With our Practical Contribution scheme, we supported two hundred artists with their projects this year. We look back with pleasure on the great variety of art projects that came about with this and celebrate this during a new edition of That's how you do that on Tuesday, November 26 in WORM.
Six artists, two of whom are duos, show and talk about the realization of their work and the role that Practical Contribution played a role in this. The evening will show a cross-section of the awards in 2024 and will hopefully provide artists who want to apply next year with the necessary inspiration.
City of Poets, Sara Rajaei
Sara Rajaeic's short film City of Poets won a Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary 2024 at the Netherlands Film Festival at the end of September. Since its world premiere at the prestigious Berlinale film festival, City of Poets selected for more than twenty festivals and, in addition to the Golden Calf, Rajaei has won three awards at film festivals in Madrid, Palermo and Espinho. In her poetic film, Rajaei uses a collage of personal archive footage and photos to portray the history of a semi-utopian city, a place where all the streets are named after poets. When war breaks out, abrupt and drastic changes lead to confusion among the city's inhabitants.
Potato Growers meets Cappadox 2024, Wapke Feenstra
For Cappadox 2024, a festival in the Turkish region of Cappadocia, Wapke Feenstra a presentation of photo banners. On these banners she showed different potato growing methods of three local families. She also organized a public potato dinner, using locally grown potatoes, and asked international visitors about their favorite potato dish. With her work she explores the traditional and future-oriented practices of potato production within the broader population.
On Translating Ecologies, Alaa Abu Asad and Ulufer Çelik
On Translating Ecologies arose from the cultural background and history that Alaa Abu Asad (Palestine) and Ulufer Çelik (Mediterranean Turkey). Together they delved into shared traditions, food and especially language, unraveling the similarities and searching for underlying stories. The artists collected words that are commonly used in both Turkish vernaculars and (Palestinian) Arabic. Together with drawings and audio, they were shown in an installation. Asad and Çelik also organized a series of events in Kiosk, including a drawing workshop and a lecture-performance, in which they shared the words with the public and explained their informal collection method.
Cover Crop Cocktails, Honey Jones-Hughes and Antonio de la Hera
What are the alternatives to conventional agriculture? With the project Cover Crop Cocktails to have Honey Jones Hughes en Antonio de la Hera researched 'cover crops', or plants that are sown or grown to improve soil health. During a stay at Kunsthuis SYB in Beetsterzwaag, they focused specifically on the application of the mustard plant. Through meetings with farmers and producers, the duo gathered knowledge and experiences about the Frisian soil and about authentic Frisian seeds. They also made a series of 'props' for a performance lecture, including refined sea clay, ceramics and a cocktail made from Frisian gin and mustard seeds.
Program
Welcome by Cindy Stegeman, Art Office | Interview with Wapke Feenstra | Interview, performance by Honey Jones Hughes and Antonio de la Hera | Interview with Alaa Abu Asad and Ulufer Çelik | screening of City of Poets and Interview with Sara Rajaei | Closing (interviews by Wilke Martens)
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Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Time: 20:00 PM - 22:00 PM (entry 19:30 PM)
Location: WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71 Rotterdam
Language: Dutch and English, depending on the speakers
Registration
The evening is free to attend. Please send an email with your name to artoffice@cbkrotterdam.nl.