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Jake Caleb
 * Works
   * A passage
   * Through soft seam slips the knife ultramarine
   * Atelier van Zuid
   * Supporting Stones
   * Garlic Behaviour
   * Dreamworlding
   * Homeware for Hibernation
   * Sketch for Summer
   * ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet!
   * Field report: Ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet!
   * Singing Club of Rotterdam / Audience at Antenne
   * Your Silence Will Not Protect You
   * A second tribute to JB
   * Settle for nothing less
   * A tribute to JB
 * Events
   * an other world: What We Build On
   * Eathouse: Tongue Twisting Dinners
   * an other world: On Mending
   * Nice Flaps @ See Lab
   * an other world: Traversals
   * PASHION: Project Natty
   * Eathouse X Alejandra López & Lena Longefay
   * Eathouse: LIVE FEED
   * Charismatic Megafauna/ Bleach Pizza / Daphne Simons
   * Walking talking drawing tour
   * Domestic Festival
   * Beefstock
   * We need to talk about horror
 * an other world
 * Eathouse
 * Singing Club of Rotterdam
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Jake Caleb A passage (2023) Installation view


















A passage (2023)
Jake Caleb with Merve Kılıçer, Tilly Shiner, Michael Lewis and Nael Quraishi.
4th Nov - 25th Nov 2023
an other world, Rotterdam.

A passage is a body of work investigating the suppression of narratives within
society pertaining to migration and grief. The work follows a ‘pilgrimage’ the
artist made in 2023 to Allahabad, India to trace the history of his ancestor
John James Caleb, a priest of Indian descent. This journey was sparked by the
death of the artist’s father due to Covid-19 in 2021.

Caleb found the grief of his father’s death difficult to translate into words.
Following the easing of restrictions he perceived a silence surrounding the
pandemic, encountering a public unwillingness to acknowledge its events within
the collective memory. As he unearthed his family’s complex relation to their
Indian ancestry, Caleb noticed similarities between the silence over his family
history and the quiet around the passing of his father. Each of these personal
narratives seemed conditioned by societal notions that dictate what can and
can’t be spoken publicly. However, when given the space to discuss both grief
and assimilation, he came across a lack of words to adequately describe them. In
this paradoxical situation, he found himself questioning the difference between
what is left unsaid and what is beyond words.

For the exhibition at an other world, Caleb explored this question in the form
of an installation featuring 35mm black and white photographs taken during his
travel to India together with photographs he took in the UK prior to his
father’s death. 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. The contributions of Kılıçer, Shiner
and Lewis were shared in two listening sessions on the opening and closing
weekend. During the course of the exhibition, Quraishi was in residence at an
other world to produce site specific photo-collages.

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Opening listening session with Tilly Shiner. Photo documentation Nick Thomas.








Events
Opening listening session
4/11/23 15:00-18:00 | Jake Caleb and Tilly Shiner
The first listening session featured contributions from artist Tilly Shiner (UK)
and Jake Caleb (UK). Shiner’s work compiled audio recordings relating to her
grandmother, Lakhi Shiner who migrated to the UK from Assam, India in 1969.
Lakhi migrated after marrying the artist’s grandfather, a British Army soldier
who later became a tea estate manager. Informal recordings taken in her
grandmother’s house in Chelmsford, Essex are edited alongside archival material
taken by her father and aunt while visiting Assam in 1997 and during Lakhi’s
birthday in 2000. The highly personal recordings detail the Shiner family’s
typical conviviality contrasted against Lakhi’s own memories of her ethically
complex migration. Caleb’s contribution consisted of field recordings taken
while travelling to North India in early 2023. The recordings were interwoven
with poetry edited from journal entries written during his travels.

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Closing listening session with Michael Lewis and Merve Kılıçer. Photo
documentation Nick Thomas.










Artist talk with Hedvig Koertz.

Closing listening session and artist talk
25/11/23 15:00-18:00 | Merve Kılıçer, Michael Lewis and Jake Caleb
For the second listening session, artist Merve Kılıçer (TR) and DJ Michael Lewis
(IN/UK/ID/NL) contributed soundworks and music. Kılıçer's work journaled her
thoughts surrounding her own migration from Istanbul to Rotterdam. Narrated over
a field recording of a ferry journey across the Bosphorus, Kılıçer reflected on
the unseen currents that push and pull between people and place. Lewis (DJ
Hoekboud) compiled a playlist of folk music records departing from the Baul
singers of Bengal. Lewis first encountered their musical tradition when
travelling to India, the birthplace of his father, in the early 1970s. For
Lewis, hearing their music was a profound moment, allowing him access to a
cultural heritage that had been previously obscured within his family. This was
followed by an artist talk by Caleb over the exhibition as a whole.

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Nael Quaraishi Notes on Familiarity (2023) Photos courtesy Nael Quraishi.




In residence
Nael Quaraishi’s photo-collages combined imagery of the project space’s
architecture with land and cityscapes of Karachi. Quraishi noticed many visual
and cultural cues in the neighbourhood that made his mind flirt with memories of
other home-like places. Through the process of documenting his observations and
making collages, Quraishi reflected on his own experiences of migration and
observations of fellow Pakistanis in his neighbourhood in Rotterdam Zuid.

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Bios
Merve Kılıçer (TR) is a multi-disciplinary artist. She draws inspiration from
historic and traditional modes of culture-art production and translates them
into contemporary experiences. Her practice is informed by personal experience
and attempts to find a non-didactic yet politically engaged position in relation
to her background and history. Installation, sculpture, performance, traditional
print, video and sound are all mediums that create a ground for growth in her
practice.

Michael Lewis is an accountant living in Rotterdam. He has a lifelong affinity
with wholesome food and non produced orally transmitted folk music.

Tilly Shiner (b.1989) is a filmmaker based in London

Nael Quraishi is an artist who lives and works between Rotterdam and Karachi.
Having grown up in both Pakistan and the UK, the roots of his practice lay
deeply within childhood recollections and memories of space and place. Working
mainly with photo and video, Quraishi casts a subtle yet sharp light on the
individual and collective experience of nostalgia, displacement and (be)longing,
highlighting its lasting affect on everyday life.

The contributions to this exhibition have been supported by CBK Rotterdam, a-n
Artist Bursaries, Gemeente Rotterdam and Concertzender. Photo developing
courtesy of Peach Black.

Photo documentation courtesy the artist, Nick Thomas and Nael Quraishi.




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