Joachim Baan — Another Thing - Issue #12

In 2001 Brice Partouche became a prominent name (without ever stepping into the limelight) in the so-called ‘rock era’ in fashion when he founded Paris-based jeans brand April77, which played a pinnacle role in bringing the slim silhouette in menswear from the stages of pop venues and runways to the streets of the mainstream. Last Summer, Brice presented a new project named Satisfy, this time infusing a new cultural elan into the perfect, performance orientated, world of running gear. Inspired by Partouche’s new inspirational endeavor, with the second collection in stores at this moment, we gave Brice a skypecall —fresh out of the shower after his evening run— to ask him about his love for running, the differences between starting a brand now and 15 years ago and what his plans are with his subversive new movement in athletic gear.

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A must read by Andrew Sullivan: An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.

I just made one step towards less distraction. I stopped using Instagram on a personal level. Only thing we do is sharing all the lovely stuff we see and do on another.so

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Last year we discovered the work of Athens-based photographer Alexis Vasilikos, who next to uniquely capturing the world around him co-edits the incredible Phases Magazine, which is one of the most interesting destinations on the internet to discover new cutting edge and thought-provoking photographic projects stemming from all over the world. His work for Phases also clearly has set a rather ambitious bar for the work Vasilikos produces himself, as he has been creating series after series in a relentless pace only in the year or so that we had him on our radar (with his archive proof that he has been doing this for way longer than only the last 12 months). His latest series is another raw diamond, which we feel is some of the most interesting compositions of subversive reflections on society captured through a camera, we have encountered in quite a while.

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The best way to learn from your mistakes? Print them out, make them into posters, and plaster them on the walls, suggests Polly Brown in her cheeky new series

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Last year we had a clear favorite out of all the graduates that left the Dutch art academies in the person of painter Jurre Blom, who we will write about again in the near future. This year is was a little bit harder to distinguish an undisputed favorite while visiting the different graduation shows, but after some months past first seeing it is safe to say that artist and illustrator Jan Hamstra’s project ‘Manifesto of Doubt’ resonated the most.

Kind of found this by accident. It’s a really bizarre fiction podcasts. A found footage horror podcast about cities, stories, and old gods.

In it… A lone archivist investigates a tape library, and is exposed to horrors from beyond time and space. A social worker tries to find out what happened to a teenager who vanished from human misery. An opera composer works on an unearthly magnum opus. And a museum director leads a disquieting tour.

Binge-listening it till the end.

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South African artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin became instant favorites of ours from the very moment when we discovered their thought-provoking ‘King James Bible‘ project in the Summer of 2013. The duo works with the eyes of anthropologists, infusing concept within concept —steadily provoking the spectator to research and contextualize their creations beyond the first encounter— in their often raw edged creations rooting directly from the dark side of human life. The inspirational C/O art institute, which for instance brought the incredible ‘Beneath the Roses’ by Gregory Crewdson and Peter Lindbergh’s ‘On The Street’ exhibitions to the German capital, just opened another must visit, this time featuring the incredible work by Broomberg & Chanarin in the exhibition given the moniker ‘Don’t Start With The Good Old Things But The Bad New Ones’, featuring two iconic projects in which the duo highjacked two seminal books: Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer, and The Bible (which formed our introduction to the duo’s work, as stated earlier), using them as vehicles to explore the documentation, dissemination, and currency of such images within in the media.

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One of my favourite music videos of this year i Jamie XX’s ‘Gosh’ by Romain Gavras. The visionary director shares a behind-the-scenes documentary and talks filming in a fake version of Paris with 300 Chinese schoolchildren on Dazed.

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And to stay within the theme of this newsletter, one from earlier this year — 

It is always special to meet an artist you admire. Especially when that artist is the incredibly talented Cleon Peterson, who is one of our undisputed favorite contemporary artists – both because of his highly distinctive style and unfiltered observations on the world around us. Not to mention the turbulent life he has lived before he got where he is today. So therefore last week was an exciting moment, to say the least. In 2015 the American artist seems to indefinitely have joined those who work on a global level, having moved all over the globe for shows and projects; from Paris to Detroit, followed by Hong Kong, before setting foot in Belgium for a 5 day stay in Antwerp where we sat down for a little talk. Parallel to this development, or maybe because of this new level of worldwide interest in his work, Peterson has been stretching the scope of form he creates in, debuting in Antwerp with a life-size sculpture, next to several new paintings and a black rendition of his porcelain sculpture he created with Case Studyo, together forming the exhibition named after the large sculpture; ‚The Judgement’, presented in the last year opened PLUSONE gallery of Jason Poirier dit Caulker.

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One to put on repeat. Christian Löffler just released his new album called Mare, and perfectly timed this mix/podcast sharing some of his favourite tracks. 

To end this disruptive and subversive newsletter in a more positive vibe here’s the interview 032C did with one of today’s most influential fashion designers: J.W. Anderson. With immense and tireless energy, Jonathan William Anderson rails against every normative value and conventional assumption. 

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