Featuring:
Daniela Bershan is an artist. She makes sculptures, installations, performances and saaaaooooooounds. Her work*play is based on process and growth. Loss of control and organic short cuts lead her towards inevitable forms and situations that are neither constructed nor random. The love for transparency - the "paradox of enchanting disenchantment" is omnipresent in her work: “to see thru helps me to be sufficiently blind”.
ENHANCE ARTIPLICITY!
OPTIMISE ART TO DISPERSE ITS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT!
DEVELOP METHODS OF CRAP PROTECTION!
IMPROVE FREEDOM, TOLERANCE AND RESISTANCE!
Daniela Bershan lives and works in De Bijlmer, Amsterdam. Next to her research and practice she works as a DJ and producer a.k.a. Baba Electronica.
Edwin Gardner is architect, web-editor and theorist working for Volume/Archis and Partizan Publik. Find out more on Gardner's website.
Rutger Groot Wassink is trained as a historian. He works as a policy advisor specialized in labor market and social security for FNV Vakcentrale (FNV Union). Currently, he is also working as fraction chairman of Groen Links for city council Amsterdam Westerpark. In the council his main areas of interest are social housing and urban development.
Night life, pop music, youth culture, these are the most favorite topics of freelance journalist Liedewij Loorbach. From June 2004 until September 2009 Loorbach, born in Rotterdam, worked for the Amsterdam Newspaper Het Parool. She wrote about street rappers, drug controls at parties and basically everything that happens in the city between five and nine in the morning. With a colleague of the paper she wrote the book ‘Kroeglopen in Amsterdam’ (‘Pubbing in Amsterdam’). Last September she has quit her job to start her freelance practice to see what lay beyond the limitations of the paper's twenty to two thousand word articles.
Speculative Peculiars, part 2, is hosted by journalist and Amsterdammer Maurits Martijn.
