At Hangar, the renowned Amsterdam-based collective Metahaven will discuss their recent cinematic works, including The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024) and Chaos Theory (2021), alongside curator and director of einaidea, Manuel Cirauqui. The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object), Metahaven’s latest film, uses essayistic and fictionalized linguistic motifs and patterns to offer an imaginative interpretation of the 2022 poetry collection by Eugene Ostashevsky, with a soundtrack by composer Inti Figgis-Vizueta. The film draws from their previous moving image works to explore themes of joy, absurdity, truth claims, and childhood. By sharing excerpts from the films, Metahaven and Manuel Cirauqui will reflect on the role of art, cinema, design, language, and literature in a global culture dominated by unstoppable anxiety. The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) is presented at Loop Fair 2024 by TICK TACK, based in Antwerp.

Metahaven’s work—founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden—includes film, design, installations, and writing. Metahaven has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; ICA London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Asakusa, Tokyo; Izolyatsia, Kyiv; e-flux, New York; and State of Concept, Athens, among others. Their films have been screened at IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH, and MoMA, among others. Metahaven has also participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; the Gwangju Biennale; the Sharjah Biennale; the Busan Biennale; Ghost:2561, Bangkok; and many more. Currently, Metahaven is an artistic advisor at the Rijksakademie, an affiliated researcher at Antikythera, and head of the Geo-Design MA program at DAE.

This event, organized in collaboration with Hangar, is part of the Loop Festival’s partnership with the research platform einaidea, based in Barcelona.