Elisabeth Klement is a graphic designer and educator based in Amsterdam. Further inquiries for work.

San Serriffe online platform

2020 (project ongoing) art and design book shop web platform, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

          initiator of project, concept design, layout design, documentation

 

San Serriffe is an art and design book shop located in the Red Light District in Amsterdam.

 

Due to COVID-19 pandemic situations, the events programming and platform for publishing has not been (like so many other spaces) able to run at full capacity for the past year. This makes it evident how much the space and program has been integral to the network and audience of San Serriffe over the years. So for future proofing the San Serriffe project, an online platform for potential to host events, make available publication selections as well as the network and archive of projects is unavoidably necessary.

 

I designed a structure in which all publications are linked with keywords so every subject, author, editor, artist, designer, contributor can be found in the index listings of the web platform.

 

In the coming season it will be possible to host video lectures for talks and book launches as well as show video works from artists on the platform.

 

The structure provides room for the platform to grow more into editorial content and host voices of collaborators and contributors within the San Serriffe audience network and further.

 

Please note: web platform has been designed keeping in mind accessibility for all.

Launch of project April 30th 2021.

 

(scroll down for visual documentation)

HTSU Price

Mathias Ringgenberg aka PRICE

(Overture)(mantras for a club)

          December 2019

Commissioned work by: How to Show Up (Elisabeth Klement, Annie Goodner, Gianmaria Andreetta, Elizabeth Graham)

 

Marking the end of a 3-week residency at PAM in Los Angeles, Overture (Mantras for a club) is the starting point for a new series

of listening situations where embodiment, sound, and voice embrace a constant state of trial and error. Stuck in the theatricality

of domestic and emotional spaces, singing individuals explore their states of exposure and offer a testing ground for flatness

and artificiality. Through physical repetition, this intimate setting opens an imaginary journey and initiates the first steps into

a reflection on collectivity, interiority, and inter-subjectivity.

 

PRICE is the name behind a fictional character developed by artist Mathias Ringgenberg in a number of hybrid musical

and performative works. In residence with HTSU? this process continued to unfold in a situational performance by PRICE

with Stefan Govaart and Ivan Cheng.

performers: Stefan Govaart, Ivan Cheng and PRICE

music production: Cecile Believe

piano: Sebastian Hirsig

movement research with Thibault Lac

odor in collaboration with In‘n’out Fragrances

 

COURAGEOUS CITIZENS presentation

2018 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture

16.05.2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Presentation of Courageous Citizens publication I designed i.c.w Jan Tomson for European Cultural Foundation and Valiz, published on the occasion of the 10th ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture.

 

 

ACT ESOL presentation

ACT ESOL: Language, Resistance, Theatre Launch and presentation

10.04.2019, organized by Serpentine Galleries

 

Publication designed by Elisabeth Klement

published by Serpentine Galleries, London

 

ACT ESOL is an ongoing practice-led collaborative research project initiated by Serpentine Projects in partnership

with English for Action.The project brings together English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers and

students with theatre director Frances Rifkin (Implicated Theatre) and artist researcher Nelly Alfandari to develop a

political and participatory ESOL approach that combines language-learning with a focus on resistance.

ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre is the result of a three-year research process undertaken by Participatory

ESOL practitioners and Participatory Theatre practitioners, exploring how to implement Theatre of the Oppressed

in the ESOL classroom. The publication shares the experiences and learning from this process, as well as explains

the work to ESOL practitioners.

IN CAHOOTS talk

talk and presentation of works

06.05.2019 Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

 

This talk was part of the project We Begin With a Squiggle I was an organizer and participant of.

documentation of talk can be found here

ON GESTURES OF DOING NOTHING presentation

publication design, concept and image editing Elisabeth Klement

published by Roma Publications icw. Marres

2019, 800 ex.

 

publication presentation

Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands

04.08.2019

 

publication presentation

rongwrong, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

30.09.2019

 

Through the years, Breure & Van Hulzen collected various types of everyday gestures. This performative publication brings together a selection of ‘gestures of doing nothing’. It is based on a script for eleven performers who are standing, leaning, hanging, smoking, gazing, fumbling with a cell phone. ‘Hanging around’ is something you do with people you feel familiar with. Therefore the performers are people with whom the artists have worked before, family, and friends. Each actor was bound to a specific room and photographed in that setting.

TIME IS AN ARROW, ERROR presentations

presentation of Time Is An Arrow, Error

Page Not Found

04.12.2020 Den Haag, The Netherlands

 

The presentation involved an instalment of the prints, books and proofs of print as well as a live-audience and streamed talk and Q&A.

Video stream available here.

Together with Katja Mater.

 

 

presentation of Time Is An Arrow, Error

rile Brussels

12.12 – 13.12.2020 Brussels, Belgium

 

Installation of books, prints and printing proofs together with original works at the space.

Together with Katja Mater.

TIME IS AN ARROW, ERROR presentation *rile

presentation of Time Is An Arrow, Error

rile Brussels

12.12 – 13.12.2020 Brussels, Belgium

 

Installation of books, prints and printing proofs together with original works at the space.

TEST PRESS Redo Conference

11.10 — 17.10.2019 Redo Conference, Pristina, Kosovo

 

Upon the invitation from Redo, the TEST PRESS: 20 Years of Student Publications exhibition took place inside Cinema Riljanda.

TEST PRESS Sofia

05.11 — 27.11.2020 Melba Design Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

Upon the invitation from Melba Design Festival, the TEST PRESS: 20 Years of Student Publications exhibition took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.