A digital space to showcase and share creative projects, written ideas and unconventional conversations.
It is the digital home of an ever-growing community of contributors who share their work, collaborate and participate in the livelihood of our initiatives.
We think of LateMode as the antidote to an information-overloaded world. Instead of merely receiving impulses, here at LateMode, we try to give impulses that inspire to create original thought in others.
This website is a platform to communicate, reflect and create through image, text and sound.
In addition to being a space for the collective, LateMode.eu is also a space for the individual opinions of members and their followers to generate dialogue and discussion.
What makes LateMode.eu a different platform?
Our work departs from the concept of liquidity, from our subjective experiences as people part of a society that moved from needs to desires, from lasting to transient.
In this fluidness, we find creative inspiration.
The project was created by a small group of friends who on rainy nights in Amsterdam got together to think, write and create. We hope that through photography, films, essays and applied arts we could engage different forms of cultural production and knowledge.
Our manifesto is pretty straightforward: creativity belongs to anyone, it is central to our living and so should be brought forward.
Let’s share it.
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
MARTA PAGLIUCA PELACANI - Podcast host
(she/her) is an Amsterdam based storyteller busy with writing, editing and curating.
Her current artistic research analyses homes and textiles as archival traces of subaltern memory left by illiterate southern Italian sharecroppers. In her work, she interrogates the potential of academic research as a site for healing through exposure.
She is an editor at @simulacrum.magazine and co-hosts the Artistic Research Knitting Club with artist Liza Prins. Together with @giulia___m , she hosts this platform's monthly podcast.
marta.pagliucapelacani@hotmail.it
ALIDA AHISHAKIYE
AKIYE I would define myself as a human, a seeker and a music producer. A human with all the wonder, brokeness and ordinariness this entails. A seeker of beauty, truth, justice and love, in all its forms and struggles. A producer because I will ever be grateful for the oxygen music brings me and I hope to ripple that effect.
GIOVANNA ALIPARDI
She grew up in a small village in the North of Italy, but at least close to Venice...
She learned the basics of life thanks to Dawson’s Creek, Harry Potter, and the Beatles’ music.
After studying classics and linguistics in Venice, she moved to Amsterdam to deepen her interests in sociolinguistics and social interactions.
She has a passion for the study of interpersonal, group, and institutional violence, and she darkly keeps wondering why serial killers seem to be disappeared (she’s interested in the socio-historical motives, to be fair).
Her main goal is being part of what she calls “the equalizing revolution.”
She’s still stuck in the dinosaurs’ era, so if you want to contact her this is her email address: giovanna.aliprandi.ga@gmail.com
SOYCA (GABRIELA SOJKOVA) - Co-Founder
Czech interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. She traces back to traditional crafts and applied arts. Avid gardener and waste-potential seeker. At the moment fascinated by the Maker movement and studying Lifestyle Transformation Design in Rotterdam. Experimenting in permaculture, knitting, pyrography, wood-construction, clay and many others.
EMILIA LIXI
Trying to make sense. Often getting caught in the spiral of “nothing makes sense, why bothering”
Hi, I never like having to describe myself, but I was asked to, so:I am a Sociology graduate, raised in sunny Sardinia, but moved to Amsterdam for my studies and some fresh air. Currently living in London, where I am studying visual methods of research and ethnographic filmmaking. Passionate about research, feminism, procrastinator due to my insecurities and my paralysis by analysis, also trying to unleash my “creativity” but fearing that it all makes no sense and I am just very privileged. Think I pushed it too far and now it’s the end for my brain after smoking two puffs from a joint. Oh well. Don’t I sound like a catch?
Catch me here
Instagram contact: emilialixi
MASHA KOVTUN
From Ukraine. Based in Prague, studying UMPRUM painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný. Working with different materials and medias.
“I mostly work with installations in space and objects in the form of scenography. Lately I have been interested in combining my work with performance and video. The subject of my long term interest is emotionality and a return to sensitivity and sincerity. I’m creating a space about selftherapy from my generation, from a positive outlook and hope for the future with fairy tale, surrealistic and mystical elements.”
Instagram contact: mashakovtun
SOFIE TOBLASHOVA
A Czech artist, studying UMPRUM Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague since 2016.
Working mostly with media of painting, text and video. Facing the future with a package of history. Sometimes cries for no reason. On one hand opening questions of self-awareness, feminity and intimacy, slightly balancing between fiction and biography and on the other dealing with the position of a contemporary painter.
You can check out more of her work on tumblr.
JOÃO VICENTE
“João Vicente: Me? A walking, but functional, contradiction of a human. A collision of thoughts. Consciously trying to re-arrange my atoms into better myself. Unravelling the world through the senses and finding expression through art. I want to share what I find in myself via photography, film, ceramics and writing.”
SAMANTA LEWIS
Samm's focus is sustainability and sees a connection between food, medicine and fashion in the form of plants.
Samm has recently moved to Amsterdam from London. Along side designing her genderless clothing brand, Maantha, based in her Atellier – The Farmisee at de Hoop, a new DIY Makers Community in Zaandam, she teaches spinning and knitting classes at De Steek, a new Textile Community in Amsterdam. She established the New Independent Spinners' Society (NISS)to share the meditative art of spinning yarn with others to inspire a found form of independence within the NISS community.
She is developing colour pallets based on plants that meet at least fashion and one of the above mentioned two classifications and is looking for communal garden spaces to share her colour palettes, stores to stock her products and individuals who feel an undeniable effect from her work to enquire about bespoke designs, produced in a longer timeframe than 2 weeks. She has also created her own web shop with herbalteas https://herbelletease.com/
MAJA
Currently based somewhere in germany, used to hang around in madrid and amsterdam, soon to be in bologna. usually always has a strong opinion but is too scared to voice it - working on that. overall pretty lost in life, but finding solace in attempting to be creative. always thought she could only hang out with artsy people, not be one herself, but recently discovered the internalised misogyny in this assumption and is now trying to make some changes. she continues to be mystified by the beauty of words and her rediscovery of the love surrounding her wherever she moves in this world.
Instagram contact: majarine
VLADIMIR TUDAKOV
Born in Russia, raised in Greece, studied in Amsterdam. Likes to write about arts, philosophy, technology, and contemporary culture. Also likes to dance.
JOSEPH CATJHAML
Based in Prague, studied Faculty of Art and Design Usti Nad Labem.
Currently camera trainee at Camera Team Prague and further exploring the film industry.
Co-founder and editor of an art magazine Tlak (translated Pressure). Former freelance photographer and everlasting poet.
His work is inspired mostly by the Surrealist movement, Avantgarde and Poetism.
Instagram @de_san_jose
ZOFIE HOLECKOVA
Zofie is a student of Fine Arts in Prague. She is dedicated to paintings, graphics, tattoos, and her passion for music. She channels herself through color and musical tones.
"Both ways are very important to me. Art is a form of music. You have to choose the right tones to make satisfactory feelings. But satisfaction is individual. Just let it flow"
She also performs killer DJ sets under the stage name Zofie Rugosa.
IVALU CHANTAL
"Hi I’m Ivalù Chantal but I prefer to go by Ca77iva ( Evilù in the English translation of it). I do art with multiple medias, mainly focusing on illustration and comics -my bachelor at the art academy in Bologna- but I also enjoy crafting such as costume jewellery and little sculptures, following the cult of DIY! My main quest in art revolves around pop culture, gaudiness, and dirt."
Instagram contact: ca77iva
IEVA GUYDATE
Currently living in Vilnius, Lithuania, Ieva spends most of her time listening, talking, and writing. She hosts a radio show “Auditorijos” on a local community radio, StartFM, writes, teaches children all sorts of weird stuff like maths and how to listen, and hopes to soon come back to academia.
Instagram contact: ievagud
A digital space to
showcase and share creative projects,
written ideas
and
unconventional conversations.
SAMANTA LEWIS
Samm's focus is sustainability and sees a connection between food, medicine and fashion in the form of plants.
Samm has recently moved to Amsterdam from London. Along side designing her genderless clothing brand, Maantha, based in her Atellier – The Farmisee at de Hoop, a new DIY Makers Community in Zaandam, she teaches spinning and knitting classes at De Steek, a new Textile Community in Amsterdam. She established the New Independent Spinners' Society (NISS)to share the meditative art of spinning yarn with others to inspire a found form of independence within the NISS community.
She is developing colour pallets based on plants that meet at least fashion and one of the above mentioned two classifications and is looking for communal garden spaces to share her colour palettes, stores to stock her products and individuals who feel an undeniable effect from her work to enquire about bespoke designs, produced in a longer timeframe than 2 weeks. She has also created her own web shop with herbalteas https://herbelletease.com/
MAJA
Currently hiding away from the pandemic in the middle of nowhere in the German countryside, under different circumstances based in Amsterdam and studying sociology. Trying to battle her writer’s block since around 1998. Usually always has a strong opinion but is too scared to voice it. Overall pretty lost in life, but finding solace in self-depreciating humour and attempting to be creative.
Instagram contact: majarine
VLADIMIR TUDAKOV
Born in Russia, raised in Greece, studied in Amsterdam. Likes to write about arts, philosophy, technology, and contemporary culture. Also likes to dance.
JOSEPH CATJHAML
Based in Prague, studied Faculty of Art and Design Usti Nad Labem.
Currently camera trainee at Camera Team Prague and further exploring the film industry.
Co-founder and editor of an art magazine Tlak (translated Pressure). Former freelance photographer and everlasting poet.
His work is inspired mostly by the Surrealist movement, Avantgarde and Poetism.
Instagram @de_san_jose
ZOFIE HOLECKOVA
Zofie is a student of Fine Arts in Prague. She is dedicated to paintings, graphics, tattoos, and her passion for music. She channels herself through color and musical tones.
"Both ways are very important to me. Art is a form of music. You have to choose the right tones to make satisfactory feelings. But satisfaction is individual. Just let it flow"
She also performs killer DJ sets under the stage name Zofie Rugosa.
IVALU CHANTAL
"Hi I’m Ivalù Chantal but I prefer to go by Ca77iva ( Evilù in the English translation of it). I do art with multiple medias, mainly focusing on illustration and comics -my bachelor at the art academy in Bologna- but I also enjoy crafting such as costume jewellery and little sculptures, following the cult of DIY! My main quest in art revolves around pop culture, gaudiness, and dirt."
Instagram contact: ca77iva
IEVA GUYDATE
Currently living on a hill and across the road of an Oak park in Kaunas, Lithuania, Ieva spends most of her time thinking, talking, and writing. While a significant part of her work revolves around researching sound and politics, the other is leaning towards creative writing, curating, and hosting talks and events.
Instagram contact: ievagud
MARTA PAGLIUCA PELACANI
Marta is a Florentine student graduated in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. After obtaining her IB diploma at age seventeen, she moved to Turin, where she attended the creative writing biennium at Alessandro Baricco’s Scuola Holden. There, she began experimenting with meta-narrative and translation, resulting in a book project that she continues to develop to do this day. One of her translations is currently exposed in Florence’s Museo Novecento, as part of Irene Montini and Rocco Gurrieri’s exhibition Incanto 2020). Her research interests space around the themes of under-represented histories and contested heritages. Interested in all kinds of counter-narratives, she is currently researching the phenomena of Italian sharecropping - mezzadria - and its representation within the Italian cultural canon.”
marta.pagliucapelacani@hotmail.it
SOYCA (GABRIELA SOJKOVA) - Co-Founder
Czech interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. She traces back to traditional crafts and applied arts. Avid gardener and waste-potential seeker. At the moment fascinated by the Maker movement and studying Lifestyle Transformation Design in Rotterdam. Experimenting in permaculture, knitting, pyrography, wood-construction, clay and many others.
EMILIA LIXI
Trying to make sense. Often getting caught in the spiral of “nothing makes sense, why bothering”
Hi, I never like having to describe myself, but I was asked to, so:I am a Sociology graduate, raised in sunny Sardinia, but moved to Amsterdam for my studies and some fresh air. Currently living in London, where I am studying visual methods of research and ethnographic filmmaking. Passionate about research, feminism, procrastinator due to my insecurities and my paralysis by analysis, also trying to unleash my “creativity” but fearing that it all makes no sense and I am just very privileged. Think I pushed it too far and now it’s the end for my brain after smoking two puffs from a joint. Oh well. Don’t I sound like a catch?
Catch me here
Instagram contact: emilialixi
MASHA KOVTUN
From Ukraine. Based in Prague, studying UMPRUM painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný. Working with different materials and medias.
“I mostly work with installations in space and objects in the form of scenography. Lately I have been interested in combining my work with performance and video. The subject of my long term interest is emotionality and a return to sensitivity and sincerity. I’m creating a space about selftherapy from my generation, from a positive outlook and hope for the future with fairy tale, surrealistic and mystical elements.”
Instagram contact: mashakovtun
SOFIE TOBLASHOVA
A Czech artist, studying UMPRUM Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague since 2016.
Working mostly with media of painting, text and video. Facing the future with a package of history. Sometimes cries for no reason. On one hand opening questions of self-awareness, feminity and intimacy, slightly balancing between fiction and biography and on the other dealing with the position of a contemporary painter.
You can check out more of her work on tumblr.
JOÃO VICENTE
“João Vicente: Me? A walking, but functional, contradiction of a human. A collision of thoughts. Consciously trying to re-arrange my atoms into better myself. Unravelling the world through the senses and finding expression through art. I want to share what I find in myself via photography, film, ceramics and writing.”
