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Open Call
OPEN CALL
for the spatial design of Roodkapje’s anarchive, a display and gathering space for anarchival experiments and attitudes.
1 April 2025 23:59: Online application deadline
13 March 2025 19:30 – 21:00: information evening from 19:30-21:00
We’re looking for an artist-designer to design and build a space in Roodkapje’s new location that can hold, present and activate our anarchive; a dynamic, modular environment for changeable but permanently accessible presentations of art and parafernalia. Through several selection rounds, including development and design budgets, the challenge is to design a connecting environment that gives this year’s anarchival works and different kinds of gatherings a place.
Anarchief
Currently, Roodkapje’s anarchief is an exhibition that can be visited weekly at our location at Delftseplein 39 with work by Alice Strete, Philippa Driest, Maoyi Qiu, Sandim Mendes, Samboleap Tol and the residents of Hamburger Community 2024-2025: Tisa World, Repelsteeltje, Julia Wilhelm, M.C. Julie Yu and Irene Cassarini.
Every year, the artist-residents of the Hamburger Community develop a public program based on the Happening as an art form, arising from a long tradition of subversion and disruption, where the message can be found in the lived moment. We strive to collect these moments in our anarchive, a place where we break away from the archive as we know it and reject traditional forms of archiving. Artists are invited as anarchivists to experience the spirit of the Happenings and transform them into anarchival pieces: works of art that suggest new beginnings, relationships and ways of being
The anarchive is a place where we break away from the archive as we know it and reject traditional forms of archiving. Beginning anarchiving is a proposal to explore the ways in which the full sensory experience of lived life can be recorded.
To start anarchiving is to break free from the archive as we know it. It is a proposition to figure out the ways in which the full sensorial experience of lived life can be included. Roodkapje’s anarchive is subjective, polyvocal and unevenly shaped. We celebrate the inherent subjectivity of archives that in a regular archive is often underexposed or even denied. We believe that anarchival practices can offer space for polyvocality and reciprocity in collective memory and meaning making. The anarchive is an antithesis to the archive. Find it within the daydreaming
The commission challenges an artist-designer to take that space and design it in such a way that it can hold and present the anarchive or other kinds of exhibitions in a satisfactory way. At the same time it ideally also offers space for a social practice with room for different kinds of gatherings like workshops, meetings and more intimate presentations.
Need more info?
For further questions you can send an email to our curator Wan Ing Que through ying@roodkapje.org
We also organize an information session on Thursday the 13th of March 19:30-21.00 at Keileweg 10a. This information session is open for anyone that is thinking of applying. During this evening you can meet Roodkapje’s staff responsible for the anarchive, ask all your questions and get a tour through the space. Find more information about this evening on our website.
This year, Roodkapje is moving house. The space in the building where we envision the anarchive to live is a very large, open space with a bar and a rise like a small stage. It has a roll up roof and a heating that sounds like an airplane is lifting off. The commission challenges an artist-designer to take that space and design it in such a way that it can hold and present the anarchive or other kinds of exhibitions in a satisfactory way. At the same time it ideally also offers space for a social practice with room for different kinds of gatherings like workshops, meetings and more intimate presentations.
The main questions are these:
- What are the physical conditions to both work anarchivally and present anarchival pieces and traces that evolve from Happenings?
- What kind of spatial design elements are required for reciprocity in collective memory and meaning making?
The design proposal we’re looking for contains the following needs:
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includes at least 5 modular and movable elements to
guarantee a variety of diverse spatial arrangements -
can live satisfactorily in the 75m2 presentation space
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offers possibilities to play audio and video in flexible formats
(big, small, soft, loud) -
offers the possibility for lighting, display, execution and
breaking out of interdisciplinary work -
challenges both audience and other makers to interact and start anarchiving themselves
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offers occasion for visitors to spend time on, in or under the space
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offers space for knowledge exchange, emotional transfer and
collective practice -
can handle drink and food spills, so it may be used during
evening program -
offers protection to presented works during evening and night program
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easy to handle, move, build and activate
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is sustainable in use and material
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stands on its own (it is impossible to hang anything on the ceiling)
The Process
Round 1
This Open Call’s selection process has 2 rounds. In round 1 we want an introduction of you, your work and your ideas. Please fill out this form incl. a moodboard, CV, portfolio and 1 A4 of plan & vision. The deadline is Tuesday 1 April, 23.59 (Rotterdam time)
- 13 March 19:30 – 21:00
Information Evening, Keileweg 10a
= During the information evening everyone who is interested in the open call can come by to see the space and ask all their questions to Roodkapje’s anarchive team.
- 1 April 23:59
Online application deadline
= apply with a moodboard + CV + portfolio + A4 incl. plan & vision
- 23-24 April
Round 1 selection decision
= 3 candidates get chosen for round 2, a prototype building phase including a design budget
Round 2
The three candidates receive a design budget of €1650 to build prototypes. During a public moment on 15 May, candidates will present their prototypes to Roodkapje’s community and audience. The public during this night will choose her favorite and this public’s vote weighs just as much for the final decision as Roodkapje’s coreteam’s vote. After the prototype presentation the public’s vote and Roodkapje’s coreteam vote will decide on the winning proposal between the 19th and 25th of May 2025.
- 24 April-15 May
Development time
3 designers have this period to work on their prototype presentation
- 15 May 20:00 – 21:30
Public presentation of prototypes
- 19-25 May
Decision on selected proposal
Design & building period
The chosen artist-designer will further develop their prototype in dialogue with Roodkapje’s curator. September is a research and experiment period for more prototyping. In October 2025 the artist-designer delivers a detailed building plan including technical and construction drawings, material overview and a timeline for execution. Together with a production team, they manifest their vision in physical reality. The artist-designer will receive a € 10.000,- fee (ex VAT) for development and execution of the spatial design. Next to that they will manage a € 12.000 (ex VAT) material/production budget including building materials, AV equipment etc.
September
Research, design & experiment period.
The chosen artist will further develop their prototype in dialogue with Roodkapje’s curator with a design fee, building budget and guidance/aid from Roodkapje’s team
October – December
Building period
For more information please read the full information folder or/and visit our information evening on Thursday the 13th of March, 19:30-21:00 at Keileweg 10a
