Uncertainty Seminars

2019
Playground embracing vulnerability, closeness, inclusion, and imagination through collective doubt, collision, friction, and hesitation.

Visual identity and stage design for performances and lectures featuring a fictional poetic map–a large playground called The Map of Scattered Society. This geography of imaginary places activated by happenings expands the concept of uncertainty as a critical tool through the means of performative design. For Stroom Den Haag.

  • Uncertainty Seminars: a black map of imaginary places spreads under a curtain of neon contours, a figure at a green stool
  • Uncertainty Seminars: two figures sit close on the black playground map, one typing, one on the mic, curtain behind
  • Uncertainty Seminars: a figure laughs into a mic before a curtain of orange, cyan and yellow contours, a poetic map
  • Uncertainty Seminars: pink and green pennants lettered 'US' hang in a storefront, emoji hearts, an identity for happenings
  • Uncertainty Seminars: text-heavy yellow identity slide, 'US' under 'Not Getting it', hearts, a pleading emoji of doubt
  • Uncertainty Seminars: pink text slide, 'US' under 'Multispecies and Miscommunication', sheep, broken hearts in collision
  • Uncertainty Seminars: text-heavy blue slide, 'US' under 'Shadows of Tomorrow', broken hearts, a sweating grin of doubt
  • Uncertainty Seminars: green text slide, 'US' under 'Feel the Space Breathing', a hot face and broken hearts in friction
  • Uncertainty Seminars: peach text slide, 'US' under 'Other Than Art's Sake', pleading faces, broken hearts, vulnerability
  • Uncertainty Seminars: text-heavy yellow slide, 'US' under 'Care', hugging blue figures and purple hearts in closeness
  • Uncertainty Seminars: neon green socks in sandals cross the map's white contours past 'Queering Polders', a playground
  • Uncertainty Seminars: yellow 'US' socks, emoji stickers and a pink sheet lettered 'THE NOT YET', a playground identity
  • Uncertainty Seminars: a figure in pink stands at a green lectern, laptop open, emoji on the curtain, a stage for lectures
  • Uncertainty Seminars: rose text slide, 'There, There', 'Thanks for watching!', green hearts and a swimmer, closeness
  • Uncertainty Seminars: teal slide for lectures, 'Film screening & Discussion', 'Cosmos & Paleontology', bones, hourglasses