Jake Caleb

artistiek onderzoek - samenwerking

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 formalises his research through exhibition making, hosting events and organising 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 Rotterdam Zuid. 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

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 04-11-2023 t/m 25-11-2023
  • In samenwerking met: Merve Kılıçer, Tilly Shiner, Michael Lewis and Nael Quraishi
  • Locatie: 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

Opdracht

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

Behind the scenes

Opdracht

  • 04-09-2023 t/m 26-01-2024
  • In samenwerking met: Offcourses
  • Locatie: 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

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-10-2023 t/m 31-12-2023
  • Locatie: 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

Lezing

Tongue Twisting Dinners

Project

  • 28-04-2023 t/m 23-07-2023
  • In samenwerking met: Eathouse
  • Locatie: 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

Pashion

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

UTHON - Residency & Artist Talk

Residenties / uitwisseling

Chander Haat - Residency & Artist talk

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 26-02-2023 t/m 04-03-2023
  • In samenwerking met: Chander Haat
  • Locatie: 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

Residenties / uitwisseling

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

Labyrinth Film Festival

Overig

Field Report: Ik zie, ik zie wat jij niet ziet!

Project

Join the Club seminar

Opdracht

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

Eathouse X Alejandra López and Lena Longefay

Project

How to get from space to place

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 15-10-2021 t/m 31-10-2021
  • Locatie: 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

Opdracht

Kapsalon Live Screening

Overig

  • 27-07-2021 t/m 27-07-2022
  • In samenwerking met: WET film
  • Locatie: Apartment Project, Berlin
  • Screening of Supporting Stones (2021)

Material Contexts: Piet Zwart Institute MFA Alumni & Graduate Show

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-07-2021 t/m 10-07-2022
  • Locatie: Het Archief, Rotterdam
  • Piet Zwart Institute MFA & Alumni Graduation Exhibition

Sound Behaviour

Opdracht

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

Eathouse LIVE FEED

Project

  • 01-05-2021 t/m 31-08-2021
  • Locatie: Peach, Kunstinstituut Melly, Attent, Paviljoen aan het 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

Opdracht

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

Ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet!

Workshop

  • 28-07-2020 t/m 02-08-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Manon Verkooyen, Charlois Speciaal, CBK
  • Locatie: 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

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 22-08-2020 t/m 22-08-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Merve Kılıçer, at7
  • Locatie: 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

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 22-10-2020 t/m 24-10-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Vlada Predelina
  • Locatie: 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

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-09-2020 t/m 31-10-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Peach
  • Locatie: Peach Black, Rotterdam
  • Darkroom residency

Eathouse at Paviljoen... aan het Water

Project

  • 08-05-2020 t/m 26-09-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Vlada Predelina, Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer
  • Locatie: Paviljoen... aan het 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-Zuid. For the 2020 summer season, Eathouse cooked and hosted the restaurant at Paviljoen ... aan het Water.
  • https://charloisaanhetwater.nl/

Farmer's Salad

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 19-09-2019 t/m 30-09-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Piet Zwart Institute
  • Locatie: 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 Antenne cassette release party

Overig

  • 04-09-2020 t/m 04-09-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Antenne
  • Locatie: 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

Residenties / uitwisseling

Club Night: Singing Club of Rotterdam / Marta de Pascalis

Performance

  • 11-12-2019 t/m 11-12-2019
  • Locatie: 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 Antenne 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

Awkward Introductions Radio

Performance

Pulp Puppers

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

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

Settle for Nothing Less

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 28-09-2017 t/m 01-10-2017
  • Locatie: Unit 28b, Penarth Centre, 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

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 31-05-2017 t/m 07-06-2018
  • In samenwerking met: Helen Savage, Nick Thomas, Sophie Varin
  • Locatie: 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.

Domestivc Festival

Project

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

Erkenningen

    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fonds Kunstenaar corona overbrugging stipend

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • Stitching Droom & Daad Makers Loket Subsidy

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • CBK Tijdelijke Werkbijdrage Productie, Presentatie en Research

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • CBK Activiteiten Stad

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fonds Kunstenaar Project

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • CBK Rotterdam Praktijk Bijdrage

  • 2023
    Publicatie
  • Through soft seam slips the knife ultramarine

  • 2023
  • Poetry
  • Short Pieces That Move! -