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Set in Stone ‘21 (ongoing)
Melting Metal ‘20
Earth Perfume ‘20
Fluorescent Signals ‘15-‘21
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The Mushroom Club ‘17
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MSA ‘18
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- The work of Lisa van Casand (NL, 1990) revolves around revising our relationship with animals, plants, and minerals – a shift from exploitation to solidarity.
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MSA / 2018
From Meaning Seeking Animals
Meaning Seeking Animals explores the possibility of a publication as a world in itself. It is a personal collection of processed knowledge that continues to grow as the artist creates new work. It is a world, an aura, a field where the artist’s internal experience of knowledge-building has been stored—long kept private and now made public.
The diverse collection of excerpts and fragments, combining sources from biology, philosophy, art, and psychology, grows and takes shape as a terrain under the thoughtful care of Lisa van Casand. The publication might be compared to more traditional formats such as a captain’s diary, notebook, or log—yet as a collection of knowledge, it more closely resembles Walter Benjamin’s vision of the dream world: "an autonomous world of dreams circling the earth at night."
Upon opening, the publication provides no specific reading direction—no middle and no end. Like a topographical map, it serves as a guide for locating positions or intersections, offering audio-walks by artist Marit Mihklepp, theorist Aleid de Jong, and geographer Jacob Knegtel.
MSA / 2018
From Oneacre.online
Meaning Seeking Animals was published by oneacre.online: an experimental publishing & distribution project that utilises an online platform to seed unprintable text-based works by emerging artists. The project explores the possibilities of hyper-publishing in a series of four commissioned publications.
Thematically oneacre.online first four commissioned publications by all female art practitioners, place themselves in the online world of constant updates and refresh buttons that, as theorist Wendy Chun observes, “exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same”. The publications use the omnidirectional online terrain and actions that are native to it — such as refreshing, instantly available to edit, easily erasable, highlighting, copy-pasting and non linear navigation — to explore and critically evaluate visions and versions of power systems by tracing the politics of technological infrastructures. Hidden in places as traditional as archives, as often used as smart phone applications, omnipresent and inescapable as the financial market and as quiet and evasive as the transfer of information in narrative structures.
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For the production of Meaning Seeking Animals I would like to thank: Stef Kors, Titus Knegtel, Victoria Douka Doukopoulou, Lucas van der Velden & Sonic Acts, Aleid de Jong, Jacob Knegtel, Marit Mihklepp, Neon & Landa and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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From Oneacre.online
Meaning Seeking Animals was published by oneacre.online: an experimental publishing & distribution project that utilises an online platform to seed unprintable text-based works by emerging artists. The project explores the possibilities of hyper-publishing in a series of four commissioned publications.
Thematically oneacre.online first four commissioned publications by all female art practitioners, place themselves in the online world of constant updates and refresh buttons that, as theorist Wendy Chun observes, “exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same”. The publications use the omnidirectional online terrain and actions that are native to it — such as refreshing, instantly available to edit, easily erasable, highlighting, copy-pasting and non linear navigation — to explore and critically evaluate visions and versions of power systems by tracing the politics of technological infrastructures. Hidden in places as traditional as archives, as often used as smart phone applications, omnipresent and inescapable as the financial market and as quiet and evasive as the transfer of information in narrative structures.
↪ Visit website
For the production of Meaning Seeking Animals I would like to thank: Stef Kors, Titus Knegtel, Victoria Douka Doukopoulou, Lucas van der Velden & Sonic Acts, Aleid de Jong, Jacob Knegtel, Marit Mihklepp, Neon & Landa and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
