[Nettime-nl] MaHKUplatform 2012

[Henk Slager <henk.slager@bkv.hku.nl>]

MaHKUplatform 2012: Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design

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In the context of research presentations of students, MaHKU has  
organized since 2010 the annual DARE (Dutch Artistic Research Event)  
symposium, where a keynote speaker offers thought-provoking views on  
how to publicize and disseminate artistic research. After Nicolas  
Bourriaud in 2010 and Hubertus von Amelunxen in 2011, Maria Lind spoke  
this year about the curatorial project Abstract Possible. This topic  
was further discussed with Edwin Jacobs, Macha Roesink, and Joke  
Robaard. Constructive ideas about themes such as formal abstraction,  
economic abstraction, social abstraction (withdrawal strategies), and  
contested territory pointed to direct or indirect sources of  
inspiration for further contextualization of the various graduate  
exhibitions.
MA Fine Art
Longing, Belonging
Curated by Mika Hannula
16 May–27 May
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 11–18
Opening: 16 May 17–19
Location: Academiegalerie, Minrebroederstraat 16, Utrecht.
Participants: Jaiyoung Cho, Efrat Gal, Ceemin Golshan, Saebon Kim,  
Hyemin Kim, Joyce Overheul, Enrico Piras, Sarah Stein.
The starting point for the exhibition is the way we experience a city:  
understood as the cities we live in and the cities we come from and,  
not to forget, the cities we pass by and the cities that we dream  
about. Longing, Belonging both focuses on where the participating  
students come from and at the same time on how they cope—using spatial  
imagination—in their current sites and situations. Their interventions  
have gone through the principle of three T’s: experiences are  
transformed, translated, and transmitted.

MA Spatial Design
Like Pebbles on a Beach
Curated by Arjen Oosterman
22 June–30 June
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday 12–17
Opening: June 22, 17–19
Location: Aorta, Achter de Dom 14, Utrecht.
Participants: Ana Abashidze, Xenia Armao, Mita Daradasih, Pembe  
Birinci, Olga van Lingen, Otto Paans, Bambang Pramono, Federico  
Violato, Anneroos van Vredendaal, Cui Xun, Meng Zhang.
From all over the world Spatial Design students have drifted to the  
Dutch shores. They brought personal issues and cultural contexts— 
matters they were confronted with, couldn’t avoid, or were simply  
fascinated by. Improving daily life, help solving difficult questions,  
or adding quality where an opportunity can be found: in each case  
spatial design will make a difference. How and in what way is the  
subject of exploration, research, and direction. Eleven proposals for  
a better life.
Public event in the context of the Day of Architecture, 23 June.
MA Communication Design
Horizontal/Vertical
Curated by Joke Robaard
28 June–1 July
Hours: Friday 10­–21, Saturday and Sunday 11–17
Opening: 28 June, 16–21
Location: HKU: Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Ina Boudier- 
Bakkerlaan 50, Utrecht.
Participants: Eff Chai-Arriras, Cornelia Edwards, Marvin Fernandes,  
Monika Kanokova, Aaltje Kramer, Fu Le, Dong Young Lee, Hasmik  
Matevosyan, Tumi Moeti, Ana Ordóñez, Nijntje To, Theo Varnavas.
Within the parameters of studying, researching, and the act of  
creating, Communication Design students will invent new presentative  
and representative ways of installing their work. They question the  
dualism of working within a flexible collective program that at the  
same time includes all individual creative work and research.
PhD Fine Art

Symposium: Hannah Arendt’s Crisis in Culture 50th Anniversary:  
Reflections, Implications, Speculations
16 May–19 May
Location: Goleb, Amsterdam.
In 2011, Jeremiah Day took up the 50th anniversary of Arendt’s The  
Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significancethrough a  
series of reading groups in London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. This  
project now culminates in a gathering of international authorities and  
participants of the previous sessions, including Fred Dewey, Susannah  
Gottlieb, Taf Hassam, Wolfgang Heuer, Elena Loizidou, Gertrud  
Sandqvist, and Michael Schulze, presented by the Vrije Universiteit  
Amsterdam (VU) and co-hosted by the artist’s initiative Goleb.  
Jeremiah Day is pursuing a Doctorate of the Arts in collaboration with  
MaHKU and VU.
More information: www.projectgoleb.wordpress.com
MaHKU
In the course of May, MaHKU will deploy an entirely new website design  
developed by Kathrin Hero. In the fall, MaHKU will start a new series  
of publications under the title MaHKUscript in which a.o. Maria Lind’s  
presentation will appear.
MaHKU. Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design
MA Fine Art, MA Design (Editorial Design, Fashion Communication  
Design, Interior Design, Public Space Design). Applications until 31  
May.
More information: www.mahku.nl or info@mahku.nl.
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