Fellowship van kunstenaar Winnie Herbstein en onderzoeker René Boer verlengd

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Framer Framed is pleased to have extended the fellowship of artist Winnie Herbstein and researcher René Boer, in collaboration with University of Amsterdam’s Department of Political Science. Within the fellowship, Winnie Herbstein and René Boer continue work on their research initiative Contemporary Conflict, which stems from conversations and activities organised through the Social Practice Workshop at the Rijksakademie.

With Contemporary Conflict, the research fellows aim to critically examine the ways that conflict is mediated in contemporary society, and to rethink how current-day power imbalances and social struggles can be addressed in the arts, in ways that acknowledge their conflictual nature rather than sanitising it. After expanding on various strands of their research, they organised the seminar Bricks & Mortar during their first phase. For the second phase, the fellows experiment with curatorial frameworks and produce a publication.

During their fellowship programme, Winnie Herbstein and René Boer will, among others, engage with students and researchers affiliated with the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Combining political sciences with artistic practices the fellowship seeks to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to artistic research and to explore the intersection of art and activism and political sciences. The fellowship is developed in close collaboration with Floris Vermeulen, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam’s Political Science programme Challenges to Democratic Representation.

Illustration by Golrokh Nafisi. Courtesy of the artist.

This project is part of the Framer Framed fellowship line Community, Democracy and the Urban Environment.

About

Winnie Herbstein graduated from Glasgow School of Art (Environmental Art). Formerly a committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. Herbstein studied on the Women in Construction course at the City of Glasgow College and is a founding member of Slaghammers, a woman, trans and non-binary metal workshop. Her work focuses on historical and contemporary forms of organising, in relation to housing and the architecture and formation of space. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2021-2023).

René Boer works as a critic, curator and organiser in and beyond the fields of architecture, design, heritage and the arts. In his practice he seeks to articulate new perspectives on spatial matters and facilitate fertile ground for imagining and materialising alternatives. He is a founding partner of Loom – practice for cultural transformation, a driving force behind the transnational platform Failed Architecture and affiliated with various urban social movements. His work has appeared in among others Harvard Design Magazine, Architectural Review and Volume. In 2023, he published Smooth City with Valiz Publishers.

With the fellowship programmes, Framer Framed is following up on a decade of projects and programmes from Stichting Netwerk Democratie – integrating themes of deliberative ‘bottom up’ democracy, social movements organisation and digitalization. Connecting media studies and political sciences with artistic practices, the fellowships in collaboration with Documenta Institute and the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, seek to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to artistic research.