CONFLICT ATLAS: GEOPOLITICS AND CONTINGENCIES ON THE MALVINAS-FALKLANDS ARCHIPELAGO

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CONFLICT ATLAS: GEOPOLITICS AND CONTINGENCIES
ON THE MALVINAS-FALKLANDS ARCHIPELAGO
Publication 2017

In collaboration with design collective Metahaven and Archive Books Berlin.
Commissioned by TAAK and Land Art Contemporary.

Conflict Atlas
Geopolitics and contingencies on the Malvinas - Falklands archipelago
Published by: Archive Books
Author: Jasmijn Visser
Collaborators: TAAK, University of Amsterdam, Land Art Contemporary
Conflict Atlas looks at history through the perspective of the Falklands Islands/
Islas Malvinas. Global events are mirrored to local proceedings on the
archipelago. Through this method it explores trade routes, colonial enterprises,
patterns of migration, questions of identity, strategies in warfare and the role of
the climate in social issues. Conflict Atlas comprises texts, maps and archival
materials. Starting from the case of the Falklands/Malvinas it aims to create a
field of tensions by the multiplication and stratification of geographical sites,
historical times and subjective views. Within this tension field the atlas detects
movements and events that are contingent in character and can reflect on
general human behaviour in geopolitical conflicts.
Contributions by: Clare Butcher, Tendai Mutunhu, Maurizio Lazzarato, Federico
Lorenz, Metahaven, Tristan Mostert.

www.thefalklandsproject.com

Launch the Netherlands: Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam 2017

Launch Germany: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum 2017

Launch United Kingdom: Whitechapel Gallery 2017

Launch South Korea: Song Eun Project Space 2018

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MODERN CANDOR. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE
FALKLAND ISLANDS / ISLAS MALVINAS
Solo exhibition 2017
Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam

'Modern Candor' is an exhibition on the occasion of the launch of
‘Conflict Atlas. Geopolitics and contingencies on the Malvinas -
Falklands archipelago’ by Jasmijn Visser & Metahaven.
Partners: Metahaven, Archive Books Berlin, Special Collections of the
University of Amsterdam, TAAK, LACDA.

Although the exhibition Modern Candor concerns the Falklands/
Malvinas conflict, visitors to the Allard Pierson Museum will only find
two maps of the archipelago. Instead, artist Jasmijn Visser has
created an installation with a selection of rare books and maps of
Panama, Zimbabwe, Nepal and the moon from the Special
Collections of the University of Amsterdam. Some of these materials
have never been exhibited before. Using a geographical perspective
based around the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, Visser shows, for
example, how the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 changed
global trade routes, which greatly reduced the importance of the port
on the Falkland Islands; or how since 2009, Zimbabweans have been
clearing the landmines that the Argentinians planted on the islands
during the Falklands War with the United Kingdom in 1982. Visser
highlights these relationships in the texts on the floor-plan that leads
the visitors through the exhibition, guiding them from scene to scene,
as it were. In this way, Visser connects local events on the islands
with major turning points in world history. In this exhibition, conceived
as a singular installation, Visser combines maps and books from the
Special Collections with infographics that she made in collaboration
with Metahaven for the publication Conflict Atlas. Geopolitics and
contingencies on the Malvinas - Falklands archipelago. The exhibition
elaborates on the Conflict Atlas, which is the culmination of Visser’s
extensive field research; Visser spent three months on the Falkland
Islands and researched how, from the first moments of exploration,
world powers have influenced the landscape, politics and social sphere
of the islands. In the exhibition and publication, Visser shows the
interaction between local and global events.

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PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT SERF CLUB
In collaboration with PWR, 2016/2017

Serf Club is an infinite film constructed from
global live streams. A drama playing out in real
life and in real time. The algorithmic director,
influenced by intuitive, geographical, relational
factors, modulates an audio-visual signal to
make meaning appear and disappear. Shot
reverse shot. Close-up on tangled plotlines.
Build suspense and tear it down. Cut to
cables snaking across borders. Cue music.

Serf Club is a collaboration by Jasmijn Visser and
PWR studio. Together they are constructing an
algorithm that connects to livestreams distributed
evenly over the globe, while it generates narrative
and sound, continuously balancing between
randomness and meaning.
Serf Club evolves with every viewing, the first version
was shown at Delfina Foundation December 2016,
continued at Transitdisplay in Prague and was
streamed at CENART Mexico City as part of the
exhibition Infosphere. Serf Club was featured as
opening event at Transmediale 2018, Face Value.

serf-club.cam

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PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT
YOUR TOUCH, SO FOREIGN
In collaboration with S†ëfan Schäfer, 2017/2019

Your Touch, So Foreign focusses on how collective
memory is created within the boundaries of culturally
defined perceptions of time and space. In this
project, the plight of the Kalmyk serves as a test
case. Jasmijn Visser and S†ëfan Schäfer undertook a
research expedition to Kalmykia, and followed how
the Kalmyk re-appropriate their culture after the
attempt of the Soviet State to purge the republic’s
entire population. In the attempt by the Kalmyk to
establish their culture, tension field unfolds between
collective memory, mathematics and science fiction.

Your Touch, So Foreign was commissioned as a
special project for the Krasnoyarsk Biennale 2018. In
2019 Visser & Schäfer will launch the publication and
film in collaboration with Archive Books and literary
scientist Elena Vogman. With the latter Schäfer and
Visser are working to publish a comprehensive
collection of rare sketches by Velimir Khlebnikov. The
futurist poet was raised with the Kalmyk and was
continuously influenced by the Kalmyk Buddhism in
his writings. This is made visible in the archive of
sketches Vogman discovered, which shows proposals
for new visualisation of time and space, leading to time
constellations. The Khlebnikov archive will be published
in the book, an exhibited on the occasion of the launch
at Archive Books Berlin.

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BACHELOR’S DELIGHT
Solo exhibition
Museum Van Loon Amsterdam, 2015
In collaboration S†ëfan Schäfer & Tristan Mostert Supported by Mondrian
Foundation and AFK

Bachelor’s Delight follows Visser’s artist-in-residence in the coach house of the
Museum van Loon, in collaboration with Mondrian Foundation. During this
period, Visser and historian Tristan Mostert researched the Atlas van Loon and
related atlases, for its political and social connotations, and mirroring the
improvising behaviour of the 17th century navigators to contemporary times.
This formed a perspective of how the vision on the world was framed from the
Van Loon residence in the 17th century.

The exhibition takes shape of a quadriptych, with the website as the first part,
together with a poster, digital installation, and objects from the museum’s
inventory. These different elements can be viewed separately, but also inform
each other. The poster operates as a guide through the website and the
installation. Designer S†ëfan Schäfer and Visser used the house’s eclectic
interior in order to frame
the project’s visual identity.

bachelorsdelight.com

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