North South East West
Text for Fabrica
In August 2004 we were asked by Fabrica, an art academy based in Italy, to write a short text for a book they wanted to publish to celebrate its 10-year-anniversary. Entitled 'Fabrica 10', the subtitle of this book was 'From chaos to order', and the theme revolved around the idea of antithesis. We were specifically asked to write a text entitled 'From North to South'.
In our own naive way, we feel really inspired by the philosophy of dialectics (to put it simply: thesis, antithesis, synthesis), so we found it quite int...
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DTC / Peanuts
DTC / Peanuts
De Theatercompagnie
Peanuts was a piece played by De Theatercompagnie between January 16 and February 17, 2007, at Het Compagnietheater in Amsterdam. Written by Fausto Paravidino and directed by Marcus Azzini, Peanuts was a play carrying a very explicit political message. The play used the traditional format of the classic Peanuts comic to tell a story about the historical confrontation between anti-globalist protesters and the riot police during the G8 summit in Genoa, 2001.
(Some time after we designed the posters for it,...
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High Light
A project by Johannes Schwartz
Principle Junk / PAKT
High Light is the third installment in an ongoing series of collaborations with photographer Johannes Schwartz. To know more about the series as a whole, also take a look at High Noon (2003) and High Nature (2004).
High Light was published on the occasion of Principle Junk, an exhibition that took place in February 2005 at art space PAKT (Amsterdam), in cooperation with architect Herman Verkerk.
The series of photographs handed over to us by Johannes were in many ways a continuation of...
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Matters of Speech
Lecture (reading/listening session)
Bold Italic 2006, Ghent
In 2006, we were invited by Michael Bussaer to participate in Bold Italic, an incredibly good series of free annual lectures taking place every year at De Vooruit in Ghent (Belgium). Michael asked us if we wanted to prepare a lecture for the 2006 edition of Bold Italic, and he was particularly interested in the listening/reading session that we presented in the summer of 2005 during the Chaumont Poster Festival (see Chaumont (((O))) Lecture). In short, during that event, we ha...
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