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House Rules

Yeahbook

Neo-M

A Triptych Fantasy
on Local Food

The Shelter

Monika Wear

Climax

Sandberg Manifesto

Eye Museum

Network States

Lost & Found

House Rules
Monika Gruzite

video installation with sound on headphones, drinking water, plexiglass sign, LED lights, padded bars for sitting

Exhibited
2016 - In Conversation about, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands

House Rules is a video work and a sound piece compiled from previously conducted group breathing exercises. House Rules imagines an online environment where excessive personal and intimate data sharing is taking place with the explicit consent of all participating members. Individuals seemingly blend together in the midst of steam, smoke, vapor, dampness and darkness. Their synchronized movement and rhythm is amplified by the group state.

Among the members, total openness prevails, yet individual identities remain hidden from the outside. House Rules accepts the impossibility to escape the network. Embracing our inevitable interconnectedness, it is a seductive invitation to join a shared database that brings the benefit of greater access to knowledge. The only way forward is to act as one.

Yeahbook - Design Department

Printed on a Risograph
Limited Edition of 100 Copies

The yearbook of 2014—2015 brings together the research, mentalities and projects that were made during this year. The design projects and events are narrated with the radical characters the students have become. 

NEO-M
Florian Mecklenburg

Video installation with sound (duration 9 min)

Exhibited 
2016 - In Conversation about, Looirsgracht 60, Amsterdam 

Neo-M is a multi-channel video and sound installation arranged as a moshpit with seven surrounding screens. The work deconstructs masculinity by exaggerating stereotypes and re-appropriating popular culture. Placing the viewer in a central position, the work not only stretches the limits of what the body can express, but also what the viewer is prepared to accept. The male body as a construct is perceived as a surface for intervention.

It acts as a flexible membrane onto which notions of masculine identity are projected and reinterpreted. The visual language of gender norms is transformed into a liquefied and accelerated version of reality. As a tangible carrier of identity the body becomes a fictionalized manifestation of the liberated self. A new hyper aesthetic, spiraling out of control. 

The Shelter

The Shelter is an object designed to claim back our freedom and autonomy. This poncho can be turned into a tent. Carrying your house on your back, like a snail you are slow, but so is social change. Let’s explore, let’s invade our common earth: your home is everywhere. Let’s break borders and build our own freedom.

Monika Wear
T-Shirt “MJ“

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A Triptych Fantasy on Local Food
Juliette Lizotte

Video installation with sound (duration 12 min), 
pillows, hay, linen curtain (kindly offered by Lemaitre Demeestere) 

Exhibited 
2016 - In Conversation about, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

jujul0v3.com

Refusing to comply with systems of mass consumption, Juliette Lizotte stopped going to the supermarket. She questions the food industry, as well as our individual responsibility for how we produce and consume. Changing the rules of her game, Juliette now obtains food directly at its source. Like a monk she commits herself to her new habits. Liberated from fictitious needs, and inspired by the natural food she eats and her taste for ‘Nightcore’, Juliette dreams of another world. One in which self-sufficiency is the new salvation, a privileged state to deal with guilt and rethink our needs on the path to asceticism.

A Triptych Fantasy on Local Food invites you on a singular audiovisual trip through Juliette's hopes and dreams, taking pop culture to the extreme: high pitch, high bpm and high amateurism. Each chapter of this journey gives an odd teenage feeling of a new-found hope in a world gone terribly wrong, making you want to join the movement or run away as fast as you can.

Climax

Brushed Aluminium Dibond Panel, 140 x 90 cm

Photo: Francoise Bolechowski

Exhibited
2016 - The Internet is present, Husslehof, Frankfurt/ Germany
2016 - 7 Walls, WOW Amsterdam, Amsterdam/ Netherlands

Lost & Found
Conserven Maatschappij

Invitation Card with Sticker set 
& Leader Animation (2015)

Photo by Lost & Found 

The Lost & Found took place in an old weapons factory, 45 minutes away from Amsterdam by bike. The Invitation Card provides next to the route map a sticker set to pimp the bikes and enhance the collective ride. 

Network States

wi-fi installation, sms texts, 12 doormats (laser-engraved), three 2 min phone videos

Exhibited
2016 - Design My Privacy, z33, Hasselt / Belgium
2015 - Design My Privacy, MOTI, Breda / The Netherlands
2015 - Unmapping the World, Chaumont Graphic Design Festival, Chaumont / France

Visitors, who connected to the free wi-fi in the exhibition, received a welcome sms to different countries, that notify them about the data retention laws.

Nowadays, instead of passports our cellphones identify us. The border controls are cellphone towers picking up our signal and sending an SMS welcoming us to the country. Most of the time we receive these messages before or after its geographical border. When connecting to the network, all our data is under a law of a country without us being physically there. Our data may be sensitive. The phone can be our weapon against wrongdoings. And it can be suddenly turned against us.

Sandberg Instituut Manifesto

Edition of 3000 copies.

Sandberg Instituut Manifesto to announce and introduce the Master programm’s.

The Ahistoric Vacuum

Exhibition Poster for Eye Filmmuseum (2016)

Goys & Birls

A collective of sensitive agents in a quest for a wanted future. Empowered by pop culture, they dream in full HD, manifest beyond DIN Formats and touch the world through a layer of criticality, using their visual powers to question and form reality. Goys & Birls was born in 2015 in Amsterdam from the love of Monika Gruzite, Juliette Lizotte and Florian Mecklenburg.

Contact us at hey [at] goysandbirls dot click