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2 Acknowledgements Maurizio Montalti Publisher De Verenigde Sandbergen Marjo van Baar Nora Morton Sandberg Instituut is the magazine published Ineke Bakker Julia van Mourik occasionally by the Rebecca Bego David Mulder van der Vegt Editor Sandberg Instituut Jurgen Bey Laura Pappa Minke Havelaar Sjoerd ter Borg Jerszy Seymour Print run: 3,000 Max Cohen de Lara Melle Smets English editing ©2016 Sandberg Instituut Christophe Coppens Lisette Smits UVA Talen, Amsterdam Amsterdam Femke Dekker Thomas Spijkerman Linde Dorenbosch Theo Tegelaers Graphic design Sandberg Instituut Martijn Engelbregt Tom Vandeputte Monika Grūzīte Masters of Art and Design Catherine Geel Herman Verkerk Juliette Lizotte Gerrit Rietveld Academie Krist Gruijthuijsen Annelys de Vet Florian Mecklenburg Monika Grūzīte Jaap Vinken Visitor address Hanne Hagenaars Nancy van Vooren Contributors Overschiestraat 188 Cynthia Hathaway Sander van Wettum Can Boyan 1062 XK Amsterdam Minke Havelaar Hélène Webers Theofanis Dalezios Anne Holtrop Anke Zedelius Alexander Gustafsson Postal address Liesbeth in ’t Hout Martine Zoeteman Márk Redele Fred. Roeskestraat 98 Jan-Kees van Kampen Karime Salame 1076 ED Amsterdam Maxine Kopsa De Verenigde Sandbergen Nolwenn Salaün Aliki van der Kruijs issue #76 Arthur Tramier +31 20 5882400 Judith Leysner January 2016 Ekaterina Volkova www.sandberg.nl Juliette Lizotte Sanne Luteijn Master’s programmes Printing Anja Masling 2016–2017 Drukkerij SSP & Cliteur, Brian McKenna Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES Florian Mecklenburg Amsterdam Juri Suzuki | 2015 3 FasHioN Matters CRITICAL STUDIES CURE MASTER Rafael Kouto | 2015 4 Rebecca Stephany | 2015 Nyeke Koek | 2015 5 DESIGN Janna Ulrich | 2015 6 7 FINE ARTS SYstem D AcademY dirY art DepartmeNT Alice Gancevici and Remnus Puscariu | 2015 8 Clément Carat | 2014 Chris Rijksen | 2015 9 DirtY art departmeNT DesigNING DemocracY Michele Rizzo | 2015 10 Sandberg Forum | 2015 11 Table of Content Sandberg Instituut 14 Jurgen Bey: waking the unknown 17 Permanent departments Critical Studies 19 Dirty Art Department 25 Design 31 Fine Arts 37 Studio for Immediate Spaces 43 Temporary programmes 13 Master of Voice 49 Reinventing Daily Life 63 Fashion Matters 69 Materialisation in Art and Design 75 Cure Master 81 Designing Democracy 87 System D Academy 93 The One Minutes 99 Studio for Immediate Spaces Wellness Centre | 2015 12 Temporary programmes human voice as a means or an Overschiestraat 188 Sandberg Instituut Jurgen Bey, the director since end in itself, within artistic As the Benthem Crouwel 2010, has sought to find ways practices. Lisette Smits building on the Fred. As the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit to align the institute with the heads the department. Roeskestraat is being dynamic of contemporary Both programmes start in renovated, the Sandberg Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, we offer society. He introduced September 2016, applications Instituut has moved to 2-year programmes that are open until April 1st 2016. a temporary location. Master’s programmes in Fine Arts (MA in Fine are developed according to Our new visitor address urgent world issues. Vacant Permanent departments is Overschiestraat 188, Art), Interior Architecture (MA in Interior NL – the first temporary Whereas the temporary Amsterdam. It will be our Master’s programme – was programmes reflect on residence for at least the Architecture), and Design (MA in Design). launched in 2011 and explored situations with a sense of next two years, and we are the vast potential of the urgency, our main departments sharing it with the Gerrit With an average of 20 students per programme, thousands of vacant buildings aim to deepen the practices Rietveld Academie’s Fine Arts in the Netherlands. In 2013, of artists, designers and department (BA). we keep our departments relatively small. two additional temporary critics. Sandberg Instituut’s programmes were introduced: permanent programmes Sandberg eats This allows us to make the courses flexible and School of Missing Studies include Critical Studies, We have our own food truck, dealt with art and the public Design, The Dirty Art run by students Lia Satzinger open to initiatives from students and third space, whereas Material Department, Fine Arts and (Studio for Immediate Spaces) Utopias investigated the Studio for Immediate Spaces. and Naomi Tattum (Cure parties. The course directors are prominent shifting boundaries between Master). From Tuesday until materials and techniques. This publication presents an Thursday they serve fresh artists, designers and curators with international introduction to each of our soup, Lebanese bread wraps At the moment we are running departments and temporary and man’oushi flatbread from five temporary programmes. programmes. It provides their Saj, a domed griddle. practices. They invite (guest) tutors who are able 15 14 Cure Master (2014–2016) on a peak at what the courses to challenge the students to critically reflect on art and healthcare, Designing entail and the work our Democracy (2014–2016) students create. their profession, their work and their progress. on political spatial design, System D Academy The Sandberg Instituut is (2014–2016) on informal and open to candidates from self-organising social systems, many different backgrounds. Fashion Matters (2015–2017) We require a valid Bachelor on alternative systems for degree in a field relevant the fashion industry, and to the programme you are Materialisation in Art and applying for, as well as proof Design (2015–2017) which of proficiency in the English is a continuation as well as a language. To apply for a disruption of Material Utopias. programme, or for more information, please visit New programmes www.sandberg.nl We are happy to announce two new temporary programmes that will run from September 2016 until June 2018. Reinventing Daily Life, directed by Thomas Spijkerman, seeks to integrate elements of the performing arts in everyday life. Master of Voice focusses on the Jurgen Bey: waking the unknown ‘Nothing is without deception’, says the Idiot by Dostoevsky. ‘If only there was more deception’, Jurgen Bey seems to lament: he wants to arrive at a better world by putting a different spin on reality, with art as an accelerator or flywheel. In Salvador Sandberg Eats | The Lebanese Sajeria | 2015 Dali’s melting clocks and trees with eyes, recognition and alienation are balanced in an understandable mix on the canvas. An ideal entry 17 16 point into a different reality for beginners. In the Hoog Catharijne yet we regard it as soothing. syndrome as angels, as a gift shopping centre in Utrecht a In the 1970s, broadcasters for humanity. In the film a man in a black suit and tie steps organized silence on the group of adults takes to the out of the crowd and dances radio. Panic ensued among streets pretending to be many times in a circle with the listeners; what was going mentally handicapped and open arms. He gives the man on? A silence on the radio is give a forceful twist on the or woman with a shopping bag still a sound of 24 decibels, thumbscrew of normality. full of leeks and carrots the the minimum standard. The reaction of the chance to become infected by Subsequently, civilized voices bystanders leaves no trace the magic of this Sufi dance discussed whether the radio of the angelic idea and their in a work by artist Germaine should resume broadcasting. discomfort and irritation Kruip. ‘There is the education’, However, the freedom to is displayed unashamedly. says Bey, ‘in the language of carry out such experiments During a visit to the Rockwool what you don’t understand. has disappeared. factory, one of the ‘idiots’ Art is meant to embrace is allowed to briefly push “not understanding.” ’ Bey’s favourite film The the blue button, which halts idiots by Lars von Trier also production, and for a moment Perhaps we can also embrace removes the veil between he is the king of isolation. chaos as silence. different realities. The idea for the film derives from the The search for the ‘inner idiot’ Silence – the lack of sound – theory of Rudolf Steiner, is the counterbalance for the Sandberg year opening | 2015 is a strange phenomenon and who saw people with Down ordinary normative existence. To help the world progress, you, to seek the elasticity predictions rarely come true, it is necessary to go beyond between those few things that but that those who make the reality, to have visionary you do understand’. journey of discovery to the thinking, to think unthinkable future return with invaluable thoughts. That is the field It was possible for Obama knowledge.’ * World peace? of art. to become the first black An era that is driven by American president because culture? Who knows. Perhaps. Every person constantly reality was primed by TV and sees what he or she already films, where black leaders were At the Sandberg it is about knows, as a kind of everyday already shown, in anticipation applied questions that are blindness. Reality? of reality. With imagination, we not answered in an applied The number of realities is are turning the knobs of the manner. ‘If we want to change inconceivable. The planet future. ‘For me, beauty is that our behaviour, we do not need Mars possesses only a tenth imaginative power’, says Bey. technocratic solutions, but of our reality. Autistic, blind people who are nice to each or deaf people share a part of The school intends to organize other again’, says Bey at the our reality, but much of our the principles of the cultural end of our conversation. reality is also removed in their field, the areas where curiosity And that brings us back to life. Almost all people regard emerges. As director, Bey Dostoevsky’s idiot, who their own small circle as ‘the wants to be careful with ‘not also under all circumstances truth’ but this is no more than permitting’. The different continues to believe in the an opinion. A conviction.