Irene de Craen
Irene de Craen is the editor-in-chief and founding director of Errant Journal. Previously, she founded the research platform Undercurrents, which aims to question the relation between historic and present-day instances of movement such as colonialism, trade and migration, as well as the infrastructure and significance of mobility within the cultural field. Additionally, she regularly contributes to national and international publications and magazines, among others Metropolis M, and Frieze.
Between 2014 and 2018 De Craen was the artistic director of Hotel Maria Kapel, an artist-in-residence, exhibition space and cinema for contemporary visual art in Hoorn, the Netherlands. In 2011 and 2012 she was co-organizer and curator at FATFORM, an interdisciplinary and experimental art platform in the Southeast of Amsterdam. As researcher and board member De Craen was part of Platform BK (Platform for Visual Arts) between 2013 and 2019, which helped establish the guideline for artists’ fees in the Netherlands in 2017.
Drawings of Irene de Craen where on show during the exhibition Elsewheres Within Here (2020) at Framer Framed, Amsterdam.
- ArtConnect - Discomfort as (curatorial) strategy: A Funeral for Street Culture
- Undercurrents
- Errant Journal
- Platform BK
- Amsterdamse Kunstraad
- Hotel Maria Kapel - Hoorn
Links
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Elsewheres Within Here
Curator: Jo-Lene Ong
Agenda
Launch: Errant Journal #9 Companions
Errant Journal #9 explores the radical potential of companionship
Launch: Errant Journal #8, Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity)
Errant Journal #8 questions the ways in which hegemonic culture prioritises the ideal of visibility
Launch: Errant Journal #7, Embodying Resistance
Errant Journal #7 aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below
Launch: Errant Journal #5, Learning from Ancestors
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Launch: Errant Journal #4, States of Statelessness
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Launch: Errant Journal #3, DISCOMFORT
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 5: On Slow Violence and the Anti-Spectacle
Film screening and discussion with Connie Zheng and Irene de Craen
Launch: Errant Journal #2, Slow Violence
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Launch: Errant Journal #1, When Are We?
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Magazine
Bookshop Selection / Caribbean /
Podcast / Book Launch / Feminism / Queer / Subversive Publishing /
Podcast: Embodying Resistance with Ghiwa Sayegh
Bookshop Selection / CICC / Subversive Publishing /
From Archiving to Publishing: Framer Framed's 'New Social'
Podcast / Subversive Publishing /
Podcast: Subversive Publishing Strategies
Shared Heritage / Curatorial Text / Gentrification /
Discomfort as (curatorial) strategy: A Funeral for Street Culture
Ecology / CICC /