artist, she/her, NL/BR, based in Amsterdam, curious how people observe themselves and the world they are part of.
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WORKSHOP: A slow conversation on a sustainable practice
June, 2025
Workshop design and coordination on behalf of Urgent Ecologies (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) as part of the public programme and exhibition PPP by
Sunflower Soup
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W139, Amsterdam, NL.
In collaboration with: Rosalie Bak
Invited artists/designers/artistic researchers:
Amalie ‘Sveske’ Ourø, Harriet Rose Morley, Joakim Derlow, Mariana Jurado Rico, Nina van Hartskamp.
How can artists and designers make their own practice more sustainable for themselves? The current political and ecological climate requires urgent action. We need to move fast, before we run out of resources. But how do we navigate this landscape without burning ourselves down first? Let’s slow down for a moment, get personal and engaged together, and move from there.
This workshop was for (art) students and beginning artists, designers and artistic researchers to exchange gained knowledge and ideas about what a sustainable artistic practice could look like – especially when taking one’s own personal needs and resources into account as well. For this occasion, Urgent Ecologies (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) invited several artists, designers, and artistic researchers to join the conversations in small groups. In between the conversations Rosalie Bak (artistic researcher and haptonomic professional) guided body-awareness exercises.
The group moved between an individual and collective perspective by means of connecting with oneself, each other and a broader shared responsibility for their environment – and how those are all inevitably intertwined. The collective output created in clay became part of the exhibition
PPP by collective Sunflower Soup at W139, where the workshop took place.
Urgent Ecologies is a platform of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that opens a space for addressing how the arts and higher art education can contribute to more liveable worlds, challenging the deep-rooted systems that continue to exploit and exhaust communities and ecosystems across the planet. Within the academy and in collaboration with other (higher art) institutions Urgent Ecologies supports and develops initiatives that foreground regenerative ways of making and doing, encouraging practices that are ecologically responsible, socially engaged, and materially conscious.
All photographs: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Matija Stojanovic