evdh, studio for the urban landscape

Swinging Trees

Lilian — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:18:07 +0000

Alternativa 2012 is an art event established in the shipyard of Gdansk by The Wyspa Institute of Art. This year’s programme compromises the exhibitions Materiality and Now is Now.

The event includes artists like:
Lara Almarcegui, Rosella Biscotti and Kevin van Braak, Maureen Connor and Kadambari Baxi, André Cepeda and Eduardo Matos, Marcelo Expósito, Iñaki Garmendia, Martí Guixé, Sally Gutierrez, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sjef Henderickx, Arne Hendriks, Mateusz Herczka, Ernst van der Hoeven, Katarzyna Józefowicz, Hiwa K, Grzegorz Klaman, Kasia Krakowiak, Robert Kuśmirowski, MML STUDIO [Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki, Gilles Lepore], Paulo Mendes, Lex Pott, Partizan Publik, Patrícia Azevedo Santos, Hito Steyerl, Michał Szlaga, Ronald van Tienhoven, Mariusz Waras, Jólan van der Wiel, Erlea Maneros Zabala, Silvia Zayas as well as Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger, and Florian Zeyfang.

Review Club Donny in Frieze Magazine

Lilian — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:25:18 +0000

In an ongoing series, Frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them. Brian Kennon put Club Donny amongst his favorites as Johan Huizenga’s, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley, Christopher Wool and Josh Smith.

Kennon: “Updating image acquisition to the crowd-sourcing age, CLUB DONNY uses its website to solicit images that correspond to its widely open theme of ‘the personal experience of nature in the urban environment’. Each issue presents a selection of the digitally collected images as double-sided posters that are then folded into book form, but remain unbound. A gentle reminder that nature is not something outside, the urban area, but integral to it, recent issues have featured images of a car covered in potted plants, a fish tank in a Dutch restaurant, a vine-covered utility pole in Texas and resting cows in a Nigerian village.”

Archizines @ Reading Room

Lilian — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:46:59 +0000

Archizines is an online archive for architecture periodicals, including Club Donny. Editor Elias Redstone has done a great job touring the collection around the world in one large traveling exhibition.

Next stops:
Montreal
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
ARCHIZINES LIVE: Thursday 17 May 2012
(event only)

Porto
June 2012
Faculty of Architecture, Porto University (FAUP)
Opening and round table: Thursday 14 June

Paris
7 – 29 September 2012
Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
ARCHIZINES LIVE and private view: Thursday 6 September

Bratislava
5 – 23 November 2012
Slovak Technical University

Dublin
15 November 2012 – 12 January 2013
Preview: Wednesday 14th November
Irish Architecture Foundation

Club Donny @ Millennium Magazines at MoMA

Lilian — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:06:23 +0000

Rachael Morrison and David Senior have curated an exhibit at the MoMA Library, Millenium Magazines, dedicated solely to independent, small-distribution publications. It is the first exhibition at MoMA Library to allow visitors to handle and interact with the books, the result is stimulating, to say the least.

Club Donny #8 – New Issue!

Frances — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:18:43 +0000

With contributions by:

Variegata Plant Folly @ Marres

Lilian — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:04:50 +0000

After six months of abundant growing followed by an colorful autumnal decay, the Plant Folly got dismantled, the Mediterranean plants were given away to Venetian plantlovers and the more hardy species were packed in containers and traveled in the dark to their new destination: the enclosed terraced garden of Marres – Centre for Contemporary Culture, at the center of Maastricht. In the upper terrace in the shade of an old Taxus tree and a front of an old Ice house, a folly in itself, the Plant Folly comes to rest and starts a second life as keeper of plants (here merely ferns and hosta’s) and as a hidden meeting place. Contemplative, as it meant to be.

Club Donny @ Library Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Lilian — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:30:10 +0000

To mark the transfer of the ARCHIZINES collection of international architecture fanzines, magazines and journals (including CLUB DONNY) to the National Art Library at the V&A, Elias Redstone hosted a conversation about the role independent publishing plays in celebrating overlooked and under appreciated spaces in our cities.

Resphinxed

Lilian — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:43:21 +0000

Open Garden Days

Lilian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:30:30 +0000

In June 2008 I opened my garden for the Amsterdam Open Garden Event. In one weekend a hilarious amount of people from all over Europe marched through our house to visit the garden. My contribution to this garden tour turned out to be a nice flop based on mutual incomprehension: the conventional and normative approach of the visitors vision on gardening seemed to clash with my informal ideas of free growing nature in an urban environment.
And maybe more about gardens, this whole event is about curiosity for the way of living in a historical house in the center of Amsterdam. Which is in itself worth the tour.

The house of…

Lilian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:45:13 +0000

THE HOUSE OF