Annual Report 2004
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ANNUAL REPORT 2004 Jan van Eyck Academie 2… Publisher’s note If you would like to be informed about research projects, productions, events and the latest developments at the Jan van Eyck Academie, please send an e-mail with your address coordinates to [email protected]. You will receive our monthly newsletter and invitations. THE VISIT 4… Texts by Koen Brams, Armand Guicherit, Petra Van der Jeught, Laurens Schumacher, Dorrie Tattersall, Kim Thehu Managing editor Kim Thehu Editing by Petra Van der Jeught, Dorrie Tattersall, Kim Thehu Translation by Petra Van der Jeught (English–Dutch), Dorrie Tattersall (Dutch–English) Photograpy by Adriaan Mellegers in collaboration with Peggy Franck and Paul Hendrikse Designed by Adriaan Mellegers Produced by Jo Frenken Printed by Drukkerij Bern. Claessens, Sittard Bound by Boekbinderij M. van den Berg BV, Landgraaf Edition Dutch version 500, English version 500 Maastricht, June 2005 Jan van Eyck Academie Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht t. +31 (0)43 3503737 f. +31 (0)43 3503799 e. [email protected] w. www.janvaneyck.nl table of contents 5 015 introduction 019 Portfolio 021 research projects 054 seminars 061 symposia 064 upcoming symposia 067 lectures/presentations 077 curatorial projects 079 publications 083 publications in production 089 time-based productions 093 upcoming time-based productions 096 awards 107 Activities 112 fi ne art_advising researchers 117 fi ne art_researchers 132 design_advising researchers 141 design_researchers 160 theory_advising researchers 166 theory_researchers 191 Annal 237 Institute 238 policy bodies_policy board 241 policy bodies_editorial board 245 policy bodies_selection committees 250 policy bodies_researchers’ meeting 251 policy bodies_personnel meeting 252 the artistic apparatus_researchers 257 the artistic apparatus_advising researchers 6 table of contents 259 organisation_researchers’ secretariat 260 organisation_departmental secretariat 263 organisation_workshops 266 organisation_library 269 organisation_documentation centre 271 organisation_production bureau 274 organisation_internal/external communication 278 organisation_administration 280 organisation_catering en cleaning 281 organisation_human resources 286 organisation_consultation and memberships 287 fi nances_general 288 fi nances_income 292 fi nances_operation and clarifi cation 293 fi nances_balance sheet 294 infrastructure_accommodation 295 infrastructure_facilities 297 staff_overview of appointments 2004 300 appendix_board 301 appendix_researchers 2004 311 index … 7 8… … 9 … 11 … 13 14 … introduction 15 Everywhere being nowhere, / who can prove / one place more than another? — Seamus Heaney Drawing up an annual report means taking stock, listing the activities that took place and the productions that were made and recording the intellectual, practical and creative develop- ments of the (advising) researchers. On a more abstract level, a report of this kind refl ects the competences, creative intel- ligence and mindscapes of the people involved. It indirectly hints at the sheer pleasure that engaging in artistic and intel- lectual work generates. What, then, are the assets of the Jan van Eyck Academie? Thumbing through the pages of this report, it immediately becomes clear that the Jan van Eyck is a space of question- ing: the people who make up the academy take a critical and questioning stance and aspire to innovative cultural and vis- ual production – be it in Fine Art, Design or Theory. They perceive, study, query, debate, negotiate, interact, experience, innovate, improvise, determine and create. They collabo- rate and forge alliances, explore constructions and their con- sequences and forge, test and drop or adopt concepts. The projects and productions – collective as well as individual – at the Jan van Eyck, diverse and heterogeneous as they are, can- not be ‘captured’ in a short introduction. Whether this an- nual report is read top-down, bottom-up or in a linear way, its content reveals a whole range of levels. The projects, it is fair to claim, are relational in nature, and the activities and the spatial, material and immaterial confi gurations and their unfolding in time contain many layers. How are these to be presented? There is no singular way of doing this, as there is no ‘right’ way of setting up projects and carrying out re- search. The projects that are described and expanded on in 16 … the Portfolio – such as Authoring the city, CLiC, Micropolis, Trichtlinnburg, Visualizing the visual, the list is all but exhaus- tive – explore the acts of perception, experience and creation through different media of reproduction such as photogra- phy, fi lm, music, recorded sound, graphics, drawings and performance. These acts contain several experiential dimen- sions and layers. Their results shape collective and individual imaginaries, but they are also transformable, at times transi- tory. Cautiously avoiding simplifi cation, the research project Authoring the city, for instance, can be said to consider the city a multiplayer arena and explores the social, historic and tech- nological aspects of urban communication. (Advising) re- searchers involved in this project design and apply strategies, collect and process data, undertake walks, design alternative maps or make a subjective atlas that helps construct new nar- ratives. In a nutshell, the Trichtlinnburg project has set up ur- ban conversation, studies urban etiquette and intends to or- ganise an event in public space. The Micropolis project con- cerns itself with the communication of a city’s cultural iden- tity and the Metahaven: Sealand identity project is involved in identity encryption and graphic design in contemporary net- work societies. The tomorrow book and UbiScribe explore dif- ferent aspects of publishing: the former project starts off from the traditional book and how it can be navigated, the latter focuses on on-line and off-line publishing and multi-media chronicles. The project Publications and resonances takes stock of the artists’ books that were made at the Jan van Eyck over the past 25 years. The members of CLiC delve into love’s am- biguous nature. These projects deal with ambiguities, transi- toriness and structures of repetition, with erasures, losses and heterotopia, with recording, retelling, reciting and ‘re-citing’. They are not just about providing answers, but about articu- lating new problems and issues as well. introduction 17 The Jan van Eyck Academie is a network of many intel- lectual and artistic routes that generate ramifi ed, multiple destinations and conclusions through memory, imagina- tion, creation, recreation, mapping, re-routing, interweaving. Activities and research bring into effect a sense of expansion and transgression and show the lateral, dynamic and less than dogmatic ways of working that are often adopted by the in- stitute – the sum of its people. This report does not only state the obvious and directly visible; it also takes into account ‘the realm of the beyond’. The sheer volume of projects and ac- tivities may be daunting at fi rst contact, but closer analysis will show that, despite the fact that there are many birds of different feathers, things at the Jan van Eyck are ‘harmoni- ously confused’. 18 … … 19 PORTFOLIO 2004 20 The following Portfolio is an enumeration of projects that made up the weekly programme or that were dealt with in the Editorial Board. It is a range of individual projects of researchers, collective research projects, institutional and departmental projects as well as lectures, presentations and workshops given by externals. This Portfolio does not strive to provide a complete overview of all projects and productions realised at the Jan van Eyck. Smaller-scale projects have not been included, although they are not deemed less important. research projects 21 AUTHORING THE CITY www.janvaneyck.nl/authoringthecity In collaboration with the Charles Nypels Foundation the research project Authoring the city was set up in 2002. For this project the researchers Min Choi, Zuzana Lapitková, Tamara Maletic and Dan Michaelson were recruited. In 2004 the organization of Authoring the city changed. It became an ‘umbrella’ project that contains various re- lated individual (Mapping conspiratorial spaces, Third way urbanism, etc.) and collective research projects (Micropolis, Trichtlinnburg, etc.) at the Jan van Eyck Academie. The project’s theme is the city as a means of communi- cation and communication platform. The research concerns itself with long-term urban communication that manifests itself through architectural and urban interventions. It also studies short-term communication via non-offi cial and in- formal media such as fl yers, posters, billboards, festivals, art in public space and guided tours. The project Authoring the city is multidisciplinary; the main focus of the research – historical, sociological and political in nature – is to design means of communication. In 2004 thematical colloquia were organised that pre- sented the various Jan van Eyck projects . External speakers were invited. My city as a multi-player arena On 11 January the opening of the (academic) year 2004 was heralded. Hinrich Sachs (advising researcher Fine Art depart- ment) moderated a round-table concerning Authoring the city. Referents were Peter Fransman (director Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht), Alexander van Grevenstein (direc- tor Bonnefantenmuseum), Janet Cardiff (artist) and Solvita Krese (director Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, LV). 22 … Authoring the city, 24 –