Self-Assembly: Metahaven

In collaboration with La Capella, and as part of its Concèntric programming for 2025, einaidea is hosting a three-day intensive workshop with Amsterdam-based collective Metahaven. Drawing on Metahaven’s moving image, poetic, and graphic research through various recent works, this workshop explores the boundary of “narratable worlds” with particular emphasis on the potential of the graphic novel as a cinematic space. Aimed at artists, filmmakers, graphic designers, thinkers, and makers from all backgrounds, the workshop aims to unfreeze thinking about narrative and film by bringing it back to, and going beyond (near)-still images and their texts. 

This three-day workshop is particularly aimed at anyone wishing to explore the technopoetics of the moving image alongside one of the most renowned transdisciplinary practices of our time. The workshop is also proud to host a talk by the acclaimed theorist and artist Jalal Toufic as part of one of its working sessions.

The work of Metahaven — founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden — comprises filmmaking, design, installations, and writing. Metahaven have presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; ICA London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Asakusa, Tokyo; Izolyatsia, Kyiv; e-flux, New York, and State of Concept Athens, among others. Their films have been screened at IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH:DOX, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. Metahaven has participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; the Gwangju Biennale; the Sharjah Biennial; the Busan Bienniale; Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Metahaven currently are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, affiliate researchers at Antikythera, and heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at DAE.

This activity is part of Self-Assembly, a series of workshops organized by einaidea around the poetics of the collective, the codes of auto-organization and the cosmopolitics of materials in post-digital culture.

Free activity with prior registration. To participate, write to us at einaidea@eina.cat with a a short note explaining your motivation and portfolio before 15 February.

Header image: Metahaven, Information Skies, 2016, video still.