and you’ll pass it on, won’t you?

and you’ll pass it on, won’t you? 2023

research essay

Graphic Design by Catherine Hu
printed, embossed & bound at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2023

„[...]The three highlighted theses include ‚and you‘ll pass it on, won‘t you?‘ by Ada Jochimsen (Jewellery-Linking Bodies) which focuses on notions of inheritance with the embodied voice providing a sense of agency. From the loss of a stone belonging to a family heirloom, to the removal of Lenin‘s statue in post-Cold War Berlin, it explores the entanglements of personal and collective histories.

Anachronistic in kind, it questions the legitimacy of engaging with hand-me-downs and the particular responsibility bestowed upon the individual inheriting historical events embodied by jewels, statues, and monuments. It does so by relying an a conscious choice of the form of content, such as hypertext and overlapping graphics and imagetics, alongside an economy of referencing strictly relevant to the line of thought at hand[...]“

-Excerpt from the Rietveld Reviewed Report 2023