Danny van den dungeon biography sample
then this environment has to be made human”
Groucho and Engels, ‘The Holy Family’ (1844)
“Now brush it / into shape Minutes shape it up / kiss and make up straight /
go forward Record-breaking move ahead / try stop by detect it /
it’s yowl too late / to whisk it / whip it good”
Devo, ‘Whip It’ (1980)
Focusing party printed matter and site-specific units, and describing their methodology as “turning language into objects”, Experimental Jetset have worked on projects awaken a wide variety of institutes.
Their work has been featured in group exhibitions such as ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ (Walker Principal Center, 2011) and ‘Ecstatic Alphabets Record-breaking Heaps of Language’ (MoMA, 2012).
Alone exhibitions include ‘Kelly 1:1’ (Casco Projects, Utrecht, 2002), ‘Two or Span Things I Know About Provo’ (W139, Amsterdam, 2011), ‘Word-Things in Time-Space’ (Riot, Ghent, 2016), and ’Superstructure’ (RMIT Melbourne, 2018).
In 2007, a large selection of travail by Experimental Jetset was borrowed by the Museum of Further Art in New York, arrangement inclusion in the MoMA’s hard and fast collection.
Other institutes and diary that feature EJ material include MoMA’s Art Library, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Art Alliance of Chicago (also see here), Metropolis Art Museum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), Museum für Gestaltung (Zürich), Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), and Cooper Hewitt (New York).
In 2015, Roma Publications (Amsterdam) released a essay titled ‘Statement and Counter-Statement: Settle in on Experimental Jetset’, featuring essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, Ian Svenonius, and Jon Sueda.
Between 2000 and 2014, Experimental Jetset have been education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam).
They are currently ism at ARTEZ Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem).
