Joana Velu


artist, she/her, NL/BR, based in Amsterdam, curious how people observe themselves and the world they are part of.

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Pictures: Looiersgracht 60


FLOATING PLATFORM


2020

Collaboration with Rots, Mathild Clerc Verhoeven and Pepijn Meurs, ART&RESEARCH Programme,
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL)

During the one-year ART & RESEARCH programme (Gerrit Rietveld Academie & University of Amsterdam) Pepijn, Rots, Mathild and Joana worked together and initiated the research project: an on- and offline platform about the connection between water and social issues such as mobility, migration and climate in the context of the Netherlands and it’s notion of a national identity. The programme’s aim was to incentivate collaboration between artistic and academic practices and thereby investigate new modes of research.

The online platform consisted of interviews with people from different disciplines, e.g. a ‘crisis watermanager’ working for Waterschap, a laywer who elaborated on national boundaries on water territories, one of the co-founder of TresHombres (the only trans-Atlantic sailing freighter without an engine transporting fair trade products) and Theun Kharelse from the Embassy of the North Sea.