Residency: Lo-Def Film Factory x Roxette Capriles and Amber Vineyard

Lo-Def Film Factory (Cape Town, SA) is coming to WORM and joins forces with Roxette Capriles and Amber Vineyard (House of Vineyard, NL)! Together they create an open, interactive and personal workspace to engage in an artistic conversation about Climate (In)justice and Algorithmic Colonialism: you are invited to co-create with them!

Their one week residency at WORM combines research, hands-on making, archival material exploration and shared reflection. We will explore various topics and spaces, from mining landscapes in South Africa to the hidden gaps in colonial archives. In this project, we view AI through the lens of the double-bind between colonialism and ecological degradation. Climate injustice is inextricably linked to other injustices, such as access to materials and resources, the transition to ‘clean’ technology and energy, but also in labour and migration, to name just a few. Together, we ask: How has colonialism laid the template for this extractive circuit of value extraction and ecological exhaustion? How can we, as artists, contextualise AI against a backdrop of landscape, labor, and political struggle to understand the colonial structure of the industrial networks and material infrastructures that comprise AI? 

The project aims for an experimental approach to games, cardboard-installation-building, costume-making and performance to create a cross-continental collaboration that contributes meaningfully to both the Dutch creative landscape and the South African context. Bring your scissors and come over!

OPEN STUDIOS
From 22-26 September in WORM

Open Studio daily from 13h-17h : try out the newest game by Lo-Def Film Factory and co-create a termite-hill-installation with cardboard! (free)

SPECIAL PUBLIC PROGRAMME:
23 September, 13:00-15:00 – (post)colonial (an)archives workshop by Carine Zaayman (free)

24 September, 20:30h –  Lo-Def Film Factory curated film programme. (ticketed event)

26 September, 20:30h – festive closure with costume-making and music (free event)

This project is kindly supported by Stimuleringsfund Creative Industries. Many thanks to Maria Zaczykiewicz.

Lo-Def Film Factory is artist duo Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson. Their work involves archival research, dramaturgy, and visual strategies associated with video art, collage, sculptural installation and new media. Their projects probe the intersections between local contexts, extractive economies, and global technological systems– using lo-fi aesthetics to expose high-stakes realities. In the Netherlands, their work has been presented at Het Nieuwe Instituut, IFFR, Dutch Design Week.

Roxette Capriles and Amber Vineyard co-create in the House of Vineyard, the internationally recognised Ballroom House, fostering community, providing educational spaces while challenging conventions in and outside of the ballroom scene. Besides its major contribution in organising and participating in balls, House of Vineyard facilitates affordable community classes and shares their knowledge and family values. Capriles integrates elements of ballroom culture into their practice, exploring how underground cultural forms can expand art’s social reach and symbolic power. For this project they develop an artistic dialogue with House of Vineyard Chapter Cape Town.

This residency is part of Unmaking the Model, a year-long project running concurrently at Lo-Def Film Factory (Cape Town, SA) and WORM (Rotterdam, NL), following an open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL on the theme of Climate Justice.