KABK at Museum Night 2024

KABK will be present during Museum Night The Hague at the Lange Voorhout with projects by five KABK-alums and at Paradise with an expo by Fine Arts tutors.

Five brand-new alums, graduated last summer, are representing the KABK during Museum Night. Read about their projects and themselves below.

"Tomorrow's Remains" explores the hidden communication networks in forests through underground fungal networks and above-ground scents. By capturing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using steam distillation and solvent extraction, the project examines Park Sorghvliet’s biodiversity. An olfactory installation of 50 glass ornaments releases scents from the park, emphasizing nature’s intricate interactions and urging a reconnection to promote sustainability.

Anouschka Rachel Vreeswijk is an Interactive Media Designer committed to challenging and changing human behaviour. Her work seeks to improve how people live and impact nature and climate. As an artist, she honours the past while focusing on the future. Her interdisciplinary work blends aesthetics, technology, society, and nature, exploring interactive experiences through emerging technologies, storytelling, and journalism.

Website / Instagram / Graduation Catalogue

House of Making is a unique space dedicated to the art of making, where the focus is on the process rather than the final piece. As you enter, you'll create two origami works from memory—whether they are traditional models or new, imaginative designs. These will be displayed in a living house that showcases the diverse creative journeys of all participants. Once your pieces are hung, you’ll exchange one of your creations with someone else’s, fostering a shared experience. The emphasis is on discovery and connection, valuing the tactile act of making and the story behind every fold. It's a space where creativity thrives, and the process is celebrated over perfection, as your creations find new meaning in another’s hands.

Akash Kumar is a community builder, gardener, and maker focused on sustainability, hands-on learning, and fostering meaningful connections. He believes in engaging the hands, heart, and head in learning, blending traditional knowledge with modern practices. His projects emphasise reconnecting with nature, valuing resources, and nurturing both people and the planet. Akash's work promotes self-sufficiency, resilience, and community, encouraging active engagement through creative workshops. He is passionate about alternative knowledge transmission, believing learning happens best through experience, dialogue, and shared processes, rather than formal education.

Graduation Catalogue.

Getting Comfortable in Your Skin-suit is an installation featuring four scrap wood sculptures as a part of an ongoing exploration of truth and its performativity. In the installation, the figures are positioned and posed to mimic a family in a living room watching television. The scene is inspired by lifestyle illustrations from America in the 1960’s and 1970’s. These illustrations are of particular interest to this installation because what is displayed in them is a specific cultural ideal for what a family look like and how they behave. The figures though, in contrast to their ordinary and recognisable situation are monstrous in size and form, being about two meters tall in seated positions and being covered in the sharp edges of the splintered wood and rusted nails of which they are composed. The figures each wear large masks made from domestic objects like the window frame or cupboard door over flat, nondescript faces. Within the scene I have crafted, I understand the figures as performers acting out a domestic scene existing purely through this performance to convince an audience of the actuality of their truth. The work is primarily interested in this contrast between presentation and performance.

Kamau Ng’ang’a is an artist working with sculpture, installation and archival media. In his work, Kamau explores the self as a societally/culturally defined performance and presentation, crafted to convey internal truths to an external audience with their own predefined understanding of said self. In his works, this manifests through installations, video and audio with a deep interest in capturing or compiling specific behaviours or scenes that analyse “normal” behaviour.

Instagram / Graduation Catalogue.

Our testimony: reminded reformulates a publication that combines two texts and visual essays developed during the Bachelor of Graphic Design by Elisa de la Serna Gallego and Lara Silva Santos. The publication legitimises the body as a terrain of knowledge in physical and digital spaces. Reminded is a synthesis and a personal reminder of the research developed individually and collectively in the last 4 years. How come we barely finished and we already forgot? Our testimony: reminded occupies a 3D space to physically contain the bodies it speaks of, using materials and techniques often found in political organising such as silkscreen, bedsheets, towels or clothesline structures.

Parcela de Tierra is a movement and image research collective. PDT was created by Lara Silva Santos (2000-BR) and Elisa de la Serna Gallego (1999-ESP) in 2021. Lara is a transdisciplinary graphic designer who investigates meeting points between the body in movement and graphic design. Her aim is to collectively produce knowledge and create bridges for the communication of intellectualities, subjectivities and technologies alive in dissident bodies. Elisa uses graphic design tools to investigate, break and dialogue with forms of social organisation and identity construction, taking the body as the starting point. She is currently based in Valencia, Spain.

Parcela de Tierra started out of the need to find a shared space to move the displaced, migrated body. The collective reclaims public and private spaces, and questions a Eurocentric environment in which spontaneity is hard to find. Its work is pedagogical in nature and investigates forms of learning as it educates, drawing from its own experiences in education and cultural institutions.

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Graduation work of Anouschka Vreeswijk: TOMORROW'S REMAINS, Archiving Park Sorghvliet’s Natural Communication Networks.
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Graduation work of Akash Kumar: House of Making.
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Graduation work of Kamau Ng’ang’a: Getting Comfortable in Your Skin-suit.

During the Museum Night, you can also visit CATALOGUE, an exhibition by KABK Fine Arts tutors.
Location: Paradise
Free entrance

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Datum

12 oktober 2024 19.00 - 01:00

Locatie

Lange Voorhout & Paradise, Groenewegje 136, The Hague