Newsletter #13, March 2018

Happening NowMeet Two of Our Students

Current Graduation ProjectM.E.T.A. cafe

Coming UpArtist in Residence, Ghent - Year Two

Cultural TipsDon't miss: Open Day

Looking BackBootcamp II - Year One, Year Two

Surplus NightVideo Power Project

"Poverty & Inequality" Project

Age: 21Country: Netherlands

Why did you choose iArts? After doing the academy of performing arts for one year, I started looking for more interdisciplinary programs. Not because I didn’t like doing theater anymore, but because I was interested in more than just that. The program of iArts appealed to me because it's diverse and it doesn't exclude any form of performing arts and therefore I wanted to apply for the program.How do you experience working in your group? Collaborating in a group has taught me to overcome issues and misunderstandings with people. I have definitely become more assertive since I’m at iArts and I think that is a valuable skill to learn. Read more here.

Interviewed by Tessa Frings2nd year iArts student

Meet...

Age: 19Country: Germany

Why did you choose iArts? I came to iArts straight out of high school. I was 17 and didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life. But I had always been doing all kinds of arts, while still being interested in the sciences, so iArts was a really good fit. Its internationality and small groups ended up convincing me to join. And while there have been ups and downs, I do not regret it!Can you recall a highlight of the first year of iArts?My favorite project of my first year at iArts was definitely the Arts & Entrepreneurship block. We were asked to behave like a company and were free to choose a topic. We invented and participated in a “30 day artivism challenge”; under the name ThisConnected.World, we posted one micro-project every day for 30 days. Read more here.

Interviewed by Tessa Frings2nd year iArts student

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Graduation Project Year Three

Third year student Ráhel is exploring the field of experimental documentary making, focusing on the LGBTQ+ scene, the impact media and the social environment have on the members of its community, establishing a parallel between Romania and Germany. This topic is of great significance to her because of her personal involvement with both countries; born and raised in Romania, currently based in Germany, she was inspired by how advanced Germany is in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, but also curious to find out the extent to which this was true.Through her work, she intends to show the LGBTQ+ community of Romania that it is possible to reach the level of tolerance and acceptance that exists in Germany; their aim should be that every single person of the LGBTQ+ community and every other minority group should have the same rights and opportunities at a global level, no matter the geographical location or circumstances. Read more here

an update: Eckstein-Kovács Ráhel

The iArts year three students have started their graduation projects!During their third academic year of iArts, each student has the opportunity to initiate and work on an individual project of their desired topic. These graduation projects are designed to guide the students’ transition from being a student to being a part of the working world.The current iArts third year students have just started working on their graduation projects, which will be pre-sented in July 2018.

Written by Konstantina KatsikariiArts year three student

M.E.T.A cafean alumni project

M.E.T.A café. (Meeting to Explore Technology and Art) is a collective that aims to create design driven art using technology. Founded by a trio of young entrepreneurs and artists with different disciplinary backgrounds, they meet in various coffee spots spread over Amsterdam to discuss and ideate their projects. Currently they are de-veloping a project at Makerversity Amsterdam, which explores the intersection of technology, textile and sound. M.E.T.A café was founded by artistic event manager and visual designer Raya van der Kroon, sound designer and technologist Cedric Wiegel (both iArts graduates) and freelancer in fashion and product design, Nine Parre.Read more here.

info.metacafe@gmail.comFacebook page: META CaféInstagram: m.e.t.a.cafe.

Speculative Everything

Theo Ploeg, iArts design lecturer and dedicated accelerationist, created an inspiring 2-day manifesto bootcamp with a series of workshops to guide the students through speculative design to kick off a new study block after the carnival break.On the first day, the iArts students had an opportunity to participate in the workshop provided by the Next Nature Network focusing on technology as new nature; through inspiring lectures and interactive workshops, the NNN offers the philosophy, the tools and the methods that will realize a paradigm shift in your thinking about nature and technology.iArts students continued their second day exploring the space of Carbon6 in Heerlen, home base for one of the largest creative clusters in the Netherlands. Read more here.

Written by Liuda SharafutdinovaiArts year one student

Bootcamp II

LAYERSSurplus Night

On the 24th of February, five first year of iArts students presented an instal-lation at the AINSI Maastricht.Under the guidance of artist Nina Willems, they created an interactive instal-lation called Layers as an addition to the performance Kalpana Raghuraman by Canto Ostinato and Lemniscaat. Torgeir Riise, Ruben Bass, Galiza Islas, Nirmala Hessellund, Vlad Peregontsev and Tessa Mendez, iArts students, took the music from Simeon ten Holt as artistic inspiration. Working together with artistic coach Nina Willems, they used the layers of the music and transformed them into their personal artworks. Inspired by Canto Ostinato, everyone has a different interpretation of the same piece and used different mediums to express this. This creates a dynamic combi-nation of film, street art, poetry and visual art.Read more here.

written by Liuda SharafutdinovaiArts year one student

Video Power Project

Poverty & Inequality Project

Introduced to the world of performance by teachers Romy and Gable Roelofsen, the first years kicked off a project that would result in 3-minute individual performances, based on prior conceptual research. From this performative stage, they fully dove into an extensive research process, being given the far-reaching topic of ‘poverty’ to eventu-ally transform their knowledge into a performative dinner show. Through their artistic research and individual topi-cal field research, the students gradually gained a depth of knowledge and understanding that would help them to fully develop and execute a performance in just a few weeks left to spare. Four groups, five weeks and one show.After conducting their individual research strategies, five first year students started off the show with their project Escape Poverty. They found that a theme such as poverty so vulnerable and unfathomable cannot be researched thoroughly and completely. Immersive research when it comes to the subject of poverty is unattainable because of its immense complexity, therefore they came to the conclusion that their experiences in “poverty” were temporary and they were in a place of incredible privilege.

Read more here.

written by Isabella De AngelisiArts year one student

Individual video projects - Year Two

in collaboration with Het Geluid

The project was divided into two phases. Phase 1 was all about skill training: the students were given classes by Hans Laschuit and Jo van Laar, who are usually teaching at the Maastricht Theatre Academy. Their classes were about professional filmmaking, including not only properly adjusting camera settings, lighting etc., but also proper editing and formatting.Next to that, the new member of the iArts staff Sem Shayne was coaching the students in realizing works about their own passions in the field of photography.In addition, guest teacher Anne Büscher was providing the second year students with time and space for coached experimenting with different materials in the Academy’s workshops, such as the bookmaking or ceramics workshop.Read more here.

Written by Tessa FringsiArts year two student

Artist in Residence

Cultural Tips

The participating artists, designers, architects, curators and writers show their artistic research and collaboration projects resulting from their work period at the Van Eyck during the three Open Studios days on the 8th, 9th and 10th of March 2018. The central Open Studios exhibition consists of participating artists Bernke Klein Zandvoort and Rodrigo Red Sandoval. All studios, exhibition spaces, labs, gardens and gaps in and around the academy build-ing are open to the public. The installations, videos, performances, paintings and lectures will give an idea of the direction and possibilities of the academy.

Practical :Location : Jan Van Eyck Academie, Academieplein 1, 6211 KM Maastricht, Netherlands.

Ei House, Ghent, Belgium.

Open Studios - Van Eyck Academy

On the 6th of March, second year students will begin a three week artist-in-residence at The Ei (Experimental Intermedia) house in Ghent, Belgium. The students will develop individual research projects using the city, culture and lifestyle of Ghent as their main source of inspiration. Lieve D’hondt, the curator of the Ei House, visual artist and art teacher at the Sint-Lucas art academy in Ghent, will coach the students in the advancement of their work. A workspace at the cultural centre ‘De Vooruit’ and the EI house will be provided. The official showcase of the artworks will be presented in the window gallery at the Ei House on the 25th of March, 2018.

Keep posted on the iArts Website, Facebook and Instagram for more details on the opening event and exhibition.Read more here.

Written by Tessa FringsiArts year two student

Thursday 8th and Friday 9th of March from 12.00 - 17.00: Preview days, only by invitation. If you would like to visit the Open Studios during the preview days, please send an email to register@jan-vaneyck.nl.

Friday 9th of March from 17.00 - 19.00: Festive opening.

Saturday 10th of March from 10.00 - 17.00: Open for the entire public.

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In collaboration with: Faculty of Arts Maastricht / Zuyd University of Applied Sciences

Holly Hudson Taylor, Tessa FringsHolly Hudson Taylor, Tessa Frings, Kelvin Weese, Liuda Sharafutdinova, Isabella De An-gelis, Konstantina KatsikariLiuda Sharafutdinova, Tessa FringsAnne Manders, Josee Schrijnemakers

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iArts Open Day

iArts Open Day10:00-15:00

Herdenkingsplein 12,Maastricht

Don't miss : March 10