!

We are pleased to announce this call for several funded positions as participants within the School for MultiSpecies Knowledges – a programme consisting of land-based situational artistic research, participatory forms of audience engagement, and public events series. Developed by Open Set (an alternative learning platform) and Zone2Source (a platform for art, nature and technology), the School will transform the Amstelpark into a territory for enquiry and experimentation between May 14 and July 3, 2022.

Netherlands-based practitioners and PhD candidates working at the intersections of participatory art/design, critical pedagogies, environmental care and activism are invited to send their proposals to contribute to the School’s research trajectory: redefining what it is to be human on a multi-species planet.

🔬More on https://openset.nl/apply.php

07/03/2022

We stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people whose lives are ripped apart and who go through the unspeakable trauma of displacement, fear, loss and grief. We stand in solidarity with people in Russia and Belorus who dare to disagree with and protest against the regime and the war.

Open Set is connected with independent artists, designers and cultural makers from Ukraine, Russia and Belorus. We would like to let them and their communities who suffer from and condemn the invasion of Ukraine know that we are here to support them to the extent of the sphere of our activities and networks. We are still active, even in our activities break due to the Covid pandemic.

For now, we are sharing the diverse and constantly evolving list of resources Ukraine Solidarity Link Farm. It's an open-source informational hub that is being edited and discussed as the situation changes. Please contribute to it and/or to the fundraising and volunteering organizations listed!

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/UKRAINEINVASION_LinkFarm

Image: Biennale WarszawaDesign by Studio Lekko

16/03/2019

Last Friday we had a great time at the closing symposium of the Fluid Rhythms' programme. Many thanks to our fabulous participants, speakers, all tutors who were involved in the Open Set programme since August 2018, and our generous partners Gemeente Amsterdam, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, CBK Zuidoost, Het Pauwhof Fonds and Het Nieuwe Instituut!

07/03/2019

Symposium | On the Practice of Tuning-in
Tomorrow - March 8, Pakhuis de Zwijger
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A artist Peter Vial will talk about the artistic strategy developed in his project The Schoolyard Belongs to Everyone! which addresses a specific situation: "Two schools in Amsterdam Zuidoost share a schoolyard. One school is a public elementary school and the other is a school for special primary education (children with special needs). The schools don’t use the schoolyard at the same time, due to the friction that might occur between children when they share this outdoor space. As a result, the schools have developed different rhythms: different schedules for using the yard and different activities which they are occupied with there."

More about the symposium on www.openset.nl and
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07/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
Tomorrow – Friday, March 8, Pakhuis de Zwijger
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In her presentation, a visual artist Kozhukhovskaya Natalia will reflect on a series of meetings she conducted for a project 'Conversation as a Portrait' during the Open Set residency in Amsterdam Zuidoost: "While painting portraits I engage in conversation with the portrayed person and that is how I get to know people: I establish relationships; I fall in love. The embodied rhythm of the conversation itself, the process of synchronization or friction, is more important to me than the subject matter and the content of the conversation."

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07/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
Friday, March 8, Pakhuis de Zwijger
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In her talk, a visual artist Cathalijne Smulders will address artistic strategies that impose restrictions on existing forms of communication in order to form relationships with the other independently of existing social patterns. Sometimes these strategies insert uncertainty within the process of tuning in, and obscure given patterns of perception.

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05/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN❗️LINE-UP. Suzy Blok, the director at the dance production house Dansmakers Amsterdam and co-founder/director of the Moving Futures festival & network.

In her talk, Suzy Blok explores tuning in and rhythm from the perspective of dance. Dance is an art in space and time. The dancing body tunes in and relates with the space in a certain time, structure and tempo. While dancing, we’re constantly relating to our inner movements and rhythms and expressing these to the outside as well as vice versa: bringing the outside rhythms and environments into our bodies. When we dance together with another or with others, we create sensitivity and awareness towards each other, finding points of rhythmical harmony and contra points. When we dance, we tune in to each other, to space and time and create a common ground while moving from our own individual and vulnerable body with all its history, emotions and subjectivity. These dynamics ask for trust and openness to give space for the non-cognitive and non-tangible sharing of physical expression.

❗️Join us this Friday, March 8 at Pakhuis de Zwijger!

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05/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
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During the FLUID RHYTHMS programme, an artist Noemi Niederhauser (co-founder, A - DASH) and a photographer, art director Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup (editor, Adventice Editions) developed a multimedia projects Yoo-TEK-tik. It operates a physical creolization of components that are not meant to meet. Conceived metaphorically as a place that convokes two imaginaries and two materials, it seeks to weave between them a relationship, or in other words, a possibility for tuning-in.

❗️Join us this Friday, March 8 at Pakhuis de Zwijger!

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04/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
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In his presentation, Professor Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths, University of London) talks about some of the principles dynamic patterning as a methodology for research and way of understanding social and personal relationships in urban settings. The talk takes the Jamaican sound system dancehall scene as an example of how these ideas can be put into practice to describe both the affective intensities of the experience of the dancehall session and its place in the night-time economy and urban geography of the city of Kingston.

📢 Due to the limited places we kindly ask you to register before March 5 via hello(at)openset.nl

More on http://openset.nl/symposiums.php

https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/henriques/

Julian's interests are cultural studies, sound studies, narrative media, recently focussing on sound system culture.

04/03/2019

Symposium ON THE PRACTICE OF TUNING-IN
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What constitutes a neighbourhood? Beyond the limits of a borough, what gives an area its character?
📽In his video THE BIJLMER BORDER a documentary filmmaker Albert Kuhn explores these questions with a series of performances shot in the neighbourhood during the 5 month Open Set residency at Amsterdam Zuidoost.

📣Join us this Friday, March 8 at Pakhuis de Zwijger
for the programme full of thought provoking performances and conversations by Tanja Jadnanansing, Suzy Blok (Dansmakers Amsterdam), Prof. Julian Henriques, Anna Costantino, Heather Griffin, Petra Hegenbart, Kozhukhovskaya Natalia, Noemi Niederhauser, Lorna Pittaway, Pınar Şefkatli, Cathalijne Smulders, Panita S, Xiaoji Song, Peter Vial.

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21/02/2019

The exhibition 'La Fabrique du Vivant' just opens at the Centre Pompidou – with a contribution of 50 designers and artists this fascinating exhibition explores living matter and it's interrelation with biotechnology.

The show features 'The Physarum Experiments' – a series of explorations by artist Heather Barnett, one of the key contributors to the Open Set 'Fluid Rhythm' programme.

The exhibition runs until the 15th of April!