KABK Researching Assemblages
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Mina Atanassova, Rio Drop, Eleni Kamma, Pum van de Koppel, Daniel Jacobsen, Niya Tsenkova, Shana De Villiers, Bo Deurloo, Marissa Memelink, Jeanne Rousselot, Dustin James, Yujia Wu
connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
KABK Researching Assemblages
The Creatures Archive
(2022)
author(s): Shana
published in: Research Catalogue
An archive of found images (and sometimes personal observations)
These images are fragments of beings that exist together as several, heaving heaps of genderless sci-fi characters, swimming around in a world.
You will find organisms such as (memes, cryptids, species with Latin names, pop culture toys)
Splitting Mammalian Weeds: Monster for a Memory
(2023)
author(s): Shana De Villiers
published in: Research Catalogue
This is not a thesis of trying to mine a singular understanding, but a collecti(ion)(ve) body of research composed into a gesture. Other than my memories, I have only grazed the surface of the topics I will discuss (even then, memories are at the fragile grace of synaptic connections) There are holes here, tears that will take a lifetime to mend. As I will mention later, I am not interested in a singular whole. Holes, however, are curious places with a warm spot for happenings, so I am okay with the holes.
All patchworks are several and my obsession with their cobbled nature does not mean there are no moments of stillness and clarity. This work is an archive of the muddiness of being and I invite you to draw parallels with your own logic as you stumble through this patchy, leaky, weed forest.
