news 17 oct 24
The Art & Spatial Praxis research group continues with the Plot(ting) research group format and is pleased to announce the addition of four new members: Tabea Nixdorff, Philip Coyne, Moosje M Goosen and Harriet Morley. They gather monthly to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot.
Currently they are reading:
Sylvia Wynter: On being human as praxis, Katherine McKittrick
Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler
Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent, Suzanne Cesaire
Cannibal Plants: Tropiques and Martinican Aesthetics, Gina Stamm
Tabea Nixdorff is an artist, typographer and researcher currently based in Arnhem. Her artistic practice involves (self)publishing, writing, sound and language-based performances, collaborative learning and social gatherings. Often working with/in archives or libraries, Nixdorff’s works delve into micro-histories while touching upon broader themes such as omissions and distortions in historical narratives, embodied knowledges, queer belonging and a feminist poetics of error.
Philip Coyne is an artist, writer and educator, originally from the UK and now based in the Netherlands. Using sculpture, text, drawing and painting, his work looks to study and instantiate a poetics of social life; this is to say that he thinks about, writes about and attempts to produce work through the speculative forms of production that are endemic to both our social lives and social, or relational, life in general. Conversely, he focuses on the historic and fraught relationship between individuation and modern art, tracing the contours of this relationship in an attempt to envisage what a more genuinely collective form of art might look like.
Moosje M Goosen is a writer and researcher based in Rotterdam. Since being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease in 2013, which led to a bilateral lung transplant in 2017, her relationship with work has shifted. Ongoing care for her body and donor lungs, along with an unpredictable post-transplant health condition, has made Moosje more ambivalent about defining herself solely through work. Writing and reading are part of her daily routine, often done without the notion of "work" attached. For her, writing is a way to engage with the raw texture of life and is her primary method of thinking, whether in analytical, experimental prose, or poetry. Moosje’s work moves fluidly between disciplines, from literature to art, between writing genres, and between academic and artistic research. Ultimately, she is most interested in the many forms and lives of language—the “spark of being” (as Mary Shelley wrote in Frankenstein) brought to life through writing.