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Jack Bardwell
Airing out the Laundry
The Pole, Rotterdam
April 9 – May 29, 2022
The Flags of Vreewijk Project includes the activities and the results of a workshop with members of the community of Vreewijk, Rotterdam South. Together, we translated community stories into symbols and a series of five flags, made to be flown at various locations around the neighbourhood. And from APRIL 9th to MAY 29th, a sixth flag will fly on The Pole. Sewn from the scraps of the other flags, it will move from one community to the next — like fragments of conversations; tail ends of stories told; details spilled over, but not lost to the wind.
Vreewijk is a garden village in Rotterdam South, built after world war two to house the labour force that would rebuild the city. It is often studied by architectural and urban design students as a model of communal infrastructure. The Flags of Vreewijk Project is part of a larger research project, called Conversation Journal, that is organised by Janneke Derksen and Eros Chien and is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.
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Jack Bardwell (UK, 1990) is an artist and designer based in Rotterdam whose work focuses on creating space for collaboration and the strengthening of cultural scenes and communities. Through a combination of functional infrastructure, narrative building and performance his projects manipulate the everyday to speculate on possible near futures. Making radio is a large part of his current work. As well helping set up numerous independent internet radio stations, he is the co-creator of Good Times Bad Times radio in Rotterdam and Mushroom Radio, the student-run station at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) where he hosts Group Therapy a peer-to-peer project support group for graduating master’s students.
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Jack Bardwell
Airing out the Laundry, 2022
scrap fabric, rope