Czar Kristoff, Touch by touch – Book presentation and small workshop

Czar Kristoff, an artist/designer/publisher/cultural organizer from Laguna, Philippines presents his recent work about monuments and mapping, to Destry is to Build. By the end of the presentation, participants will take part to a workshop relating to the theme.

To Destry is to Build is a multi-form project about monuments. The project has been selected in this year’s Foam Talent. It is currently exhibited in the Foam Museum in Amsterdam.

Czar Kristoff (Camarines Sur, Capricorn Earth Snake) is an artist, educator, designer and publisher, interested in (re)construction of space and memory, through concepts of nesting and temporary architecture, for (pedagogical) occupation, using cottage industry publishing — blueprints, xerox, and other low-fidelity printing methods — as his current media of interest.
He has exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Showroom MAMA Rotterdam, Jogja National Museum, C3 Artspace Melbourne, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, De Appel Amsterdam, Dansehallerne Copenhagen and Vargas Museum Manila. 

Kristoff runs Temporary UnReLearning Academy, a school with no permanent address interested in queering cultural production in the Philippines. He is also part of To Be Determined Trojan Horse Cell (together with Alfred Marasigan, Clara Balaguer and Isola Tong), a collective that recently orbited the threshold of three institutions engaged with practices of archiving: Page Not Found Den Haag, PrintRoom and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.