W139, Amsterdam, october 2023
Have A Good Dog Press and Friends for People I Care About
at W139 hosts…
Invited to host and curate the People I Care About Table of Content (Talk) on Pickle Radio on the 11th of october
People I Care About is the first of a series of events that gathers friends of Have A Good Dog Press in a collaboration exploring the possibilities of sharing and collective learning
through publishing. During a week-long program, Have A Good Dog Press took over the space of W139 and accommodated talks, live-radio and workshops.
In collaboration with: Ran-Re Reimann (builder, designer), Ilya Stasevich (writer, artist, curator), Gersande Schellinx (bookbinder, writer, designer), Aske Hvitved (artist, radio pickle enthusiast), Dasha Leo (publisher, illustrator).
see People I Care About Table of Content Zine
Pictures by Gabriel Stoll
Amsterdam, october 2023
Grand opening of El Museo del Perro * Honden Museum, founded by Francisca Khamis Giacoman, the first dog museum in Europe.
The Waiting Dog installation is a collaboration between Gersande Schellinx and Finn Overdevest.
Ceramic hooks, dog bowl and DOG bowl by Finn Overdevest.
Waiting Dog catalogues by Gersande Schellinx.
Special edition of two (dog vision / person vision) made for the El Museo del Perro dog-artefacts collection.
A collection of personal and shared pictures of waiting dogs in Amsterdam with friends, especially Dasha Leo.
Ongoing collection since 2018.
Groningen, october-december 2023
Custom ceramic card holders made for Ål Nik for the Sound Jam installation at S.Å.T.E. - Sounds at the Exposure.
Designed and produced by Gersande Schellinx.
Edition of 6 unique pieces
Amsterdam, july 2023
Custom ceramic book support made for A.S. to host the Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné.
Designed by Gersande Schellinx
Inspired by Xavier Mañosa's LECTERNS in use at Terranova Bookstore
Made by Finn Overdevest
Illustration by César Rogers
Edition of 1
Social Shelves: an Itstory is part of the social shelf project 2022-2023
MA Thesis, XPUB, Piet Zwart.
Foreword excerpt:
'This project is a world-building experiment. Using non-human perspectives it attempts to redefine what material thinking—broadly understood as the encounter of practice
and theory in artistic and design fields—can mean to anyone in and outside of those fields. We, social shelves will talk to you, the reader, directly. Together we will
investigate the following question: How can a better understanding of socialised objects create opportunities to affect the social design of tomorrow?
As part of the original case study for this theoretical investigation, material experiments take place in parallel to the writing process. One month after the other,
between 2022 and 2023 five social shelves have been prototyped, built, and trialed across different locations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.'
First edition of 50
Written and produced by Gersande Schellinx.
Designed by
Chloé Delchini.
See project page
The Material Reviews' zine is part of the social shelf project 2022-2023,
Graduation Project, XPUB, Piet Zwart.
The social shelf project inquires how shifted perspectives in relation to materiality can produce
alternative relationship between users/makers and small objects. In the context of social design, reciprocity between human
and non-human actors is key. This bubble action uses the mundane space of a shelf as a material and conceptual constraint
(or as a trope for social structures) to initiate conversations with people and their direct surroundings, engaging them in new material processes.
First edition of 50
See project page
Making Things Bubblic, june 2023,
at Slash Gallery, Rotterdam.
XPUB graduation show.
A glimpse of a moment. We look at where it comes from, this bubble.
Thinking about bubbles helps to reimagine publishing. When we switch the first letter of public,
publishing and publication, something awkward happens that initiates a thought process.
A small detail, a single letter, makes unfamiliar and curious again, what we have learned to take for granted.
Making Things Bubblic is, amongst other things, a graduation shop and,
a space to continue conversations on how we sell and distribute published matter as independent makers.
We are thinking about how to send out our bubbles.
Our bubblishing has happened underwater, throughout the past two years of collective study we have experimented with,
and developed our works. This is a bubbling of our experience, an intimate and collective process that now travels up
and out to an external public.
a bubble is fragile and temporary
a bubble is created with care and consciousness
or it emerges in a happy accident
a bubble is an imaginary, intimate space
a bubble pops and spreads without a trace
With Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova), Carmen Gray, Chaeyoung Kim,
Emma Prato, Erica Gargaglione, Francesco Luzzana, Gersande Schellinx,
Jian Haake, Kimberley Cosmilla, Miriam Schöb, Mitsa Chaida and Supisara Burapachaisri.
See project page for more information
Making Things Bubblic on Radio Worm, june 2023,
at Radio Worm, Rotterdam.
XPUB
Across two evenings XPUB will share their work and research through interviews.
Interviews here are interpreted in different ways by each student - they will structure dialogues,
discussions and bubbles of thought, mixed with infomercials and sonic material that shares more of our practices. The radio shows are a teaser to invite you to our graduation show.
Hosted by Ål Nik [Alexandra Nikolova] and Gersande Schellinx.
Contributions by Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova), Carmen Gray, Chaeyoung Kim,
Emma Prato, Erica Gargaglione, Francesco Luzzana, Gersande Schellinx,
Jian Haake, Kimberley Cosmilla, Miriam Schöb, Mitsa Chaida and Supisara Burapachaisri.
Listen to the radio shows
Polana Institute, Warsaw, april 2023
Participation to the Education Department with "La Courbe" a small working bench and plasma cut knives.
Under the mentorship of Olga Micińska and Harriet Morley
with Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven, Cecile Hübner, Chloé Sapelkine and Bo Wielders.
Conception of wooden/metal tools and a metal gate.
Member of the Writing Department with Samantha McCulloch:
read A Laborious Portrait
Pictures by Jędrzej Sokołowski
read more
Made for the Office for Small Decision Making september 2022,
at Plan B, Amsterdam.
First edition of 40
Pictures and text by Carmen Gray.
Designed, printed and bound by Gersande Schellinx.
see the Small Chair Collection Inventory Catalogue
Office for Small Decision Making september 2022,
at Plan B, Amsterdam.
In collaboration with Carmen Gray and Mariana Jurado Rico.
G. Schellinx as Chief Secretary of the Office for Small Decision Making (OfSDM),
wrote all the Office Manuals with Office line of conduct and designed
the Small Chair Collection Inventory Catalogue.
The Office for Small Decision Making has been given the unique opportunity
to set their Office and use the vacant space of Plan B during the month of September 2022.
Unfortunately, due to budget cuts the OfSDM was only be able to occupy the given
premises for a total of three days and three days only, with a number of ad hoc additional hours...
Due to the exceptional character of such a short-term instalment, the Office members instigators did not
get any remuneration to conduct proper job interviews to hire more Office staffs. Having the opportunity
not to pay only a few Office members, the OfSDM concluded that any temporary employee working on the base
of free volunteering were welcome to call themselves Office members. Therefore, any client of the Office
could assume corporate status when participating in any Office activities during Office hours.
read Adult Office Manual
see the Small Chair Collection Inventory Catalogue
Pictures by Carmen Gray.
X-unPub
unPublic number 81. 'experimental un-publishing' session on June 22nd 2022,
in the auditorium of La Générale Nord-Est, Paris XIV, France.
with Kam Seng Aung (violin), Alexandra Nikolova ([6:] dj mix, voice),
Carmen Gray ([1:] drum, bottle, maracas, bell), Chaeyoung Kim ([5:] rattling egg, i-thing, handbell),
Emma Prato ([10:] xylophone, harmonic voice), Erica Gargaglione ([2:] (little) drums, bells, flute),
Francesco Luzzana ([4:] nanoloop, flute, hands, voice), Jian Haake ([11:] DIY breadboard synth, scratch box),
Kimberley Cosmilla ([3:] flute, (little) drum, xylophone), Miriam Schöb ([7:] cracklebox, stylophone, bottle,
voice, body), Mitsa Chaida ([0:] maracas, bells, drum, voice), Supisara Burapachaisri ([9:] Bastl Kastle Drum,
Bastl Kastle v1.5), Gersande Schellinx ([8:] zither, voice) and Har$ (direction += time-keeping & dictaphones).
Listen here
Methods To Practice Interdependencies
Experimental Publishing (XPUB) Special Issue 18.
Made by Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova), Carmen Gray, Chaeyoung Kim,
Emma Prato, Erica Gargaglione, Francesco Luzzana, Gersande Schellinx,
Jian Haake, Kimberley Cosmilla, Miriam Schöb, Mitsa Chaida and Supisara Burapachaisri.
Pictures by Carmen Gray.
read more
puntWG, Amsterdam, april-may 2022
Participation to the Education Department with "La Courbe" a small working bench and plasma cut knives.
Under the mentorship of Olga Micińska and Harriet Morley
with Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven, Cecile Hübner, Chloé Sapelkine and Bo Wielders.
Conception of wooden/metal tools and a metal gate.
Member of the Writing Department with Samantha McCulloch:
read A Laborious Portrait
Pictures by Kitty Maria van Ekeren and Olga Micińska
read more
A Box in a Box in a Box is a Lootbox
Experimental Publishing (XPUB) Special Issue 17.
Made by Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova), Carmen Gray, Chaeyoung Kim,
Emma Prato, Erica Gargaglione, Francesco Luzzana, Gersande Schellinx,
Jian Haake, Kimberley Cosmilla, Miriam Schöb, Mitsa Chaida and Supisara Burapachaisri.
Co-published by Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB)
at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy.
Pictures by Carmen Gray.
read more
Gerrit Rietveld Academie BA Thesis
A research that explores the alphabet,
a deconstruction of its hegemonic status
and study of the embedded social infrastructures
in our alphabetical system. It can be seen
as a series of reflections on the question:
Is there a way to break down social constructs
embedded in (our use of) the alphabet in order
to support social change? Too often
language is used to justify inequalities
when accountability is necessary, to work together,
on social change or adapt to contemporary/current social needs,
recover social diversity in identity.
Written by Gersande Schellinx
Designed by
Ran Re Reimann
The Living-Room Furniture
“A Table Portrait, Yerma” (2018-2021) is an idiosyncratic
re-writing of Federico
Garcia Lorca’s play Yerma. An
immersive play in three acts
and three rooms.
The furniture of "A Table Portrait, Yerma" has been designed, produced and built by Gersande Schellinx
for the Première of the play in Amsterdam Noord in 2021. The set of furniture is the stage on which the play can take place,
wherever, whenever.
Each piece of furniture should be thought as active actors to the play's dinner party.
The four characters Juan, Yerma, Victor and Maria have a custom chair with different
face expressions imprinted on the top-back, as well as slightly different body features (one chair has a deeper
seat slope, another a straighter back, ...) as to influence the body language of each actor during the play.
The table has been made with an irregular leg-frame in order to get some characters closer or further away
from one another... Finally, a custom hole was made to host a spot for the play's vase in
the middle of the table as a visual metaphor to the play's main topic of conversation: fertility.
The faces were modeled in clay, then 3D scanned, re-designed in blender and carved with CNC.
Pictures by Carmen Gray.
The Radio
Released July 7, 2021
This album compiles the songs written in the play “A Table Portrait, Yerma”,
that were featured on the radio playing both at the representations and at the
Rietveld Academie graduation show 2021.
“A Table Portrait, Yerma” (2018-2021) by Gersande Schellinx is an idiosyncratic
re-writing of Federico Garcia Lorca’s play Yerma. An immersive play in three acts and three rooms.
Lyrics by Gersande Schellinx
Composition and arrangements by Oliver Feghali
All instruments and sounds played and recorded by Oliver Feghali*
Vocals by Gersande Schellinx & Oliver Feghali
*Special thanks to Peter Hammill and David Wise.
Listen to the album of A Table Portrait, Yerma
“A Table Portrait, Yerma” (2018-2021) is an idiosyncratic
re-writing of Federico
Garcia Lorca’s play Yerma. An
immersive play in three acts
and three rooms. Two sets of
furniture: a living-room and
a kitchen, as well as the vase
and the book designed and build
by Gersande Schellinx.
Set Design by Gersande Schellinx
Costumes by Marite Kuus
Music by Oliver Feghali
Food and Dinner Scenography by Elena Braida
Joe Eshuis as Videographer
Dariya Trubina as Assistant Director
with help from Dasha Leontieva, Kristina Schadler and Adèle Beaulieu
Starring Stanley Steen as Juan,
Leyla de Muynck as Yerma,
Dawn Atteveld as Maria and
Philip van de Bree as Victor.
Listen to the album of A Table Portrait Yerma
Exhibition at A LAB, Amsterdam.
Books commissioned by Federico Sande Novo for his Filmacademie (Amsterdam) Master of Film Graduation project.
Printing and bookbinding by Gersande Schellinx.
read more
Gymfest by Cecile Hübner and Shifra Osorio Whewell.
At Plantage Dok, Amsterdam.
Zine designed by Gersande Schellinx:
read the Gymfest Zine
With illustrations by Dasha Leontieva.
read more
Initiated in 2018 by Gersande Schellinx and Cori.
Runned by Gersande Schellinx and Marite Kuus in 2020.
Designed by Ran Re Reimann and Łukasz Matuszewski.
Matchboxes give-away by Eva Mahhov.
Rietveld Journal is a free publication run by students of
the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut and
distributed at the Academie, in the Netherlands and internationally.
It is an open platform for the community of these two institutions
to share any printed matter between each other and with the outside world.
Pictures by Pictures by Carmen Gray.
Furnitures by Alex Zeta.
read more
@rietveld.journal
Initiated in 2018 and runned by Gersande Schellinx and Cori in 2019.
Designed by Juliette Lépineau and Itziar Domingo.
Campaign designed by Samuel Pin.
Rietveld Journal is a free publication run
by students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
and Sandberg Instituut and distributed at the Academie,
in the Netherlands and internationally.
It is an open platform for the community of these two institutions to share any printed matter between each other and with the outside world.
read more
@rietveld.journal
A surrealistic interpretation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma”.
Book and serie of readings around Amsterdam.
Designed and written by Gersande Schellinx.
read more
Initiated and runned in 2018 by Gersande Schellinx and Cori.
Designed by César Rogers and Ken Wenrui Zhao
Rietveld Journal is a free publication run by students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut and distributed at the Academie, in the Netherlands and internationally.
It is an open platform for the community of these two institutions to share any printed matter between each other and with the outside world.
read more
@rietveld.journal
Premiered at the Dijktheater, Amsterdam.
The Game of Being is written & directed by Gersande Schellinx.
Based on the theme of PLAY, The Game of Being is a play about power relationship in society.
Modelled on an excerpt of J.MG Le Clézio’s short story ‘‘L’homme qui marche’’. The play’s
structure follows an organic and absurdistic story line, while questioning a concrete entity
and its components: society, our society .
The box is made out of eight young actors with different nationalities:
Shifra Osorio Whewell
Adriana Lasheras Mabanta
Felina Beckenbauer
Briac Trémolières
Marite Kuus
Sankrit Kulmanochawong
Shaun Beattie
Cecile Hübner
With the help of Zoe Jurgens.
watch the play here
