As a sculptor, I look for tension between craft and learning new technologies resulting in unknown outputs. I’m interested in the perversion of design and craft, and how to experiment with a type of directed malfunction of technology to create functional objects. I’m not alone in noticing that everything looks the same. The basic and necessary things in life are designed and built with very little attention to imagination and non-normative taste. From the design of a train, to a personal computer, to home interiors, they are all variations on sleekness in beige, white, and gray built for the masses. My way to reckon with this design problem is to use the same technologies used for streamlined production, glitching them to arrive at the unexpected and the unique.
The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists and my aim is to materialize the in-between. What are the consequences of being surrounded by objects that are produced via software and reproduced by machines? Can we coexist with the glitches that resist entering the perfect production chain? Usually, computers are used to (re)produce the sleek and impersonal, but in effect, they are the most powerful tool to generate distortion through the making of an object, of a space, or an identity.
During the event “Curves of Inquiry” the online publication "Fellows Published 2021-2022" was festively launched. The process and findings of the fellows who conducted their research in 2021 and 2022 are made accessible here. Contributors are: Waèl el Allouche, Clementine Edwards, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Elia Kalogianni, Elisabeth Klement and Laura Pappa, Taylor Le Melle, María Mazzanti, Rachel 'O Reilly and Octave Rimbert-Rivière.
Take a look at the online publication here: fellowspublished.rietveldacademie.nl
Octave Rimbert Riviere was one of the nine fellows in the academic year 2021-2022. The interview below is published in the online publication “Fellows Published” that was launched in November 2023.
fellowspublished.rietveldacademie.nl
Curves of Inquiry is a Gerrit Rietveld Academie initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the previous academic year. Each of these projects is carried out in close collaboration with a department of the Rietveld Academie or Sandberg Instituut to foster relationships between educational programs, research activities, and societal issues.
Fellows Exhibit is a Rietveld Sandberg initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the past academic year.
Fellows Exhibit is a Rietveld Sandberg initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the past academic year. Each of these projects is carried out in close collaboration with a department of the Sandberg Instituut or the Rietveld Academie to foster relationships between educational programs, research activities, and societal issues.
Fellows Exhibit is a Rietveld Sandberg initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the past academic year. Each of these projects is carried out in close collaboration with a department of the Sandberg Instituut or the Rietveld Academie to foster relationships between educational programs, research activities, and societal issues. The exhibition shows work of Clementine Edwards, Laura Pappa & Elisabeth Klement, Jason Hendrik Hansma, María Mazzanti, Martino Morandi & Anita Burato, Octave Rimbert-Rivière, Rachel O'Reilly, Taylor le Melle, Wael el Allouche and Elia Kalogianni.
The research fellowship project is an initiative for artists, designers, theorists and other makers. It aims to facilitate and support short term artistic research projects, in collaboration with one of the departments of the schools. During the fellowship, the invited researchers share their process and findings with students and the Gerrit Rietveld community at large. The Fellows in Process series in particular aims to aid this interaction, while engendering meaningful conversations between the fellows, students and teachers of both institutes.