Stay Flexible!

Role: Curator, exhibition design, graphic design, project leader, event programmer

Theme: Prompting, material reuse, collaboration and community

Material: Aluminium tubes, marmoleum flooring

Stay Flexible! is a collaborative, year-long research process which manifested in a festive graduation exhibition. 

The process and exhibition tried to cherish what is available at the moment: from the materials we could reuse to safeguarding the way our classrooms looked during our studies.

During the process we hosted fermentation dinners and gatherings to create a social interplay between us, our class and the studio space we would present our graduation show in.

This interaction generated an entangled and layered group effort as a context where boundaries between ownership started to blur. In our collaborative practice, it can never be said that what you do belongs solely to you, it is the accumulation of interactions with those around you: material, immaterial, living, and non-living.

The exhibition became an entangled, living being which invited visitors, welcoming them into the alternative ways of looking at the world we and our classmates envision. 

Together with:   Aga Jurczak, Aleksejs Mališevs, Andreea Pirlica, Carly Rose Bedford, Cheonghyeon Park, Diederick Nolthenius, Dora Lehy, Enrique Torres Takahashi, Ernie Mellegers, Femke Dekker, Forbo Flooring Systems, Heejeen Choo, Herman Verkerk, Hyuna Park, Ina Miteva, Iuliia Khatsanova, Jaime Verheij, Janina Bahvalova, Josha Zwanenburg, Juliette de Groot, Julius Dusch, Laura Ajola, Lorien Beijaert, Léonie von Saldern, Manon Carpentier, Monika Szewczyk, Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Reza Afisina, Sep Louter, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Suhyun Park, Sunhyo Mastenbroek, Suraya Latul, Thijs Fisser and Wiktoria Markiewicz.