Jake Caleb

artistic research - collaboration

Jake Caleb (1990, UK) is a Rotterdam based artist. Caleb uses an interdisciplinary approach that brings together strands from visual art, music and poetry. His practice examines the concept of listening and the public and private forms this takes. He formalizes his research through exhibition making, hosting events and organizing initiatives. These works are often made collectively or in collaboration with others.

Caleb co-runs an other world, a project space for observation, experimentation and dialogue in South Rotterdam. Since 2020 he has cooked with Eathouse, a collective that instigates dialogue on how the culinary informs the social. In 2019 he co-initiated the Singing Club of Rotterdam, an anti-choir that explores how we use the voice.


A passage

Exhibition / presentation

  • 04-11-2023 t/m 25-11-2023
  • In collaboration with: Merve Kılıçer, Tilly Shiner, Michael Lewis and Nael Quraishi
  • Location: an other world, Rotterdam
  • Solo show: A passage is a body of work investigating the suppression of certain narratives within society, especially those pertaining to migration and grief. Alongside the installation, the artist invited Merve Kılıçer (TR), Tilly Shiner (UK), Michael Lewis (ID/NL/IN/UK) and Nael Quraishi (UK/PK) to contribute to the exhibition's themes.
  • https://anotherworldproject.space/?A_passage_Jake_Caleb/

Join the Club

Task

  • 08-01-2024 t/m 12-01-2024
  • Location: HKU, Utrecht
  • Guest seminar with BFA students at HKU

Behind the scenes

Task

  • 04-09-2023 t/m 26-01-2024
  • In collaboration with: Offcourses
  • Location: Minerva Art Academy, Groningen
  • Seminar on how to contextualise your art practice with 2nd and 3rd year students, culminating in a live radio broadcast.

Nice Flaps drawing workshop

Workshop

Investigating Cultural Revisionism and Grief

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-10-2023 t/m 31-12-2023
  • Location: Goethe Institut, Rotterdam
  • Research residency and reading group investigating cultural revisionism as a form of erasure and the silencing of grief within society.

Through soft seam slips the knife ultramarine

Reading

Tongue Twisting Dinners

Project

  • 28-04-2023 t/m 23-07-2023
  • In collaboration with: Eathouse
  • Location: an other world, Rotterdam
  • Tongue Twisting Dinners was a series of four monthly dinners hosted by Eathouse (Vlada Predelina, Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer and Jake Caleb) . They explored ways of initiating critical dialogue around contemporary urgencies by bringing people and culinary practice together. For each session Eathouse hosted a different topic elaborated by guests whose research guided the dialogue.
  • https://eathousecooks.com/?Tongue_Twisting_Dinners_Session_4_resistance_at_boiling_point/

Traversals

Project

Pasion

Exhibition / presentation

UTHON - Residency & Artist Talk

Residencies / exchange

Chander Haat - Residency & Artist talk

Residencies / exchange

  • 26-02-2023 t/m 04-03-2023
  • In collaboration with: Chander Haat
  • Location: Chander Haat, Kolkata
  • Artist talk during residency at Chander Haat artist collective.
  • https://www.chanderhaat.org/

Eathouse @ Pakghor the social kitchen, Britto Arts Trust

Workshop

Eathouse @ Lemon House

Residencies / exchange

  • 19-07-2022 t/m 25-07-2022
  • In collaboration with: Eathouse
  • Location: Lemon House, Kassel
  • Eathouse collective residency and research trip to documenta fifteen

Labyrinth Film Festival

Other

Field Report: I see, I see what you don't see!

Project

Join the Club Seminar

Task

  • 04-01-2022 t/m 07-01-2022
  • In collaboration with: HKU & Casco Art Institute
  • Location: Casco Art Institute, Utrecht
  • Guest seminar with BFA students at HKU

Eathouse

Project

How to get from space to place

Exhibition / presentation

  • 15-10-2021 t/m 31-10-2021
  • Location: WET space, Rotterdam
  • Episode 1: Airholes Stephen Dwoskin, Margaret Salmon, Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Jake Caleb. How to Get from Space to Place is an episodic exhibition program for 2021-22 consisting of five core parts, with moving image artists from the Netherlands and abroad. The program focuses on the idea of ​​'place' and what that means in the contemporary moment. How to Get from Space to Place is supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam, Stichting Droom en Daad and Hillevliet.

Dreamworlding

Task

Hair Salon Live Screening

Other

  • 27-07-2021 t/m 27-07-2022
  • In collaboration with: WET film
  • Location: Apartment Project, Berlin
  • Screening of Supporting Stones (2021)

Material Contexts: Piet Zwart Institute MFA Alumni & Graduate Show

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-07-2021 t/m 10-07-2022
  • Location: The Archive, Rotterdam
  • Piet Zwart Institute MFA & Alumni Graduation Exhibition

Sound Behavior

Task

  • 21-06-2021 t/m 25-06-2021
  • Location: Artez Art Academy of Zwolle, Rotterdam
  • Guest Seminar Summer Lab.

Eathouse LIVE FEED

Project

  • 01-05-2021 t/m 31-08-2021
  • Location: Peach, Art Institute Melly, Attentive, Pavilion on the Water, Rotterdam
  • LIVE FEED is an online cooking broadcast where Eathouse collective and invited guests, share, discuss and demonstrate a recipe that resonates with their artistic practices.

Collaborations and Contingencies

Task

  • 15-03-2021 t/m 30-04-2021
  • In collaboration with: Chelsea College of Art & Design
  • Location: online, London
  • 6 week guest seminar with Chelsea College of Art & Design Fine art students

I see, I see, what you don't see!

Workshop

  • 28-07-2020 t/m 02-08-2020
  • In collaboration with: Manon Verkooyen, Charlois Special, CBK
  • Location: Growing Space, Wielewaal, Rotterdam
  • For their show at Growing Space, Manon Verkooyen and Jake Caleb asked people to join a field study documenting weeds and wildflowers in the area of ​​the Wielewaal redevelopment. They invited others to take part in their method of observation and listening in the belief that more eyes and ears see and hear more. This resulted in the drawings and paintings displayed in the green house of the Growing Space.
  • https://growingspacewielewaal.hotglue.me/

To that special someone part II

Exhibition / presentation

  • 22-08-2020 t/m 22-08-2020
  • In collaboration with: Merve Kılıçer, at7
  • Location: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn
  • For at7 and Hotel Maria Kapel, Merve Kılıçer and Jake Caleb continued their practice of searching for specific plants in their surroundings. With their film Sketch for Summer (2020) they searched for plants high in phenol, a chemical substance that can be used to develop film. Intending to use the plants to process the film, they found themselves instead exploring their own process of collaboration.
  • http://hotelmariakapel.nl/2020/07/12/to-that-special-someone-part-ii/

Homeware for Hibernation

Exhibition / presentation

  • 22-10-2020 t/m 24-10-2020
  • In collaboration with: Vlada Predelina
  • Location: a shop called LIFE, Rotterdam
  • Thinking along with rhythms of growing, collecting and storing, Vlada Predelina and Jake Caleb gathered materials on walks and in the kitchen over the summer and early autumn in order to make a homeware collection for hibernating, one that helps us listen to our bodies and be okay with being slow and sleepy for a while.
  • https://www.ashopcalled.life/past-life

peach black darkroom residency

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-09-2020 t/m 31-10-2020
  • In collaboration with: Peach
  • Location: Peach Black, Rotterdam
  • Dark room residency

Eathouse at Paviljoen ... on the Water

Project

  • 08-05-2020 t/m 26-09-2020
  • In collaboration with: Vlada Predelina, Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer
  • Location: Pavilion ... on the Water, Rotterdam
  • Eathouse is an initiative set up by Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer, Vlada Predelina and Jake Caleb to provide simple, affordable food and a generous meeting point for people living in Rotterdam-South. For the 2020 summer season, Eathouse cooked and hosted the restaurant at Paviljoen ... aan het Water.
  • https://charloisaanhetwater.nl/

Farmer's Salad

Residencies / exchange

  • 19-09-2019 t/m 30-09-2019
  • In collaboration with: Piet Zwart Institute
  • Location: Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag
  • To culminate their residency at Kunsthuis SYB, students of the Piet Zwart Institute organized the exhibition Farmer's Salad. For the show Jake Caleb made Friesland Sound, an installation where materials collected from walks in the woods were assembled as 'flower arrangements' in empty consumables. Visitors were invited to try coffee processed from foraged acorns and participate in a collective sound making exercise.
  • http://kunsthuissyb.nl/ca-alpplsybjjoajd-mping/?lang=en

Singing Club of Rotterdam / Audience at Antenna cassette release party

Other

  • 04-09-2020 t/m 04-09-2020
  • In collaboration with: Antenne
  • Location: ATTENT, 't O-tje, Rotterdam
  • Release party for the Singing Club of Rotterdam cassette. The night's program consisted of special performances and DJ sets by Singing Club members, with the usual “anyone is free to join” approach, including a voice only DJ set mixed by Ash Kilmartin & Robert Kroos, group jams led by Clara Borg, Beyoncé tributes by Mylan Hoes, Merve Kılıçer & Linus Bonduelle (live). Catering was provided by Marloes De Vries, Jake Caleb and Bergur Thomas Anderson as 'Margherita Margarita'.
  • https://antennerotterdam.bandcamp.com/album/singing-club-of-rotterdam-audience-at-antenne

Hordaland Kunstsenter Summer Academy

Residencies / exchange

Club Night: Singing Club of Rotterdam / Marta de Pascalis

Performance

  • 11-12-2019 t/m 11-12-2019
  • Location: Antenne, Rotterdam
  • Singing Club of Rotterdam came to existence in the early days of 2019 as an alternative choir exploring ways of singing and listening together. In recent months they've been "learning to not give af * & $", and even more recently: "how to listen to all of their voices". For their club night in the Antenna bedroom venue they invited the audience to join this exploration with their own voices.
  • https://antennerotterdam.bandcamp.com/album/singing-club-of-rotterdam-audience-at-antenne

Award Introductions Radio

Performance

Pulp Puppers

Exhibition / presentation

  • 31-08-2019 t/m 31-08-2019
  • In collaboration with: Merve Kilicer
  • Location: Twenty One, Southend
  • Group exhibition exhibiting work with Merve Kilicer

Settle for Nothing Less

Exhibition / presentation

  • 28-09-2017 t/m 01-10-2017
  • Location: Unit 28b, Penarth Center, London
  • The exhibition Settle for Nothing Less was organized by the studio members of Unit 28b and selected for the Art Licks Weekend 2017: Finding Solutions. Featuring work from: Nathan Bather, Richard Battersby, Rory Beard, Jake Caleb, Rose Carroll, Hannah Dinz, Líadáin Evans, Maudie Gibbons, Alma Feldhandler, Pietro S. Librizzi, Christopher Oliver.
  • https://artlicksweekend.com/2017/events/settle-for-nothing-less/

A tribute to JB

Exhibition / presentation

  • 31-05-2017 t/m 07-06-2018
  • In collaboration with: Helen Savage, Nick Thomas, Sophie Varin
  • Location: The Freeshop, Rotterdam
  • 'A tribute to JB' was a group show exploring the writings of John Berger organized by Helen Savage and Jake Caleb and exhibited at the Freeshop, Rotterdam. Works from: Josh Crowle, Freya Dooley, Antonio de la Hera and Owen Lacey, Caitlin Merrett King, Theo Vass, Helen Savage and Jake Caleb.

Domestivic Festival

Project

  • 19-10-2014 t/m 19-10-2014
  • In collaboration with: Simon Clear, Mario D'Agostino, Eva Rowson, Andrea Francke
  • Location: Open School East, London
  • All day music festival welcoming an experimental line up of artists musicians and performers who are showing new work in front of an audience.

Acknowledgments

    Scholarship
  • Mondriaan Fund Artist corona bridging stipend

  • 2021
    Scholarship
  • Stitching Dream & Act Makers Counter Subsidy

  • 2021
    Scholarship
  • CBK Temporary Work Contribution Production, Presentation and Research

  • 2021
    Scholarship
  • CBK Activities City

  • 2022
    Scholarship
  • Mondriaan Fund Artist Project

  • 2022
    Scholarship
  • CBK Rotterdam Practice Contribution

  • 2023
    Publication
  • Through soft seam slips the knife ultramarine

  • 2023
  • Poetry
  • Short Pieces That Move! -