Ans Volkers

The Extrafaculty (xFac) is an experimental department of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. From 2001 to 2003 I was involved as a student in an activity of the xFac; I was an editor of Lunge magazine. This magazine is cross-border in its form and content. The first edition: Lunge¹ (November 2001) is a 'bicycle tour through autonomous fresh looks'. The second edition: Lunge² (January 2003) is a study guide 'Study Genetic Design at the Kabk'.

Here's an excerpt from the editorial's preface from Lunge¹:

“Autonomous Fresh Looks, once it had fallen, the word came up so often in editorial meetings that it almost became too concrete for its own definition: 'blurring boundaries.' We would make a magazine about this phenomenon in and around the art world. But it is not enough for us to report about it in theoretical terms alone - we mainly want to do it, to blur that boundary. We want to explore it, undergo it and then undercut it again. to explore no man's land, where art seems to dissolve in society, or where society suddenly resembles art.

Boundary Blur - We Knew; it is not immediately a concept that automatically leads to concrete working frameworks. After many (decidedly boundary blurring) editorial meetings, it became clear that it was best to start our research close to home. And so this first issue of Lunge has become a bicycle tour through The Hague.
When a work of art is a cultivated attempt to bring about a fresh view of the world - can we discover it in the 'wild'? In other words, what we make in the case of art, can it also grow by itself?
We looked for those little deformations of the city ... and we found them. Inconspicuous objects that were not conceived as works of art, but that do refresh the look when directed at them. Art that is so autonomous that no artist has to be involved (...) ".

Taco Stolk, editor-in-chief Lunge

Opium TV of the AVRO devoted an item to Lunge¹ in 2001. You can see this at: OPIUM