Activity Report OSP 2022 - 2023
This report is a short overview of OSP’s activities in 2022-23. We invite you of course to explore them more deeply in their individual repositories.
Commisions
ISELP
Guide d'usage http://iselp.osp.kitchen/, guidelines for ISELP, based on the visual idendity we developed.
CIFAS
Art vivant dans la ville et ses lisières,
Lieu d’apprentissage et d’expérimentation
Cifas is a place of thinking and practice for the art in the city and its surroundings, socially and politically engaged. Cifas has started a transition from 2022. We are collaborating with their team to land this shift with a new identity and a platform hosting the past, present and future activities of the asbl. Starting from their actual archive organisation, we created a CMS system which uses their existing Nextcloud. This way, their day-to-day organisation folders, partly become the website content in which they can specify which event is liquid (in the present) and which shift to a solid state (past).
Majubois
Majubois makes made to measure furniture. OSP developed a website for them. The website is minimal and puts photography of the realized projects at the forefront.
Oceanographies Institute
The Oceanographies Institute (TOI) is a collaborative platform for artistic practices that study human-ocean kinships. It focuses on the relation between two bodies of water: the human body and the world ocean(s). TOI gives particular attention to affectual and sensual encounters between the two bodies. It collects and reenacts people's personal stories about their encounters with the ocean. Listening, storytelling and song-making are its primarily tools for this study.
OSP collaborated with Marialena Marouda on making this platform as an artistic tool for showing and performing.n
Caveat Emptor, Assemblies of practices
Series of posters drawn with a plotter. Caveat is a collective research project initiated by Jubilee, reflecting and acting on the ecology of artistic practice. Emptor continues along the methodology and efforts of Caveat. It actively applies the practice-based approach to 'property', a concept that highly defines the economy of visual arts.
Oscillation festival 2022
https://www.oscillation-festival.be/2022/
Visual identity and website of the Oscillation Festival 2022 — Public Adress. For this collaboration, we did use a simple git repository as a CMS, in order to answer the sobriety necessity of this one-shot collaboration. The website home was built as a modular page where the QO-2 team could choose, at every moment, what type of content to on or off. Once the content blocks selected, the same flexibility was given to the visitors. The page was then in synch with QO-2 organic needs of communication and restructured from the visitor when ever it was wished. The identity was also based on a shape interacting with remote public, translating the density of people visiting and chating lively on the website.
Médor 28, 29, 30
In the period 2022-2023 OSP members worked on three issues of Médor, #28, #29 & #30.
Seat for the Sea
A seat for the see https://www.aseatforthesea.com is transmedia research project on deepsea mining initiated by Greet Brauwers and Raf Custers. Through the website they give insight into the research. They publish notes, essays, images and video and announce events. The website is based on ethertoff, allowing for collaborative writing.
Futurology of Cooperation
https://grimoire.futurology.be/
Futurology of Cooperation is a collective research project gathering artists with different practices and initiated by Anna Czapski and Diederik Peeters. During 3 years, we experimented on different technics, helping to imagine and live alternative scenarios of the future.
We gathered and shared these experiments in a publication that we called the Grimoire:
Een Grimoire is a book of magic spells and recipes. Les sorts en toverspreuken qui se trouvent in deze Grimoire take the form of practical tools, technieken, jeux et structures à utiliser par toute personne interested in l'expérimentation met tijdreizen and time-travel in collectieve processen.
SOTA Almanac
OSP collaorating in the Fair Arts Almanac since 2021. Initially we provided the tool ethertoff, but now we are also developing the graphic design, the publication will be published in Autumn 2023
Leaky Archives
Leaky Archices is a project organised within the Rautenstreich Joest Museum, it explores how colonial archives and collections can be critically developed and reflected upon with the help of digitality. For this project OSP developed a communication tool. It generates a website based on a shared nextcloud folder. The fellows participating in the project share images, documents in this folder. The audience can consult the material online.
Residency Besançon
After 15 years the collaboration with the Balsamine theater has stopped. On invitation of Super Señor we worked on the archive of material developed in the collaboration. The outcome of this residency is a collection of recipes, based on recipes, hacks and experiments developed during the work for Balsamine.
The outcome is planned to be launced in the fall of 2023 and will be published both in print and online.
Workshops
Mainz
Workshop on web to print.
An interface: etherwikcss - writing CSS language to restyle/re-interpret wikipedia article
The students worked in 3 groups of ~5 on a different wikipedia articles, with immutable HTML, learning to inspect and redraw the article out of CSS.
Karlsruhe
Workshop were we worked with students of xxx on graphiz.
an interface: etherdot - writing DOT language (graphviz) on etherpad.
each of them worked on a specific standard they had made research on as an assigment.
OSP Call
In the General Assembly of 2022 the members of OSP expressed their desire to shift the practice of OSP, and to extend the collective. At that time we presented a first call for new members. Based on feedback of the board we have re-written the call and launched it in June 2023. We are currently in the process of selecting two of the applicants as new members of the collective.