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JEMAPUR at De School Amsterdam

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The coming months we will be setting up an artist-in-residency here in De School. We will be taking the summer and the early fall months to see what fits best with the space, the general programming, and what we can do to approach the format of an artist-in-residency program in a different way. More on this later. As the first test, together with Studio The Future, who are also based in our building, we have selected Tokyo-based sound artists, composer, and producer JEMAPUR, who will come to Amsterdam and create new work to be shown in De School. For the full month of May, he will be living in the house on the terrace of Cafe DS.

JEMAPUR is first and foremost interested in making sound — and everything that comes along with that. When he was 14, he decided music and the electronic music scene / underground internet culture would be his new home, and since that moment he has been making music, experimenting, and recently making sound tracks for films. In 2006 he made his album debut by HydeOut Productions, till 2014 he has released 4 other albums. Since then he has taken a bit of a shift, and started to work more in composition, producing soundtracks for tv and film, and producing for others (lately focusing on the electronic pop band Young Juvenile Youth). His personal work has recently focused on experimenting with various modes of composition, producing, and communicating, rather than producing albums. At De School JEMAPUR will be mainly experimenting with communication through collaboration, creating a series of new works that will be installed in the various spaces in De School. In addition to this, with the huge body of sound work he has accumulated the last five years (his personal work) he will experiment with different ways of “releasing” the work.

For us the most important aspects of this artist-in-residence, and the work of JEMAPUR as resident, are the potential links that can be made with the club, the club goers, and how a different link can be made between various aspects of our everyday experience here in De School.

More info about JEMAPUR to come, but in the meantime here are a few links to get oriented:
Find his most recent film projects here and here.
Old school stuff: here, here and here.
And some of his more commercial work: here and here.

Koen Tossijn x Sugi Koujou Exhibition

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クーン・トッサィン（アムステルダム）と杉工場（うきは市）が共同でテーブルとチェアのデザインと制作を行い
ました。

デザイナーであるクーンと老舗家具メーカーの職人達によるものづくりの新しい形。この初めての共同制作の
過程と、そこから生まれた試作品を
ご紹介します。

KOEN TOSSIJN (AMSTERDAM)
AND SUGIKOUJOU’S TEAM (UKIHA), HAVE DESIGNED AND PRODUCED SEVERAL PROTOTYPES FOR A TABLE
AND A CHAIR.

MERGING KOEN’S DESIGN PRINCIPLES WITH SUGIKOUJOU’S UNIQUE APPROACH TO MANUFACTURING, THESE PROTOTYPES DEMONSTRATE A POSSIBLE NEW WAY OF MAKING. THIS EXHIBITION PRESENTS THEIR FIRST COLLABORATION. 

 

production and translation
BABA RYOKO

exhibition and design
STUDIO THE FUTURE
www.printthefuture.nl

special thanks to
SUGIKOUJOU TEAM
NAGAI AKINORI
OKU TAKAAKI

Koen Tossijn x Sugi Koujou

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Koen Tossijn has arrived in Fukuoka to meet with Sugi Koujou to see what is possible now and in the future.

This is Koen’s very first time to travel to Japan, and this would be Sugi Koujou’s first time working with a foreign designer.

Though he has only been there for 4 days, their work process and ideology about making, has made it possible for them to develop the basis for something new. It has also been decided that an exhibition will be held at the end of March to show their work and to start the official collaboration.

Cool Ceramic Hunt

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Moving Futures Symposium, with a presentation of the Cool Ceramic Hunt. Prof dr Carl Rohde researched the future of ceramics with a Ceramic Cool Hunt in Japan, England, and the Netherlands. During the symposium at 26th October in Leeuwarden, he will present in two sessions his research, which was backed up by the University of Derby, England and the Prefecture of Saga, Japan, Dutch Culture and the embassies of the Netherlands in Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo. The symposium will also present Chinese and Korean thoughts on the moving future of ceramics. (image:En&Is, Iphone speaker)

Made in Holland Exhibition

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With Made in Holland: 400 years a global brand, the Princessehof presents a high-profile exhibition on four Dutch success stories: Delft Blue, Maastricht pottery, Art Nouveau ceramics and Dutch Design. By means of impressive flower pyramids, colourful Boerenbont, popular Gouda pottery and idiosyncratic works by designers like Maarten Baas visitors will discover how the Netherlands became a global player in the field of ceramics.

Everyone knows Dutch Design, which is also extremely popular outside the Netherlands. This phenomenon has a long tradition. From Delft Blue to Art Nouveau, Dutch manufacturers have produced beautiful ceramics and enjoyed worldwide success with them for centuries. The exhibition not only includes the most beautiful objects, but also explains how Dutch producers incorporated foreign influences for their own success.

Please check the site of Princessehof Leeuwarden for more information.

Introduction

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The Cool Ceramic Hunt is a project in which Princessehof and EKWC connect professionals from the ceramics industry, designers and museums in a European-Asian context. It will be conducted among creative makers with an average age under 30. It consists of expert meetings followed by trend research in Europe and Asia. The Cool Ceramic Hunt culminates in a symposium that will be held in Leeuwarden in October 2018 during a larger ceramics convention that has already been planned. EKWC is part of the community of the best ceramic residencies in the world, among those in China, South Korea and Japan. Following the first edition in 2016, EKWC and Princessehof will organize an international ceramics conference as part of the Culture capital 2018. The convention brings international experts and stakeholders together to discuss the future of traditional ceramics producers. For this event they plan to specifically invite traditional Japanese, Korean and Chinese producers to participate.

Introduction

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Lokaal Internationaal is an international program that stimulates, develops, and fosters long term international creative collaborations during their start phases.

Lokaal Internationaal represents our casual and sincere way of working, and how we feel that the creative sector here in the Netherlands works. It also represents our hope for how international collaborations can be created and further developed as a whole; now and in the future. The driving force behind Lokaal Internationaal is the idea that trust and face to face contact are the most important aspects of starting to work together, especially internationally.

By bringing together international networks of graphic designers, creative thinkers, photographers, visual artists, musicians or other people who want to approach the creative process in a different way, we hope to make it that much easier for people to connect, share, exchange and develop new and interesting things (whatever they may be) anywhere in the world.

Lokaal Internationaal does not claim to be anything more than a network — an informal one if anything. As such, it goes without saying that, we work with various people and groups to achieve various different goals. These might be working together to create a more acceptable and proper government policy, it might be a to create new creative infrastructure, etc. Either way, we try and create the best conditions for a new, less formal, and trust-based network to develop.

So far we are working with the following groups and people to achieve some of those goals.

Introduction

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Hello Asia is a multi media art project portraying the upcoming generation of millenials in East Asia. It searches common ground and a new narrative shared by millennials in Eastern and Western parts of the world.

Six cities, six weeks

In project Hello Asia, Lucas De Man (Belgium/The Netherlands) and Hyunsin Kim (Germany/South Korea) take you on a fascinating journey to meet their peers in Asia. As cultural contexts of Europe and East Asia differ greatly Lucas and Hyunsin find out there’s lots to learn. Mostly millennials attempt to answer the same basic life question: How to be happy while making our society future ready?

Lucas and Hyunsin travelled, together with documentary director Joep van Osch, to 6 key East Asian cities in 6 weeks: Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Taipei and Shenzhen. They met and spoke to over 100 millennials. Ranging from students to professors, corporate business owners to social entrepreneurs, experts in robotics and artificial intelligence to experts in love and sex. Educators, activists, sociologists, politicians, environmentalists, artists, men, women, married, single, gay, hetero, you name it.

What Lucas and Hyunsin found is an inspiring generation dealing with surprisingly similar societal issues and personal questions. A generation that is finding their voice and is ready to use it.

Multimedia art project
Multimedia art project Hello Asia takes on different forms. Right now a 6 episode (online) documentary series and a lecture performance tour by Lucas De Man are being developed. Both go by the name: Meet the Millenials. These different forms of storytelling enable us to connect to as many different audiences as possible, in both Europe and East Asia. We love to meet you! Not only in theaters, but also at festivals, universities, conventions etc.