Werkplaats Typografie

Applications for WT Year 24 are due 1 March, 2022.

Seehttps://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/Werkplaats_Typografie_Information_2022-2023.pdf for information on the application procedure and our programme.

Interested applicants are welcome to come by (in person or online) for an informal introductory visit. With questions or to make arrangements for a visit, please be in touch by email.

With thanks to Theetat Thunkijjanukij for use of Tim Niw Rimmin.

A (Re)presentation
by Werkplaats Typografie

Open:
Friday, 24 September, 6–10pm
Saturday, 25 September, 1–7pm

WT@Het HEM
Warmperserij 1,
1505 RL Zaandam,
The Netherlands

WT applications for Year 23 are due today!

See below for application details.https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/Werkplaats_Typografie_Information_2021-2022.pdf

Thanks to .ws / for the type (OS Akumoji).

The deadline for WT applications has been extended to 29 March 2021!

If you have any questions related to the application process or programme, please be in touch by email.

Seehttps://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/Werkplaats_Typografie_Information_2021-2022.pdf for admissions information & www.werkplaatstypografie.org for more.

It’s that time again, WT applications are due on 12 February.

Please reach out by email if you have any questions or would like to pass by for an informal (digital) visit.

For more info:https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/Werkplaats_Typografie_Information_2021-2022.pdf

Typeface: OS Akumoji, .ws (Year 21)

Werkplaats Typografie End of the Year Show #4:

“Ellipsis after Closure”
a 2020 Werkplaats Typografie End of the Year Show in book form 
by Nicha Keeratiphanthawong and Tabea Nixdorff

fixing holes in habits — as passageway —
with our bodies as telepathic messengers —
displacement producing a gap — unfollowing certainty —

pending state — remediating defective matter —
concealing wear and tear — movement unfixed
— harness closure for amended joints —

spending time with a wounded social fabric —

patching the sore point —
off site — on the ground — imaginary nets

— airborne

Following endless digital threads of information and being in constant touch with ‘hardware,’ it is easy to forget one’s bodily presence and situatedness. Weavings, just like computer coding, are complex automated nettings. Only the point of rupture—a dropped stitch, like a bug in the code, a systemic error—redirects the attention outside of the machine by requesting a manual intervention.

To experience a gesture of repair and an analogue form of ‘networking,’ as a literal and tactile activity, we initiated two hole mending meditations conducted online, with participants at home, to relax the senses while focusing on fixing holes in garments and touching soft textiles. To feel the impact each detail has on a structure as a whole: disruptions in the weave of a garment cause holes to grow. By tracing the dropped stitches and patching up obvious ‘bugs,’ we remediate and re-activate unappreciated clothes without erasing traces of our bodies inhabiting them.

Remediation: a technique of repair that emphasizes the repairer’s presence. We may revisit a personal garment’s story through its wear and tear, and rewrite a habit. When sewing, each hole is both a beginning and an end, a passage for the thread. While reimagining ideas of interconnectedness, the activity of mending holes may also be an exercise in resilience—we consciously spend time with a ‘wounded’ fabric instead of abandoning it. The current social situation in the world reminds us of the urgent need for healing practices, to not turn away from the wounds and scars in the social fabric but treat them with care.One way of caring is to actively listen—to a materiality, as well as to people’s voices.

“Ellipsis after Closure” is now available in the WT Shop (https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/shop/ #/products/ellipsis-after-closure?_k=7mu5rp)—copies shipping the first week of January.

Werkplaats Typografie

End of the Year Show #3:



FWD: MY PRO-LGBTQ+ EX ZAC IS VJ-HUNK
+--:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

by Michiel Terpelle



30th–31st October, 2020

Motel Spatie

Hisveltplein 21

6826 EM Arnhem

Hosted by
 ***rucation

You might know her as Drag Queen persona J**z Taco*—or—“J.T.” for short. Meet handsome Zac, my now ex-boyfriend. He talks with a full or modified lisp coupled with dramatic inflection. And, as used in full-drag queen style, it accompanies a running monologue of commentary, jokes and puns (most of it sexual but with a great deal of social and political content). Zac discovered his talent for “Gay talk” within club culture and has roots in the q***r underground scene of electronic music, while he was selling mixup CD’s out of the back of his car to get by. In support of his career as a professional woman impersonator, Zac is also a VJ** and creates stunning visual effects. I like to think it’s the ‘double entendre’ that got him into VJing: J.T. the VJ*** sounds so awful it’s almost good. His work fits the descriptor of ‘a little local colour in a grey landscape,’ which contrasts his upbringing in an alkaline and grey, tight-lipped and guilt-ridden Protestant little town to his hot-for-life sensibilities. These moving images might look uniform and noisy at first, but allow them to pass through their influence for periods of time—weeks or months or years—as they’re trying out the roles and stances, values and valances, the aura of danger or magic and the topsy-turvy through patterns, learning enough for their own purposes before moving on to establish their own identities. They are often misunderstood gateways into new realities, since Zac communicates in coded languages. Q***r people of all social strata develop intricate codes and language inflections that operate within ordinary sounding language patterns to convey information that only members of the culture can understand. By exploiting the ambiguity of the letters, the abbreviation and the slang that arose with the languages of these underground sub-cultures, Zac expresses his vexedness at the cis’ by celebrating alternative descriptors. Much of this came to him as exports through communication centred around applications (and substances) leading to sexual activity, where his DTF**** reputation took on a life of its own and gained him a VIP-status as a notorious size queen.

*A GRL’s ge***al area.
**A “VJ” is an artist who creates moving images.
***VJ is also a euphemism for Va-Jay(-jay).
****DTF is an abbreviation for you know what.

From within these digital realms of constructed realities Zac urges his audience to reflect the implications of looking through them as mirrors, where personae of your own creation become an empowering way to transcend imposed limitations. I would like to invite you to a show where Zac’s story is told. If you would like to take part in the show please reserve your timeslot through this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScokBVThbJ0Znf0KTxmLV7NniqSG1iTeEo4QQRvyavTrdLY-A/viewform

**zTaco
michiel.werkplaatstypografie.org


michielterpelle.nl

Background image:
J**z Taco (a.k.a. Zac), October 2020, in full Digital Drag

Coronavirus disclaimer
FWD: MY PRO-LGBTQ+ EX ZAC IS VJ-HUNK
strictly follows the recommendations, hygiene and health protocols established by the government of the Netherlands.

Special thanks to Motel Spatie & ***ructation

Hannah Sakai

Pollinating Reflections

24th–27th September, 2020

Pollinating Reflections is the second Werkplaats Typografie End of the Year Show in 2020 and will be on display at the following locations:

Vlindertuin
Park Sonsbeek, Parkweg, 
6815 DJ Arnhem
(Permanent Intervention,
24th September–)

Werkplaats Typografie
Agnietenplaats 2,
6822 JD Arnhem
(Temporary Intervention,
24th–27th September)

On the 26th of September a Walk between Reflections is planned. The walk will start at 12:30 from Werkplaats Typografie and will end at the Vlindertuin in Park Sonsbeek with a picnic. If you would like to take part in the walk please RSVP by 23rd September to [email protected].

Initiated by Hannah Sakai, Pollinating Reflections is a collaborative research project working with interventions in public and private spaces. The project is exploring how information can be distributed through materiality.

Alongside collaborations in space, Pollinating Reflections, is interested in starting a dialogue surrounding the following topics: performing with light, extending the term printing plate, the non-human image, the floating image, materiality being part of content, and content being part of materiality.

The first interventions, taking form of information display cases, are presented in collaboration with the Vlindertuin at Park Sonsbeek and Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem.

The Background
Material: Wood & Metal
A surface that can carry “The Content”.

The Content
Material: Printed Paper
Content is fluctuating and curated.

The Reflective Surface
Material: Glass
Inhabited by an image through a relief,
that is part of the surface.

The Reflection
Material: Light
Reflection of the environment,
defined by the light situation surrounding it.
Including a reflection of the viewer,
items, and living beings.

Pollinating Reflections is looking for new locations and partners to collaborate, please feel free to contact [email protected] for more information.

pollinatingreflections.com
werkplaatstypografie.org

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Deadline: 14 February 2020
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