Taming the Horror Vacui, unfolding the practice of artist Haseeb Ahmed at Rib Rotterdam, is also an artist publication. Edited and designed by Piero Bisello, it will consist of 9 issues to be released after each of the events with Ahmed's guests in the program. Participatory in nature, the publication will build a system of annotations in which a central image sourced from Ahmed’s work at Rib will be commented by external contributors, including workshop participants, citizens of Charlois and Rotterdam, artists, curators, scientists, and more.
Download here: https://www.ribrib.nl/projects/taming-the-horror-vacui-publication
Download here: https://www.ribrib.nl/projects/taming-the-horror-vacui-publication
Taming the Horror Vacui, unfolding the practice of artist Haseeb Ahmed at Rib Rotterdam, is also an artist publication. Edited and designed by Piero Bisello, it will consist of 9 issues to be released after each of the events with Ahmed's guests in the program. Participatory in nature, the publication will build a system of annotations in which a central image sourced from Ahmed’s work at Rib will be commented by external contributors, including workshop participants, citizens of Charlois and Rotterdam, artists, curators, scientists, and more.
Download here: https://www.ribrib.nl/downloads/issue2-modeling-nothingness.pdf
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Download here: https://www.ribrib.nl/downloads/issue2-modeling-nothingness.pdf
Interview with Ive Steven Heydens. Published in the print edition of Metropolis Magazine. April 2020
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I was invited to select five favorite artists to write on for Spike Art Magazine Issue 59, which took Victor Papanek’s politics of design practice as its impetus.
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The posters make use of graphic design and typography in pharmaceutical branding. The key references are those of the medication used in thiis exhibtiion.
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A Fountain of Eternal Youth, 2022
The basin creates a mirror to reference the myth of Narcissus. to ask, what are our priorities- ecological or personal longevity?
The base houses the electronics and is modellled on Lucas Cranach’s 1546 painting a
Aluminum dust suspended on water to create a mirror effect.
Flow of time and water contradicted by stroboscopic effect of water flowing backwards.
Stroboscopic effects.
Sketch and premise using one of three posters.
Medical model used to demonstrate diaphragm use now used to demonstrate effects of contraceptives.
contraceptives are introduce to the water cycle fo the artwork with an automated fish feeder- 1 per day.
the 3D model features a possible future fantasy cause by contraceptive pollution.
The adrogenous figures are part human part fish as fish are effected by contraceptive use by increasing gender imbalance and making more female fish.
Increase in female to male organisms caused by contraceptives in water speaks to the perrenial fantasy of matriarchy as seen in wonder woman.
Kidneys are the filtration system of the body. Here artifical kidneys used in dialysis filter contraceptive saturated water.
The candles represent accumulation. Pharmaceuticals like contraceptives are non-biodegradable. they are measured as parts per trillion and billion. They do accumulate in the body and in nature.
the fly fishing bate is an homage to the trout they are meant to catch and which were used in water treatment plants as the last measure of water safety before entering drinking water.
