Yoshinari Nishiki (Inari for short) has been investigating alternative value systems across the fields of labor, currency, logistics, and supply chains, analyzing how value is created, circulated, and recognized. As a culmination of his art projects, since October 2024, Inari has been remotely pursuing a PhD in engineering at NAIST (Japan) while being based in Rotterdam, focusing on product-making rooted in the concept of non-production. His current research examines ecolabels and environmental claims, seeking to uncover forms of resource and material that remain largely unknown to people.
Without Destination
Panjancontainer (2019), a project supported by CBK Rotterdam, was presented in the main hall of the exhibition space as part of Without Destination. Documentation of the project was selected and edited by the foundation’s curators, and a new documentation video was produced for the show.
(UN)MAKING IT HAPPEN – Exhibition + Concept Store
An energy drink made from Japanese knotweed, a smartphone destroyer, and a car made of willow branches—all of it can be seen in the exhibition (un)making it happen.
Through projects by a selection of international artists and designers, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the systems and objects around us. What do we value, and what do we consider worthless?
As part of the exhibition, the (un)making concept store opened in a retail space within walking distance of 38CC.
(un)maker Faire
(un)maker Faire is a new vending practice that stemmed from Maker Faire, a DIY making culture originated by Make Magazine in the US. While they celebrated the power of creativity in amateur people at Maker Faire, (un)maker Faire disseminated the creative avoidance of production. Critical Making was a movement that came between the Maker movement and unmaking, eventually paving the way for (un)making practices.
MSR = HAAG SAEZ (Minamisanriku = Hague Special Art Experiment Zone)
MSR = HAAG SAEZ is an ethereal territory conceived precisely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world where intercontinental travel has been restricted (now with new reasons), a way to carry on and even go beyond the current paradigm of internationality is sought after. In 2021, two artists Aydee Derix and Piet Verkleij took up summer-autumn residencies in MSR=HAAG SAEZ to produce a new kind of travel experience. It resulted in a PACKAGE (or a kit) with a QR CODE attached to it.