Graduation Show Piet Zwart Institute: Master Interior Architecture

Playlist for Our Funeral is an exhibition of works by the graduates from the Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

In the first semester of our second year of MIARD, Davin Im placed an A3 piece of paper on the door to our shared studio space with the prompt ‘What song would play at your funeral?’. This question faced each of us multiple times a day as we entered and exited the studio. We gradually added to this piece of paper, contemplating our own moment of departure, and wondering how that could be expressed through one song, without the knowledge this list would move further than this door. The list became a playful moment of reprieve from the spaces we were so deeply absorbed by in our own research practices. This soundtrack now acts as a non physical space in which we all accidentally exist together, the tracks represent not the combination of work on show, but the mix of individual practices, interests, and personalities.

The exhibition includes projects by Vishnu Priya Chakravarthi, Hyeryeong Choe, Marta Domínguez Bretaña, Alma Rose Fensholt, Francesca Farina, Matthieu Henry, Johanne Hjort-Larsen, Dabin Im, Orla Kelly, Eilish Rodden, and Yu-Hsin Chang.

Opening hours

8–9 July: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
10 July: 11:00 am–9:00 pm
11 July: 11:00 am–6:00 pm (workshops will take place from 1:00 pm–6:00 pm)

Workshops 11 July:

ONGOING 1-6 PM | Drop in workshops

The Shape of Gesture | Orla Kelly and Marta Bretaña

Orla and Marta invite participants to walk around the surrounding exhibition, Playlist for our funeral, questioning how to engage with the space through a gestural, intuitive, and embodied drawing exercise. Combining their non-representational drawing practices, the artists encourage participants to engage with the show. Through mark making and gesture we will create a new visual vocabulary. Each participant will be given a toolkit that includes instructions and drawing materials to examine the exhibition through gestures. The result will be an alternative interpretation of the exhibition.

In translating condition | Vishnu Priya Chakravarthi and Yu-Hsin Chang

Priya and Yu-Hsin invite participants to move between image, language, and memories held in the body, through drawing. Both researchers have been exploring the body at the intersection of medical systems and medical conditions. In this
workshop, descriptions of bodily memories of illness are translated into illustrations to explore what is found, and what resists being communicated in the process of ‘translation’. Using a variety of drawing materials, participants will look beyond accuracy in translation, instead focusing on bodies, memories, perceptions, and conditions encountering each other.

1-3 PM | Take a seat | Matthieu Henry

In this workshop, Matthieu Henry invites participants to explore the countless shapes a seat can take and how we could spontaneously produce one. Together, participants will question what it actually means to sit, and what kinds of forms
this simple gesture can produce. Using discarded cardboard, this moment will become a space for experimentation through building, testing, collapsing, repairing, and sitting again. Rather than searching for the perfect chair, participants
embrace instability and improvisation as active forces in the making of form. Each seat will emerge as a singular object, shaped through use, adaptation, accidents, and collective experimentation.
Materials will be provided.

4-6 PM | Is this techno, jazz, or noise? | Eilish Rodden

In this workshop, we will use found objects and gathered items to make unique instruments to create a collective track. Participants are invited to bring their own items to be transformed into sound objects. Materials will be provided but
participants are encouraged to think outside of the box; it can be something you found on the street, a piece of garbage you saved from the wind, or anything you can make noise with. We will work together to build the instruments, record them, and turn them into an unexpected track, a collective “song” that will be sent to participants in the following weeks.*
*Disclaimer, I am not a music producer.