God-shaped holes, Magic Bullet placebo pills and priests in chalk white art spaces: in this layered piece of auto-fiction Anouk van Klaveren analyzes the mysterious conditions under which objects acquire symbolic meaning. Establishing the genre of existentialist novella-masquerade, she introduces us to The Curious Collector, The Forbearing Charlatan, The Academic Plagiator, The Pretentious Artist and The Loving Mascot. Each of these characters takes their own artistic approach in search for meaning and magic.
Anouk van Klaveren is a member of Das Leben am Haverkamp.
Booklook is a magazine that can be unfolded and worn as an apron, which again can be refolded into a magazine. It is part of a series of wearable magazines, researching garments in its contexts. With contributions by María Naidich, Femke de Vries, Rietlanden Women’s Office.
The project is initiated by Anouk Beckers, who exhibited at Das Leben am Haverkamp in 2021.
The collective Das Leben am Haverkamp had the pleasure of organising a masterclass for the Textile and fashion department of The Royal Academy of Art. The students made twenty scarecrows, that found their way to the vast field of Kamperland, Zeeland. By doing so, students were invited to question everything they know about fashion. When searching for construction materials, we invited the students to sort out the storage space of the department. In this no-man’s land of abandoned prototypes and failed student projects, they found the materials to create their beings.
Available to be collected at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
Peach Tree, Ambiguous is a research project, mapping how value is created around luxury goods. It operates as a speculative department-store and brand, selling fictional design objects created by Anouk van Klaveren. Embracing the deranged logic of today’s marketing- and communications cultus, the brand outsourced its products’ raison d’être by hiring an international team of sales experts, content creators and e-commerce models.
The project is initiated by Anouk van Klaveren, member of Das Leben am Haverkamp.
You are invited to JOIN Collective Clothes: a modular clothing system that invites people to create clothes together. JOIN pattern manual consists of four different shapes which can be assembled and re-assembled into different garments over time. J = top, O = sleeve, I = trouser leg, N = skirt. Each shape can be made by someone else; everyone can JOIN.
JOIN in an initiative by Anouk Beckers, who exhibited and organized workshops at Das Leben am Haverkamp in 2021.
Wessel Verrijt builds sculptures, or rather ‘entities’ that crowd his visual rituals. They are colourful, idiosyncratic and powered by humans. Balancing the thin lines between art, theatre and choreography in order to create a new mythology of symbols and meaning. With text by Paul Segers.
Wessel Verrijt exhibited at Das Leben am Haverkamp in 2021.
This publication documentated the exhibition series Vier attracties, één kermis. Through four “solo” exhibitions, in which they impersonate eachother, the members of Das Leben am Haverkamp playfully explore the meaning of individual artisthood and identity. Text by Pia Louwerens, Anouk van Klaveren, Dewi Bekker, Gino Anthonisse en Christa van der Meer.
This publication is released in the context of the exhibition Zeeuws Museum x Das Leben am Haverkamp and gives an insight on an unconventional cooperation between the visitor of the Zeeuws Museum and the collective Das Leben am Haverkamp. The book deepens the enigmatic relation between things & words, challenging the meaning of objects in our daily life and that of our ancestors.
Time is just a made-up concept. What if the week would not count 7 days? The membres of Das Leben am Haverkamp joined forces with the grafic designers of Marsdiep. Together they launch a fictional calendar filled with collages and visual poetry. Limited edition of 50 copies.
