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'depend on me' brings together professional and non-professional artists
Amsterdam-based research group ‘depend on me’ brings together artists from different contexts, levels and generations who are related through similar interests, questions and collaborative projects. Framer Framed Open Atelier (i-psy) came together with ‘depend on me’ artists on the 27th of September for a clay workshop as part of their research. As a creative group, they’ve tried to find out what they have in common and how to learn from each other.
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‘depend on me’ workshop participants are making clay cookies
‘depend on me’ is a research program, initiated by visual artist Marieke Zwart, that facilitates artistic collaborations between professional and non-professional artists. The research program explores how engaged collaborative practices can be built, creating interdependence, co-authorship, inspiring exchanges and a future perspective on collaborative art practices. As a group, the participants try to redefine the boundaries between professional and amateur artists and show that a certain degree of dependence within an artistic process can also be powerful and serve as a source of inspiration. For every workshop, the program makes new relations in the city with other artists groups, professional art institutes and amateur art associations.
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Clay cookies made during the workshop
Framer Framed is one of the collaborators of the project with the i-psy Open Atelier participants. i-psy Arts is a program for patients of the intercultural psychiatry of Amsterdam. The organisation focuses on patients with a migrant background and specialises in intercultural psychiatry. The community comes together every Monday at Framer Framed and practices art and therapy in a safe space. The group also has different levels in their artistic practice.
‘depend on me’ research group recently started a crowdfunding campaign to make a publication and exhibition in 2022. All results of their research will be brought together in a DIY book, designed by Lotte Lara Schröder, full of documentation and tips for making and collaboration. You can find more information from Voordekunst.
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‘depend on me’ workshop participants are making clay cookies
Collectives / Community & Learning / Open Atelier / Workshop /
Exhibitions
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Exhibition: Reflections
by i-psy Open Atelier
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Exhibition: Proud Aliens
A colourful exhibition by Framer Framed's Open Atelier
Agenda
Finissage: Reflections by the Open Atelier
A joyful final day of the exhibition at Framer Framed
Book Launch: professional amateur
The research project 'depend on me' presents a new publication at Framer Framed
Network
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Marieke Zwart
Artist
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