JELLIE KLASTER

GUEST ARTIST - JELLIE KLASTER
Residency and solo exhibition:

Residency: 1st - 31st of May (visit by appointment)
Exhibition: 26th of May - 10th of June
Saturdays and Sundays, 1 – 5 pm
Opening 26th of May, 5 - 7 pm
Finissage 10th of June, 5 - 7 pm
Weekdays: by appointment (email Jellieklaster@protonmail.com

photography: Anke van den Berg

WORK IN PROGRESS
Jellie will work on a spatial installation in the project space. See Lab invites everyone interested to drop by during this period and see her at work.

photography: Lili Berger and Jellie Klaster

FINAL PRESENTATION
Freedom, Body, Clay and Rope
The final outcome of the residency will be revealed in a public presentation taking place on Friday 26 May from 17:00 until 19:00. Yvonne Twisk, Art and Heritage specialist, advisor at House of Culture, and Governance advisor for Management and Supervision at Cultuur+Ondernemen, will give a speech prior to the opening of the installation. The exhibition is open to the public  until the 10th of June and ends with a finissage on June 10 at 17:00. Opening times are Saturdays and Sundays from 13:00 – 17:00, and during the week by appointment

About the artist

Jellie sees her work as a reflection of a philosophical inquiry into the relationship between body, mind, artist and object. What fascinates her is the question of the limits of freedom and autonomy. Is an artist free and autonomous? In a predominantly Western way of thinking, we often assume this, which makes the reciprocity, dependence and coherence of the individual with the world around him/her seem invisible. Her work arises from this philosophical thought and is at the same time a basis for how she deals with her material. It is about exploring and experimenting, searching for possibilities and boundaries of transformation, connection and making interventions. She uses tools and sometimes machines, but mostly she works with her hands and her body to create shapes in and with materials such as clay, textiles, canvas and rope.

Many thanks to the Cultural Incubator See Lab and Subsidie Makersregeling Gemeente Den Haag, who both made this residency possible.

Tatiana Kolganova, Mio Fujimaki and Elina Alekseeva

SOJOURN

Short description:
See Lab welcomes you to a spatial-reflective experience Sojourn. The exhibition is the result of a collaborative residency between Tatiana Kolganova, Mio Fujimaki and Elina Alekseeva. Set your reminder and come slow down with us.🖤

OPEN: 10-11th of December | 11.00 - 19.00 H | Work by: @elina.lia.alekseeva @tania_v_kolganova @fjmkmo

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Renske Maria

OPEN ATELIER

Hosted by: Architect and Creative Practice Researcher: Dr. Ir. Renske Maria van Dam

Explorations with Katerina Bakatsaki:
9 October | 14.00-17.00
Collective explorations with See Lab
17 October | 16.00 - 18.00 h
Finissage | 21 October | 18.00 -21.00 h With a presentation by Renske Maria at 19.00.

Short description:
"Between the new moons of September and October 2022, between September 26th and October 24th, Renske Maria will host an Open Atelier for Biotopological Craftsmanship at artist incubator See Lab in The Hague. The open atelier is conceived both as exhibition, and as space for collective experimentation. You are invited for a shared practice." - Renske Maria

Description: To contribute to the exploration of alternative visions and variant rhythms to existing ideologies, she has introduced biotopological craftsmanship as an architecture which approaches space not in terms of the architectural object, but shifts its focus to life by emphasizing the reciprocal relationships between organisms and environments. This approach to architecture has emerged in the context of her  PhD research. With a focus on moving bodies, she has reformulated Japanese spatial tactics as ways; to become an attuned architect guided by tiny perceptions; to construct vital architecture motivated by un/balancing procedurals; and to engage in a sited design process informed by aware play. If you are curious, you can read more in the essay Time By Windows is Time Well Spent as published in the Slow Spatial Reader.

The Open Atelier for Biotopological Craftsmanship is initiated, to open-up to new insights and collaboration. At See Lab, Renske Maria will work in the project space and garden. Each day, she will adjust, rewrite, move through, and reorganize the space in collaboration with colleagues, spontaneous visitors and the weather. Together we explore, critically question, and experience, if and how this practice can fuel collaboration, plant seeds of renewal, and intensify the aliveness of our (built) environment.

Sunday October 9th 14.00-17.00: Collective explorations with Katerina Bakatsaki
On Sunday October 9th, choreographer, teacher and researcher Katerina Bakatsaki will host a collective session in which we critically and physically explore the boundaries of biotopological craftsmanship. Katerina has choreographed and performed an extensive body of work and has been involved with interdisciplinary activities throughout Europe, Chile, Iran, Japan and Taiwan. She was a member of Japanese dancer Min Tanaka´s performance company Maijuku from 1986 until 1993, where she was trained in Body Weather. Body Weather is a a comprehensive training and performance practice that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Since 1996, she has led Body Weather-Amsterdam, a platform for training and performance research together with Frank van de Ven.

In this collective session Katerina will offer her movement practice as a starting point for a critical reflection.  Together we question: What if human bodies are not self-contained entities? And what if physical experience and its meaning for us never evolve in isolation but rather through intricate webs of connectedness? Just like the weather? How would that affect the hierarchies between bodies and other bodies, textures, instruments, tools, surfaces, spaces, buildings, landscapes, and so on?

Interested to join? Please send a message to info@renskemaria.com to confirm your participation.

Monday October 17th 16.00-18.00: Collective explorations with See Lab
On Monday October 17th, you can participate in a collective peer-review session with the artist of See Lab. See Lab is an artist-run cultural incubator founded in 2016. Located near the beach in Scheveningen in an old school building that hosts 22 affordable workspaces for artists. See Lab provides space and opportunity to develop, share and showcase artistic activity. By means of peer-review session they support the visiting artist to develop their work. In this collective peer-review session, the See Lab community will reflect upon potentials of biotopological craftsmanship.

Finissage October 21st 18.00-21.00: With a presentation by Renske Maria at 19.00.
On Friday October 21st, you are welcome to celebrate the closure of the Open Atelier for Biotopological Craftsmanship. Biotopological craftsmanship, a craftsmanship not of wood, but of bio-topo-logical entrainment. A biotopological craftsman explores, informs and expresses interrelationships between biological, environmental and celestial bodies in movement by means of architectural interventions. 

Between 18.00 and 21.00 you are welcome to visit the exhibition. At 19.00 Renske Maria will give a presentation.

Bio: Renske Maria van Dam

Renske Maria van Dam is an architect and researcher whose work exploits tiny perceptions to open-up alternative worlds of experience and action. She calls for a fundamental shift in the way we conceive and construct the built environment, from an architecture of objects to an architecture of reciprocity. She promotes an empathic, animistic and life-affirmative approach to architectural practice, research and pedagogy.​ The cross-pollination between Asian and Western practices, from architecture and philosophy to intuitive bodywork, deeply shape her work and thinking. In her atelier, creative practice research coincides with the careful construction of architectural life. Slow projects run over multiple years and generate outcomes across diverse media and milieus. www.renskemaria.com

Photography: Renske van Dam

Financially supported by / Met dank aan :

Gemeente Den Haag
Stroom Den Haag

REMCO JONGEJAN

MARS-HABITAT
In addition to our public program See Lab frequently uses their project space for (guest) artists as a bigger working space in order to develop new work, try out new ideas or prepare upcoming exhibitions. Our current artist is See Lab artist Remco Jongejan. Remco is building a huge living module for a brand new space village/ Mars-Habitat to arise in Lunetten named New-Utreg. Remco’s work is commissioned by the Intergalactic-environmentalists for their Mars-Habitat project where they will investigate what life on a space colony will be like. 

You can drop by and take a look at the life of the Mars-o-naut, from food supplies to homesickness. And if you don't want to go back to Earth yet, the adventurous visitors get a chance to stay overnight, sleep, eat and work like an astronaut in the space village that Remco helped to build. It will start in June and last till August.

We are showing a little sneak peek of his work in progress. More information about the project can be found here: www.marsmissie.nl

HANNA DE HAAN

GUEST ARTIST - HANNA DE HAAN
In addition to our public program See Lab frequently rents out their project space to guest artists in order to develop new work, try out new ideas or prepare upcoming exhibitions. Our current guest artist is Hanna de Haan. Hanna is using the space to develop a huge commissioned woodcut that will be placed in the Sanders building of the Erasmus School of Law. We are showing a little sneak peek of her work in progress. More information about Hanna can be found here: www.hannadehaan.nl

photography: Anke van den Berg