Susan Kooi

Lonely Planet: Campania Felix is the first part of a trilogy in which multidisciplinary visual artist Susan Kooi (b. 1988) travels to Italy, Portugal and Japan to work with various traditions of ceramic crafts. The project reflects on how artifacts signify meaning during their lifespan and are carriers of meaning for extraction in the future, with Kooi seeking evidence of an object s use and meaning, both real and fictitious, with the resulting stories forming this series. For Campania Felixis, Kooi traveled to the Italy s Campania region, exploring a terra-cotta factory, Naples, and Pompeii, among other locations. An alternative travel guide accompanies the objects on view in the exhibition at Media and Moving Art (MAMA) in Rotterdam and tells the tales of these artifacts that are found and made by Susan Kooi. Contributions include Hanna Bervoets, Maurits de Bruijn, Nathalie Hartjes, Vincent Hunink, Tommi Vasko and Marloes de Vries.… (mer)

Escoural-O-Novo is the third book of the Lonely Planet triptych, in which Dutch artist Susan Kooi travels to Italy, Portugal, and Japan to work with various traditions and artists in the world of ceramic crafts. This last part of the triptych in which Kooi recontextualises and poetically reconstructs ceramic artefacts, explores the material as a time machine. This publication also functions as an alternative travel book for the Montomor-O-Novo region in Portugal, which has a long tradition in ceramics. After having worked with terra-cotta in Italy and with porcelain in Japan, Kooi s focus here is on the glazing process. In a kind of symbolic circle, Kooi got to glaze some terracotta works made in Italy, and make a series of new works based on what she encountered around the region. The contributions of Ana Joao Almeida, Sira Camacho, Susan Kooi, Lot Meijers and Anni Puolakka tell the background stories of these ceramics.… (mer)

Lonely Planet. Yamatai Koku.Susan Kooi is the second part of the triptych, in which Dutch artist Susan Kooi travels to Italy, Portugal, and Japan to work with various raditions of ceramic crafts. During a three-month residency in Arita - birthplace of Japanese porcelain production with a rich history in ceramics - Kooi worked with recontextualizing and poetically reconstructing ceramic objects. This publication shows a selection of works made during Kooi's three-month residency in Arita, adapted into essays, science fiction and manga by Susan Kooi, Yoriko Ishizawa, Colleen Morgan, Hangil Jang, Fukae Ryohei, and Youngbin Kim.… (mer)